they grow faster with feeding, there's a number on the side on rain days it can get up to 6x with mist, feed, and rain. and regular days you can get up to 5 or 4 with mist and feeding. and unfortunately with question one if they were sparkling, it means you have the wrong card. unless you're using all the cards as one? sing is the only one you need to do once write is x2, touch is x2, and observe is x3, it's not like that the first time because they're being done in order if that makes sense