[nerdboyxxx]

I've been looking at my current cash pile and, even though I reckon I can afford 99 farming simply by rune mining every day of the week, I don't want to have all my cash dwindle away when I can train a skill at a profit. I have no problem with how long it will take to get 99 farming off herbs alone (It's my favourite skill so I REALLY don't care, in fact it sounds like a lot of fun ) but I basically know nothing about herbs. I focused all my attention on trees and fruit trees, working out the cost, number of seeds I would require and what trees I should plant etc.

What I need to know is what herbs I should plant at what levels to ensure a profit. I'm not sure if any herbs run you at a negative, but I'm pretty sure there are one or two and those are the ones that I'd like to avoid.

Also, the best gp/xp herbs as well. I am more worried about experience than getting MORE cash, but I don't want to lose any, if you kinda get what I mean .

So, the best gp/xp ratio in favour of more xp and a profit basically. I need to know which herbs I should plant at what levels from 50; I can work out the rest myself. I'm quite busy with school at the moment so I don't have time to do a lot of research into a game .

Thanks for any help .

[swampjedi]

I did 99 Farming off of (mainly) dwarf weed, and got 99 Herblore with the resulting weed. I must have gone through 10k seeds, over a year perhaps.

[Ermin66]

I farmed snaps from 62 to 91, and used the resulting profit to buy the remaining levels in mage and palm trees. Took about 9 months, but the last 2 months ish I was doing 8-11 herb rounds a day, did cut into other stuff and I ended up structuring my days around 90 minute intervals, glad I don't farm like that any more.

[nerdboyxxx]

Okay, so at the moment I'm thinking ranarr until I can do snaps, then snaps until I can do Dwarf Weed and I'll do DW until 99. Hopefully this will net me a nice profit, and maybe I'll have enough cash for 99 herblore (well, I can train off the herbs anyway, ao I should be able to cut down my herblorecost by quite a margin). I've also worked out that Torstol is possibly the most profitable herb to plant at the moment, but from what I've seen it is quite unstable, so I don't think I'll be using it.

Now time to work out how many seeds I'll need .

[nerdboyxxx]

Okay, so tip.it calculator doesn't add the experience together for one seed (picking and planting) but separates them, so I still don't know how many seeds I'll need. Does anyone know how I can work out the number of seeds I'll need via tip.it calculator?

[Aslan]

The harvest/seed is considered to be roughly 6.5.Use that into your calculations.For the love of god, just buy trees/fruit trees, you'll pay for them with the herbs anyway.Example of what I do: 5 pineapple trees/day->~100k (bought them a long time ago), 10 willows trees/day->~100k more.I generally profit that much from a good herb run, so there's no point in tormenting yourself by farming herbs only.

[Inuashakent]

Don't even bother with willows... go high trees, or no trees. I'm doing Torstols.

[allisgreat]

Each dwarf weed run is around 6k-8k exp based off 250 some seeds i planted from 79-almost81 farming. So you could use that in the calculations.

[Sinkhan]

Inuashakent, on 09 February 2010 - 07:54 PM, said:

Don't even bother with willows... go high trees, or no trees. I'm doing Torstols.

The thing is that willow trees can profit, but you'll need to come back every other run to replant. The 6 willow branches you get each time covers the cost of the seed, it just takes half an hour for them to grow after checking.

[nerdboyxxx]

Aslan, on 10 February 2010 - 05:58 AM, said:

The harvest/seed is considered to be roughly 6.5.Use that into your calculations.For the love of god, just buy trees/fruit trees, you'll pay for them with the herbs anyway.Example of what I do: 5 pineapple trees/day->~100k (bought them a long time ago), 10 willows trees/day->~100k more.I generally profit that much from a good herb run, so there's no point in tormenting yourself by farming herbs only.

Don't have the time for tree/fruit tree runs and herb runs, I have other plans ahead and school is bogging me down enough without an extra thing to worry about, besides that means I don't have to go rune mining on weekdays I can just farm for herbs every 15 minutes with runs while doing homework, while trees won't pay for themselves because I can't do herb and tree/fruit tree runs at the same time. So no trees.

Inuashakent, on 10 February 2010 - 10:54 AM, said:

Don't even bother with willows... go high trees, or no trees. I'm doing Torstols.

