Plants vs Zombies 2 - Penny's Pursuit - Pyre Vine - November 2022

This Penny's quest focuses on the SEEDIUM plant Pyre Vine and was offered between between November 16, 2022 and November 23, 2022

Pyre Vine is a member of the Pepper-Mint family.
Costs 125 Sun. (100 Sun at level 3 and 75 Sun at level 6)
Pyre Vine blows a warming fire that extends 2 tiles in front of it. (+1 tile at level 3 and level 6)
This fire does 30 damage per second. (50 at level 2 and +10 per level thereafter.)
Pyre Vine is immune to freezing. Pyre Vine will also defrost any nearby plants.
Being a vine, another non-vine plant can be placed inside and this plant will be kept nice and toasty warm - and also will be immune to freezing.

Commentary:
This plant is almost a must when dealing with the Frozen Tundra levels or freezing winds.

Like many of the plants of the Pepper-Mint family, this one is under-whelming. Being immune to freezing should be a given. The ability to melt ice should also be a given. Unfortunately, I've encountered several situations where Pyre Vine can not adequately melt frozen ice or defrost nearby plants.

As with many of the other vines, the damage done by the Vines is sub-par. That's to be expected from the Vine family of plants - you are really paying for the space savings of not taking up a tile.

Bottom Line:
The bottom line is that one is paying to make another plant immune to freezing. Even 75 Sun is too much for this ability, much less 125. Inferno costs more but will fully melt any ice in the fire tornado's path. Inferno's tornado also has a very nice knock-back ability which more than makes up for the increased Sun cost.

Level 1 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2
Survive the zombie attack
Chosen Perk is SHIELDS
Protect the endangered plants - Zoybean Pod on R3C3 / R3C4 / R3C6
Electrify zombies not offered / not offered / 100 times

Level 2 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2
Survive the zombie attack
Chosen Perk is Cherry Picker - Cherry Bombs appear on the conveyor belt.
There are precious flowers on the lawn which can not be trampled - 3 & 4
Ash zombies not offered / 25 / 25 times.

Level 3 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 2 of 2
Survive the zombie attack
Chosen Perk is Cherry Picker - Cherry Bombs appear on the conveyor belt.
Protect the endangered plants - Torchwood on R3C5
Destroy not offered / 10 / 15 gravestones

Level 4 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 2 of 2
Survive the zombie attack - Last Stand Style
Chosen Perk is SHIELDS
There are precious flowers on the lawn which can not be trampled - 4 and 5
Electrify zombies not offered / 25 / 40 times
Starting Sun = 2,200 / 2,000 / 1,750

Level 5 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 2 of 2
Survive the zombie attack - Vasebreaker style
Chosen Perk is Hypnotize Zombies
Protect the endangered plants: Potato Mines on R2C1 and R4C1 / R1C1, R3C1 and R1C5 / All of Column 1
Do not lose more than not offered / 5 / 3 plants

+Timestamps
00:00 Level 1 - Difficulty 3
03:29 Level 2 - Difficulty 3
05:59 Level 3 - Difficulty 3
08:44 Level 4 - Difficulty 3
10:17 Level 5 - Difficulty 3