Rare Vanilla & Rare Bonsai - How Rare Are We Talking??

[Sophi]

I've been doing the naturalist quest for years and even more so since the new vanilla plants came out (boy I've really, really wanted rare colored vanillas!!) And, out of the hundreds of rare quest seeds i've acquired since the patch that released vanilla plants, I have managed to snag exactly 1 vanilla seed!
HOWEVER -- I noticed recently that on Atlantic they actually do get rare colored vanilla seeds reasonably often. (I've also seen the rare colored bonsai seeds for sale there - are these also obtainable via the naturalist quest? I've never gotten a rare colored bonsai - ever, ever.) I begin to wonder if there is a differance between shards in what the quest givers drop...
If that's so, could the quest givers on Europa please have those included as possible seed drops? If there's not supposed to be any differances, could someone please double-check there's not some glitch on Europa?

 

[jill]

Hi Sophi,
Doing the naturalist quests you can get the more rare vanillas (5-hole, white, black, fire red) (4-hole pink, aqua, magenta) this i've confirmed myself and thru others. If your wanting the other 13 colors of vanilla and bonsai plants.. i'd go to the stratics oddities page.. it gives you the crosses to produce them. Heres the link:
http://uo2.stratics.com/skill-guides/skills-and-professions/gardening-essay/colored-plant-oddities

Enjoy and Good luck,
-jill