Okay, now I'm beginning to wonder; more potions? i'ev never had a double growth require more potions. It requires the same number as it would have if it hadn't, it's just added an extra day.
Why don't you break down, step by step, every tiny little thing you do? Start with dirt, and where you're locking down or storing, and everything. you've insisted that everything we've suggested isnt' the problem; there isn't anything else. All that's left is either user error, or the largest number of bugs focused on a single person I've ever heard of in UO history.
ok you asked for it.(keep in mind these are bright orange poppies, so they do require poison potion almost everyday)
Planting Day!!!!!!
First i fill the bowls with dirt, from the general road area around my house in zento.
Second, after i get all the bowls filled, i apply 2 water to each bowl.
Third, I lock each bowl down in stacks of 5 high and the length and width of the room, Either second floor or the rooftop of my house. (I used to previously place seeds in them in my back pack, and i still get the same outcome)
fourth i raise the first row of plant bowls to the desired heights, and plant the first row of seeds, and then continue on to the next row and so on so forth, till i have either run out of seeds or plant bowls.
Day after planting.
Go to the floor with the plants and open each gump to make sure there is no water or potions needed, and what is needed is applied to the plant.
Generally nothing is needed.
Second - 7th day after planting
go to the floor with the plants and open each individual plant gump and apply water and potions needed. Pollinate plants that are ready to be pollinated
8the day till no more resources.
go to the floor with the plants open each individual plant gump, and apply water and potions needed.
if there is a double growth then i would apply the water generally 2 what potions it needs (orange petal plants) generally 2 poison and and sometimes an occasional cure. depending on the state of the plant if it's healthy then i DO NOT apply heal or strength, but if it is wilted then i apply 1 heal and 1 strength.
But like i said this last batch has been the largest double growth batch i have ever had, normally i will only have 2 - 3.
i acquire my pitchers of water from the pond next to my zento house. And my kegs of potions i make. I keep a bag of each keg in a bag to grab each day from a container along with my water pitcher, and 5 potion bottles