What are the right answers to the Gardener chance cards in The Sims 4?

Sims 4 Gardener chance cards: every answer

The Gardener career has 16 chance cards. Here is every card, each choice, and what it can lead to, with its odds and its effect on job performance, from the game files. On 7 of them, one choice is best for job performance.

Irrigation Situation

An important client has called frantically complaining about broken sprinklers! Your Sim has been sent to deal with this “gardening emergency,” but what will he/she do? Replace the irrigation system, or care for the plants by hand because technology is overrated.

Best for job performance: Replace Irrigation.

Replace Irrigation

100%: Your Sim understands the importance of a good irrigation system and decided to replace the clients. With wrench in hand your Sim quickly replaced the fault portions of the irrigation and made it fully functional within the hour. (job performance +7)

Water By Hand

100%: Your Sim scoffed at the idea of using technology and went on to water the plants by hand. Your Sim's mistake was not assessing the size of the project. The client's broken sprinklers spanned the entire property. Your Sim spent the entire day watering the clients plants by hand, missing multiple other appointments in the process. (job performance −10)

Gross Overproduction

The greenhouse nursery at your Sim’s job is a little too nurturing: the new sprouts have quickly grown out of control and taken over the space. How does he/she handle these rampant plants? Hack them back into submission or toss more fertilizer onto the forest.

Hack Them Back

50%: Your Sim hacked at the overgrowth with an oversized machete. The nursery was cut down to perfect care, with the removed overgrowth surrounding the nursery plants in neat piles. Your Sim's boss was impressed by both the speed and the organized process he/she took to clear the mess. (job performance +7; moodlet: Back to your Roots)
50%: Your Sim began hacking back the overgrowth with zeal, but maybe too much of it. He/She hacked so far down into the overgrowth that he/she damaged many of the plants beyond repair. The nursery may have been overgrown, but your Sim caused it to die. his/her boss decided to make your Sim clear out and replant the entire nursery as punishment. (job performance −10)

More Fertilizer!

100%: Your Sim figures there's no such thing as too nurturing and decides to throw more fertilizer on the nursery. The nursery plants began to grow out of control enveloping the space fully. With the plants tangling as they grow, the nursery plants can no longer be salvaged. When your Sim's boss heard about what he/she had done, his/her boss decided to make the punishment fit the crime by making your Sim clear out and replant the entire nursery by hand. (job performance −10)

Greatest Grower

Local Greenthumbs are holding a “Harvest-Off,” a speed grow contest to see which horticulturist can produce the biggest and best produce. What does your Sim do? Focus effort on cultivating a fruit finalist or spectate the contest for fun as a farming fan.

Cultivate Finalist

depends on Naturalist, Ambitious, Hot-Headed, Lazy, Gardening: Your Sim entered the contest with confidence. His/Her entry is going to be the world's largest onion. With careful tending and horticultural secrets, his/her contest winning onion grew to massive proportions. Your Sim easily took first place and the onion caused the surrounding area to smell a bit onion-y for the rest of the week. (job performance +7)
depends on Naturalist, Ambitious, Hot-Headed, Lazy, Gardening: Your Sim decided to enter the competition. He/She decided his/her entry will be the largest apple ever grown. Sadly the shear size of the apple caused its tree to snap in half and it fling the apple hundreds of feet into the air. The apple came crashing down outside the contest grounds with a splat. Your Sim was sadly disqualified from the contest and assigned to clean up the large applesauce explosion his/her apple caused. (no job performance change)

Spectate Contest

100%: Your Sim doesn't enjoy competition so decided to watch the contest. Your Sim was captivated by the produce produced. The heated contest finally came to a close when the grand prize was awarded to a local farmer who grew a potato the size of a car! (no job performance change)

Topiary Tragedy

Your Sim has been working on a prestigious client's topiary exhibit all week. Tragedy struck today when your Sim accidentally cut the head off the client's favorite specimen. Your Sim has to act quickly - does he/she confess immediately to the client, or take a risky move and make all the topiary headless as an artistic statement?

Best for job performance: Off With Their Heads.

