Changes: Seeds

Latest revision as of 10:12, 8 June 2019

Seeds are items that members use to grow crops with the Farming skill.

Notes: Growth times given here are minimum times. Disease occurs at the end of a growth cycle and prevents advancement to the next cycle, essentially causing the cycle to be repeated. Occasionally cycles can be repeated, anyway, without the incidence of disease. Using compost, supercompost or ultracompost reduces the occurrence of repeated cycles, whether through disease or at random, helping to ensure the speediest growth.

Allotments

Level	Seed	Protection		Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Uses
Level	Seed	Flower	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Uses
1	Potato seed	Marigold	Compost×2	4×10 mins	8	9	98	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect onion plants (1 sack)
5	Onion seed	Marigold	Potatoes(10)×1^[3]	4×10 mins	9.5	10.5	114.5	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect cabbage plants and Asgarnian hops (1 sack)
7	Cabbage seed	Rosemary	Onions(10)×1^[3]	4×10 mins	10	11.5	125	Garden pie ingredient Payment to protect tomato plants (2 sacks), Krandorian hops (3 sacks), and redberry bush (4 sacks)
12	Tomato seed	Marigold	Cabbages(10)×2^[3]	4×10 mins	12.5	14	152.5	Pizza ingredient Payment to protect Yanillian hops, oak tree (1 basket), and cadavaberry bush (3 baskets)
20	Sweetcorn seed	Scarecrow	Jute fibre×10	5×10 mins	17	19	207	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect apple tree (9 harvests)
31	Strawberry seed	None	Apples(5)×1^[4]	6×10 mins	26	29	316	Summer pie ingredient Payment to protect dwellberry bush (3 baskets) and orange tree (3 baskets)
47	Watermelon seed	Nasturtiums	Curry leaf×10	8×10 mins	48.5	54.5	593.5	Summer pie ingredient Used to make scarecrow Payment to protect jangerberry bush (6 harvests) and pineapple tree (10 harvests)

↑ N×10 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 10 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ Assume 10 crops are harvested.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Each sack must be filled with 10 harvests.
↑ Each basket must be filled with 5 harvests.

Flowers

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Uses
2	Marigold seed	None	4×5 mins	8.5	N/A	47	55.5	Protecting potato, onion, tomato plants Payment to protect hammerstone hops. (1)
11	Rosemary seed	None	4×5 mins	12	N/A	66.5	78.5	Making Impling jars Protecting cabbage plants
24	Nasturtium seed	None	4×5 mins	19.5	N/A	111	130.5	Making Imp repellent Protecting watermelon plants Payment to protect wildblood hops. (1)
25	Woad seed	None	4×5 mins	20.5	N/A	115.5	136	Making various dyes
26	Limpwurt seed	None	4×5 mins	21.5	18.5	120	160	(Super) Strength potion ingredient

↑ N×5 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each| means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 5 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ Most flowers yield 1 flower when picked, but woad leaves and limpwurt roots will yield 3 produce.

Hops

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Uses
3	Barley seed	Compost×3	4×10 mins	8.5	9.5	103.5	Raw ingredient for brewing Payment to protect jute plants (6)
4	Hammerstone seed	Marigold×1	4×10 mins	9	10	109	Dwarven stout ingredient Payment to protect barberry bush (15)
8	Asgarnian seed	Onions(10)×1^[3]	5×10 mins	10.9	12	130.9	Asgarnian ale ingredient Payment to protect reed plants (15)
13	Jute seed	Barley malt×6	5×10 mins	13	14.5	158	Payment to protect sweetcorn allotment (10) Weaving an empty sack on a loom
16	Yanillian seed	Tomatoes(5)×1^[4]	6×10 mins	14.5	16	174.5	Wizard's mind bomb ingredient Payment to protect Mahogany Trees (50)
21	Krandorian seed	Cabbages(10)×3^[3]	7×10 mins	17.5	19.5	212.5	Dragon bitter ingredient
28	Wildblood seed	Nasturtiums×1	8×10 mins	23	26	283	Slayer's respite ingredient

↑ N×10 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 10 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ Assume 10 hops are harvested
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
↑ Each basket must be filled with 5 harvests.

Bushes

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check health	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Uses
10	Redberry seed	Cabbages(10)×4^[3]	5×20 mins	11.5	64	4.5	93.5	Redberry pie ingredient Making red dye
22	Cadavaberry seed	Tomatoes(5)x3^[4]	6×20 mins	18	102.5	7	148.5	Making Cadava potion
36	Dwellberry seed	Strawberries(5)×3^[4]	7×20 mins	31.5	177.5	12	257	Quest item - Plague City Cooking ingredient
48	Jangerberry seed	Watermelons×6	8×20 mins	50.5	284.5	19	411	Quest item - Watchtower Zamorak brew ingredient
59	Whiteberry seed	Bittercap mushroom×8	8×20 mins	78	437.5	29	631.5	Quest item - The Hand in the Sand (Super) Defence potion ingredient
70	Poison ivy seed	N/A^[5]	8×20 mins	120	675	45	975	Weapon poison++ ingredient

↑ N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ Assume 4 berries are picked.
↑ All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Each basket must be filled with 5 harvests.
↑ Poison ivy will never become diseased.

