Quote Originally Posted by Yodada View Post
You know why they are "expensive"? Its not because they arent enough plots to produce them. Its because its f****** annoying to raise and crossbreed them. One day you arent log in and groom them and 2 weeks progress is wasted. Thats why nobody bothers beside enthusiasts to grow more to reduce the prices.

People who wants gardening plots simply have no idea how lackluster the gardening feature is. It begins from the crossbreeding till the most annoying menue you will ever see in FF14. They should ask a friend to be a tenant or in the FC to take care for the patches for 1 month. Believe me most players will neglect it after one week.
I had a small house next to someone with a medium FC house and they let me use their patches and we split the money. I had to join their FC to use their patches and it turned out they only had two members. I agree we didn't make HUGE money from it, but it was steady. The biggest thing that I saw hurt the pricing was the idiots who would put up 10 onions at a time and way undercut everyone. Anyway, one day I log on to find the FC house is gone along with the other two members. No idea what happened. I tried to keep it going with my single patch but that really was too slow. I ended up moving to another server and have been trying for a couple of months to get a medium house. The FC I'm in now has a small house and they're letting me use their patch to get a surplus of the seeds I'll need if by some miracle I get a house of my own.