Wonderful input in this thread both by Spock, Cecili and IceFairy2!
And, Thank you all!!
As I have arrived at a Level in the 30's (LOL),
Dragon-brought flowers are a must for the little more advanced potions in the Brewery (yeah, the ones that need some hours to be prepared)
so I have necessarily come to wonder about the Dragons ...
Well, the Dragons per se are interesting little creatures, with exquisite names too - but the issue is with the flowers they bring!
Now, it takes what feels like
A G E S to get the Dragon's goodies back -
and at times this is to be more-or-less consumed in an advanced potion, or herb, or so ... hhmmm
Anyhow, this is the reasoning behind my 'Quest' to figure out how to best deal with these issues,
which I'm sure might only get more complicated once the Levels advance ...
So, for now, I'm still looking at it & cannot claim I have -
EUREKA- found the way out of this ...
But, I have definitely come to some clues!
So, if you are -as I am ATM- at a Level past the beginner's but still not very advanced,
where not so many trees - gardens - resources etc are available, but the demands get higher and more interesting
There appears to be No Way to reduce the Dragon's Travel time (w no pay), neither the time needed for the caring of the Dragons, no matter how many fruit you may have.
So to overcome this, a Good -and Only- idea is to be raising many Dragons at the same time ...
[Mathematically-speaking, it reduces the time to half for 2 Dragons, or to one-third for 3 Dragons raised at the same time]
Feasible? ... Well, Not, unless you make sure you have the extra fruit to support that
The best advice that I have is also making sure you get a Cloud Tree
it may appear that it gives only 4 Fruits,
BUT with Only 2 of its Fruits you get a new egg!!
(and paying a little MoonMice, you can have its fruit twice a day!)
so This makes it TWO new eggs per Day with its 4 fruits!
Now, having a gold tree or two (Unicorn, and/or Heart-cherry or other)
--> Apparently, I do advice that you get your trees to Gold at least! And Ennoble them when you can - We get more fruit this way!!
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That's starting our way into raising 2 Dragons at the same time, and being able to feed the second without striving!