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Some of you may wonder if there is much benefit in gardening. That depend on you! Perhaps you love to fish. Growing crops of Millioncorn to make your own balls of insect paste can save you plenty-wenty gils! Or perhaps you enjoy cooking and find you cannot afford to buy garlic for Meat Mithkabobs. You can grow your own garlic! You can grow rocks for goldsmithing, fruits for juicing, crystals for profit or crafting, and much more! You can also grow metallic nuggetarus for smithing! But Pikko understands that gardening is not for everyone. This is why Pikko recommends you start with only one or two flower pot and simple seeds to see if you have patience and attentiveness to be good to your plants. Otherwise you might end up with dead plants and tons of flower pot you no longer want! And what a pain to sell them all at auction house!

Speak to little-wittle Mithra girl in each city and she tell you many-wany things about gardening. If you grow girl certain type of flower she enjoy, she will tell you secret about special city tunnels so you can exitaru Mog House into any city area. Exceptaru the one in Jeuno, this girl wants a stone instead. One importantaru piece of information she will tell you is you can only have 10 flower pot in your Mog House at once. Any more and your garden suffers! And we certainly-wertainly don't want poor withered plants do we?

Pikko has done over 200 experimentarus in her Mog House and still has not figured out all of gardening secrets. Still, Pikko knows more than before and hopes you will find her information helpful and lead you to your own successful garden! Pikko also feels need to mention to peoples that gardening is not exactaruly something to do for sure-fire profiting! If gardening is anything, it is unpredicataruble! Yes, it is true wonderful things like elemental ores and metal nuggetarus can be grown, but always remember things like ores are rare for goody-woody reason! They hard to get!

One of the most importantaru things to realize about Pikko Pots is that though each section has recommendations, you must look at the data and remember all the factors of gardening come together to grow you something nice. So while Pikko may say that the best pot for growing millioncorn is a ceramic pot, if you plant on a terrible-werrible day, you could end up with a small crop or little worms. Gardening is like mysterious puzzle-wuzzle and it up to you to put all pieces together-wether.

People always e-mail Pikko to ask, "Pikko, what will make me the most gil?". This is up to you to find out. Pikko lives on Garuda and prices always fluctaruate depending on certain factors. So Pikko cannotaru know what makes best gil on say, Phoenix. If this week Kolshushu is under Beastmen control, you check prices of meat mithkabob, Yagudo cherry, and Mhaura garlic.

-Flower Pot-

In beginning, Pikko very-wery pleased to find out that Moogles allow growing of plants in house and soon began to look for flower pot to plant things in. Pikko was notaru aware of where to buy any and so of course Pikko check Auction House in Windurst. Much to Pikko's disappointmentaru, flower pot cost plenty-wenty money! Over 1,000 gil for cheapest pot! Pikko was born in Windurst and so found all pot but Earthen very-wery expunsive! But many gardener will eventually discover each city sell one type of flower pot in shop for about same price of 1,000 gil:

Brass Flower Pot
Boytz's Knicknacks
Bastok Mines
Boytz (H-7)

Ceramic Flower Pot
Merchant
North San d'Oria
Pirvidiauce (D-8)

Earthen Flower Pot
Ensasa's Catalyst Shop
Windurst Waters
Ensasa (H-6)

Porcelain Flower Pot can only be made by high level crafting. Pikko does not know what skill is used, but recipe is: Fire Crystal -> Cermet Chunk x1. These costaru around 5,000 - 7,000 gil at Auction House.

Arcane Flower Pot can be quested at the Strange Apparatuses or bought at Auction House. Pikko buy this pot for 300,000 gils!! Hoo, walletaru still hurting! You only allowed one Arcane Pot.

Pikko does not recommend new gardeners go pot crazy and buy 10 pots for Moogle to coo over! You may discover that you don't have time for so many plants or that you get frustratarued too easy when plants give you junky crop. Start slow and buy only one or two potsies.

