Talk:Gil Garden Guide by Egomzez

I've been doing this for a very long time and thought I'd add my experiences.

I have 10 brass pots growing on 13 mules. Except for one in Jueno, all mules are located in Bastok and exit the MH to Bastok Mines. There is a NPC in the Chocobo Stables and the AH is there as well. This, as you will see, makes selling the harvest and mailing the proceeds very fast.

The pots are the only furnishing in the MHs, so the pots sit on the floor. I check my plants once per day, which is typically once every RL 24-26 hours. I harvest every 6 days, meaning that if I plant on October 23, I will harvest on October 29.

I NPC everything harvested. Fire crystals, Tokopekko, all of it is sold to an NPC. I realize that I could probably make more gil if I AH'd some things, but my intent is to generate gil with minimal effort. So even though the NPC pays 14 gil per fire crystal, I don't care. Give me the gil.

Following is a listing of the average income generated from all 13 mules for a seven-week period.

While I'm sure the advice you give regarding purchasing tables and checking the plants multiple times per day is well-intentioned, it's not necessary in order to generate a nice, supplemental cash flow with fairly minimal effort.

It takes me approximately 15 minutes to check all 130 pots once per day. On harvest days, it takes me exactly 5 minutes per mule to harvest, plant new seeds, run to the NPC, sell everything, mail the gil and then run back to the MH. That's 65 minutes, or 1 hour and 5 minutes. So my total time investment is (15 minutes * 5 days) + 65 minutes = 140 minutes, or 2.33 hours per cycle. This time estimate does not include the time necessary to purchase/send seeds and water crystals. I do this on the days when I feed the plants and it adds approximately 30 minutes to the process. So my total time investment is approximately 3 hours spread over six days.

I hope this information is helpful. --tahpo 16:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)