Gardening for profit

[Dizmo]

What is the best "recipe" to use when gardening to make profit selling at the AH?
I have 5k on my character and I've never gardened before.

[DrMrLordX]

Given your budget, probably fire crystals. They're cheap, easy, and fast to grow. You will always have buyers. You will always make a profit doing it. So far as I can tell, this is the best recipe(there may be better ones, who knows?):

vegetable or herbs seeds, brass pot
plant on watersday
feed water crystal on watersday
harvest on firesday or lightsday

Also remember to NOT examine your plants when growing crystals. If you fear withering plants, use the Gardening moghancement.

I don't know if firesday or lightsday makes for better harvests, but you will probably get more crystals harvesting on or near a full moon. Adjust your day of harvest accordingly.

The choice between vegetable seeds and herb seeds is yours to make. Veggie seeds grow a bit faster and have higher crystal yields, but herb seeds tend to yield bay leaves whenever you do not get crystals(this can, and will, happen for both seed types). Bay leaves sell fairly well. I forget what the yields from veggie seeds are on failures, but it's something worth less gil than bay leaves.

[Zafron]

Originally posted by DrMrLordX
I forget what the yields from veggie seeds are on failures, but it's something worth less gil than bay leaves.

I want to say Latheine cabbages, but it has been so many months since i gardened crystals i can't rightly remember.

[Roldarin]

Veggie seeds definitely yield cabbages.

[Roldarin]

Originally posted by DrMrLordX
So far as I can tell, this is the best recipe(there may be better ones, who knows?):

vegetable or herbs seeds, brass pot
plant on watersday
feed water crystal on watersday
harvest on firesday or lightsday

How often does this recipe yield fire crystals vs. cabbages? Like say out of 10 pots?

[Tan'o]

It should be 10/10 on fire crystals. Never had a failure with this recipe.

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by Roldarin

How often does this recipe yield fire crystals vs. cabbages? Like say out of 10 pots?

That, I do not know. I think you may get "failures"(non-crystal harvests) harvesting on firesday as opposed to lightsday, or if you check the plants periodically. I think.

It's a fast recipe to grow, so you can test it yourself easily. I'm fully invested in proceline pots right now, so I can't do any testing myself.

[CarbonFibre]

Checking your plants is bad? :confused:
What effect does this have?

[Zafron]

Originally posted by CarbonFibre
Checking your plants is bad? :confused:
What effect does this have?

Examining your plants is bad only if you are trying to get crystals. If you are trying to get HQ items, you want to examine your plants as often as possible. Gardening with porc pots i examine my grows minimum 3 times a RL day.

Edited: As for fire crystal recipe i can't remember what i did.

Has anyone gotten their hands on an Arcane pot yet? I have to say i'm curious about what i could do with it but i'm so blissfully satisfied with my current gardening system i'm very reluctant to disrupt my routine to go experimenting with a 300k flowerpot.

[Brunhild]

I do a lot of gandening, and because everyone does the fire crystal growing thing, I'm trying to find a recipie that is ever more profitable.

I havn't found it yet though, grew light crystals for a while, but you only get about 2-5 at a time, so it took too long to make a stack. Trying to grow Ginger, Black Pepper and Millioncorn (for quest in Selbina) atm.

[Caspian]

Is there a thread I can look at that will explain all the gardening stuff I need to know as well as some high profit yielding recipes...I've got a budget of atleast 30k.


(I'd try to search more for it, but I'm at work right now and am short on time)

thanks

[CarbonFibre]

I got this from here a while back

http://www.koolaid-ffxi.org/garden/index.jsp;jsessionid=drvlx3nbxic0

[Bloodseed]

My LS leader has been going on about Ice Ores that he's been growing.

He's tryed to explain it all to me, but I never got a chance to write it down.

How do you grow these things? What are they for and what do you do with them?

[Bloodseed]

My LS leader has been going on about Ice Ores that he's been growing.

He's tryed to explain it all to me, but I never got a chance to write it down.

How do you grow these things? What are they for and what do you do with them?

[Gman]

Someone in my LS advised strongly against me trying elemental ores. This could be either because he wants to prevent more people growing them, thus flooding the market, or he might have been just looking out for me financially. You need to plant a tree sapling to grow, then feed an ice crystal at 2 feeding times. So the recipe is Tree Sapling + Ice Crystal + Ice Crystal = 1 Ice Ore (sell for 200-300k each) Unfortunatly you need to be EXTREMELY lucky to actually get ice ores.

He said I should have at least 12 saplings growing at a time to have a chance at an ice ore. Saplings sell for 10-13k each, or you can grow them from Tree Cuttings (5k each) but it takes 2 weeks to grow.

I'm currently growing a batch of saplings. I have 3 Porcelain pots, and a tree cutting planted in each. The yield when using the Porcelain should be 2 saplings per pot, so I will get 6 saplings x about 12k each = 72k gil. My initial investment was 5.5k per pot and 5k for a tree cutting (I farmed the other 2) So 20k starting, 72k back... not bad, but the growing time is 2 real life weeks!!

I also have a question about growing crystals. I would like to grow Ice Crystals, but I'm not sure exactly how... also, if I never check the plant, it will wither up... how do crystal gardeners prevent this? Thanks.