FFXI gardening

Created by ceej. Last edited by Dave Sun, 11 Jan 2004 07:57:50 PST. Viewed 16642 times. atom feed
Notes on gardening in Final Fantasy XI.

It's really easy to do. Buy a pot. Place it in your Mog House. Choose "Gardening" from your Mog house menu. Choose a pot, then choose "plant seeds". At least once every real-time day, use the gardening menu to examine your plant. If you don't do this, your plant will die. Eventually your moogle will tell you that the plant isn't doing well, and a "Feed crystal" option will appear in the menu. Feed the plant a crystal (crystal must be in your mog safe), then keep checking. Eventually it'll be ready to harvest. You must have at least 1 slot free in your mog safe to harvest. For larger yields, you might need 2 slots free.

Harvest type seems to depend on seeds, pot, crystal, and harvest day. I have a sneaky suspicion that crystal feeding day might matter, too, but I don't have enough data yet to be sure.

-- Also, be aware that some seeds have faster feeding and harvesting cycles than others, as grain seeds planted with veggie seeds will be dead by the time you get to feed a crystal to your veggies.

Herb seeds

potplanting daycrystal daycrystalharvest dayresult
brass??earthwatersday8 pinches black pepper
brasswatersday?firelightning20 kazham peppers
brass??firelightday21 kazham peppers
brasslightning?lightearthday6 mhaura garlic
ceramicfiresday?waterearthday4 bay leaves
brass??firedarksday4 ice crystals
brass??firelightningsday4 ice crystals
ceramic??firedarksday21 kazham peppers

Grain seeds

potplanting daycrystal daycrystalharvest dayresult
ceramic??earthwindsday4 lightning crystals
brass??earthwindsday4 lightning crystals
brass??firedarksday3 ice crystals
ceramic??darkdarksday11 tarutaru rice
brasslightday?waterdarkday9 blue peas
brassearthday?waterfiresday8 blue peas
ceramicearthday?lightninglightningday2 coral fungi
brassdarksday?firewindsday10 millioncorn
brassdarksday?windwindsday12 millioncorn
brass??lightningdarksday10 water crystals

Vegetable seeds

potplanting daycrystal daycrystalharvest dayresult
ceramicwindsday?earthfiresday8 lightning crystals
ceramiclightningsdayfiresdayFire??????
ceramiclightningsdayfiresdayLightning??????
brasslightsday??????????
Brass??????water???8 la teine cabbages
Brass??????ice???1-2 saruka cotton

Fruit seeds

potplanting day1st crystal2nd crystalharvest dayresult
ceramic???firewindWatersday11 Saruta Oranges
Namiri : Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:32:09 PST permalink
I was talking with one of the NPC students of Windurst's magic school (near the one who gives you some herb seeds and wants you to do his gardening homework for him). According to this student, the most important things in determining what you harvest are the crystal(s) used and the day the crystal was fed to the plant.

Does anyone know if this is true? So far, most of the gardening pages on the web (including this one) don't even bother recording the day the crystal(s) was fed to the plant. (Though in this page, Ceej mentions the possibility of it having an effect.)

  • Namiri
ceej : Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:43:22 PST permalink
Okay, I'm going to start paying attention to crystal feeding day. Watch this space for more info. And please feel free to post your own results!
ceej : Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:43:38 PST permalink
Alas, I have cancelled my FFXI account as part of Project Free Time. It was huge fun, but I just couldn't have an MMORPG as part of my life any more. However, my friend Brian and his gang are still playing, and still growing plants.
Zink : Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:13:12 PST permalink
I didn't log in for a couple weeks, and when I did all my plants had died. So I cancelled my account. Really, what did they expect?

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