Pea Pod

Pea Pod is a peashooting plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. It hits up to five times in a single row. It can have up to five heads that are all Peashooters. The player can plant on it to increase its power.

Almanac entry
DAMAGE: Normal

RANGE: Straight

RECHARGE: Fast

Pea Pods can be planted in the same space for up to 5 times the destruction.

Special: increases rate of fire with multiple plantings

Having studied Quantum Spatial Mechanics in Clown College, the Pea Pod has been amusing families of all ages.

Plant Food
When fed Plant Food, the pods close up making something that resembles a headdress for the huge Peashooter head that pops up out of the ground. The giant Peashooter then shoots 5 giant peas that deal 20 normal damage shots each, for a total of 100 damage.

Level 2
Automatic Growth

Pea Pod grows a head every minute.

Combat Training

Pea Pod has 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).

Level 3
Crazy Growth

Pea Pod grows a head every 40 seconds.

Cell Activation

Pea Pod has another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).

Costumed (Chinese version only)
When fed Plant Food, it can shoot five big fire peas. If the big fire peas pass over a napalm Torchwood, the peas will not turn into big napalm peas.

Strategies
The Pea Pod is a strong plant, but to get one to the maximum strength, 625 sun has to be spent on it. This is enough to afford three Repeaters or six Peashooters. In addition, buying these plants are a bit stronger than one Pea Pod (Pea Pod has five heads, the combinations mentioned before have six peas). In the Wild West, the Pea Pod is exceptionally useful when placed on a cart, where it can move to other lanes and take out multiple zombies at once, saving sun. This is further supported by the fact that only single plant can go on a cart until it is shoveled out, and Pea Pod, even with all heads, is considered one plant. Imitating this plant is a good option as you can set up the Pea Pods faster. The Pea Pod is useful with Torchwood, since it makes the peas do double damage and triple damage with Plant Food. Pea Pods are not useful in some objective levels, such as "Never have more than X plants" because upgrading a Pea Pod counts as a new plant.

Pea Pod can be also very useful when dealing with Zombie Chickens, due to their fast cooldown. You can choose it, as an alternative to Lightning Reed for a more easy-to-use and powerful plant but beware of it in large numbers as only one five-headed Pea Pod may sometimes be insufficient.

Trivia

 * On missions with a limited amount of plants, each head added to the Pea Pod will count as a new plant.
 * This is one of the six plants seen in the trailer of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time while fighting the zombies; the other five are Bonk Choy, Bloomerang, Peashooter, Wall-nut and Sunflower.
 * In the trailer, if one looks carefully when the zombies come onto the lawn, the Pea Pod has all its heads, but when shown close-up, it regrows all the heads it already had.
 * The heads are planted in this order: middle-bottom, left, right, middle-middle, middle-top.
 * There is a glitch in Last Stand where if the player rapidly plants Pea Pods on top of each other, they will shoot a couple of peas, even though there are not any zombies.
 * Although, this glitch was fixed in the 2.4 update.
 * However, the glitch still occurs in the Chinese version of the game.
 * Each pea will be on different heights on according to the peashooter; for example, the middle and the left side, the middle will shoot it higher.
 * It is the plant with the most heads if it has maxed out (five). It is also the plant with the most mouths (five) when maxed out.
 * Pea Pod, Pea-nut, Threepeater and Split Pea are the only peashooting plants with more than one head.
 * Technically, though, the Split Pea's back head is a head-like growth.
 * Pea Pod and Pea-nut are the only peashooting plants without a stem.
 * Pea Pod, Repeater and Split Pea are the only plants that can shoot big peas by using Plant Food.
 * The Pea Pod always shoots five big peas when its fed a Plant Food, regardless of how many Peashooter heads are in the Pea Pod.
 * It has the fastest firing rate among all the peashooting plants if it is maxed out.
 * The Pea Pod shoot the lowest number of pea of any peashooting plant when using Plant Food.
 * The Pea Pod, the Split Pea, and the Threepeater are the only peashooting plants that can shoot three peas at the same time.
 * If the player maxes out the Pea Pod on a cart, he or she will earn the Pod Squad achievement. It is worth 15 points on Game Center.
 * If the player has a Pea Pod Boost and plants it on an already existing Pea Pod, the Plant Food upgrade will not activate. However, starting with the 2.3 update, it will activate.
 * It only has one head in the Zen Garden, in the level selection, in its Endless Zone card, and when it is first planted.
 * It is one of the few plants with its costume on while using Plant Food.
 * This and Cherry Bomb are the only plants that wear fedoras for costume.
 * If Pea Pod is damaged and plants another one on it, its health will be restored.