HYDROPONICS addresses the land issue that so many players have been screaming about. You get your last land upgrade at level 49. Then, regular Hydroponic structures start unlocking for purchase at level 73. Limited time hydro structures are available to much lower levels. They can be found in the store under the structures tab.

Hydroponic Shack: Grow 25 seeds at a time on 9 spaces (3x3). Unlocks for purchase at level 73. Cost is 60,000 gold. You get 450xp when you buy it. Requires 5 each of 4 different parts (shown). Requires 4 workers. Provides ZERO protection. (See below for step by step details.)

Hydroponic Bunker: Grow 75 seeds at a time on 16 spaces (4x4). Unlocks for purchase at level 200. Cost is 500,000 gold. You get 750xp when you buy it. Requires 10 each of 5 different parts (shown). Requires 8 workers. Provides +400 protection.

Hydro-Fortress: Grow 150 seeds at a time on 25 spaces (5x5). Unlocks for purchase at level 420. Cost is 5,000,000 gold. Requires 15 each of 6 different parts (shown). Requires 12 workers. Provides +1200 protection.

HYDRO QUESTS: You can earn hydro structures before you can buy them! Check out Hydroponic Quests.

Getting your hydroponics structure ready to grow: When you get a hydroponic structure (the "shack" is shown here), it's not yet ready to use. Before you can use it, you need to collect parts from your neighbors to upgrade (complete) it. You can buy them and they'll immediately show up on your upgrade page. Or, you can mooch parts, just like you post a mooch for gifts. When your friends send them, they appear in the message center like other gifts. Accept them and they appear in your gift box. From your gift box, you then use them to apply them toward your upgrade.

Note: When you use a part from your gifts or purchase a part with pot bucks, you'll find it in your stash ready for the upgrade. When you have all your parts to be used for the upgrade, they'll all be there in your stash. Then you click on the shack, and then click on UPGRADE and the shack will upgrade, taking all the parts from your stash. DO NOT SELL THEM!

NOTE: The pictures here show upgrading the shack. Other hydro structures have different requirements (see top of this page for details).

After you get the parts, your shed will look like this. It's still not ready to use though. You need to get some workers. Again, you can just buy them, or you can invite your friends.

After getting parts and workers, your shack will look like this and will be ready to use!

Growing in your hydro: Go to the store and click on what you'd like to plant. Then, instead of clicking a plot on your farm, click on your hydro structure. It will give you the details and you can accept or decline. You'll be charged the coins (or pot bucks or Facebook credits for certain seeds) plus 25 puff puff points (just like with the 4x planting tool.)

There you have it. You just planted 25 plants with just a few clicks!

You can either wait for the plants to grow, or you can click guano and then click the shack to grow them instantly.

When it's ready to harvest, the shack will look like this. Just click to harvest. (Note: You do not use any puff puff points when harvesting hydroponics.)

Misc Notes

Purchased seeds and guano only: Hydro only works with purchased seeds and guano, not seeds or guano from our gift box.

Hydro CAN be stored: Fully upgraded hydroponic structures that are not in use can now be stored (effective August 15). Structures in the process of being upgraded cannot! For more info on storage, CLICK HERE.

Upgrade: The term 'upgrade' is confusing. When we upgrade storage, it increases capacity. That's not the case here. The only way to increase capacity is to buy more or a higher capacity hydro structure (when they're available.)

Doing the upgrades (parts and helpers) is a one-time requirement. Once you do this and get your hydro up and running, you will not need to do it again.

Upgrading multiple hydros: If you are upgrading multiple hydros at once, it will APPEAR that your parts are counting toward all hydros. HOWEVER, once you upgrade one, the others will go back to zero, so you will indeed need parts for each. Oh, well. I was excited for a minute.

Protection: Planting crops in hydroponic structures reduces your protection just as you'd expect it to. With the shack, you're planting 25 plants, so it will reduce your protection by 25 times the per-plant protection. If your protection is below zero, you can get busted. And watch out! If you get busted, the ranger takes EVERYTHING!

Mystery and Jackpot Seeds: If you use it to plant Mystery or Jackpot Seeds, you will get all of the same plant. You could get all acapulco gold. You could get all bacon. Someone reported getting all Alien Grey Kush! It's a gamble, but it could pay off. Just use with caution.

I planted 100 jackpot seeds in a hydro shack for 100 facebook credits ($10) and got 50 Panama, 25 Candy Hearts and 25 Cheezos for a total of 150 pot bucks earned (and great award progress)!

Mooch Problems: If you have a problem mooching parts, check your Facebook profile to see if the mooches may have posted without a popup. You can also try playing at www.thepotfarmgame.com. Some players who had this problem reported it working there.

Problems, support, and feedback for the developers: See what the developers are up to on Pot Farm's Hydroponic Shack Beta Notes!

Questions: If you have questions, comments, tips, etc, please post on the Hydroponics topic of my discussion board.

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The following pictures show the Hydroponic Bunker before, during, and after upgrading.

Beta testing: Pot Farm offered a free hydroponics shack to everyone who clicked a link during a 24 hours period in early August 2011. Congratulations to everyone who got into the beta. After trying out the shack (or if you had problems), beta testers were to post feedback on the developers feedback thread.

Click here for Pot Farm's Hydroponic Shack Beta Notes!

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