Gardening Guide by Egomzez

Gardening Guide by Egomzez and Imzi
There is a great deal of information about gardening availalble here in the wiki. THis page is a "frosting" page to help aspiring gardeners maker the most of their time.

Gardening is not a simply thing, though it is simply in concept. A pot + a seed + a crystal = something. In theory. That is the simply part. Often though what results is a dried up withered dead plant you have to throw away. Which is a waste of effort or gil.

Imzi and I have been collecting data about our own gardening adventures and wish to put that up for others to see.

To start I recommend reading theough the gardening page that already exists. Keep in mind it is not completely acurate or forthcoming. That is why there are pages like this. To help you understand what it isn't telling you.

If you have one pot then you should do fine with the material already available. If. like me, you have 40 pots, then you are gonna value the little tidbits we offer here. It can make the difference between a harvest of rock salt and a harvest of white rocks. Which in case you didnt know, rock salt goes for about 16 gil each and white rocks go for about 6.3k each. Big difference.

So this page is just beginning and feedback is always welcome.

To start your mega garden remember this:

1. Don't put you pots on the ground if you can help it. Get a maple table. 2. You can bring a plant to harvest without crystals. Don't have a false sense of security that just because you feed a plant it will live. You need to examine your plant. The more the better. By FFXI standards the plant is alive and wants your affection in the form of examination. 3. The are few things you can grow that are gonna make you gillionaire. gardening is well suited to growing things you need for crafting. In some cases you can grow sellable items, but you then face the daunting task of figuring out where that thing needs to be sold for optimum price. And prices can go up and down, especially those fast selling items. You can wake up in the morning and it sells for 2k and by afternoon it down to 1k. Which is a big hassel if you put up 5 items at 2k. 4. Farming your seeds is the most gil frugile way to garden, if you have that time to wander around killings saplings. Drop rates vary from location to location and personally I lack the patience to do it. A job or craft that makes good gil is very helpful in gardening. Seeds run, in Asura, from 2 - 5k. Fruit seeds and tree saplsings can go for 1 - 8k. Better know what you are doing if you are gonna spend that kinda gil on seeds. 5. As a beginner you can't plant and harvest without knowing what you are doing, but really if you are gonna get serious you need to look up seed recipes and know what you are going for. What seed to make what plant and what crystal you need AND be sure to plant on the day of your crystal or in some cases the opposite of your crystal. My favorite is light and dark crystals. If I am gonna plant a vegetable seed and I intend to feed it lights crstals then I plant on lightsday, I feed on lightsday and I harvest on lightsday. This has given me good results, but it is has additionally been examing all my plants every time i go to MH that gives me the best results. 6. Don't trust that what you read in wiki pages is absolute truth. Sometimes a recipe guide says something will grow and it wont or something else will. Imzi and I hope to put up our own hard data about what we harvest. May it help.