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?
I haven’t found a way to improve the payout on the blooms, unfortunately.
What I’ve learned to do is two things:
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.
Thanks for this tip! Really pulled my bacon from the fire after I ran down a petal I needed for a mission.