| Fan of Murphie Brain of Knowledge Join Date: May 2006 Location: Largo, FL Posts: 1,591 Style: Thanks: 101
Thanked 287x in 170 Posts Gil: 10,600 Bank: 56,917 Total Gil: 67,516 Donate  | Re: Growing Saplings with Light Crystal method This last planting cycle, I thought I would try the "Dark Crystal" method, and see if it had similar yields. I missed the first feeding window, so I decided I would simply feed my plants during the 2nd window instead.
BIG MISTAKE.
It turns out that Cuttings + crystal + no crystal is drasticly different from Cuttings + no crystal + crystal. Harvesting on Iceday, I got the following:
Black Chocobo Feathers: 32 plants, for 104 feathers
Light Crystals: 8 plants, for 47 crystals
Since Black Chocobo Feathers can be bought from NPCs, I lost a bundle on this one. I'm optimisticly estimating I got back 140k on my investment, or 14k per day. That doesn't even cover the costs of the cuttings.
Moral of the story: if you miss the first feeding window, don't assume you can just use the second one for the same results!  Lyonheart
lvl 75 WAR, 75 BST, 75 BLM, 71 NIN
Cooking 100.0+3+3, Culinarian's Signboard, Raw Fish Handling, Noodle Kneading, Patissier
Fishing 60
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Bonecrafting 100.0+3+3,
Leather 60+2, Woodworking 60, Alchemy 60
Smithing 60, Clothcraft 55, Goldsmithing 54.1, Cooking 11
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