Open plea to the Devs

[Sotaris]

the thing with gardening, is that ppl put it on a pedestal, like "oh wow we going to make so much money with gardening omg i need it so bad !!!"
ima use it for everything cooking crafting, my whole life, then realize that most if not ALL stuff you can grow, you can farm with a botanist, yes you can have some minions, and chocobo food yes i agree,
but when you realize that, 1 crossbreeding is super annoying, and 2, gardening doesnt make that much money at all ! (yes a bit, but just a little bit)
really really overrated in my opinion

Then you should just stick with a apartment since it would seem you don't understand gardening.
No one said you make a ton of gil in it. If you go in with that mindset you going to get burnt.
Gardening is good for rare materials (that is only from gardening) and a passive moneymaker.
You shouldn't bank on gardening.

no im fine with my house thank you very much !
but maybe instead of trying to make fun of me

Don't think there is a need for that passive agressive tone. I wasn't making fun of anyone.

..that ppl put it on a pedestal, like "oh wow we going to make so much money with gardening omg i need it so bad !!!"

Rather you're making fun of the type of person who goes into wanting a house due to gardening. Please don't gaslight me.

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Getting a house is generally for the ability to do gardening for many people.

Those who don't care for gardening or outside decoration tends to be content with just apartments.
It seems to be more of a status symbol "I have a house, ha!". I'll take myself as an example, I like gardening and decoration so that's a reason for me owning a personal large house to maximize on my gardening game. If gardening was less of a interest I'd probably just stick to a small or medium.

nearly everyone that i talked to in-game, or in ff14 discord all want to do thavnair onion for money making, so yeaaahh, im not tossing these words arround without any actual exp in the topics

That's great. I've been doing gardening since 2014 so I have a good experience in it too.
I didn't say you can't make gil on gardening, what I said was you shouldn't bank solely on gardening since making thav onions takes weeks of prep work and cross-breeding for seeds and playing rng game.

There is better ways to spend your time to make gil - if that's your goal. However making thav onions for example since that's the example you brought up, it's a good passive source of income.

please feel free to enlighten me ! what are these rare item that only gardening can provide, im curious !

Alright. On top of my head here is a couple examples that only comes from gardening that you can't (to my knowledge) get through other means. Feel free to correct me.

Jute, Cloudsbreath and a various different seeds that you'd need for cross-breeding but those two are probably the biggest ones that's actually needed in crafting but only comes from gardening (and is required to cross-breed).