Gardening - Harvesting

The Jumbo Gardening Thread!

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To start at Patch 2.3 Info./Discussion .................. Page 22 or take the following link:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...vesting/page22


THAT Gardening Spreadsheet ............
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Aj-i0C8Ke8EcdDFrVG51eEVKSjdWeFdaemFHSk1NQVE&toomany=true#gid=


A Guide to Gardening - The Basics (Pre-2.3 reddit post)
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._to_gardening/


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Original Post (04/01/13):


Harvested four large gardens today. Initially I was unaware of the differences between the soil types - I wanted to focus on crossbreeding (which, as I found out later, Thanalan soil raises the chances of) but I planted everything in Grade 3 Shroud Soil. Still, I was expecting at least a couple of crosses. Got zero. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...lies/frown.png

How did your harvest turn out?
Find any good combinations that produced something new?

I found some Jute seeds on the Market Board - snatched it up for cheap. Hopefully it'll help me produce something interesting. For this second Harvest round, I going to go for the Grade 3 Thanalan soil in each patch.

Oh lucky you on the jute, we are still waiting on our plants to bloom. However the dzemael tomatos look completely different then every other plant we have in there so far. Did you notice anything like this at all?

Hmmm, I've seen three graphic types so far.
1) Leafy
2) Flowery
3) Fruit-bearing

I don't recall the tomatoes looking unique.

I would really love to get my hands on some Glazenuts!!!

For some reason I was under the impression that harvesting would return seeds, but it does not. Just whatever it was you've planted (unless you successfully crossbred maybe?) Fertilizing seemed to bring the plant up a whole growth stage. I wonder how dynamic this is, if it is similar to Harvest Moon it's to your benefit to prolong growth? We grew Prickley Pears, Mirror Apples, and Honey Lemons in a row with grade 2 glade soil, received 18 of the same fruits back per plant.

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Originally Posted by YunieAura

I wanted to focus on crossbreeding (which, as I found out later, Thanalan soil raises the chances of) but I planted everything in Grade 3 Shroud Soil. Still, I was expecting at least a couple of crosses.

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Any way to confirm this?


Anyways- I wanted to post my first harvest here in hope others will share/can get a better idea of exactly what everything does.

First Harvest I had no cross pollination and I only used Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil. This time round going to try to match seed location with topsoil. Unsure if watering / fertilizing even matters each plan got watered and fertilized at least once a day and some days when I had work of 2 times a day, I had some friends tell me they came to my place and watered the plants so if anyone touched them aside from me I was unaware.

Midland Basil Seeds - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 HQ midland Basil
Demzel Tomato Seeds - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 Demzel Tomatoes
Prickly Pineapple Seeds - Grade 2 La Noscaen Top Soil - 12 HQ Prickly Pineapple + 1 Prickly Pineapple Seeds (Not sure what caused the extra seeds to drop, This particular seeds was on the top right of the grid and on either side was a demzel tomato and an orange seed)
Blood Currant Seeds - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 HQ Blood Currant
Orange seeds - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 La Noscean Oranges
Linseed - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 HQ flax
Midland Basil Seed - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 midland basil
Mirror Apple - Grade 2 La Noscaean Top Soil - 12 Mirror Apple


My grid layout was as followed in case anyone was curious.

Midland Basic - Demzel Tomatoes - Prickly Pineapples
Blood Currant - XXXXXXXXXX - La Noscaen Orange
Linseed - Midland Basil - Mirror Apple


***This next batch I'm doing will have my second plot, with progression I didn't have time to harvest another 8 topsoil / seeds but this week I will. Testing Prickly Pineapples under different top soil conditions.

The differences among the soil:

http://imgur.com/o7v1Emq.png

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http://i.imgur.com/h88sLoM.png

So I'm handling most of the gardening for our FC. Since patch, I've been working 3 patches with the hopes of intercrossing.

It seems that the system works on a base plant + cross plant(s?). The seed yielded will share the same type (look at icon of seed bag - they're different colors.. this corresponds to plant types that you see grow). However, the cross plant can be anything else, i.e. not the same seed type. With info compiled from elsewhere:

Standard yield is 12 items, grade 2 and grade 3 Shroud soil increase this to 18 and 24 items, respectively. I haven't tested any Noscea soil.

