I tend to put my Earthblood in grass.
1: Grass has a very quick maturation speed (this cannot be edited in the trait modifier, unlike Production speed)
2: because it can then serve additional functions:
1: use grass in hand while standing on a harvested pile of it. Produces astroturf.
1A: use astroturf on floor tiles with a crowbar in the other hand to replace the floor with grass tiles. Tell the fascist dictator HoS to touch grass. get harmbatoned
1B: This also works with fairy grass to make glowing floors in your choice of color.
Blue: Default fairygrass (mutate grass)
Red: Glowcaps (mutate glowshrooms)
Yellow: Holymelons (mutate watermelons)
Green: Omegaweed (mutate Cannabis)
Purple: Moonflowers (mutate sunflowers)
Pink: Glowcherries (mutate cherries)
White: Glowberries (mutate berries)
Fugly yellow/green: Glowshrooms. Only use this color if you’re pathetic.
Darkness: Shadowshrooms (mutate glowshrooms)
2: Use spade on astroturf tile stack to produce sand.
2A: shove these into a lathe when all the miners are dead and the Engineers need a ton of glass for their plan to irradiate all life on the station.
2B: Make volcanic decorative flooring to bring the Lavaland aesthetic to the Captain’s office
3: Use Sand in hand to produce sandstone
4: Use sandstone in hand to make sand piles (3 bricks per pile)
5: Sand piles are the equivalent of botany trays but without the lights and can be walked over.
6: Use earthblood grass on the sand piles to make them self-sustaining too.
6A: Let the chaplain have a plant that produces kickass batteries or maxed out towercaps for his weird rituals.
6B: Give the chemist a plant that produces omnizine
6C: Have your secret combustible lemon tree in maints away from casual eyes
6D: Congrats, you can now turn the entire station into a pot farm.