Hm... Yeah, both of these are bugs. Since for the quest to appear you have to pass by the plant fields first, which are south of the Town of Beginnings and Tolbana is north of it, I automatically assumed most people would go to it first, my bad. Will be fixed in the next version.
As for the other, Broken Reality basically registers the ID of the items, not the items themselves. Aka once I do put something in that ID slot, it will automatically appear and properly price itself in both the stores and your inventory.