Questions about seed use

[harrymanback]

Couple of things I'm not clear on with seeds, regarding best strategy. I'm finding that seeds are the one resource I'm still having to import a lot of currently, and even so I still only have vegetation up to about 3%. Temp is about 22% (despite way less investment), and the other readings I haven't started on yet. But I've spent a lot getting the seeds just to make it to 3%, so I'm wondering if I'm pursuing the right strategy.

1) is there any benefit in holding off deploying seeds until the other terraforming stats are better? Or does vegetation just increase at a flat rate regardless?
2) is there any benefit in turning off a seed disperser (or what ever they are called) once it has pretty much covered it's zone, and use those seeds elsewhere instead? Visually this would be more effective - more green on the map, but would it make any difference to the actual terraforming process - that seems to be calculated globally?
3) is there a better source of seeds in the early-mid game than farms growing them?

 

[Xeorm]

Early on I was growing them in a rotation along with potatoes. You can also import them. There's not a good method here I think to get started. The real trick is to get up to bushes I think it is, where you start getting your seeds back. As you go along the process funds itself and you stop needing to import or grow the seeds.

 

[MarQan]

I only terraformed once so far, and even then my main goal was getting the Russian achievements, but here's what I think:
The Terraforming Parameter called Vegetation is useless, it's just an end-goal. The local vegeation lets you build outside farms, and later on harvest seeds, so that's pretty powerful.
Early on you should have only 1 Forestation Plant, and buy seeds for it. When it greened a big enough area for a farm, then you can shut it down and build a new one. Switching to the outside farms is huge, but seeds are expensive, so you don't want to run forestation plants for no reason.
When you can afford a farming dome with the water spire, then you can run a few forestation plants at the same time.
And when you can farm seeds outside then you'll have infinite seeds anyways.

But remember that drones have to harvest bushes for seeds, and the plants on outside farms, they don't just get gathered at 1 output storage automatically like for most buildings.

 

[SillySMS]

It's expensive early on when lichen and grasses consume seeds endlessly; be modest at that stage. Once you can grow bushes and especially trees, though, that starts to return seeds, and you can go exponential, starting new forestation plants with seeds from prior vegetation.