im only 63 farming at the moment and im looking to get around 67/68 so i can pot up for my varrock dairy but 2 questions come to mind.

 

 

 

1. how should i go about gaining lvls without spending all my money?

 

 

 

2. do i need 70 farm to pick the poison ivy berry from the plant, or do i only need the 70 to plant the bush?

Curry seeds are great experience per gp spent and so are willows.

 

 

 

 

 

You definitely need to boost to lvl 70 to plant the bush but you won't need it to pick the berry. I have read that you need 70 to get the experience for checking health, though I don't know if this is true. I use garden pies to plant Calquat trees and while I need the boost to plant, I don't have to use it to get the experience for checking health.

 

 

 

But either way, garden pies are really inexpensive.

hmm, ok thanks for the info, i just need to figure out how many curry/willow trees ill need to plant to get to at least 67/68

im only 63 farming at the moment and im looking to get around 67/68 so i can pot up for my varrock dairy but 2 questions come to mind.

 

 

 

1. how should i go about gaining lvls without spending all my money?

 

 

 

2. do i need 70 farm to pick the poison ivy berry from the plant, or do i only need the 70 to plant the bush?

Cheap way, it would take you about a week I guess, maybe less.

 

 

 

Do regular farming runs. If you truly do not want to be spending any more money than it'll earn you, do oaks and orange trees (there's actual profit in that if you have the strawberries to pay for the orange trees).

 

 

 

Anyway, I guess tomatoes are good xp as cheap as it gets (like 7 gp for a seed?).

 

 

 

 

 

This is how I do my farming runs:

 

-Tree patch Lumbridge, plant oak or willow (or better even)

 

-Teleport Varrock, tree patch.

 

-Spirit Tree teleport (from G/e). Let Elko lead you out of the maze, there's a fruit tree patch next to it. Plant orange tree or better (payment is 3 baskets of strawberries).

 

-Back to Spirit Tree, teleport Gnome Stronghold. There's a fruit tree patch and a normal tree patch.

 

-Teleport Ardougne and do the allotments north of there. Then go south and take the boat to Brimhaven where there's a fruit tree patch.

 

-Bank in between of course, for these 2 points bring electophial, explorer ring and of course seeds/payments. Teleport using your explorer ring and do the allotments north of the cabbage patch.

 

-Teleport using your electophial and do the allotments near there. Keep in mind that you can also plant herbs (or flowers even) when doing the allotments.

 

-Teleport Catherby and do the allotments there. There's also a fruit tree patch for you near the mountains.

 

 

 

Also I would like to add that I can advice you to put new seeds in plant pots right after planting a sampling. This saves time (I always have several samplings banked. Samplings will also go to plantable state when banked. Also, if money is an issue you could buy the entire stock of plant pots in Ardougne and Catherby farming stores (not too bad to run and bank) and sell them in te Grand Exchange on a daily farming run. This will get you a couple of extra pennies, be it little.

 

 

 

Remember that allotments/herbs take about 1-2 hours, oaks about 3-3,5 hours and fruit trees about 16 hours to mature.

im only 63 farming at the moment and im looking to get around 67/68 so i can pot up for my varrock dairy but 2 questions come to mind.

 

 

 

1. how should i go about gaining lvls without spending all my money?

 

 

 

2. do i need 70 farm to pick the poison ivy berry from the plant, or do i only need the 70 to plant the bush?

Cheap way, it would take you about a week I guess, maybe less.

 

 

 

Do regular farming runs. If you truly do not want to be spending any more money than it'll earn you, do oaks and orange trees (there's actual profit in that if you have the strawberries to pay for the orange trees).

 

 

 

Anyway, I guess tomatoes are good xp as cheap as it gets (like 7 gp for a seed?).

 

 

 

 

 

This is how I do my farming runs:

 

-Tree patch Lumbridge, plant oak or willow (or better even)

 

-Teleport Varrock, tree patch.

 

-Spirit Tree teleport (from G/e). Let Elko lead you out of the maze, there's a fruit tree patch next to it. Plant orange tree or better (payment is 3 baskets of strawberries).

