PATIENCE ALL U NEED IS PATIENCE!!! FFXI plants are like ral life plant if u gave them too much water they die if u gave them little water they dry. Same here u just need to be patience and ull get all u need.

Last Harvest :

5 Fire Ores
4 Wind Ores
4 Ice Ores
2 Dark Ores
6 Water Ores

Total profit = wtf i dont care im rich!!!!!
around 10,000k

Brass pots are associated with fire, are they not? Why use Porcelain pots (which are supposedly related to wind) over Brass? Specifically I am asking Ariah, if she is still involved with gardening. I would love to know what you think about this.

for fire ores what day do u examin them for the best results?

Hey gardening friends. I hope all is well. I finally got around to creating macromedia flash files of the main glowrates that I have mentioned before. Feel free to check them out. I hate it when those guys on ebay/etc try to sell what should be free because it's just a game and it should be fun hehe.

here it is atwww.ariah.curiouss.com

Happy gardening

Edited, Mon Feb 21 23:52:29 2005

Hey just wanted to let you guys know that you don't have to actually buy the Saplings that create the ores. I don't want to make my farming spot hot but I don't want to be a jerk either so here goes... If you farm Goobues (I don't know what else drops cuttings or what drops saplings) they drop Tree Cuttings. If you grow the cuttings and DON'T GIVE THEM ANY CRYSTALS but examine them every day then they (after asking for crystals twice) will harvest ->> 1-2 saplings. Admittedly this takes twice as long to get the ores but if you are patient, not in a hurry, & want 100% profit then you can do this w/o ever buying the saplings. Just uhhh.. if you see me farming Goobues on Alexander gimme some space ok >< hope this helps all.

Here is a cut and paste of mine from another post:


Great discoveries guys. What Heziki has run into is an actual fire ore recipe that works at almost all times. What you will realize is that he only succeded (1 ore) because he harvested on the correct elemental day that accented the current level of fire strenth that he had created with that combination of crystals. It really does depend on what day he fed which crystal if you are going for more than 3 ores out of 10 pots. To break 3 the moon must be strong but it seems that a full moon doesn't always make it perfect.

here's a cool example:

p dark
f1 f on f
f2 f on f
h on d fm 98%
= 0-6 f ores

but p on dark
f1 f on i
f2 f on f
h on d fm98%
= 0 - 1 ores

but what makes sense from learning about the second experiment is that experiment 2 (which was actually an expirement of 70 pots) needed more f energy.

so:
p on dark
f1 f on i
f2 f on f
h on F any moon
= 1-4 ores


This seems to be supported with each harvest. Lesson Learned: Don't accidentally feed on the wrong day. Another lesson learned (not to do with the above). Don't start a new growth period immediately after you harvest unless you aren't going for hq items like ores.

Hey guys,

My name's Ariah and I live in Vancouver, BC. Anyways I just wanted to tell you that there is a way to get more than 2 per harvest. Keep trying and look at a ffxi timer to try and time your harvest for a full moon.

Furniture is the key.

22 maple tables or go for oak if you have the money = +176 or +200 gardening enhancement. Always always time it for about 21 days and start earlier rather than later because your furniture is the buffer.

There are some secrets to do with something called "glowrates" that I will teach you guys sometime (after I quit the game for good). I also have a huge excel file of 40 of my most recent ore attempts.

yes it's a h on darksday for many ores.

Edited, Sun Dec 26 06:56:37 2004

Hey all. Davidge here ( RDM53 ) Sylph sever. Here is my experience with the ore growing... I was told by a number of poeple that the base element for seeds is dark.... so with this in mind....
Planted 4 tree saplings on darksday
Checked on them once a day ( elemental day does not matter.)
First feeding time... skip it.
Second feeding fed fire crystal on firesday
Check everyday ( only once a RT day )
Havested on firesday...

Results from all 4 plants...

2 fire ore
12 mythril leaves
11 mythril leaves

Now I harvested all my stuff so no out of pocket gil expenses... total net profit of over 4000k !!!

Not too shabby if I do say so myself...

Good luck growing

Hey all. Davidge here ( RDM53 ) Sylph sever. Here is my experience with the ore growing... I was told by a number of poeple that the base element for seeds is dark.... so with this in mind....
Planted 4 tree saplings on darksday
Checked on them once a day ( elemental day does not matter.)
First feeding time... skip it.
Second feeding fed fire crystal on firesday
Check everyday ( only once a RT day )
Havested on firesday...

Results from all 4 plants...

2 fire ore
12 mythril leaves
11 mythril leaves

Now I harvested all my stuff so out of gil expenses... total net profit of over 350k !!!

Not too shabby if I do say so myself...

Good luck growing

I just made one of these, and honestly, I don't think I'll bother with it again.