Willows are definitely a waste of time, but I won't be doing trees so eh .

allisgreat, on 10 February 2010 - 11:13 AM, said:

Each dwarf weed run is around 6k-8k exp based off 250 some seeds i planted from 79-almost81 farming. So you could use that in the calculations.

Thanks . I'll make a note of that. I can probably work it out from there.

Sinkhan, on 10 February 2010 - 11:18 AM, said:

Inuashakent, on 09 February 2010 - 07:54 PM, said:

Don't even bother with willows... go high trees, or no trees. I'm doing Torstols.

The thing is that willow trees can profit, but you'll need to come back every other run to replant. The 6 willow branches you get each time covers the cost of the seed, it just takes half an hour for them to grow after checking.

I barely have enought time to do my herb runs let alone wait for willow branches to grow, so trees/branches aren't possible . Still, Willows are too slow anyway to be worth it past 60+ farming... In fact once you hit 60 if you're doing trees you should be doing maples and yews if you can afford it .

[nerdboyxxx]

3,913 rannar weed until level 62


7,003 Snapdragon until level 79


30,995 Dwarf Weed until level 99

Just basic working out, I'm probably off a bit, but at least I have a rough idea .

[Sinkhan]

nerdboyxxx, on 10 February 2010 - 12:27 AM, said:

I barely have enought time to do my herb runs let alone wait for willow branches to grow, so trees/branches aren't possible . Still, Willows are too slow anyway to be worth it past 60+ farming... In fact once you hit 60 if you're doing trees you should be doing maples and yews if you can afford it .

I'm 79 atm and tbh, I'm working off of a few oaks I had from a while back. I intend to do willows later on. I'm stockpiling all of my other seeds from MTK and such when I finally charge ahead for 99 farming.

I'm working a nice and slow pace and I don't mind at all. That's how I like it. Just like how you want to get 99 farming with only herbs. Whatever floats your boat

[nerdboyxxx]

Sinkhan, on 10 February 2010 - 04:04 PM, said:

nerdboyxxx, on 10 February 2010 - 12:27 AM, said:

I barely have enought time to do my herb runs let alone wait for willow branches to grow, so trees/branches aren't possible . Still, Willows are too slow anyway to be worth it past 60+ farming... In fact once you hit 60 if you're doing trees you should be doing maples and yews if you can afford it .

I'm 79 atm and tbh, I'm working off of a few oaks I had from a while back. I intend to do willows later on. I'm stockpiling all of my other seeds from MTK and such when I finally charge ahead for 99 farming.

I'm working a nice and slow pace and I don't mind at all. That's how I like it. Just like how you want to get 99 farming with only herbs. Whatever floats your boat

That's how I like it as well . I rushed 99 fletching and 99 woodcutting and almost burned out halfway through, so I'm taking a much more relaxed approach to farming and mining. The quickest method isn't really the most tempting for me anymore .

[010jonathan]

I planted all the way toadflax (over 2k seeds) because they were the best herblore xp back at that time. Now I agree you should go for kwuarms, snapdragons or dwarf weed.

Anyway I also like to say to you: VERY good job you do the calculations yourself, most people come here and can't even be bothered to actually calc something. Thank you for making my day ;D

[nerdboyxxx]

010jonathan, on 11 February 2010 - 03:19 AM, said:

I planted all the way toadflax (over 2k seeds) because they were the best herblore xp back at that time. Now I agree you should go for kwuarms, snapdragons or dwarf weed.

Anyway I also like to say to you: VERY good job you do the calculations yourself, most people come here and can't even be bothered to actually calc something. Thank you for making my day ;D

No problem, I know how annoying it is when people can't be bothered to use the calc for simple things, but I got no problem with answering questions when further calculations are required (calculators, sadly, don't answer all the questions ).

One more question; I want to get my herblore to 99 eventually, but I never had the cash (and probably never will) to get 99 off my current level. I was wondering if it is at all possible to get 92 herblore in conjunction with 99 farming off all the herbs. I'll be doing some calculations with the rough estimate I have above (but those are the number of seeds I need, not the number of herbs I will get, so some further working out is required) but If anyone has started off at 50-ish farming and 40-ish herblore and has gotten at least level 92 off ranarr/snaps/dwarf weed, than pleas let me know .