Confess Mistake

50%: Your Sim confessed the mistake to the client. To his/her surprise, the client began laughing uncontrollably. Once the client calmed down a bit, they explained that the topiary in question was one of their least favorites. Your Sim's mistake had only improved the piece as far as the client is concerned. Your Sim mistake may have worked out this time, but he/she should be more careful in the future. (job performance +7)
50%: Your Sim confessed the mistake to the client and the client was not pleased. The client berated him/her for his/her clumsiness and decided to make a call to your Sim's boss as well. Your Sim was asked to leave the exhibit and go back to the store. His/Her boss was understanding of the mistake and felt he/she had been through enough for one day. (job performance −10)

Off With Their Heads

50%: Your Sim systemically chopped off the head of every creature in the topiary exhibit. His/Her explanation the artistic statement as making the exhibit totally different while staying the same, and the client loved it! The new twist on the exhibit made it a rousing success with visitor attendance tripling in the next week. (job performance +15)
50%: Your Sim decided to stay consistent and began chopping off the heads of all the other topiary creatures. When the client saw the disaster, they immediately fainted. Your Sim attempted to defend it as an artistic statement but nobody would accept the explanation. When the client recovered, they berated your Sim and fired them from the jobsite. Your Sim returned to the store vowing never to be that reckless again. (job performance −10)

All Kinds Of Buggy

A local tuber ranch has a problem with bugs: their latest spud crop is lousy with them. Your Sim arrives to discover an epic infestation! Does he/she locally apply an organic garlic remedy, or bug-bomb the entire site - it’s the only way to be sure.

Apply Organic Remedy

50%: Your Sim understands that tubers are incredibly fragile, so decides against the bug bomb. Instead your Sim and the rancher use garlic as a pest deterrent, planting it around the ranch. Within the hour the bugs began evacuating the area. The rancher thanked your Sim profusely and began sending your Sim's company free tubers for the next year! (job performance +15)
50%: Your Sim decided to go against chemical treatment and apply an organic remedy to the situation. Your Sim had heard that garlic can repel a bug infestations, so he/she and the rancher spend the next hour planting garlic between every tuber. Sadly the garlic had the reverse affect. Another bug infestation drawn by the garlic, from a neighboring ranch, turned on the tubers and devoured them completely. Suffice it to say the rancher was not happy and your Sim left hastily. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Bug-Bomb Site

50%: Your Sim set the bug bomb on the ground and quickly ran for cover. The bug bomb exploded with a large cloud of powder covering all the plants in the area, instantly destroying the infestation. The rancher was immensely grateful and promised to praise your Sim to his/her boss. (job performance +7)
50%: With a large poof the bug bomb went off. The bug bomb was more effective than your Sim wanted it to be. The bug bomb killed the bug infestation, half of the crop, and the ranchers bee farm next door. Your Sim's company handled the damages and gave him/her a stern lecture. He/She should feel lucky he/she still has a job. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Work Grow Space

The garden facilities at your Sim's new workplace are impressive, but not as lovingly cultivated as his/her own personal space. So, what will your Sim do? Follow work policy by filing a service request, or choose to tend to it before starting his/her tasks?

Best for job performance: Follow Policy.

Follow Policy

50%: Your Sim sent in the service request for the facility and then went about their day. The official facility tenders responded to the request almost immediately. With the garden no longer in disrepair, and no time wasted, your Sim had done his/her job well. He/She just wishes he/she had gotten a chance to get his/her hands dirty too. (job performance +7)
50%: Your Sim put in a service request, as is the policy, and waited for for the service to come and tend the garden. After a few hours, your Sim's boss came in and stopped instantly upon seeing the garden. Your Sim was then lectured for not taking any initiative to fixing the garden. It may be the policy to send a service request, but waiting idly definitely is not. (no job performance change)

Tend It

50%: Your Sim tended the garden facility as if it were his/her very own garden. Though policy was not followed, your Sim's boss thanked him/her the tending and reminded him/her that next time a service request would still be the proper thing to do. Your Sim was just glad to have been allowed to fix the facility's garden, and to not be in trouble for it. (job performance −10; moodlet: Back to your Roots)
50%: Your Sim tended the garden first until it was in perfect shape. While the facilities had become pristine, policy was not followed. Your Sim's boss lectured him/her about policy until his/her head spun. Even worse, part of the punishment is that your Sim has to undergo basic training again. (no job performance change)

Microscope Maintenance

Your Sim's boss tasked him/her with cleaning all the microscopes. After numerous hours of labor your Sim is almost done but he/she is extremely tired. The last task he/she has is to clean the microscope lenses. Should your Sim properly sterilize the lenses, or just wipe them clean so they can rest?

Best for job performance: Sterilize.

