How long is the Berry cycle Ruby/Sapphire?

Question

Hi!

I was wondering how fast a berry fall of the plant and therefore replant itself again in Ruby? More specifically how much time do I have to pick the berry (in my case its Leppa berrys) before the plant dies and restarts its growing cycle?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The "Berry Cycle" is actually different for each berry.

When a plant is fully grown, the player has an amount of time equal to the full growth time of the plant to pick the Berry; after this time, the plant will return to its sprouting stage. This regrowth can occur up to 9 times (for a total of 10 plantings) before the plant is permanently lost.

According to Bulbapedia, the time before a berry plant replants itself is equal to the amount of time it took to grow. Since the time it took to grow is different for each berry, the time before the "Berry Cycle" repeats is also different for each berry. Also, the cycle can only happen 9 times before it stops.

As for your Leppa berries, in Gen 3 a Leppa berry takes 16 Hours to grow, so you have 16 Hours to pick it before the cycle repeats. To find the growth rate for a different berry, look it up on Bulbapedia, they have a table with all the information you need on each berry's page.

Source: Bulbapedia

Hope I helped.

I felt this question needed a better answer, as the previous one was just a guess based on the mechanics of a different game.

Answer 2

It's probably between 12 and 72 hours for the "berry cycle " because in X and Y, the berries from the berry tree fall every 48 hours, so come back to the same berry tree every once in a while, and a good way to get berries in R/S/E is to look for all of the berry trees, and while your looking, the others that you have picked the berries from will start to grow back. It's genius!!
Hope I helped!