Hydrocactus

Hydrocactus

Hydrocacti act as natural Water filters when given access to Sand.

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Growth & harvest

Water350 kg
Domesticated growth
10cycles
Wild growth
40cycles
Unharvested crop drops after
4cycles

Growth times assume healthy conditions without growth bonuses or mutations. Wild plants do not consume delivered irrigation or fertilizer.

Growing conditions

Temperature window
20 – 110 ºC
Lethal window
-20 – 170 ºC
Atmospheric mass per cell
0.03 – 10 kg
Radiation range
0 – 2,200 rads/cycleSpaced Out!
Planting

Must not be submerged

Requires a supporting tile

Irrigation
Polluted Water65 kg/cycle
Fertilizer
Sand5 kg/cycle
Lives in

Seeds

Hydrocactus Seed
On uprooting
× 1
Base bonus seed chance
10%

Duplicant farming skill can increase the bonus seed chance.

Mutation effects

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Plants with this mutation are easier to take care of, but don't yield as much produce.

Minimum radiation
+250rads/cycle
Temperature-window width
+50%
Harvest amount
-25%
Irrigation and fertilizer use
-50%

Effects change the unmutated plant. Growth figures above are the unmutated baseline.

Yields food

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