Quick Grow (Freeware Version 20):
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STEP 1) BACK UP YOUR PLANT FILES REGULARL This is all the „Plant,hgp” files in the „C:Program FilesHighGrow” (or wherever you installed it) director (,, is a numerical key in the range of 01 to however many plants you have) Just put them in a sub folde If you haven’t planted any seeds yet or have no live plants you can skip this step for no :)
STEP 2) GET A SIMPLE HEX EDITO I use „HxD Hex Editor” because it’s small and easy to customize (not to mention a free download If you don’t understand hexadecimal values you may want to stop reading no If you WANT to understand hex values then this might help a little and if you are perfectly content with the challenge of using an online number converter to grow flowering plants in a day then read o Just depends on how devoted a hacker you ar :)
Step 3) LAUNCH HIGHGROW AND PUT IT IN VACATION MOD If you don’t have any plants yet then this is when you would poke your seeds and water them i Leave all the defaults for vacation mode unless you’ve changed the setting (oops) Close HighGrow and back up your plants if you made any change (refer to step 1)
STEP 4) OPEN THE PLANT FILES YOU WANT TO AGE IN YOUR HEX EDITO Make sure HighGrow is completely
closed before editing any file This is where you may get lost if hex values confuse yo
At the very least you’ll need to learn how to get around in whatever hex editor you’re usin
The plant files are numbered in the order you planted them and the first 40 bytes of the file will give you the name of the plant (when converted to text The forty-first byte (offset of 40 when numbering begins at 0 as most hex editors do) is the day the seed was planted, the following byte is the month and the one after that is the year minus 1900 ( 2012 is stored as a decimal value of 112 [2012 – 1900] or hex value of 70 Use a current calendar (or the system calendar) to figure out the date for 30 to 90 days ago (It’s important to use valid dates, 30 February as a planted date will cause Rasta Robbie to raise his eyebrows at you, or fail to load at all If you want to tip prune your plants at regular intervals then use this value here, just keep in mind the shorter your time the more often you have to repeat this whole proces Now convert the day, month and year minus 1900 to hexadecimal values and overwrite them to bytes 40, 41 and 42 respectively for all difference Once you’ve done this for each plant (that you want to change) save your files and close your hex edito
STEP 5) OPEN THE REGISTRY AND COVER YOUR TRACK In Windows just click START>RU, type „regedit” in the box and press ente Press Ctrl-F to open the search dialog and type „Oldest Plant GrowDay” into that bo Once you’ve found this value in the „SoftwareSlick SoftwareHighGrow”
tree just delete it as well as the „Seconds Elapsed” and „Last Entered” key This is enough to cause it to launch like it’s running for the first time, but full of plants! :)
STEP 6) LAUNCH HIGHGRO At this point HighGrow will do a bit of calculating to bring your plants up to the current date with Robbie looking after the If you’ve removed the three registry keys from the last step the program won’t detect the date chang If you forgot and Robbie has detected your devious ways, locking you out of the program, simply edit the registry again and this time delete the entire „Slick Software” tre Then run the setup program>Fast Instal
(You kept the original file HighGrow_42exe right,) You’ll be back up in just a minut
If it shuts down immediately after launch try a few more times and if it still doesn’t stabilize remove the plants from the director Chances are there’s data in one of them that’s causing problem This is when your backup copies are priceles HighGrow has bugs that will write invalid data to files causing it to crash all by itself so it’s very important to back up your plants even if you don’t do any file editing and are just reading this to kill tim
The worst scenario is actually growing your plants for a couple of months and HighGrow trashing the files without you having backups!
STEP 7) CARE FOR AND BACK UP YOUR PLANTS; REPEAT FROM STEP Check the health and Soil PH for all
edited plants and add nutrients if you feel it’s necessar Once you’ve played with it a few times and used your own settings/time frames you can get an idea of how much nutrients to use for maximum health and when to start flowerin Just set your photo-period to 10 hours or les
You’ll need to take it out of vacation mode at this point, shorten your time intervals to just a few days and water heavil Robbie doesn’t seem capable of looking after flowering plants so changing the photo-period while in vacation mode has no effec Using your backups and a bit of trial and error you can grow them on for as long as they’ll live, figure out the best harvesting time and harvest like a pro! Or keep the males pollinating new seeds!
