Growing plants in Ag-Sec seems like a very lucrative way to acquire Atomics. Simply spend a few chips and you can harvest everything you need. You won’t be put in danger and you can do things at your own pace.

You will be limited by the number of seeds you have. Every plant that you grow has a chance to yield between 0 and 2 individually recyclable products. Instead of using the Recycler to compost them down and retrieve the Atomics, you can instead process them in Ag-Sec using either the free materials on hand, or your own kit. Both fungus and plants can be refined into Growth Composites. “Seeds” is just an easy term to describe what you’re working with OOG, but in-game this would be represented by spores, or a biological mash. 

When you’re ready to refine an organic, perform the following activities:

1. Spend 5 minutes of uninterrupted roleplaying time dissecting and harvesting the ‘seeds’ from the plant prop.
2. Bring the plant prop to the department head, or their assistants. 
3. They will examine your ‘product’ and determine how much of it is viable to grow into crops. On an out-of-game level, they will do something to determine how many seeds you’ve produced.
4. They will prep the consumable tags and pass them over to you.

IMPORTANT: At this time, you may only collect ‘seeds’ from organics that were grown in Ag-Sec. As our facilities on the ship are improved, you’ll be able to collect Growth Composites from materials found off-ship.