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By the time you've entered Tier 3, you will have amassed a considerable pile of [[Seed]]s. You've just unlocked your [[Planter Box]] and you've been challenged to "grow flowers".

The flowers in question are Amethelis Flowers, and they're formed of flower stalks ([[Vine]]s), topped with a flower made up of a [[Gold]] center surrounded by [[Amethelis]] petals - another valuable source of [[Gold]], and those [[Amethelis]] petals are going to be useful too. So, how do they grow?

== Preparing Your Seeds ==
[[File:seed-wetting.png|right|thumb|Moving seeds through water with Clearing Frames]]

As any gardener knows, seeds need water to grow. So the first thing you need to do is to add water to your [[Seeds]], which results (unsurprisingly) in [[Wet Seed]].

You're familiar with this process from [[Sand]], but things are quite as simple here - [[Wet Seed]] is lighter than [[Seed]], so it will rise to the top of the pile. But worse than that, [[Wet Seed]] are exactly the same density as water, so you can't just drop [[Seed]] into a pool and let a conveyor pull them out at the other end.

As with every process, there are a thousand different approaches to this - [[Launcher]]s throwing everything up and [[Filter]]s to pick out the [[Wet Seed]], dripping [[Water]] onto a pile of [[Seed]], dropping [[Seed]] slowly into a pool of [[Water]]. It really is up to you.

Personally, I prefer the simple "pool of water" approach. Because [[Wet Seed]]s float rather chaotically, I use [[Clearing Frames]] to slowly push them over to the exit [[Launcher]]. It's not the fastest or most elegant solution, but it mostly keeps up with my [[Seed]] production, and it's easily duplicated if that becomes an issue.
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== Planting Your Seeds ==
[[File:planting-seed.png|right|thumb|Seeds dropped onto planting boxes, grow flowers]]

Now you have your [[Wet Seed]]s, you need to sow them. The first thing to do will be to drop them onto [[Planter Box]]es, where they will sprout and grow a length of [[Vine]] stalk, eventually forming an Amethelis Flower on top. At this point, the plant growth stops.

When a plant is growing, if it grows ''into'' another [[Wet Seed]] (if, for example, you've just thrown a big pile onto your planters), it will absorb that seed, growing another vine and eventually producing another flower. There's no limit to how many seeds a growing plant can absorb, so if a large amount of [[Wet Seed]] is dropped together, your plants can end up growing for a long time - and across a large area!

If you don't want to be chasing flowers all over the world, box your planters in - plants won't grow through ''any'' building (even [[Wall Light]]s!) so you can control how far they grow this way.

To keep things easier to manage, you probably want to develop a way to thinly scatter seeds across your [[Planter Box]]es - just like real gardening!
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== Harvesting Your Flowers ==
[[File:harvesting-seed.png|right|thumb|Burning flowers is a quick and easy way to harvest them]]

Once your plants have flowered, it's time to harvest them. They are like any terrain in the game - you can dig them, shoot them, or blow them up. Because [[Vine]]s are flammable, you can also burn them with [[Fire]] which is the best method; the fire will spread along the vines and jump from plant to plant, clearing the whole growing area in very little time.

The [[Vine]]s don't drop anything. The flowers, however, are a [[Gold]] centre surrounded by [[Amethelis]] petals, and these will drop once the flowers are destroyed. The [[Planter Box]]es will allow both of these materials to fall through them, so you will get a rain of [[Gold]] and [[Amethelis]] cascading from beneath the planters.

[[Amethelis]] is light and blows around in the wind; you ''can'' move it as normal with conveyors and launchers but its wispy nature makes that complicated.

[[Gold]], of course, is the heaviest element in the game and is easy to catch.

Catch the [[Gold]] and send it to your [[Collector]]s.

And as for all that [[Amethelis]]... well, that's a whole new process!