Information about crops

Thread renamed, because people don't seem to be looking here to get some info.
Post here what you have discovered so far about crops. I don't want you to post exact mechanics. (I'd love to, but we can't)

Basic:

• Pumpkin - Tier I
  

  
  

  • GGR: 1/1/1
  • Keywords: Orange, Decoration, Stem
  • Source: Pumpkin seeds

  
  

• Wheat - Tier I
  

  
  

  • GGR: 1/1/1
  • Keywords: Yellow, Food, Wheat
  • Source: Seeds

  
  

• Dandelion - Tier II
  

  
  

  • GGR: 1/1/1
  • Keywords: Yellow, Flower
  • Source: 4 Dandelions

  
  

• Melon - Tier II
  

  
  

  • GGR: 1/1/1
  • Keywords: Green, Food, Stem
  • Source: Melon seeds

  
  

• Reed - Tier II
  

  
  

  • GGR: 3/0/2
  • Keywords: Reed
  • Source: Reed/Sugar cane

  
  

• Rose - Tier II
  

  
  

  • GGR: 1/1/1
  • Keywords: Red, Flower
  • Source: 4 Roses

  
  

This data was obtained by growing basic seed and getting IC seed from grown plant.

Discovered:

• Weed - Tier 0
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Weed, Bad
  • Drops: nothing
  • Special conditions: none
  • Destroys surrounding plants, tilled soil
  • Appears on empty cropsticks (all kinds of cropsticks)
  • Uses exclusive texture, can be recognized fast
  • Inherits it's Growth stats from nearby plants

  
  

• Blackthorn - Tier II
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Black, Flower
  • Drops: Ink Sac
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Cyazint - Tier II
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Blue, Flower
  • Drops: Cyan dye
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Tulip - Tier II
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Purple, Flower, Tulip
  • Drops: Purple dye
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Cocoa - Tier III
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Notch
  • Keywords: Brown, Food, Stem
  • Drops: Cocoa beans
  • Special conditions: dirt block under the soil block (at least 3 for better results)
  • Source: Cocoa beans

  
  

• Venomilia - Tier III
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: raGan
  • Keywords: Purple, Flower, Tulip, Poison
  • Drops: Purple dye
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Stickreed - Tier IV
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: raa1337
  • Keywords: Reed, Resin
  • Drops: Sticky Resin
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Hops - Tier V
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Green, Ingredient, Wheat
  • Drops: Hops
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Nether Wart - Tier V
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Notch
  • Keywords: Red, Nether, Ingredient, Soulsand
  • Drops: Nether Wart
  • Special conditions: none

  
  

• Terra Wart - Tier V
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Blue, Aether, Consumable, Snow
  • Drops: Terra wart ?
  • Special conditions: none ?

  
  

• Ferru - Tier VI
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Grey stem, Metal
  • Drops: Iron dust
  • Special conditions: Iron ore under soil block

  
  

• Redwheat - Tier VI
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: raa1337
  • Keywords: Red, Redstone, Wheat
  • Drops: Redstone dust
  • Special conditions: Light level of redstone torch

  
  

• Coffee - Tier VII
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Snoochy
  • Keywords: Leaves, Ingredient, Beans
  • Drops: Coffee beans ?
  • Special conditions: none ?

  
  

• Aurelia - Tier VIII
  

  
  

  • Discovered by: Alblaka
  • Keywords: Gold, Leaves, Metal
  • Drops: Gold nugets
  • Special conditions: Gold ore under soil block

  
  

Currently no plant has special abilities.

Fertilizing

• Nutrition
  Every plant has its own Nutritient-Storage.
  Fertilizer adds 100 to this value, if the given storage is <= 100.
  Bonemeal does also work. (yes, no ,yes.... just decide already)
  Maintaining higher Nutritient-Storage is required for some more advanced plants to grow and it also affects growth of plants.
  Nutritient-Storage is decreasing over time if there is a crop planted. Some biomes affect nutrition.
  

  
  

• Hydration
  Hydration Cell can be used to hydrate crops.
  Wettness of farmland block also influences the Hydration a little.
  Hydration is required for some more advanced plants to grow and it also affects growth of plants.
  Hydration is decreasing over time if there is a crop planted. Some biomes affect hydration.
  