Rolanberry = Lowland Grapes + Pixie Plums/La Noscea Oranges (not sure if plums or oranges caused cross)
Apricot kernel = Prickly Pineapple + Honey Lemon
La Noscea Leek = Dzemael Tomato + Blood Currants/La Noscea Oranges
Honey Lemon = Sun Lemon + La Noscea Oranges
Mandrake = Rolanberry + Linseed
Nymeia Rose = Mandrake + Linseed

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Originally Posted by Zumocano

Nymeia Rose = Mandrake + Linseed

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Do you mean Nymeia Lily or Azeyma Rose? This is very important. :D

Honestly I'm not perfectly sure. I picked up the info from a Reddit thread and all the person said was "nymia." So I interpreted as Nymeia.

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Originally Posted by Zumocano

Honestly I'm not perfectly sure. I picked up the info from a Reddit thread and all the person said was "nymia." So I interpreted as Nymeia.

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Do you have a link to the thread? I did a search for gardening and couldn't find anything. Thanks^^

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Originally Posted by Lilianne

Do you have a link to the thread? I did a search for gardening and couldn't find anything. Thanks^^

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Here's the two threads that I've kept up with so far:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ct_crossbreed/

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2229dk/la_noscean_oranges_lowland_grapes_pixie_plums/

Thanks a lot^^

Hopefully you can't drown your plants. Just got a pack of Glazenuts seeds on the MB for 140k, and now treating it like my first born (uhhh, don't mean I'll drown my first born... okay moving on...)!

I don't think this person knew what they were.
Unfortunately, I bought them so fast I didn't see whose retainer was selling it to ask them where they got it.

I'm guessing they got it from retainer venturing.
Hoping I'll produce some more seeds on top of the nuts. :3

Does anyone know how to get Glazenut?

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Originally Posted by ImDingDing

Does anyone know how to get Glazenut?

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I've been trying to work it out a bit based on the levels of various seeds and their fruits, and my guess is that it hinges on using some of the teal striped seed types such as the rolanberry, prickly pineapple, and honey lemons to produce some of the seed bags with the teal stripes and dots such as the glazenut and apricot kernels. And I'm theorizing that mixing the fruit of a cross breed from the pineapples and honey lemons (apricots) and a pineapple and honey lemon will produce a glazenut. Probably be a few days til can really tell if any of this is true though since the time it takes for these things to bare fruit is quite a while.

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Originally Posted by Borland

I've been trying to work it out a bit based on the levels of various seeds and their fruits, and my guess is that it hinges on using some of the teal striped seed types such as the rolanberry, prickly pineapple, and honey lemons to produce some of the seed bags with the teal stripes and dots such as the glazenut and apricot kernels. And I'm theorizing that mixing the fruit of a cross breed from the pineapples and honey lemons (apricots) and a pineapple and honey lemon will produce a glazenut. Probably be a few days til can really tell if any of this is true though since the time it takes for these things to bare fruit is quite a while.

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TYSM for the information. XD

Wouldn't apricots + almonds give glazenuts? (theoretically)

Just harvested a couple new mixes.
Honey Lemon - Black Pepper - Ala Mhigan Mustard was the rows.
The pepper gave me a pearl ginger and the mustard gave me rolanberries.

La Noscea Orange + Lowland Grapes game me Pixie Plums (twice)

Something else gave me Honey Lemons, but I was harvesting things in quick succession and assumed the message was just late as I also had a Honey Lemon plant. But seeing as that nothing else gave back its own seeds I am guessing it was a crossbreed after all.

prick pineapples> dzmel tomoatoes = la noscean leek seeds

second plantation did a staggered rotation around all the garden got 1 leek seend from this garden and 4 apricots
sun lemon> > prickley pineapples >dzemel tomoatoes --- ( apricot kernels seed)
pretty sure its just sun lemons and pineapples so i isolated the garden this planting and removed the dzemel tomatoes this time will keep you posted.... next run going to try apricot and almonds ;)

Soil type for all patches: grade 2 thanalan topsoil
The fruit harvested is the one that has been planted

Garden Harvest Info:

1st bed - blood currants
2nd bed - la noscean oranges + bag of blood current seeds
3rd bed - pixie plums + bag of sun lemon seeds
4th bed - la noscean oranges
5th bed - pixie plums
6th bed - la noscean oranges + bag of sun lemon seeds
7th bed - pixie plums + bag of sun lemon seeds
8th bed - la noscean oranges

