Speed up crop growth

[SomeRandomPetey]

I want to know what are the best ways to speed up crop growth automatically. No watering cans or fertilizers. Also, I am in Direwolf20 1.12, the pack does not have Reliquary, so no lily pads of fertility, and I'm not far enough in Thaumcraft for a lamp of growth.

 

[SolManX]

When you say 'No watering cans or fertilizers' do you mean you don't want to use them or just don't have access?

If it's the latter, then Industrial Foregoing (new version of MFR) has a https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Plant_Fertilizer, which I'm sure is in DW20 1.12.

 

[Cptqrk]

Watering cans are also very much so in DW20 1.12.2

 

[SomeRandomPetey]

By no fertilizers i mean i dont want to use them. I'd prefer passive blocks/items rather than manual ones.

 

[Cptqrk]

As SolManX said, you can use the Plant Fertilizer from Industrial Foregoing then. It uses Bonemeal and other fertilizers to speed up plant growth (I would suggest the forestry one as 1 Apatite and 2 Sand = 8 fertilizer).

You will probably need a range addon and some way to automate fertilizer.

 

[SolManX]

Fair enough, although with a mob farm (using cursed earth, say) you can provide both the power and the bonemeal (power could come from rotten flesh in an exutils2 death generator) ... it becomes a completely passive operation.

 

[Cptqrk]

True, still I always fine Apatite in massive quantities, and the 1 - 8 ratio is quite nice.

Yes the machine will need power, but if you are already using some kind of planter/harvesting machine, you have power there already, the range addon is because Industrial Foregoing machines working areas are usually just the block in front of it to start, doesn't work well for a plant/tree farm unless you only have one tree/tilled soil plot

 

[Cptqrk]

Oh, additional suggestion...

If you've gotten into Botania at all, you can use the Agricarnation. It covers a 5x5 area, uses a little mana (but easy enough to automate).

https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Agricarnation

 

[SomeRandomPetey]

Thanks for the replies, so far I've got Greenhouse glass and Worms from Actually Additions, Timewood clock cores from Twilight Forest, and I'll test out the Agricarnation (I'm going to set up a decently good Dandelifion farm soon). Apatite also isn't much of a problem for me, I've got a lot of it already, and I have a tier 2 void ore miner, which I'm trying to upgrade to tier 3. And sand is super easy to automate, I have a resonant pulverizer with 4 speed augments

 

[Reddis]

I might be wrong, but I think the farming station from enderio will auto-use bonemeal for you.