  
  

• Air
  Plants chcek all surrounding 8 tiles, as well as a straight line to the sky.
  To be considered air, surrounding blocks must be non-opaque and must not be crops.
  Air is required for some more advanced plants to grow and it also affects growth of plants.
  40% of the whole Air Quality rating is determined by height. Higher = better.

Growth, Gain, Resistance

• Growth
  Represents growth speed of given plant.
  Actual growth is also affected by Hydration and Nutrition of each plant.
  

  
  

• Gain
  Gives a %-increase of the overall chance to drop multiple instances of items upon harvesting.
  A extremely high gain value will reduce the chance to get multiple seeds upon picking a plant, but doesn't affect the "basechance" to get a single seedbag.
  

  
  

• Resistance
  High resistance morely makes a crop immune to weed and trampling and grants a big bonus on recovering at least a single piece of seed.
  An extreme resistance value will reduce the speed the plants crossbreed at.
  Resistance does not affect a high-growth-plants weed-spreading.

Plant duplication
Work in progress. Feel free to contribute.

Increasing GGR
Crossing exclusively affects directly adjacent plants. Crossing more plants gives a boost to the stats.
Taking upper rules into account, best breeding placement is "+" shape with Crossing block in the middle.

Breeding new types
Work in progress. Feel free to contribute.

Mechanics

• Walking over crops tramples them
• Plants die/cannot be planted if conditions are below their minimum requirements
  
  • Light level
  • Air quality
  • Nutrition
  • Hydration

Visual information
Here is visual representation of each stage of each plant. I'm not sure about Redwheat though.
- Stickreed is missing one stage before the final one. It looks like the final stage of regular Reeds.
Download

Help with making complete list of all crop textures by posting info about growing stages of every single crop currently availible.
Example: Wheat: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (each number representing one stage)
Once the list is completed, I will update an image to match current version of IC.

Picture showing cocoa behavior:

Quote from Alblaka

Cept for the last part everything you mentioned is to some degree explained in the official guide :3

@Cropnalyzer: I assume you tried to analyze normal seeds? Not possible, it only works on CropSeeds, not on vanilla item, given those are stackable and contain no hidden data in first place.

guide actually don't explain how i created "Unknown crops", well at least i didn't find it there.

Ok im desperate now, during one hour of testing, i wasn't able to grow my crops any further. That means my crops are stuck. I created them by placing Cropsticks->Fertilizer->Hydration cell. They appear to spawn tall grass around them, which destroy tilled soil. They also appear to 'infest' other plants, like pumpkin, which was growing well but then, it changed to same strange plant that never fully grow. (it may be fully grown but can't be harvested and is simple and green)
I can't find out what theese are, because i can't get anything as sample to analyze.

Quote from Alblaka

Ok, gonna help you.
It's weed.
Destroy it.

Though it's already too late to save it from annilating your remaining crops XD

Thank you, but i already destroyed it and created new field to experiment. Now i'm using only bone meal and making sure no plain sticks are place around.
Is there a way to identify weed with Analyzer ? Is it enough to destroy weed itself or i have to destroy whole soil block ?

Another problem. I was able to cross breed new harmless Unknown crops, which look like basic MC crops. For example one Unknown crop is obviosly wheat, just Cropnalyzer says it's Unknown (perhaps has different GGR) and i can't get any seeds(it yields only Wheat) to examine given crop. Do seeds have only small probability of droping or there is another way to get seeds from plant ?

Quote from Alblaka

Seeds only drop if you PICK a plant with leftclick.
As well, cropnalyzer will consider ever crossed plant unknown, even if it's obvious.

I get no drops when left clicking the plant. Can this be caused by Creative mode ?

Quote from cvl4317

To plant flowers, have at least 4 of them on your hand.

Thanks. Added.

Quote from I don't now

You can create cocoa by planting cocoa beans, so it's a basic plant. New Discovered plant:

I wonder why i was not able to plant cocoa beans... Changing that and adding new plant. I let Cocoa in Discovered plants list because it was not originally in MC. Also, how did you create Stickreed ? (which plants you crossed)

Quote from CzT

You can use bonemeal as fertilizer

I thought everyone tried it, but ok, i'll add it.

Quote from CzT

P.S. btw, how you actually harvest crops? I mean in efficient way...
By harvesting manually you can ruin your crops by standing on dirt.

By right clicking them. You can still sneak without ruining your crops.