 

-Back to Spirit Tree, teleport Gnome Stronghold. There's a fruit tree patch and a normal tree patch.

 

-Teleport Ardougne and do the allotments north of there. Then go south and take the boat to Brimhaven where there's a fruit tree patch.

 

-Bank in between of course, for these 2 points bring electophial, explorer ring and of course seeds/payments. Teleport using your explorer ring and do the allotments north of the cabbage patch.

 

-Teleport using your electophial and do the allotments near there. Keep in mind that you can also plant herbs (or flowers even) when doing the allotments.

 

-Teleport Catherby and do the allotments there. There's also a fruit tree patch for you near the mountains.

 

 

 

Also I would like to add that I can advice you to put new seeds in plant pots right after planting a sampling. This saves time (I always have several samplings banked. Samplings will also go to plantable state when banked.

 

Well, that's a little too cheap. Tomatoes, for example, are a waste of time, and oak trees are much worse than willow trees.

 

 

 

Plant herbs. Either kwuarm or snapdragon. That's going to make you huge profits very easily, enough to more than cover the cost of willow and curry trees. I would even go for some pineapples and maybe even maples--with regular herb runs, you can still probably break even. But willows and curries at the least.

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im only 63 farming at the moment and im looking to get around 67/68 so i can pot up for my varrock dairy but 2 questions come to mind.

 

 

 

1. how should i go about gaining lvls without spending all my money?

 

 

 

2. do i need 70 farm to pick the poison ivy berry from the plant, or do i only need the 70 to plant the bush?

Cheap way, it would take you about a week I guess, maybe less.

 

 

 

Do regular farming runs. If you truly do not want to be spending any more money than it'll earn you, do oaks and orange trees (there's actual profit in that if you have the strawberries to pay for the orange trees).

 

 

 

Anyway, I guess tomatoes are good xp as cheap as it gets (like 7 gp for a seed?).

 

 

 

 

 

This is how I do my farming runs:

 

-Tree patch Lumbridge, plant oak or willow (or better even)

 

-Teleport Varrock, tree patch.

 

-Spirit Tree teleport (from G/e). Let Elko lead you out of the maze, there's a fruit tree patch next to it. Plant orange tree or better (payment is 3 baskets of strawberries).

 

-Back to Spirit Tree, teleport Gnome Stronghold. There's a fruit tree patch and a normal tree patch.

 

-Teleport Ardougne and do the allotments north of there. Then go south and take the boat to Brimhaven where there's a fruit tree patch.

 

-Bank in between of course, for these 2 points bring electophial, explorer ring and of course seeds/payments. Teleport using your explorer ring and do the allotments north of the cabbage patch.

 

-Teleport using your electophial and do the allotments near there. Keep in mind that you can also plant herbs (or flowers even) when doing the allotments.

 

-Teleport Catherby and do the allotments there. There's also a fruit tree patch for you near the mountains.

 

 

 

Also I would like to add that I can advice you to put new seeds in plant pots right after planting a sampling. This saves time (I always have several samplings banked. Samplings will also go to plantable state when banked.

[/hide]Well, that's a little too cheap. Tomatoes, for example, are a waste of time, and oak trees are much worse than willow trees.

 

 

 

Plant herbs. Either kwuarm or snapdragon. That's going to make you huge profits very easily, enough to more than cover the cost of willow and curry trees. I would even go for some pineapples and maybe even maples--with regular herb runs, you can still probably break even. But willows and curries at the least.