Wipe Lens Clean

100%: Your Sim is too tired to follow procedure. Instead he/she decided to just wipe down the microscope lenses without the proper sterilization. A few hours later an angry group of coworkers approach your Sim yelling about the microscope care. Your Sim's laziness destroyed progress in over 60% of the labs studies. Your Sim spent the rest of the day correctly sterilizing the microscopes trying not to pay attention to his/her coworkers' angry stares. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Sterilize

100%: Your Sim spent the time to properly sterilize the lenses, as is the policy. Just as he/she was finishing the last microscope a shout sounded from across the room. Thanks to your Sim's diligence in cleaning the microscope lenses a fellow botanist was able to determine the smallest living plant ever found! Aiding in this discovery has certainly boosted your Sim's career. (job performance +15)

Scientific Breakthrough

Your Sim was evaluating some new data when he/she noticed a pattern between petals and leaves that could change the world of botany forever. It could be risky for your Sim to bring forward without the research to prove it though. What should your Sim do? Does he/she lay claim to the discovery first by publishing a paper, or fully research his/her finding and risk someone else stealing the credit?

Publish Research Paper

50%: Your Sim was ready to announce his/her new discovery so he/she posted it on a well known scientific investigative journal. After some celebration and a commendation from your Sim's boss, it was time research the discovery fully. (moodlet: Writing Praised)
50%: Your Sim posted the findings right away, without the research. He/She felt confident until an article posted immediately after accused him/her of stealing the discovery. Without the research your Sim could not prove his/her innocence and had to suffer the consequences. (job performance −10)

Research

50%: Charts and data points all assembled, your Sim was ready to announce his/her new discovery so he/she posted it on a well known scientific investigative journal. Almost immediately after the discovery was posted, coworkers all around your Sim burst out of their chairs cheering! Now, with the research already done, your Sim and his/her colleagues need to redefine the rules for botany in which your Sim just shattered. What fun! (moodlet: Academic Fame)
50%: Your Sim spent hours researching the new findings. Just as he/she was about to post the discovery, he/she receives an email and his/her heart sank. A coworker had stumbled upon the same discovery and immediately claimed it as their own. Though the research is still useful, your Sim wishes he/she had spent less time doing it. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Feed Me More, See

It is your Sim's turn to feed and milk the work lab’s resident Cowplant, Bo Vine, a craftier-than-average specimen. How will your Sim approach this always-tricky task? Offer the nutritionally-approved dosage of cake or attempt to reason with it using science!

Offer Cake

depends on Active, Cheerful, Fitness: Your Sim decided to offer Bo some cake, because everyone loves cake. Bo Vine had other plans. While your Sim was offering the cake, the Cowplant used its tail to distract him/her. Your Sim looked away for just a second, and when he/she turned back around the cake in his/her hands was replaced with Bo Vine's cake tongue. In one swift motion your Sim was eaten, drained, and spit out. (no job performance change)

Reason With It

depends on Genius, Bookworm, Self-Assured, Hot-Headed, Childish, Erratic, Bro, Logic: Your Sim debated with Bo for quite some time until both parties reached a mutually beneficial aggreement. Bo Vine will get 2 extra meals and an intellectual to debate with in exchange for not attempting to eat your Sim for the time being. Hopefully this shakey alliance holds. (job performance +7)
depends on Genius, Bookworm, Self-Assured, Hot-Headed, Childish, Erratic, Bro, Logic: In your Sim's attempts to reason with Bo, the cowplant asks him/her a complicated question. Your Sim began to ponder and answer and this was exactly what Bo Vine was waiting for. In your Sim's distraction, the cowplant chomps down and drains him/her. Bo Vine was clearly far too clever for your Sim to deal with. (no job performance change)

Chemical Causality

A large cannister of experimental fertilizer ruptured, soaking most of the lab's plants in the chemical concoction. Nobody knows exactly how this will affect the plants, but your Sim's superior has tasked him/her to fix the situation. What will your Sim do with these chemical soaked specimens? Allow the plants to grow and study the effects or apply a chemical countermeasure against the fertilizer to attempt to save the plants?

Best for job performance: Chemical Countermeasure.