Trees

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Cost per XP		Uses ^[2]
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Total	Seed only	Seed and Protection	Uses ^[2]
15	Acorn	Tomatoes(5)×1^[3]	5×40 mins	14	467.3	481.3	0.12	1.11	Source of oak logs Axeman's folly ingredient (Roots)
30	Willow seed	Apples(5)×1^[3]	7×40 mins	25	1456.5	1481.5	2.44	3.12	Source of willow logs Weaving a Basket on a loom (Branch) Quest item - Enlightened Journey (Branch)
45	Maple seed	Oranges(5)×1^[3]	8×40 mins	45	3403.4	3448.4	8.21	8.35	Source of maple logs
60	Yew seed	Cactus spine×10	10×40 mins	81	7069.9	7150.9	9.53	11.34	Source of yew logs Antipoison+ ingredient (Roots)
75	Magic seed	Coconut×25	12×40 mins	145.5	13768.3	13913.8	8.55	11.91	Source of magic logs Making magic string (Roots) Antipoison++ ingredient (Roots)

↑ N×40 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 40 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ All tree roots can be used to make supercompost and crossbow string.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.

Fruit trees

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Cost per XP		Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Seed only	Seed and Protection	Uses
27	Apple tree seed	Sweetcorn×9	6×160 mins	22	1199.5	8.5	1272.5	0	1.21	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect strawberry plant, willow tree (5 = 1 basket), banana tree (20 = 4 baskets)
33	Banana tree seed	Apples(5)×4^[3]	6×160 mins	28	1750.5	10.5	1841.5	0	2.17	Cooking ingredient Ape Atoll teleport
39	Orange tree seed	Strawberries(5)×3^[3]	6×160 mins	35.5	2470.2	13.5	2586.7	0	1.01	Cooking ingredient
42	Curry tree seed	Bananas(5)×5^[3]	6×160 mins	40	2906.9	15	3036.9	0	0.76	Curry ingredient
51	Pineapple seed	Watermelon×10	6×160 mins	57	4605.7	21.5	4791.7	0.1	0.13	Cooking ingredient
57	Papaya tree seed	Pineapple×10	6×160 mins	72	6146.4	27	6380.4	0.56	0.86	Payment Method for Palm Tree Restores Run Energy
68	Palm tree seed	Papaya fruit×15	6×160 mins	110.5	10150.1	41.5	10509.6	3.79	4.81	Used for gathering Coconut milk and Coconut shell

↑ N×160 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 160 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ Assume 6 fruit is harvested.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.

Herbs

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Uses
9	Guam seed	No	4×20 mins	11	12.5	98.5	Ingredient of Attack potion Guam tar Guthix rest
14	Marrentill seed	No	4×20 mins	13.5	15	118.5	Ingredient of Antipoison Guthix rest Burning incense
19	Tarromin seed	No	4×20 mins	16	18	142	Ingredient of Strength potion Serum 207 Tarromin tar
26	Harralander seed	No	4×20 mins	21.5	24	189.5	Ingredient of Guthix rest Stat restore potion Guthix balance Energy potion Combat potion Harralander tar
29	Gout tuber	No	4×20 mins	105	45	420	Making a gem-bladed machete Exchange with Sanfew for random herbs
32	Ranarr seed	No	4×20 mins	27	30.5	240.5	Ingredient of Defence potion Prayer potion
38	Toadflax seed	No	4×20 mins	34	38.5	303.5	Ingredient of Agility potion Antipoison+ Saradomin brew
44	Irit seed	No	4×20 mins	43	48.5	382.5	Ingredient of Super attack Super antipoison Antipoison++
50	Avantoe seed	No	4×20 mins	54.5	61.5	485	Ingredient of Fishing potion Super energy Hunter potion
56	Kwuarm seed	No	4×20 mins	69	78	615	Ingredient of Super strength Weapon poison
62	Snapdragon seed	No	4×20 mins	87.5	98.5	777	Ingredient of Super restore Sanfew serum
67	Cadantine seed	No	4×20 mins	106.5	120	946.5	Ingredient of Super defence
73	Lantadyme seed	No	4×20 mins	134.5	151.5	1195	Ingredient of Antifire potion Magic potion
79	Dwarf weed seed	No	4×20 mins	170.5	192	1514.5	Ingredient of Ranging potion
85	Torstol seed	No	4×20 mins	199.5	224.5	1771	Ingredient of Zamorak brew Super combat potion

↑ N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ Assume 7 herbs are picked.

