gardening question! concerning pots

[LyonheartLakshmi]

Re: gardening question! concerning pots

The good thing for gardening is it does not stop you from doing other things (like farming, exp-ing, fishing... etc) while the plant is growing in the Mog House.

Exactly. Every other gil making activity in the game is active. The amount of gil you make is directly related to how much time you spend doing that activity.

Gardening is passive. The amount of gil you make is related to how much you invest (i.e. the seeds), and not in the amount of time it takes.

[Flanteus]

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Ah yeah, should have clarified this - I grow Wildgrasses and NPC them for more than AH profit. Also, I tend to buy my seeds from an AH, although there is a vendor in Whitegate - Khaf Jhifanm @ {H-11} (inside the ship to Mhaura 'port'). She sells them for about 320 each but there really isn't much point for me getting a mule/my main there for the saving it equates to. Useful however if you haven't got any on the AH and have completed Lure of the Wildcat in any of the three cities.

I find Wildgrass and Water/Fire crystals the most consistent, however I suppose I have just contradicted myself as I said I haven't tried anything else >_<

as I expected..selling these grasses to NPC, and it seems to be a fine way to earn money.

Sorry to hear your harvest was bad Flanteus I've never tried growing much else, although do recall getting boxes of Tarutaru rice from a random seed and crystal plant that I did one time.

it wasnt a sarcasm ..I do really need a lot of ice crystals from now on

Don't confuse 4 results to mean it's a 25% chance. Each result is NOT even. For example, elemental ores: generally speaking, each growth has 3 results -- the ore itself, the opposite element cluster (crystals), or some type of herb/seasoning.

However, when I was doing elemental ores, I would get maybe 2-3 ores per 10, and ended up with as much as 15 stacks of seasoning and 4-5 clusters. So ores would actually be about 2/(2+15+5) = 9%, and seasoning would be 15/(2+15+5) = 68%.

where did I say its exactly 25% or 50%? its just based on the number of results, and I did mentioned the "rarity" of the items which is the main factor ofc..

And, I'm going to say, that for specific growths, it's best to just go and do it yourself instead of asking around on forums. It's not likely that anybody here has detailed knowledge about the specific growth (except maybe for the higher-profit ones like pure crystals and elemental ores). The risk probably isn't as much as you might think it is.

I'm doing it myself, why I'm not allowed to ask if some had experience with a specific recipe? who are are!?
anyway I'm gonna try most of these recipes once I got the money

The good thing for gardening is it does not stop you from doing other things (like farming, exp-ing, fishing... etc) while the plant is growing in the Mog House.

and thats exactly my way of earning money in MMORPGs...
the last thing I would do is farming (by killing) but I dont mind and some time love to farm by harvesting or mining or anything like that..

[Flanteus]

Re: gardening question! concerning pots

this is how gardening should be
here

[Kitalrez]

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Ok, I just confirmed Marquisxion's results for myself. I planted 3 mules with 10 pots apiece, used water crystals, and just harvested on a FQ moon of 43%. 60k worth of just Toko Wildgrasses, and that's after one mule got mostly fire crystals, including deducting 6k for buying my wildgrass seeds on Jeuno's AH. Very viable, that's basically a SMN avatar tour every 5 days.

[Flanteus]

Re: gardening question! concerning pots

Ok, I just confirmed Marquisxion's results for myself. I planted 3 mules with 10 pots apiece, used water crystals, and just harvested on a FQ moon of 43%. 60k worth of just Toko Wildgrasses, and that's after one mule got mostly fire crystals, including deducting 6k for buying my wildgrass seeds on Jeuno's AH. Very viable, that's basically a SMN avatar tour every 5 days.

you harvested both your mules at the same time and both get entirely different results? ...thats why I dont care when to harvest, its just completely random ..
my best result so far was 45k, the average is about 20-30k per mule in 5 days, the worst result was 10-15k but plenty of fire crystals and gysahl greens and both of them i use to boost my digging and crafting
i'm done with Gardening phase one now Wildgrass wasn't so bad even tho there are 5 different results becuz the best results Toko/garidav have a higher chance to be harvested than the others! (thanks to Marquisxion )

Phase 2 just started and i'm looking for an average 40-50k per mule, a maximum of 90K, I didnt test it yet but soon...

I have some questions for elemental ores gardeners :
how many ores do you harvest per mule? what type? whats your best result ? and how much time did take?
this is very important , becuz if my research was right, I dont think elemental ores is the best way to make money.....................................................................................................................................

[KingOfZeal]

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I used to do ores a long time ago, but stopped because I came to the same conclusion you did: they're really not worth it. It's even more not worth it when you consider how much they go for these days - I was doing it back when they were going for 1 mil a pop.

Generally, for a single mule, I was getting anywhere from 1-5 ores, and the fail on them was spectacular.. you would end up with 500 of whatever seasoning and a good handful of elemental clusters of the element the ore was strong to, if I recall. It made for a nice rotation in ores, actually, since you would never really have to buy crystals after the first time.

Anyway, I normally stuck to one or two types of ores - I remember doing fire a lot. However, tree saplings take a month to grow, I remember growing whatever ore had the least on the AH at the time I started. It really was a gamble, since it was necessary to sell everything as soon as possible so I could buy more saplings or cuttings as needed. If you have a lot of money (IE, win the Mog Bonanza) you could probably keep the ores until the AH stops with that ore and cash in on it.

Oh, and I think your '.' key is stuck or something.

[Kitalrez]

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you harvested both your mules at the same time and both get entirely different results? ...thats why I dont care when to harvest, its just completely random ..

No, it's always been like that. The fire xtals were on my Sandy mule, which gets background fire energy from being in Sandy. It's not completely random, but 3-4 stacks of the stuff was still not what I wanted from that mule. Not a total loss, like when you get nothing but shellbugs from a cuttings harvest.