The home screen offers one button, and the build's own tutorial names one starting action: plant a Cactus, wait while it pays oxygen, then tap the plant to speed the payout up.
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Start screen and the first tutorial step
Tap Start, then plant the Cactus
The home screen carries a title card over a sky background and one blue button. The button label comes from the build's own start string, which reads Start, and the title art above it reads Pocket Plants Garden -Tap Tap. Loading on this page runs in two passes and reports itself as GameLoading...0%(1/2), so what you see after the button is a progress bar, not a garden.
Observed 2026-10-04 in Chrome at 1280×800: the home screen shows the title art reading "Pocket Plants Garden -Tap Tap", a blue Start button whose label comes from the build's own start string, and the round buttons the home page adds down the left edge for the music switch, more games, language and invites. The build renders a 750×1334 portrait stage, so the canvas is letterboxed inside the browser window.
The build's own first four instructions
The tutorial runs in numbered steps and the wording is quoted from the build's string table rather than written here. Step one reads "Welcome! What a plain balcony it is! Let's decorate it!", step two "First, tap here to plant Cactus.", step three "It takes time, please wait." and step four "Your plants will produce oxygen, tap to speed it up." The later steps cover upgrading, planting more and using skills: "Then you will get more oxygen.", "Amazing! You can start planting now, good luck!" and "Use skills to speed up. Let's try!"
Oxygen is the whole score
Plants pay oxygen, and you tap to speed the payout
There is no level timer and no fail state in the opening loop: a planted plant produces oxygen over time and tapping it raises that rate. Oxygen doubles as experience, and the amounts climb fast. Player level 1 clears on 8 oxygen while player level 2 needs 3,419, and level 3 needs 7,359, so the first few minutes already move you from single digits to thousands.
Twenty plants, each with its own price list
The build ships 20 plant slots under fixed names, starting at Cactus and ending at Lycorisradiata. Every plant tops out at level 50. The Cactus pays 1 oxygen a tick at level 1 and 61 at level 50, and its upgrade ladder opens with a free step to level 1, then charges 5, 37, 40 and 45 oxygen for the next four, rising to 1,389 for the last step from level 49 to 50.
Putting a plant in the ground also costs time and Water Spirit. The Cactus takes 2,000 ms, the second plant 10,000 ms and the third 30,000 ms, and the twentieth takes 570,000 ms — nine and a half minutes. Beyond the first two plants each one also wants Water Spirit, starting at 4 for the third plant and adding 2 per plant after that, so the last one costs 38, plus a minimum player level that runs from 5 for the third plant to 190 for the twentieth. A plant that reaches level 50 pays Water Spirit back, 5 for the first plant and up to 115 for the last.
Skills, floors and their timers
Three skills, each with a level and a cooldown
The panel titled Skills holds three items, and the build prints each effect as a sentence with its own number. Fertilizer reads "Oxygen ×2 for 10 sec." at level 1 and 11 seconds at level 2, which costs 500 oxygen. Watering reads "Speedup ×5 for 5 sec." at level 1, 6 seconds for 750 oxygen at level 2 and 7 seconds for 4,392. The third item is labelled Repellant but its effect is not a pest step: it reads "500 oxygen immediately" at level 1, and its second level grants 1,932 oxygen for 250.
Each skill also runs a refresh timer, which the panel prints as its cooldown. The build stores 270 for Fertilizer and Watering and 240 for the third item, and a separate action labelled "Refresh CD for all skills" resets them together when you would rather not wait. The plant button itself changes with the plot: it reads Plant on an empty bed and Upgrade once a plant is in it, and tapping an empty plot's upgrade tells you "Please plant first".
Floors, level gates and one hour off a timer
Each scene carries 6 floor slots, and the gate for the next one is 20 player levels per slot: level 20 for the second slot, then 40, 60, 80 and 100 for the sixth. The Water Spirit price follows it — the first two slots are free, the third costs 30, then 50, 100 and 150. A floor that is still cooling down can be cut short by watching a video, which removes 3,600,000 ms — one hour — from that cooldown. The second scene, Backyard, opens at player level 100, and the login reward runs to Day 7 with a refresh at 3:00.
Planting FAQ
Starting, paying and upgrading in Pocket Plants Garden
These answers stick to what the build states on screen: a single Start button, oxygen as the only score, and three skills whose effects are printed with their own numbers.
How do I start Pocket Plants Garden?
Press the blue Start button on the home screen; its label comes from the build's own start string. The page then reports its two loading passes as GameLoading...0%(1/2), and the tutorial walks you through the balcony with "First, tap here to plant Cactus."
What do the plants actually give me?
Oxygen, which is also the experience track. The tutorial says it plainly — "Your plants will produce oxygen, tap to speed it up." The Cactus pays 1 oxygen a tick at level 1 and 61 at level 50, and player level 2 alone clears on 3,419 oxygen.
What do the three skills do?
Fertilizer doubles oxygen for a set number of seconds and reads "Oxygen ×2 for 10 sec." at level 1. Watering multiplies the speed by five and reads "Speedup ×5 for 5 sec." at level 1. The third item is labelled Repellant but grants instant oxygen, reading "500 oxygen immediately" at level 1. Their second levels cost 500, 750 and 250 oxygen.
How many plants are there, and what unlocks them?
20, from Cactus to Lycorisradiata, and every one caps at level 50. The third plant costs 4 Water Spirit and needs player level 5; the twentieth costs 38 Spirit and needs player level 190. A maxed plant pays back Water Spirit, 5 for the first plant and up to 115 for the last.