Special

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Uses
23	Seaweed spore	Numulite × 200	7 × 5 mins	19	N/A	21	40^[2]	Used to make soda ash for molten glass
35	Teak seed	Limpwurt root × 15	8 × 560 mins	25	7,290	N/A	7,315	Source of teak logs
36	Grape seed	Free	8 x 5 mins	31.5	625	40	400 ^[3]	Cooking ingredient
53	Mushroom spore		6×40 mins	61.5	N/A	57.7	407.7 ^[4]	Cooking ingredient
55	Mahogany seed	Yanillian hops × 25	9 × 568.8 mins	63	15,720	N/A	15,783	Source of mahogany logs
55	Cactus seed	Cadava berries×6	7×80 mins	66.5	374	25	515.5 ^[3]	Weapon poison+ ingredient Payment to protect yew tree (10)
63	Belladonna seed	N/A	4×80 mins	91	N/A	512	603 ^[5]	Weapon poison++ ingredient
72	Calquat tree seed	Poison ivy berries×8	8×160 mins	129.5	12096	48.5	12516.5 ^[6]	Making Calquat kegs Damaging Broodoo victims
83	Spirit seed ^[7]	Monkey nuts×5 Monkey bar×1 Ground tooth×1	11×320 mins	199.5	19301.8	N/A	19501.3	Spirit tree network

↑ N×X mins means the crop will grow a little for each X minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
↑ 6-53 giant seaweeds are harvested per patch.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Assumes 10 grapes are harvested. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "cactus assumption" defined multiple times with different content
↑ 6 Bittercap mushrooms are harvested at a time.
↑ 1 Cave nightshade is harvested at a time.
↑ Assume 6 Calquat fruit is harvested.
↑ Only 1 spirit tree can be planted at a time.

Payment item alternative locations

Payment Item	Locations
Compost	Buy from farming shops near vegetable patches or from farmers near farming patches.
Potatoes	North of Ardougne, Northwest of Lumbridge, Northeast of Lumbridge, Miscellania, buy from Hudo in The Grand Tree. Also found in larder in a Player-owned house
Onions	Onion field in Rimmington, small onion patch behind chicken coops northwest of Lumbridge, Rellekka, buy from Hudo in The Grand Tree.
Cabbages	Cabbage field near Falador, field in Rimmington, Monastery, northwest of Lumbridge, Miscellania, Rellekka.
Apples	3 spawns in Cooks' Guild, one spawn in farming shop north of Ardougne, buy from Food Chest in Lumbridge Castle after starting Recipe for Disaster, There are 3 quickly respawning barrels of apples on the pirate ship to Moon Clan Island Lunar Diplomacy.
Bananas	Banana trees on Karamja, right by Amulet of Glory teleport spot; buy from Trader Crewmember at charter docks, bones to bananas spell.
Oranges	Buy in The Grand Tree from Heckel Funch or Hudo - 10 at each store.
Pineapples	Pineapple plants on Karamja, buy in The Grand Tree from Heckel Funch or Hudo - 10 in each store, Trade Crewmember in Catherby and Karamja north pier - 15 in each store, noted pineapples dropped by tortoises at Grand Tree and north of Tree Gnome Village, noted and un-noted pineapples dropped by kurask in either slayer dungeon.
Tomato	Various single spawns. Purchase in Food stores around RuneScape. Buy in The Grand Tree from Hudo. Buy from Food Chest in Lumbridge Castle after starting Recipe for Disaster.

Acquiring seeds

The following are several ways to get the seeds needed for farming:

Seeds can be bought from other players.
Picking a vegetable from one of the non-player-owned fields dotted around RuneScape occasionally provides a seed as well.
Pickpocketing farmers with level 10 Thieving, which will occasionally give potato seeds.
On populated worlds it is easy to get large amounts of lower level seeds from players training thieving at the Master Farmer and dropping the lower level seeds.
- An alternative for lower-level players who wish to acquire seeds but do not have the required thieving levels to pickpocket from Martin the Master Gardener or from Olivia's stall is to simply stand around Draynor Marketplace near the stalls and wait for players to drop seeds they are pickpocketing. (Many players train thieving here and end up dropping a lot of their seeds on the ground because they're either doing it only for experience, have no room in their inventories, or are simply not getting the seeds they want and drop the lower-level ones.)
Pickpocketing Master Farmers (including Martin the Master Gardener) with level 38 Thieving for all seeds except tree seeds and fruit tree seeds.
Buying from Olivia who runs the seed stall in Draynor Village. Only low-level-farming seeds are available for purchase.
Stealing from Olivia's stall with level 27 Thieving. (You will not be able to purchase seeds from her for a short period of time if you steal from her.
Bird's nests give tree and fruit tree seeds and can be obtained from the following ways:
- random events in Woodcutting;
- trading mole claws and/or mole skins with Wyson the gardener at Falador Park. Mole claws and mole skins can be obtained by killing the Giant Mole or killing Molanisks with level 39 Slayer for mole claws alone.
Managing Miscellania for seeds and bird's nests. Allocating resources to cutting wood gives bird nests, allocating resources to herbs or flax can yield herb seeds, and allocating resources to farming gives a wide variety of seeds. The Throne of Miscellania quest is required (and Royal Trouble for the farming).
Monster drops. Ogres, Moss giants, Aberrant spectres, and Dagannoths are a few examples of monsters with good seed drops.
Catching implings, especially Nature implings.
Watermelon seeds can be obtained as a reward in the Temple Trekking minigame.