Study Effects

50%: Your Sim decided to get out a notebook instead of cleaning out the experimental substance. In just a short amount of time he/she noticed the plant quickly hit maturity as if it had been cared after for years. With this discovery your Sim's scientific endeavors can be measured in half the time! (moodlet: Numbers)
50%: Your Sim decided to study the plant in case the fertilizer proved effective. In the next few hours he/she was sadly disappointed as the plant withered and died within hours. Next time your Sim should try to save the plants they have instead of sacrificing them for science. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Chemical Countermeasure

100%: Your Sim acted fast and grabbed a can of Chemical Control, spreading it over all affected areas. The substance immediately started absorbing the experimental fertilizer and rendering it benign. Your Sim's boss congratulated him/her on the swift action that saved the entire portion of the lab. Your Sim should be proud! (job performance +7)

Unidentified Invader

During your Sim's daily tending routine they came across a peculiar looking plant hidden among the rest. Your Sim is excited at the discovery of a new species but he/she knows it could be deadly to the ecosystem. Does your Sim brave the possibly ecological disaster and let the plant grow or does he/she play it safe and quarantine the specimen to protect the other plants?

Best for job performance: Quarantine.

Let It Grow

50%: Your Sim let the new plant go without much thought. As the new plant began to grow it became clear it was no weed, but instead an exotic and rare specimen with questionable origins. The entire lab rejoiced when they saw it, new plant discoveries don't happen every day. Your Sim's correct decision saved a priceless plant! (moodlet: Fascinating Specimen)
50%: Your Sim didn't think the new plant could do any harm but was terribly mistaken. The plant took over that part of the lab killing all the other plants it came into contact with. Even worse it started shooting seeds everywhere! It'll take weeks for your Sim and his/her coworkers to clear this mess. (job performance −10; moodlet: Seeds of Doubt)

Quarantine

100%: Your Sim took the plant and placed it in a confined part of the lab to be quarantined. Your Sim moved it just in time too, as the plant grew out of control taking up all the space within its quarantine. Due to your Sim's quick thinking no other plants in the lab were damaged and this unruly invader has been dispatched accordingly. (job performance +7)

Banged Up Bonsai

The latest batch of prized Bonsai shrubs, organically-sourced from the San Myshuno grange, were damaged in transit and their normally perfect tuft of needles crushed into something not very zen. What can your Sim do with these precious plants? Use them for pruning practice, or try to create compelling custom shapes?

Practice Pruning

100%: Your Sim decided the damaged bonsais cannot be salvaged. Instead he/she decided to instead have a pruning workshop to help cross train his/her coworkers. After spending the day teaching everyone proper pruning practices everyone had a better understanding of the process. (skill: Gardening)

Create Custom Shapes

depends on Creative, Naturalist, Clumsy, Hot-Headed, Lazy, Gardening: Thanks to your Sim gardening prowess, he/she was able to salvage the damaged bonsais. The custom shapes sold exceptionally well! Your Sim also drew in a new customers with the fantastic shapes. (job performance +15)
depends on Creative, Naturalist, Clumsy, Hot-Headed, Lazy, Gardening: Your Sim tried to make some custom shapes with damaged bonsais but to no avail. Somehow trying to make shapes just further damaged the bonsais. It'll take quite some time for these bonsais to recover now. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Pollination Situation

Business has been booming and your Sim has been making twice as many arrangements as usual. To keep supplies up he/she needs to pollinate his/her plants to expand their garden further. How does your Sim go about pollinating all of their plants? Installing a bee box and letting the bees do it for him/her, or take no chances and pollinate the plants manually?

Install Bee Box

50%: Your Sim decided to install a bee box and the bees quickly went to work. They not only expanded the garden but now the store has a replenishing source of honey. With the honey sales and expanded stock business is better than ever! (job performance +25)
50%: Installing a bee box seemed like a good idea at the time but, after numerous stings, your Sim and his/her coworkers changed their mind. The bees may have expanded the stock quite a bit but nobody thought it was worth the pain. (job performance −20; moodlet: Stung!, Work Annoyance)

Manually Pollinate

50%: After many hours of pistils and stamens, your Sim finally finished the pollination project. Though incredibly boring, he/she successfully expanded the garden to support the added clientele. Hopefully he/she never has to do that again. (job performance +15)
50%: After tireless hours of working with tweezers, your Sim has only gotten through a fraction of the plants to pollinate. At this rate it will take weeks to expand any of the garden and his/her stock won't last that long. Your Sim needs to finish the job though, so he/she won't be able to serve any customers until he/she is done. (job performance −10)

Over Stalked

While making a routine inspection of the company’s floral inventory, your Sim found the stores to be considerably overstocked and products are starting to wilt. How will he/she deal with this discovery? Dispose of the inferior surplus, or offer cut-rate deals to unload more merchandise.