I bought 4 tree saplings for 8k each, 4 pots for 1k each, and a stack of fire crystals for 4k. So the total cost wasn't too bad, only 40k. The problem is, I was doing this under the assumption that *all* of the saplings would give me an ore, so long as I did everything right.

Anyway, I made sure to plant them on Firesday, feed them both crystals on Firesday, examine them every (earth) day, and when the time came, harvest them on Firesday. In the end, one of the plants gave me a Fire Ore, and the other three all gave me cinnamon. =/

Now, the one Fire Ore *would* have been nice, but during the time I was growing mine, some @#%^ decided to make a freaking TON of them and sell them all at 100k so he'd make fast money (which is stupid, because when I was checking the prices and sell rates of all the elemental ores, Fire Ore was going for 160k and selling constantly -- both of us could have made more money if he hadn't been so impatient).

So I sold my precious Fire Ore for 100k, netting me about 60k in profit. Now while 60k is nice in general, it's totally not worth 22 days of gardening. I could farm that much in a day if I tried, or just do one successful BCNM. Also, I noticed that by keeping my plants healthy, my normal money-making was severely hindered. I'd have to warp back to town from my farming spots just to check my plants each day. This sucks because often during the week when I don't have much time to play, I'll just stay in a farming area and log in to farm a bit, and then log out and repeat the next day. Couldn't do that with these damn plants to take care of. So if you factor in my opportunity cost, my net profit was a lot lower, perhaps even negative.

Oh well, maybe this is a good idea if you have a hard time making money otherwise. I suppose this could be good for low level characters, but even then, you'd be risking your initial investment (thinking back to when I was level 20, I would *not* want to put 40k on the line). I'm not trying to discourage people from growing elemental ore, I'm just saying that it's really not this amazing way of getting tons of easy money that some people make it out to be.

Edited, Sun Nov 21 16:29:01 2004

Gardening guild!
here is what you need....

For a Fire Ore:
Porcelin Pot x1 + Tree Sappling x1 + Fire Crystals x2 + Good Luck x10 = Fire Ore x1

Plant on Darksday, Feed and Harvest on Fireday.

there you go, just use different element crystals for the desired outcome.... =Þ

*Note: Good Luck can be difficult to obtain and they don't drop from any Monster family currently known.

Edited, Thu Oct 21 16:00:45 2004

I just harvested my tree saplings today following this guide perfectly. Here's what I spent doing this:
1 stack of tree saplings: -120,000 Gil
10 Porcelain Flowerpots: 10 X 6000 = -60,000 Gil
4 Tables: -2,000 Gil
Total Spent Trying to Grow Fire Ores: 182,000 Gil
What I got:
many many stacks of cinnamon, all of which I will NPC (not sure how many stacks exactly since I was kicked off shortly after harvesting due to scheduled maintenance)
6 ice clusters = crap
1 fire ore = 200,000 Gil
Net cash inflow: 18,000 Gil or so
Time Spent trying this: 1 month of checking plants twice a day (once in morning, once at night)
To me, this isn't really worth it, but I'm thinking maybe I just got the shaft on one single ore from harvesting...but I'll leave my results with you to decide if it's worth it or not...personally I'd rather go back and hunt the Valkurm Emperor

Ok The Elemental ores are all obtainable through 3 ways. FIRST: is BCNM 60. Simply put, win the battle and you may get one.

The next 2 are much better methods for the poor player, however.

SECOND: CHOCOBO DIGGING

You have to get your chocobo digging skil;l up to a considferable level to do this (yes chocobo digging is like a guild with 10 skill lvls)
visit www.cannotlinkto/ffxi and click the chocobo digging section. It lists what can be dug there.

LAST and BEST BY FAR is <b> GARDENING </b>
the recipie is as follows.

You will need a PORCELIN POT + TREE SAPLING (note this is NOT cutting but sapling). Simply plant the seed in the porcelin pot in the mog house (preferably on dark day since that is the seeds element) and then add 2 crystals of the desired elementak ore color (IE: fire crystals for fire ore and wind crystals for wind ore) on the day of the crystal element. Then harvest on the elemental day of the ore you are going for and you will hopefully have your elemental ore. Btw these ALL sell for over 200K (so much for Leaping Lizzy hunting).

The downside of this method is as folows. You are not guarenteed an ore EVERY time. There IS a chance of getting lesser results (as with al;l gardening). And the biggie is that it takes approximately a REAL LIFE MONTH to grow these so don't do only one. Have a few going at once so that if one pot fails maybe another will succeed.

I have PERSONALLY grown a water/fire/ice/wind/earth ore and have yet to attempt the light/dark/lightning

so this DOES work. I now have 8 million gil from this with 6 mules over the past 3 months so i don't need the secret anymore. Plainly put it WORKS...albeit a little slow and not 100%. DO IT it is your road to riches :).