FFXI Gardening 101

Although FFXI gardening may seem to be a boring task especially if you are one of those macho guys who thinks planting flowers and plants are for girls, well you’re wrong. No matter how boring it may be, it can be very relaxing and very well rewarding. The results of your gardening can be sold for a profit, used for quests and to make things through your guild.

To start gardening you need to purchase a flower pot which can also be made if you have the 2 trade skills goldsmith and blacksmithing. Would be much easier to purchase it however. Flower pots can cost about 1,000 gil. sell Final Fantasy XI Gil in this case, gils makes gils. This is an investment of time and gils. After getting your pot, you will need some seeds which drops off various sapling type mobs or can be purchased at some merchants.

The result seems to depend upon a combination of the crystal you fed the plant and the original seed. I have not seen any accurate chart on how it works, so it may even be somewhat random. It seems as though you get the opposite of the crystal you feed the plant. Thus feeding it dark crystals will bring you light ones or fire will bring water. However, you can also get various plants, herbs and other things that could conceivably grow in the dirt. Many of these items sell for decent Gil.