Well, Lately while growing herbs I noticed some of them that you plant later end up beating the ones you planted first. So, I've been keeping track of time when I grow herbs.

 

 

 

Catherby: Planted herb at 4:11 pm. Around 5:02 it became diseased and I cured it within 1min. The herb finished growing at 6:07. Which means it took 113mins. Or 1 hour and 53mins.

 

 

 

Fally: Planted at 4:12. Didn't became diseased once. Finished growing at 5:20. Which means it took 68mins. Or an hour and 8mins.

 

 

 

Phasmatys: Planted at 4:13. Never became diseased. Finished at 6:03. Which means it took 110mins. Or 1 hour and 50mins

 

 

 

Ardougne: Planted at 4:14. Never became diseased. Finished at 6:04. Which means it took 110mins. Or 1 hour and 50mins

 

 

 

If they took the times and found 75mins an average point at which the herbs would be done. If you take the 4 herb patches I grew, the Average time would be: 100mins per Herb! That 25mins can make a big difference.

 

 

 

*Edit* All are grown with super compost.

 

 

 

--Discuss--

Dunno, never timed it.

 

 

 

BTW: change ur clan (near avatar) :mrgreen:

Dunno, never timed it.

 

 

 

BTW: change ur clan (near avatar) :mrgreen:

 

 

 

shhhhhh :wall:

mine grow pretty fast with supercomp. i check on rannars every 60 minutes exactly. some are full grown, some arent

 

 

 

i like your sig btw

I'm afraid to say that 110 minutes is NOT 1 hour...

 

 

 

60 minutes to an hour, 2 hours = 2*60 minutes = 120 minutes, not 110.

Well, herbs (and other crops) have what I call, growing points. At these points, any of these things can happen:

 

 

 

They can grow another bit (most likely)

 

They can get diseased

 

They can die (if diseased)

 

 

 

That explains partially the diseased ones...

 

 

 

But your times might just be horrible luck. I've just farmed 500 snapdragon seeds and noticed that most herbs grew in 75 minutes.

 

 

 

P.S. If you spend all your time at the farming patch, besides during this study, well.. :uhh:

i think its just u

I'm afraid to say that 110 minutes is NOT 1 hour...

 

 

 

60 minutes to an hour, 2 hours = 2*60 minutes = 120 minutes, not 110.

 

 

 

My bad messed up. Gf math :oops:

 

 

 

Corrected

Off topic: you do know there are 60 mins in a houre so 2 hours would be 120 mins not 110 mins

 

 

 

On topic: i have found the same thing when i grow fruit trees it takes allmost twice as long than it should to grow

Off topic: you do know there are 60 mins in a houre so 2 hours would be 120 mins not 110 mins

 

 

 

On topic: i have found the same thing when i grow fruit trees it takes allmost twice as long than it should to grow

 

 

 

Corrected.

 

 

 

And ya, Fruit trees always take like 2 hours longer then normal for me.

 

P.S. If you spend all your time at the farming patch, besides during this study, well.. :uhh:

 

 

 

I logged out a few times and came back like every 15mins. (until the first patch was done) then I just teled around to the patches and talked to friends waiting for the others.

I've had herbs take longer than 75mins, one took 90 minutes (almost exactly) didnt get diseased and obviously didnt die, i assume its a bug.

 

 

 

 

 

Edit:I always use super-compost anyway(i didnt know it effected growing time, i thought it just meant it was less likely to get diseased)

I've had herbs take longer than 75mins, one took 90 minutes (almost exactly) didnt get diseased and obviously didnt die, i assume its a bug.

 

 

 

Or a mis-calculation of tip.it. The whole reason we are discussing it. :P

I've had herbs take longer than 75mins, one took 90 minutes (almost exactly) didnt get diseased and obviously didnt die, i assume its a bug.

 

 

 

Or a mis-calculation of tip.it. The whole reason we are discussing it. :P

 

 

 

 

 

But still there is no standardization, some have taken slightly less than 75mins and as i said one took 90mins, i would have expected them to take the same time.

 

 

 

(just incase you are talking about a calculator i just use my clock on my desktop to check the time/s)

OR the average is 75 minutes, but its not EXACT.

 

 

 

I KNOW that, because originally, in the Knowledge Base they had times listed.

 

 

 

Herbs were 75 minutes.

 

 

 

However, an AVERAGE MEANS that some are below and some are over.

I didnt know it was an average figure, i thought it was exact, thats the way its written on a few tip sites. I'm not complaining, its just something i wondered about and this post reminded me.

I have 76 farming and here's my theory:

 

 

 

I've noticed that if I log in and out while farming, my plants get diseased more often or simply take longer to grow. We already know that growing cycles are around 5 minutes long. So I think that when I log out in the middle of a growing cycle, it resets that 5 minute cycle, hence the longer growing time/more chance of disease.

Hmm growing times are affected by what they call the farming clock, where every x minutes/hour the crop would grow by 1 stage. Whether you plant just right before or after the a stage of the farming clock will affect its growing time. I believe super compost seems to fasten growing times or just keeping it to the normal time. :-k

As people have said 75 mins is an average time, although I have never timed it. Normally I plant the seeds go away and do something else and come back to harvest when I feel like it.

 

 

 

However, your figures are flawed. If a crop gets diseased it will take longer to grow to maturity. You need to do your timings on those that don;t het diseased. Also your sample is way too small to arrive at a decent conclusion. Come back with figures when you have grown at least 1000 seeds.

yeah ive noticed that too some other things seem to take longer too

When your herb gets diseased and you cure it, that resets the farming clock so they will take longer.

 

 

 

However it is not just diseased herb patches that can take longer. The growth of herbs was changed shortly after the My Arm patch was added and now mature at seemingly random intervals.

 

 

 

There's another topic on here about tree growing times if anyone is interested.

 

 

 

Personally I despise the way Jagex have changed farming.

pretty sure if u log out it's got something to do with the delay- what i noticed anyways.

yeah they need to make the grow times more even when i grow trees now i give it a day since anytime i check them when they should be done most arn't

YES, its very simple if you think about it really. It all depends on when you grow your crops. if you plant them immediately when a 'game total re spawn' happens, then they should take much longer, since your crops will need to go through another re spawn to completely grow. If you don't know, a game re spawn is when items disappear in the general stores, weeds grow, other set time oriented things (Not monster spawns) So if you want your plant to take only 75 min, you need to plant them before a game re spawn, because the grow time will reach the completion time, and the respawn will produce the finished product. so when the plant reaches completion, but a spawn just took place, then you will need to wait for the next to harvest the crops.

 

actually, it would be nice if someone could find the amount of time it takes for on of the spawns. I need to time it after i get finished with this barrows trip

I just finished 99 Farming about a month ago. I took me exactly 75 days to go from level 88 to 99. Each day I planted 15 Maples, 4 Pineapples and 1 Calquat (plus the allotments, bushes, etc, etc).

 

 

 

I can most definitely attest to the fact that growing times for ALL of the trees (fruit or otherwise) are completely random. Maples would usually grow in about 5 hrs but often would take 6 or 7 hrs to grow. Same with the Pineapple trees. I would plant them all at (about) the same time and they all grew at different rates. The Calquat tree was the same. I would plant it in the morning, check it 24 hrs later and sometimes it would be grown and sometimes it wouldn't.

 

 

 

Bottom line for trees is that there is NO SET TIME that they grow in. In fact, JAGEX even removed the tree growing times from the KB.