Each flower potaru type is attributed to an element. According to some sites, Brass Pot is fire based, Ceramic Pot is water based, Earthen Pot is earth based, and Porcelain Pot is wind based. Pikko doesn'taru know about Arcane Pot, but many think it is Light based. Because of these elemental attributes, you will find that the same recipe in different pots can give you a bigger-wigger yield. Still, Pikko has not seen particularly fascinating data to show correlation to these specific elemental attributes for anything other than Crystal growing and even that is not always consistentaru! Pikko finds it easier to grow every-wevery combination to see which pot and seeds and crystals work bestest!

So far Pikko has only found that Arcane Pot takes superly-duperly long to grow plants!!

-Mog House Layout-

Once you have flower pot(s), you need to place them in your Mog House, which can only be done in home city. First, put the pot into your Mog Safe. Then use the Layout option to place flower pots somewhere in your Mog House. Some peoples believe that putting pots onto some type of furniture will help your plants grow faster. Pikko has no idea if this is true or not, but having your plants on a workbench or table looks much better than having them all on the floor! If you are Tarutaru, Pikko recommends workbench because tables is a little bitsy too tall for us to reach the pots in the back!

-Planting-

To best of Pikko's knowledge, you can plant seven different things:

  • bag of grain seeds
  • bag of herb seeds
  • bag of vegetable seeds
  • bag of fruit seeds
  • tree cuttings
  • tree saplings
  • cactus stems

To plant seeds, they must be stored in your Mog Safe. Select the Gardening option and you will be given a list of available pots. Choose your pot and select Plant Seeds. Then choose the type of seed you wish to plant. Once Moogle has safely tucked your bag of seeds into the pot, all you can do is wait for little plant to sprout. If you wish to keep records of your plantings, now is the time to do start! Type /clock on and you will be given all the information about the currentaru date, day, moon phase, and time.

Grain seeds tend to grow the quickest with a little plant sprouted in little as four Earth hours. Herb seeds take longer to sprout. Vegetable and fruit seeds take longer than herb but both take around the same time. Pikko has found tree cuttings take almostaru TEN Vanadiel months to be ready! But Pikko understands trees grow much slower than simple shrubs so it's okay. Feeding crystals to plants make them grow little bitsy faster, so expectaru plants with no crystals to take longer.

Seeds and other plantings tend to be very-wery expunsive so Pikko tries to plant only what is found while out adventaruing.

Pikko has found grain seeds in Tahrongi Canyon, Konschtat Highlands, and Meriphataud Mountains; herb seeds in Tahrongi Canyon, Jugner Forest, and LaTheine Plateau; vegetable seeds in North Gustaberg, South Gustaberg, and LaTheine Plateau; and fruit seeds in Battalia Downs and Crawler's Nest. All from sapling family. Pikko has found bag of tree cuttings from Goobbues in Rolanberry Fields, Sanctuary of Zitah, The Boyahda Tree, and Passhow Marshlands. Be careful of those nasty Goobbues! Pikko thoughtaru they cutesy animals with plants growing on head but then see they have plenty-wenty sharpsy teeth to munch on Pikko's arms and legs!! Tree saplings can be grown from tree cuttings with NO crystals fed. Cactus stems come from cactuars or you can gets yourself 4 bags from questaru in Bastok.

-Examining-

You must examine your little-wittle plants every so often (at least once per Earth day) so that it does not wither away and die. You can do this from a Rent-a-Roomie in another city, but you won'taru be able to see your plants. Moogle will warp back home and check on them for you. It very-wery easy to keep your garden alive while out adventaruing away from home city so don't use that as excuse for dead plants!

THIS WHAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU FORGETARU YOUR PLANTSIES:

Some people believe that examining plants many-wany times will help plant grow faster and better. Pikko isn't sure how true this is because Pikko has gotten very good crops only by examining once every morning and night and plants could probably do with less examining than this. Moogle will take care of them, you just cannotaru forget them!

After the first sprout, your plant will go into second stage of growth and will begin to have some trouble-woubles growing. At this point, Moogle will let you feed a crystal to the plant if you so desire. This is not required to have a healthy plant. If you do not want to start all over, DO NOT EMPTY YOUR POT! Moogle will dump out all your seedsies and you have to plant new ones again. DO NOT DRY YOUR FLOWERS! Flower drying is for Harvest stage when you want pretty-wetty glowing plant in Mog House.

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