My approach is this:

You know which slot it's at (the thing that you want), so no need to use Toil. 1 pick will clear it.

Leaf Turn II
Collect twice
Ageless Words
Collect 3 more times
Activate Brunt Force for last collect (assuming all 5 collects were successful)

I'm actually 50 miner/49 bot atm, but that's what I do with miner, I just replaced the abilities with the equivalent Botany ones.

Generally I'll get at least 2 x HQ gathers per node. If I'm lucky, 4.

If you've got >=630GP (using food and more melds) use Field Mastery I at the start as well for a 95% gather chance, and activate Ageless Words after the 4th pick when your GP comes back up to 300.