Gardening - Harvesting

Fertilizing only affects grow time as far as I know. I believe the yield and crosses you get are decided the second you plant the seed.

Has anyone posted that mandrake makes all minions?
You can do mandrake + tomato = King Tomato
Mandrake + onion (not thav onion) = Onion Knight (alternate harvest popoto set)
Mandrake + garlic = Garlic Jester
Mandrake + wizard eggplant = Eggplant Knight (alternate harvest dzemael tomato seeds)
Mandrake + lily = Queen Mandragora

You can also get an alternate from each of those, but I get the minion seed at least once if I do mandrake onion mandrake garlic mandrake eggplant mandrake tomato. The only one that doesn't always give me at least one minion is the king tomato as I plant that last. I am going to try a different soil on the tomato next time, but I use than 3 on seed 2-8 usually.I do not regularly grow the queen as I use my lily elsewhere, but the other 4 minion seeds take only a few days to grow this way and sell for more then I can buy glazenut seeds.

Edit: I will do a Mandrake minion Mandrake minion etc cycle to see if they can produce their own seeds, but not for a week or two.

I got Honey Lemon seeds from a Thavnarian Onion crossed with an existing Apricot but please don't quote me...

I wish they would do stickies on posts like yours.

Here is a summary: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2261769

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Originally Posted by Rath

Has anyone posted that mandrake makes all minions?
You can do mandrake + tomato = King Tomato
Mandrake + onion (not thav onion) = Onion Knight
Mandrake + garlic = Garlic Jester
Mandrake + wizard eggplant = Eggplant Knight
Mandrake + lily = Queen Mandragora

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Edit: I will do a Mandrake minion Mandrake minion etc cycle to see if they can produce their own seeds, but not for a week or two.

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Hmmm, nice idea to keep in mind when my second garden is free again (Thav onions take too long. I'll have a second batch before the first ones finish growing xD)

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mnd tom mnd      something like this maybe
gar  x  on      eggplant knights won't be to hard to get afterwards
mnd lil mnd

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So far my experience has been that any minion + krakka roots (and some other stuff) produces eggplant knights. So if you would plant four minions with krakka roots in between them you'll probably get a nice supply of eggplant knights, and then you can replace the krakka's with something else for a second crossbreed.

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Originally Posted by Rath

You can also get an alternate from each of those, but I get the minion seed at least once if I do mandrake onion mandrake garlic mandrake eggplant mandrake tomato.

Edit: I will do a Mandrake minion Mandrake minion etc cycle to see if they can produce their own seeds, but not for a week or two.

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I'm interested in knowing the alternate seeds you can get from each one.

As for Mandrake + minion crosses, it's been reported that crossing mandrake with at least knight, jester, and king gave Pearl Roselles. As far as I know, mandrake+minion is the only way to get Pearl Roselles.
And Pearl Roselles sound like they're a top-tier like jute, glazenut, broombush, etc., so I'm curious to know what happens when you cross them with Krakkas and the stuff you can loop other top-tiers with because of the impressions I posted about before.

The only cross I have seen reported is Thav.Onion + Roselle = King Tomato.
And then an uncertain report between Roselle and either Mandrake or Eggplant Knight making Jute. My guess is that it was the Roselle + Mandrake.
My guess then is that Roselle + Almond would make Broombush, and Roselle + Krakka would either make a (I can dream) Thav.Onion, or a minion.

I crossed 8x Broom with 8x curiel

the Broom is still growing, but the curiel gave me 7x shroud leafes and 1x thav onion

I'm behind on some intercross reporting, but I still remembered to take screenshots.

Mandrake + Thavnairian Onion = Mimett Gourd OR Onion Prince

http://i.imgur.com/QhiE8PD.png

Eggplant Knight + Thavnairian Onion = Eggplant Knight (yay for minion loop?)

http://i.imgur.com/MGHPtCD.png

Flax + Thavnairian Onion = Pahsana Fruit OR Flax

http://i.imgur.com/Q4TukiA.png

Unfortunately, I have not been properly recording what I originally planted the Thav Onions next to. They take so long to grow that I've forgotten. :/

So at this point I'm pretty sure we can conclude that Thavnairian Onions have no loop. Side note: if SE would like to make La Noscean Topsoil worth anything they should change it so it makes the plants grow faster, rather than give more HQ.