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GET
STARTED!
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.
CRYSTAL
FEEDING
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