Crops quality

[Mr_Bober]

I might be doing something wrong, since my crops are almost always dropping in quality.

I'll give you an example:
I have over 100 farming skill. I own all the skills related to farming, up to Druidic Rite included. I'm using q30 wheat crops.
The only farming-related thing I don't yet have is the full farming credo, which I'm working on.
I'm using the same system I used in W10, sowing 1/3 of the crops, then another 1/3 after 5 hours, then the last 1/3 after 5 more hours.

I'm doing the same process with most other crops. That should give me a pretty high chance to get a higher quality on at least 1 of the 3 fields of wheat, but apparently most of the time I'm getting a lower quality or same quality at best.
I'm not leaving any of my crops sitting there when full grown. At most they might stay there a few hours, if they reach the last stage when I'm offline.

Am I missing something? Did they change something about farming, like maybe soil quality matters, or lunar cycle, or time of the day... or am I just being incredibly unlucky?
From what I've heard many people seem to be having problems with raising quality now

[Sevenless]

I've heard of a couple people having this issue, but haven't experienced it myself so it's tough to say. Sure RNG could be against you, but 2-3 cycles of 5 plants *should* take RNG out of it enough to see some improvement.

[Mr_Bober]

That's what I thought too. Carrots and onions are the only two crops that are doing very well for me, increasing most of the time.
Wheat and hemp are the ones that lost the most quality. Also I'm not 100% sure, but it doesn't seem hemp is growing any faster with beehives in range... but I didn't test it properly

[Sevenless]

That's what I thought too. Carrots and onions are the only two crops that are doing very well for me, increasing most of the time.
Wheat and hemp are the ones that lost the most quality. Also I'm not 100% sure, but it doesn't seem hemp is growing any faster with beehives in range... but I didn't test it properly

Can confirm that hemp doesn't benefit from beehives. Which is odd, I thought they did previously...

I'm mystified.

[MagicManICT]

Which is odd, I thought they did previously

They did prior to the last beehive change... w8, I think?

[Mr_Bober]

Which is odd, I thought they did previously

They did prior to the last beehive change... w8, I think?

You're telling me I've wasted beehives on hemp for like the last 2 worlds? Great...

[MagicManICT]

it might have been w9. I don't recall exactly when the change went in, but they had the same functionality all of last world.

[LtTurtleshot]

Crop rotation is a thing in this game. You have to plant seeds in alternance.

[tetradigem]

i plant all my crops at the same time and harvest them at the same time. the quality has never been lower than my planted Q yet, but all of my crops have had different Q for different areas of the farm when they completed. example:

planted q11 flax in a 20x20 square. when it was finished, the top left area ~4x20 was all q 11. the next row was all q19. the next row was q14, and the rest were all q12. not only is it completely shit RNG, it seems it dosent even follow any form of rules. shit just finishes growing at some random arbitrary value.

[NeoBasilisk]

So which crops are now unaffected by beeskeps? The wiki only mentions wheat and barley.
http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Farming

Do we know yet if millet is affected?