1st bed - faerie apples + bag of blood currant seeds
2nd bed - mirror apples + bag of blood currant seeds
3rd bed - blood currants + bag of rolanberry seeds
4th bed - mirror apples
5th bed - pixie plums + bag of mirror apple seeds
6th bed - mirror apples + bag of blood currant seeds
7th bed - faerie apples
8th bed - mirror apples + bag of blood currant seeds

1st bed - blood currants
2nd bed - pixie plums
3rd bed - blood currants + bag of blood currants seeds
4th bed - la noscean oranges + bag of blood currant seeds
5th bed - blood currants
6th bed - pixie plums
7th bed - la noscean oranges
8th bed - pixie plums + bag of sun lemon seeds

For reference;
A Deluxe Garden Patch (8 bed)

Code:

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1 - 2 - 3
8 - V - 4
7 - 6 - 5

The numbers are the beds
V denotes the way the scarecrow is facing

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Received: Apricot Kernels
Center: Almonds
Adjacent: Prickly Pineapple + Honey Lemon

Received: Azeyma Rose Seeds
Center: Prickly Pineapple
Adjacent: Almonds + Dzemael Tomato

Received: Nymeia Lily Seeds
Center: Linseed
Adjacent: Jute + Mirror Apple

Received: Azeyma Rose
Center: Almond
Adjacent: Faerie Apple + Mirror Apple

Received: Azeyma Rose
Center: Prickly Pineapple
Adjacent: Almonds + Lowland Grapes

Received: Azeyma Rose
Center: Popoto
Adjacent: Dzemael Tomato + Almond

Received: Azeyma Rose
Center: Almond
Adjacent: Honey Lemon + Popoto

Received: Azeyma Rose
Center: Almond
Adjacent: Dzemael Tomato + Wild Onion

Received: La Noscean Leek
Center: Dzemael Tomato
Adjacent: Almond + Popoto

Received: La Noscean Leek
Center: Dzemael Tomato
Adjacent: Jute + Prickly Pineapple

Does anyone know how long it takes to harvest and if tending, fertilizing, or the type of seed affect how fast it grows?

On this spreadsheet...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...=sharing#gid=0
via this reddit post...
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...readsheet_for/

It shows Glazenut seeds harvested from Millioncorn next to Pixie Plums & Apricots.

Has anyone else been able to duplicate this?

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Originally Posted by Percyphanie

On this spreadsheet...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...=sharing#gid=0
via this reddit post...
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...readsheet_for/

It shows Glazenut seeds harvested from Millioncorn next to Pixie Plums & Apricots.

Has anyone else been able to duplicate this?

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Growing it now :) Will be a few days.

Also I got an Umbrella Fig today. Hasn't been filled out in that spreadsheet yet. Some Glazenut-cross. :)

Harvested: Prickly Pineapple
Adjacent #1: Dzaemael Tomato
Adjacent #2: Glazenut

Greetings, housing green thumbs!

I just wanted to let you know that the development is looking into company actions related to gardening for future implementation, which should aid in all your garden efforts!

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings, housing green thumbs!

I just wanted to let you know that the development is looking into company actions related to gardening for future implementation, which should aid in all your garden efforts!

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Very kind of you guys, thank you :)

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings, housing green thumbs!

I just wanted to let you know that the development is looking into company actions related to gardening for future implementation, which should aid in all your garden efforts!

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Can't wait to see those :D

I really wish there was like a gardening log that keeps track of your cross-breeding. @_@

Also i wish they would add a little menu to show the layout of the garden as it gets a bit tiresome trying to figure out which is what lol.
Or at the very least if they could add a small name on top of the plant (i.e player name style )

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Originally Posted by YunieAura

Growing it now :) Will be a few days.

Also I got an Umbrella Fig today. Hasn't been filled out in that spreadsheet yet. Some Glazenut-cross. :)

Harvested: Prickly Pineapple
Adjacent #1: Dzaemael Tomato
Adjacent #2: Glazenut

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Just curious Yunie. You show that you already have Glazenuts growing. You also show in a previous cross that you were growing Jute. Did you get those seeds from the Market Board or a Retainer or have you successfully crossed them from other plants. Please share your findings if you have them. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Percyphanie

Just curious Yunie. You show that you already have Glazenuts growing. You also show in a previous cross that you were growing Jute. Did you get those seeds from the Market Board or a Retainer or have you successfully crossed them from other plants. Please share your findings if you have them. Thanks.

