Tree Cuttings  

man, i really hate these things, since i don't have any gil atm i decided to farm 50 cuttings for my mules well, i farmed for about idk 3-4 hrs and got 18 of them -.-

I've been growing saps for about 2 years now, right after the big gill boom. (this is because plat-nuggies weren't being undercut by gill sellers)

Ok, here's the best way that I've found to plant saps:
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My Stats
Pot: Ceramic / Moghouse Element: Ice
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Recommended but expensive
Pot: ??? / Moghouse Element: Dark
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Negative
Pot: ??? / Moghouse Element: Light (Yields Rock Salt Mainly from test)
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Gardening Tech.

1. Plant on Dark Day (mandatory). (or what ever your moghouse element is. i.e. Ice, then Ice Day)

1a. The higher the moon phase % the better.

2. Check the plant minimum once a REAL life day.

2a. Check it multiple times in the same sitting (so hit that check button 2-3 times when you check it)

3. On Days it is time to feed plant. Check the plant minimum 2 different times. (when you log in and before you log out works good)

4. Harvest on Dark day when phase is above 50%, HQ yields on 75% or higher usually.

4a. Harvest on Light Day when phase is below 50%, Preferably when it's in the low low 0%-20% to HQ yields.

Hope that helps out some of u out there. I'm no expert and I didn't take any information from any of the other sites out there. This is what I've done on my own and it has worked just fine for me, maybe it will for you.

Average Rocksalt is about 12-14 chunks (not stacks) over the past 4 months and about 3 1/2 stacks of shell bugs (when harvesting on light day) over past 4 months.

If you find this post helpful, please rate up. It's my first post. I've got a lot of little helpful things post and will later down the road!

Happy Gardening!

my first double post

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 9:09am EDT by korthos

Yeah, I've been noticing the same thing too, thought it was a bug (ha ha ha!) at first because the first time I got shell bugs I was also inexplicably unable to pick a couple pots, even tho I had safe room.

But the % hasn't been too high, thankfully, but it still hurts my profit. In the last two 30 pot runs I did, I'd say about 10-20% of the pots yielded shell bugs.

I've been lookin in every area i kno for ages, fought all mobs at least 100 times, and no drop! The only places I haven't looked are Konschtat, Pashhow, and Rolanberry. If u kno where drops are most common, please post a reply. (Thank you.)

hahaha seraph, growing gold beastcoins? jees what a waste. Thing is if u wear field gear while examining it improves chance for ELEMENTAL ORES and u dont wear while harvesting thats 100 percent proven. Maybe not for other things like gold beastcoins but thats a real waste of time to...grow

OMFG I first tried to grown em like 10 days ago. Spent 200k on them and got 3 stacks of platinum nuggets (200k x 3) woot. Then i look back at ah for another set of cuttings and OMFG OMFG OMFG They are 400k now! WTF??? DOUBLED THE PRICE IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS? O,O; OMG

Inflation has hit these hard, gorwing Elemental Ores and/or Saplings is now commonplace and everyones doing it, then theres the gilfarmer monopoly on them.

Bad news for gardeners, good news for farmers, I do a little of both so meh =P

Zi'Tah is the best place to farm these but theres usually gilfarmers there, not too worry though theres a wide spawn area and I find they're fairly easy to beat (well when contrasted with Mee Deggi or something).

Your best bet - farm and plant your own! =)

I recently did a test to grow Gold Beastcoins with Tree Cutting and had very interesting results. I planted in 10 cuttings in Brass Flowerpots on darksday, fed first time with Fire Crystals then second time with no crystal and harvested on Darksday. Halfway through I decided I wanted to test whether or not Field gear would help or hinder the growth cycle and found nothing to tell me whether it was good or bad except for the results. The first 5, halfway through, I examined once or twice a day without the gear on and the other 5 I examined with the gear on. I reversed it for the harvest. Here were my results

Examined 1-2 times daily without field gear but harvested with field gear on:
1) 2 Tree Saplings
2) 2 Gold Beastcoins
3) 3 Red Roses
4) 3 Gold Beastcoins
5) 7 Red Roses

Examined with field gear on but harvested without field gear:
6) 2 Tree Saplings
7) 3 Red Roses
8) 15 Bronze Nuggets
9) 5 Rock Salt
10) 20 Bronze Nuggets

So it would appear, although this I will test more on, that field gear helps with the harvest but not much if at all with the growth cycle. There was a big disinformation campaign going on awhile ago to ***** ppl up with growing because they clearly didn't want the competition and I have been trying to prove or disprove of it. Maybe field gear works differently with different plants, Idk, but clearly for my tests I will harvest with it on. I have found no evidence that field gear speeds up the growth cycle and I have been growing for a long time now and have grown many crops trying to get ores and after many bad attempts and knowing what gold coins were priced at, I decided to try it. Soon I will plant 30 cuttings on 3 mules and examine without field gear on while harvesting with it. I hope this helps everyone and if anyone has any more conclusive evidence, plz post.

240k a stack on caitsith 2/10/05

I am new to the growing of plants... Can anyone tell me how it works or maybe a good place to find out.. I have about 2 stacks of tree cuttings that I would really like to start growing... My LS tells me that it is really hard and noone knows how it works... So any tips? if you are in Garuda server /tell milesmori! I am always logged in but not always at keyboard... hope to hear from you! oh I HATE GIL SELLERS also!

i tried farming in Pashow, Rolandberry, and Zi'Tah...well from my experience all their drop rates sucks, but when im around the same lvl as the mob i have better drop rates(example if the goobue is easy prey or decent to me). But thats only from what i experience im not sure myself but it seem to work better for me..=)