Pikmin Bloom App @lemmy.world ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @midwest.social 1y ago

Big Bloom strategies

How do we increase the quality of our big blooms? I notice that if I plant 300 sunflowers or red jamaica on a single bloom it typically gives me that nectar back.

Is there a way to make big blooms give higher-value nectars? How do the bloom type calculations work?

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I haven't found a way to improve the payout on the blooms, unfortunately.

What I've learned to do is two things:

Attack mushrooms in groups (when possible). The higher the level the better, usually.

Feed scarce nectar to immature pikmin who have buds on their heads - this pays double.

Sometimes, I attack mushrooms at less than 3 or 4 stars, so I can get more, different types of nectar, instead of a fewer, bigger payouts.

One other thing that helps:
If you can walk with other players, you need fewer flowers (personally) to force the bloom. Either way, the payout, I think, is the same. So walking partners help.

I walk, most days, with my wife, who also plays.

Editing to add:
I've found they will usually pay out the type of flower that was planted most. So if 151 sunflowers were planted, it's likely paying out sunflowers. If 151 roses are planted, and within all the flowers planted blue was the most numerous, you'll likely get blue roses.

I have found, however, that this doesn't always work. My wife and I have walked through a bud which had 0 planted flowers and we planted it to 300, forcing the bloom. We'd exclusively planted white hibiscus. We got yellow. Then on the next, we got red. Some scarcity, Niantic appears to force or manufacture, unfortunately. When I saw that, that's when I started doing the bud-pikmin double-up feeding much more consistently.
- If 151 roses are planted, and within all the flowers planted blue was the most numerous, you'll likely get blue roses
  
  Thanks for this tip! Really pulled my bacon from the fire after I ran down a petal I needed for a mission.
I found this and I think it's a significant improvement over anything I said earlier.

Now what I said, I think, is accurate, but the link goes into greater depth on how things will sometimes act differently than you'd expect.
- To summarize for anyone else wondering:
  
  If you plant between 50-70% (151-209 flowers) with the flower type you want in white, and the rest in basic flowers of the color you want, you will usually get that type in that color.
  
  If less than 30% (91 flowers) of planted flowers are one of yellow, red, or blue, then the color is random. Not purely random, though, each type of flower has a weighted scale for color.
  
  During special events the flower type may be overridden by the event flower.
  
  I was able to test the first part myself on three fresh sprouts, and successfully bloomed all three into blue dianthus by planting ~170 white dianthus and ~130 plain blue petals around each.
  
  Edit: Thanks @[email protected] for finding this info and maintaining this helpful community!