Dispose of Surplus

depends on Loves Outdoors, Creative, Neat, Slob, Lazy, Flower Arranging: Your Sim tossed the majority of the surplus out before anyone else noticed what he/she was doing. His/Her coworkers had no idea so much of the stock had gone bad. With help, all the wilted surplus was thrown out before the situation got out of control. (job performance +7)
depends on Loves Outdoors, Creative, Neat, Slob, Lazy, Flower Arranging: Your Sim tossed about half of the surplus before his/her boss took notice and quickly ran over to stop him/her. Apparently the surplus was going to be used for potpourri until your Sim threw most of it out. With a loss of profits, and a reprimand from his/her boss, your Sim quickly went back to his/her normal work. Taking the initiative was a poor choice this time. (job performance −10)

Offer Deals

depends on Cheerful, Creative, Ambitious, Materialistic, Mean, Gloomy, Flower Arranging, Charisma: Your Sim's created some thrifty deals from the overstocked surplus and it was a huge success! The deals not only got rid of the surplus but also drew in far more customers for the day. Your Sim's boss was quite impressed. Deals were a great idea! (moodlet: Full of Confidence)
depends on Cheerful, Creative, Ambitious, Materialistic, Mean, Gloomy, Flower Arranging, Charisma: Your Sim offered some great deals on the surplus stock that seemed to do well, until customers began coming back in with complaints. The surplus was clearly too far gone to offer to customers. Your Sim quickly removed the deals and threw away the rest of the surplus but the damage was already done. (job performance −10)

Tradition Derision

A fussy customer is complaining that the arrangements available are not contemporary enough for their tastes and requests that your Sim constructs a very specific arrangement for them. The customer's design is very ostentatious, but your Sim's boss stresses that the customer is always right. What does your Sim do? Follow the customer's choice and create the custom arrangement, or push traditional values in hopes of persuading the customer?

Best for job performance: Customer's Choice.

Customer's Choice

100%: As the saying goes, the customer is always right. Your Sim followed the clients instructions exactly. Even though the arrangement isn't something your Sim would normally find very appealing, the customer was quite happy with it. He/She just hopes he/she never has to make it again. (job performance +7)

Push Traditional Values

50%: With a lengthy discussion, and a bit of charm, your Sim was able to pursuade the customer against the custom arrangement and instead purchased a more traditional piece. The custom arrangement would've been expensive to produce so your Sim's boss awarded his/her the savings as a bonus for a job well done. (job performance +7; +§100)
50%: Your Sim attempted to push a more traditional piece for the customer and failed horribly. The client quickly complained to your Sim's boss and your Sim was reprimanded for not adhering to the customer's request. (job performance −20; moodlet: Work Annoyance)

Art Expression Expo

Your Sim's boss has chosen him/her to represent the company at the big Art Expression Expo today. Your Sim will be competing with some of the best in the business. The pressure is on and your Sim doesn’t know what arrangement he/she should make. What does your Sim do? Push the boundaries of acceptable arrangements, or stick to what he/she knows and be conventional?

Push Boundaries

depends on Slob, Lazy, Flower Arranging: The audience was in awe at your Sim's unique arrangement. The presentation was pristine while the shapes and colors complimented each other perfectly! Your Sim's boss was quite pleased with his/her work, giving him/her a small bonus for their insightful work. (job performance +15)
depends on Slob, Lazy, Flower Arranging: Your Sim chose to push the boundaries but pushed them a bit too far. The judge's confused stares, the audience's expression, and his/her boss's angry yells made the failure perfectly clear. Next time he/she should have some limits about how far pushing a boundary should go. (job performance −10)

Be Conventional

depends on Slob, Lazy, Flower Arranging: Your Sim played it safe and was awarded 5th place. He/She did well enough to draw in some additional customers and meet his/her boss' expectations, but can't shake the feeling he/she could've done better. (job performance +7)
depends on Slob, Lazy, Flower Arranging: Your Sim knew if he/she stayed conventional he/she had to get everything done perfectly, but that is far from what actually happened. He/She was embarassed after his/her boss yelled at him/her, but next time he/she is determined to not make the same mistake again. (job performance −20; moodlet: Outdated Artist, Work Annoyance)

The odds are the game's: each result of a choice has the same weight unless a skill or trait test changes it, as noted. The effect in brackets is what the result's loot does. "Best for job performance" is the choice with the highest expected change, shown only when every chance on the card is known.