Some have weeds others don't. I plant 6 sage plants, a block away from each other. One in plain dirt, One in a small planter, one in a pot, one in a large planter, one in a cottage living "plot" sage, one in a covered large planter. Water each once, each sprouts a dead stick, it may or may not allow a harvest, never can water it again, sometimes it emits green vapor, then says dispose, sometimes they have weeds, I NEVER see bugs. Every single attempt, and there has been dozens of attempts, results with the same thing. Weeds appear randomly on this one or that one, all have had weeds, all have gone without weeds, Plant one gets weeds, Plant two does not, next time Plant one doesn't get weeds and Plant two does get weeds, etc randomly for all 6 plants grown at the same time. I have reversed the order they are planted in plant 1-6 or plant 6-1. I have placed them left to right, top to bottom in angle to the sun. I have 3 Rabbit stumps giving me around 12 rabbits. The Rabbits hit the weeds as soon as they show up. I have three Bird trees, birds everywhere, I never see them doing anything except playing around. I never see bugs. I removed the birds still no bugs anywhere. I have turned off rain/snow and have no weeds but the plants still go from seed-sprout a dead stick-remove dead plant. I have used cheats to make it constant rain still get the same effect. Puddles everywhere. 3 Sim-days' time=dead. Turned off seasons, removed seasons, removed snowy escape, eliminated seasonal possible, Put the entire lot in a green house, sealed up. Same results 6 sage plants, 6 apple trees, 6 rose plants, 6 bluebells, 6 chrysanthemums, 6 strawberries, and others. All the same. Yet, Garlic grows and base game mushrooms grow. Cottage living "crops" grow but never grow beyond small or medium in size. Lettuce has died and same with Ambergene. All Cottage living mushrooms grow but never achieve more than a 2-mushroom harvest in any conditions, sheltered or not sheltered. Plants in the various world appear, rarely with blooms, and can only be viewed and never harvested. I have tried in all worlds. I have a 64 x 64 lot in Brindleton Bay that I made as a grow farm. Approximately 250 plants and a full 8 family staff to water, harvest, weed, spray, etc, that I have played for over a year with EVERY plant in the game. All 8 have worked through the Gardening/Botanist career completely. Five of them have become 4 and/or 5 star celebrities in the Botanist career, having written how to books and articles. Since this problem began, I visited that lot that hasn't been played for about 3 months and nearly all plants have reverted to dirt mounds in the ground leaving only about 20 plants still growing and they are sickly at best, brown and scraggly. Where, prior to this Blight, the entire lot would have been filled with plants in various stages and rarely dead or dying. I have run that lot from Christmas to Christmas plus 7 months (19 MONTHS total) in REAL time and never had a problem with any mods or updates. I installed Cottage living, played happily for 1 week, then the blight struck. I began researching it on various forums and websites and you tube and reedit I had 3 lots running in Cottage living and dozens more in other worlds. I have read the symptoms and problems, in my entire game of all my lots and worlds I have seen the same symptoms and problems, I have experimented in all worlds, I have seen the same thing in all worlds. I have put in over 80 hours of real time checking, testing, reading. At which point I uninstalled it all, reinstalled the game 4 times in total and immediately had the same problem, each time. Uninstalled Origins. Reinstalled ONE TIME and cleared the que of Origins disorderly way of downloading this one or that one and installed them in order of Sims 4 first, Expansions second, game packs third, stuff packs forth and kits last. Except I installed Cottage Living LAST this time since that is when it all went bad. I tested my game each and every time. Growing 6 plants of random types from seed to harvest to watering cycles. I had weeds Which I removed, bugs that I sprayed, Heat waves, thunderstorms, rampant dogs, cats, children. Not one dead plant. I let plants dry out in heat waves, watered them and they came back fine. I let it thunderstorm for 3 days straight, weeded the area, everything was fine. I burned a Grill to the ground right next to my apple tree, tree even caught fire before I put it out, no problem. I installed Cottage living and have played 4 hours, no problem. Still testing at this point to see if it comes back. Put in some of the main BIG mods MCCC and a couple others. Still no problem. Slowly adding clothing and makeup and miscellaneous at this point. Installed things like the Spa Day Spa building, the Haunted house, Restaurant, etc, things that came with Sim 4 game. I have not installed any downloaded lots or build/buy items. Just incidental CC stuff. Now, back to my game, I hope this satisfies your curiosities. I have not visited aliens yet, I have never and probably will never Journey to Disney... er uhm, Batu (Only bought it "keeping up with the Simsies" Yes, I get the "travel to batu" hype daily when I play my game) and I have not visited any of the Vacation worlds yet at this time. I don't grow plants in vacation worlds. (Derp? "I'm on vacation!!") (I don't visit Sulani much either, they seem to be an angry people, and bring me down, I get enough of that in daily life)
