Category:Gardening

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The hobby of horticulture is the tending and nurturing of plants. In Final Fantasy, gardening provides players another way to make money through harvesting plants they grow, and crafters with another way to obtain their materials.

To make a garden, you need a few things:

• A moogle
• A pot (Your moghouse can hold a maximum of 10)
• A seed (From grain seeds to tree cuttings, there are many varieties)
• A crystal (optional, you may also need multiples depending on the plant)

By moogle, we mean this all takes place in your moghouse. Pots can be bought at merchants, the Auction House, or obtained through certain quests. Pots are placed in your moghouse just like any piece of furniture. Once they are placed, you can begin planting seeds. Seeds that you wish to plant must be placed in your Mog Safe, as well as any crystals you want to feed to it to help it grow.

There are three types of pots:

• Vendor bought: Ceramic Flowerpot, Earthen Flowerpot, Brass Flowerpot.
• Crafted: Porcelain Flowerpot, Brass Flowerpot.
• Quested: Arcane Flowerpot, Wooden Flowerpot.

There are two types of seeds:

• Flowering Plants: Grain Seeds, Vegetable Seeds, Herb Seeds, Wildgrass Seeds.
• Trees: Fruit Seeds, Tree Cuttings, Tree Saplings, Cactus Stems.
  

Flowering plants grow faster than trees, and only ask you to feed them once. Trees can take weeks (Earth time) to grow to fruition, and will ask to be fed twice. Before you worry how a tree can fit in your Moghouse, be assured that these are small trees, like bonsai.

Once planted, your moogle does most of the work. Now you wait for your plant to grow. This will take some time, so go out and level, fish, farm or whatever your heart desires. After some time, you will come back to your moghouse and there will be plants in your pot(s). You'll want to examine them, as this will make them happy and prevent them from wilting. By Examining the plants you are basiclly watering and pruning the plants. Wilting periods tend to happen around feeding time, examining your plant will make it feel better. Moghancement: Gardening will lessen the chance of your plant wilting, giving you more time to come back and check on it. If your plant wilts, your only option will be to empty your pot and try again.

After a certain period of time (length depends on the seed) you will be given the option to feed a crystal to your plant. While feeding it a crystal is not necessary, it may help your plant grow faster, and will affect the results of what you harvest when it's ready. Trees will ask you to feed crystals to it twice.

At the end of the plant's growing cycle, you will be given the option to harvest your plant. You will know it's harvest time just by looking at your plant, as they emit a pleasant glow(NB:See Below). When you harvest your plant, your results will be placed directly into your Mog Safe, so make room, as you will not be allowed to harvest until there is room. Your results depend mainly on what seed was used, what crystal you fed to it (if any), and (possibly) what day of the week you fed the crystal to the plant (or what day you declined to feed the plant). It should be noted that characters that are still within 90 days of their creation date are only able to harvest a maximum of 1 item per yield. Afterward, your harvests will yield as many as normal for that seed/pot/crystal combination.

(NB) Maximum yield is obtained when upon examination the moogle displays the message; "It's Grown so big, kupo~. It's ready to be picked now, kupo~." <Infidelity 14:20, November 19, 2009 (UTC)>

Some plants will distill the elemental energy out of the air and water, which will crystallize on their roots. This is why sometimes you will receive crystals when harvesting your plants. It can also calcify into colored rocks and ores. Mostly your results will fall in line with what type of seed you planted. You will get fruit from fruit seeds, grain from grain seeds, etc. For example, if you wanted to try to grow Tarutaru Rice, you would use a Grain Seed.

It can also be noted that at anytime during the growing cycle (once green begins to show) you have the option to dry your flowers. This will freeze your plant as it is right then, making it a permanent furniture fixture. If you're doing this for the look, the best time to do this is at harvest time, as your flowers will stay in their perpetually glowing state. Once you dry your flowers, you cannot harvest them ever, though you will always have the option to empty your pot and begin again.

During the first 90 days after a character has been created, all gardening results will be limited to a single item. (This limit was introduced on August 3rd, 2009 to counter the massive amounts of gardening trial accounts made by RMT.)

For 'recipe' information, please see the following:
*Note: When reading the recipes, the results are all possibilities; You will receive only one of them when harvesting.

Recipes by Seed Flowering Plants: Gardening: Vegetable Seeds Recipes Gardening: Grain Seeds Recipes Gardening: Herb Seeds Recipes Gardening: Wildgrass Seeds Recipes Trees: Gardening: Fruit Seeds Recipes Gardening: Tree Cuttings Recipes Gardening: Tree Saplings Recipes Gardening: Cactus Stems Recipes

Recipes by Pot Common Pots: Gardening: Ceramic Flowerpot Recipes Gardening: Earthen Flowerpot Recipes Gardening: Porcelain Flowerpot Recipes Gardening: Brass Flowerpot Recipes Quested Pots: Gardening: Arcane Flowerpot Recipes Gardening: Wooden Flowerpot Recipes

Gardening Guides

• Gardening Guide by Egomzez

Crafts

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Hobbies

Digging     Clamming     Excavation     Gardening     Harvesting     Logging     Mining