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Ah, yes, those were cheap Market Board finds. :)
Growing the Millioncorn + Apricot + Pixie Plum combo now, and Jute is still a mystery to me.

apricot and almonds is azeyma rose seeds not glazenuts :(

we just planted 3 gardens all planted with grade 3 thanalan soil

apricot x pixie plums (4x4 staggered)
apricot x million corn (4x4 staggered)
pixie plums and million corn (4x4 staggered)

will edit once its harvested

Planted this a little bit ago, to confirm Glazenuts --- will edit when harvested.

Millioncorn====Pixie Plum====Millioncorn
Apricot=========x==========Apricot
Millioncorn====Pixie Plum====Millioncorn



Edit: Recieved no Glazenuts at all from this combination, with Grade 3 Thanalan Soil being used. :(

Since everyone else is trying for glazenuts I'm concentrating my efforts on figuring out jute.

These were my previous, just-harvested results, grade 3 Thanalan topsoil throughout;

(1) Flax =======(2) Almonds======(3) Flax
(4)Pineapple====(5) Flax=========(6) Pineapple

Harvesting results;

1) Flax ---> Flax x 12
2) Almonds ----> Almonds x 12, Shroud Tea seed x 1
3) Flax ---> Flax x 12
4) Pineapple ---> Pineapple x 12, Mandrake seed x 1
5) Flax ---> Flax 12
6) Pineapple ---> Pineapple x 12, Mandrake seed x 1

The new planting is;

Mandrake ===== Pineapple=======Mandrake
Flax=========Mandrake========Flax

With the 1 yield returns on these rare seed items. You need to really, really like gardening to go through the effort. 1st you need to grow the apricot seeds and then you can finally start growing the glazenuts. Guess they will stay rare though instead of being an overcrowded market.

[8:41]Millioncorn
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:41]You obtain 12 ears of millioncorn.
[8:42]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:42]You obtain a bag of wizard eggplant seeds.
[8:42]Millioncorn
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 ears of millioncorn.
[8:42]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:42]You obtain a bag of wizard eggplant seeds.
[8:42]Millioncorn
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 ears of millioncorn.
[8:42]You obtain a bag of wizard eggplant seeds.
[8:42]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:42]You obtain a bag of wizard eggplant seeds.
[8:42]Millioncorn
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 ears of millioncorn.
[8:42]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:42]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:42]You obtain a bag of blood currant seeds.

All right, so...

I left one of mine in the twinkling ripe stage for about 1-3 days (edit: real life days) because I planted some stuff around it a little late and wanted to include it in the crossbreeding process. I logged on one day to find it completely dead and not salvageable at all. My poor apricot plant....

So, lesson learned, plant everything at the same time, and harvest immediately!!!

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Originally Posted by YunieAura

All right, so...

I left one of mine in the twinkling ripe stage for about 1-3 days because I planted some stuff around it a little late and wanted to include it in the crossbreeding process. I logged on one day to find it completely dead and not salvageable at all. [SIZE=1]My poor apricot plant....

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The Horror, the Horror!

@Percyphanie - gardening's actually pretty effortless once you've gone to the initial trouble of actually finding the godsdamned bloody hidden seeds and soil because after that point you can make your retainers go fetch them for you and you have a week to gather it all in between plantings. Grade 3 soil is actually the easiest to get because it's from unspoiled nodes so you just have to go pick it up when the time is right, rather than spending ages waiting for a hidden Grade 2 or 1 to pop up.

when gathering soil and seeds you only have to click on the rock / bush to see if its there, if not move onto the next, no need to harvest anything else as the nodes respawn even if you don't harvest, takes minutes to get the soil and seeds you need

[8:39]Apricot
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 5 apricots.
[8:39]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:39]You obtain a bag of prickly pineapple seeds.
[8:39]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:39]You obtain a bag of prickly pineapple seeds.
[8:39]Apricot
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 5 apricots.
[8:39]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:39]You obtain a bag of prickly pineapple seeds.
[8:39]Apricot
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 5 apricots.
[8:39]Pixie Plums
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 12 branches of pixie plums.
[8:39]Apricot
This crop is ready to be harvested.
[8:39]You obtain 5 apricots.