Valid point, but he asked cheap.. Herbs aren't a guarantee that he'll break even on things like pineapples, though curries and willows, is possible indeed. Still, the extra bit of experience from allotments is under-rated. I raced a buddy of mine to farming 70 from 60, both playing about as much at that time, and we planted exactly the same crops.. except for him not doing allotments. I won with a 200k xp difference. :D

 

 

 

Anyway, I think you should just get farming 70 for the diary.. That's why I started my farming runs and now I can't stop it... :mrgreen:

anyone else have a suggestion for me? i am willing to burn some money getting the 3/4 lvls i need im looking right now just getting to about 67 and using a garden pie/spicy stew to get the last lvls i need for planting the poison ivy bush. i just dont want to burn all my money doing so(i would like to spend around 1m-1.2m at max if possible)

anyone else have a suggestion for me? i am willing to burn some money getting the 3/4 lvls i need im looking right now just getting to about 67 and using a garden pie/spicy stew to get the last lvls i need for planting the poison ivy bush. i just dont want to burn all my money doing so(i would like to spend around 1m-1.2m at max if possible)

In that case, do the route (or similar, different order, whatever) and plant the best of the best. The highest level things you can. For example Yew trees are quite expensive.. but they are like 7,5k xp. You'd be better off with pineapples, etc. Still, the highest level things = the most xp. :thumbsup:

right now this is my plan:

 

 

 

20 maple's = 659,440

 

25 pineapple's = 472, 134

 

 

 

total cost for seeds alone = 1,131,574

 

 

 

this isnt accounting for payments or herb seeds to maybe make a little bit of the money back

right now this is my plan:

 

 

 

20 maple's = 659,440

 

25 pineapple's = 472, 134

 

 

 

total cost for seeds alone = 1,131,574

 

 

 

this isnt accounting for payments or herb seeds to maybe make a little bit of the money back

Cheap would be slower indeed. That is my preferred way. Anyway, I think Irit seed/herb prices were pretty good at the moment (a seed being less than 1 herb).

 

 

 

Maybe that helps to cut the costs. Personally I'd just take the extra time rather than spend 1,1m on a couple of levels..

i wanted to until i noticed i only have about 4 days of membership left and i really want to get to my desired lvl before i lose my membership

i wanted to until i noticed i only have about 4 days of membership left and i really want to get to my desired lvl before i lose my membership

Ah yes, the oh so old becoming f2p again discussion.

 

 

 

I'm glad I use a credit card and my membership's just automatically renewed until I stop it.. Which I won't be doing anytime soon. :mrgreen:

i normally use my debit card but i cant put any money on it so ill just have to go f2p for a week, im thinking about putting some money in my coffers while im f2p and maybe get a little profit from that xD

i wanted to until i noticed i only have about 4 days of membership left and i really want to get to my desired lvl before i lose my membership

 

 

 

Just curious, why do you care about your farming level if you are not going to be a member?

 

 

 

I would train something that would benefit me in the free player arena.

 

 

 

You can always train farming when you decide to return to members, no?

im not going to be f2p for very long(2/3 days max) and i really want to do my varrock hard diary when i become p2p again

Aha, well it seems you have figured out the best way for you to reach your goal based on what you are able to spend in time and money.

 

 

 

That's what it all boils down to and only you are the best judge of it.

well i've kind of decreased the price but it will require me to buy more payments than i will seeds

My Farming guide would be useful to you : . The link is in my sig, check it out.

 

 

 

First of all you need to boost to 70 to plant the bush, and I think you need to boost to pick the berries as well. But 1 garden pie covers the whole thing.

 

 

 

Generally speaking, I would say maple/papaya/calquat combo is best suited for your level, although you can go higher, there really isn't a reason to go lower.

kk ill check out your guide, right now im doing maple/pineapple/jangerberry and its going to cost me a lot, i really cant afford to do the papaya's because i cant spend over 1.2m and im really pushing it at the moment.

http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculators/Trees

 

 

 

If you look, you will see that Maples are 10gp/xp and Papaya are 7gp/xp, while Pineapples are 4gp/xp. Therefore, if you can afford maples, you can easily afford papaya. If you cannot afford papaya, you should not be farming maples.

yes but when i priced them together maples+papaya i cant afford them i only have 1.2m to spend, however i can afford maples+pineapple

Did you include calcs for the herbs?

no i didnt check their price but if their too much i wont be able to to them

calquats require 72 farm to use and im only 63 so those are out the door, any more suggestions?

I did 65 - 72 all on herbs last month. And made quite a bit of profit, so do herb runs very often :thumbup: