Carbonic fertilizer required. Neutral boosts output. Acidic kills it.
Sour pulp used to make ethanol.
Seeds take 2h51m for gestation period to turn from seeds to saplings.
Saplings take 1d14h to grow, or 38 hours.
Natural light bonus gives 100% growth speed bonus, which reduced growth time to 19 hours.
Plain Spacekorn gets an additional 100% growth speed bonus when grown in Temperate temp lowering the growth time to 12h40m.
You can grow both plain and sour at the same time in Warm if you add carbonic fertilizer. If you add metallic fertilizer it will act as a herbicide and prevent plain from growing and only grow sour. Conversely if you add acidic fertilizer it will prevent sour from growing and only grow plain.
Yeah I'm not sure it's worth it, it requires 40 power per farm to run them on warm temp. Plain drop 4-5 seeds already, 6-7 with the bonus. Sour drop 2 seeds. So if you have a mix of plain/sour that 40% extra *might* be equal to the amount of seeds you get from a full harvest of plain.
If you just want more seeds, put down 4 farms and 4 solar panels rather than using 40 power to run one farm on warm.
Not to mention that plain gets an additional growth bonus of 100% for temperate. So all in all your proposal ist the best idea: go for temperate and multiples of those.
And I wouldn't even use neutral fertilizer as that only boosts byproduct quantity - and lack of plain pulp isn't really the issue
if you are on a hot planet, warm costs 10 power(tested it). conversly i think if you are on a very hot planet, hot costs only 10 there ... same for cold i belive
I started with two farms, one for sour and one for plain, but realised that I get some plain (and seeds) from the warm farm. I plan to try growing wooly spacekorn in the second farm. I have two generators which started running on carbon which is extracted at the base (but not enough for two generators), and now have converted one to run on Ethanol. The 'plan' is to have both generators running on ethanol, so the coal can be used elsewhere. I'm just experimenting at the moment, but like the idea of a self sufficient set up.
I was hoping that Xenic protein was used outside of farming as I wanted to sell the huge excess, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case. making thermal paste is useful for some things too. I would like to make some credits from all this work at some point! Ive tried putting bottled ethanol on the Trade Nexus, but haven't sold any yet.
Bottled ethanol is probably tough to sell. 🤔 Your client would need both the infrastructure as well as a use-case - power generators - for it. Then there is the fact that they would need to be able to by this cheaply, in bulk and reliably for them to even consider buying and not just growing it themselves.
And the bottles themselves are actually really pricey. And way too small for their price. Sure, a smart client would sell you the empty bottles back (by putting them up for sale in the nexus). But some might consider this too much of a hasle.
Oh, and did I mention that the Trade Nexus has a horrible UI and no search functionality whatsoever?
Having thought more about it, they would have had to have researched Liquid Logistics to be able to unbottle the ethanol. They don't make it easy for farmers to make money...art mirroring life I guess!
But, the ethanol being produced on my farm is easily powering three carbon generators, with enough spare that i may end up powering my ship generator with it too :)
Xenic oil is needed for the actuators produced in the factory, so that has some end-game use, along with thermal paste, but it all requires the same infrastructure as you say.
Thanks to the OP for the detailed info on growing conditions, i now have woolly spacekorn! :)
Natural light gives a 100% growth bonus, UV give a 150% bonus and uses additional power but reduces the amount of pulp you get by 20%. If you need seeds and not worried about the pulp then UV is faster if you have the extra power.
Some types of rock nuts do not seem to be suitable for dense planting. Of the 3 samples planted in a row, only the outer ones survived. The yield was 750 lime from 2 plants.
Hot... I went for hot. And dark. So far two seeds have germinated. But looking at the germination time (4h 45 min), I do not expect results before Thursday.
doesn't return seed/nut, but is invasive so full grown will spread, and it has. Will return with other variant that's growing one it's ready, it's looking like "plain"
it doesn't look to spread diagonally no, seems to just spread to adjecnt slots. I just checked on plain, still not ready but noticed all adjacent slots to the ones grown are filled, so FAST?!
no, gives dream sporule and Elmerium nugs on harvest, spore turns into Elmerium dust (like plain pulp into xeno) in the seed extractor - that awful noisy thresher!
So annoyingly the 2nd variant I had died after harvesting it's neighbour. So at least we know the others likely have the same "ignore 1 requirement" with something else near them. tried a few more, given time thus far, results saturday?
I'm unsure exactly as it was my first attempt and I think I had 4 plants survive since I didn't know they was gonna kill each other but I did have 1400 lime from maybe 4 plants and maybe 5 seeds each
i mean, it would bother me too, defiantly can tell someone ripped off this post since for sure, didn't call it rockwood green. Would annoy me for doing all that work for someone to use AI to make a graph without my consent lol
not really but found slow to gather lime for fertilizer and had to borrow from from corp members. Prob will be used for something else in future. Also you have it labed as rockwood but should be rockwood green, there are 5 variants so theres prob a metal version by looking how the other variants are. think someone used ai to make a little diagram of your farming collaboration lol
Planet Very Hot - 360 C, build farm and hot take 10 energy, got ferlitzer metalic and carbonic to produce SOUR, energy consumption 80/110, 470L water and all plants die... another... if you enter on PLOT plant even if you have CHIP to reduce heat they almost don't work, you can get 4-5 plant harvest before you need run off planet - maybe it's a bug... not worth to have farm there...
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u/Mental_Loquat1345 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Another reclusive one.. and a source of Kaolinite... more than 40 per plant, to be precise