Alright, I just got the delightful ability to plant rannar seeds.

 

 

 

While this is amazing, it left me with an odd question.

 

 

 

All of them died.

 

 

 

Some of them even died beofre reaching adulthood.

 

 

 

Doesn't it say somewhere that herbs don't need to be watered?

 

 

 

How do I lower my disease chances for herbs? (I'm using supercompost)

u must have horrible luck then lol. i grow marrentils and other herbs and they never ever die with supercompost

u must have horrible luck then lol. i grow marrentils and other herbs and they never ever die with supercompost

 

 

 

Marrentils never die for me.

 

 

 

Rannars do -.-

 

 

 

I left a marrentil out for 2 days, nothing.

 

 

 

I log out for an hour and WHAM, crops are dead.

farming lvl?

34 (shame)

im 40 and i dont fail ranars. then again ive only planted 1 :)

Just bad luck, probebly becuase of the lower farming level. Keep using super compost and it will probebly grow fully.

If you want more farming lvl do garden of tranquility you 2 lvl when doing this at lvl 34, this quest give you 5000 xp in farming and give you apple tree seed and acorn.

Supercompost helps but not a guarantee against sickness.

 

 

 

A plant has a growth cycle. Every 10 or 15 mins the plant grows and has a chance of getting sick. If you do not heal it by the end of next cycle it dies. So if you want to be sure of your plant growing healthly check it every so often and bring a plant cure or 2.

You just had a bad luck streak. I farm a lot of herbs and somedays none die and then other days it seems like about half of them die.

 

 

 

Some tips:

 

Always buy and plant seeds in bulk. When you just buy a few seeds and most of them die, you will get paranoid and become one of those crop watchers that plant one herb and then stands there watching it for 70 minutes. If you buy and plant a lot of herb seeds, then the odds will even out and you will hardly notice the ones that die.

 

 

 

Always use super compost and magic secateurs. Super compost is the only thing that you can use to protect your herbs while they are growing and if you wield magic secateurs when you harvest, it increases your yield by 10%.

 

 

 

If you are really worried about your expensive herbs dying, one thing you can do is buy a Nature Amulet, attach it to an herb patch that is easiest for your to get to, and plant your most expensive herb seed in that patch and cheaper seeds in the other 3 spots. Then wear your Nature Amulet and always carry a Plant Cure and whatever tele device you need to get to that one patch in a hurry. I only recommend this to people that have run into a string of really bad luck and now have a farming-phobia.

 

 

 

Also, once an herb is fully grown, it will stay fully grown until you harvest it. You can leave it there indefinitely and it will never get diseased. Disease can only occur during the growing stages.

You gotta watch them now and then, if they get diseased the WILL die, check on them now and then to use plant cure.

ty you guys =D>

As posted before, watching your crops grow is the only guarantee. It is boring as hell, though.

 

 

 

I never do it, I usually plant and be on my way, I occasionally fail ranarrs at lvl 61 farming

 

 

 

In order NOT to grow roots of your own while watching the herbs grow, you could try and combine it with fishing in catherby. You fish (whatever you want) and/or cook, and every 2-3 loads (depending on your speed) you take a stroll to the patch to check on your herbs (healing them when diseased). This way, you don't have to watch the herbs grow, they stay healthy and you get some fishing/cooking xp too!

 

 

 

Other farming combo's are available, I sometimes use:

 

 

 

farming in port phastmatys + smelting or ecto-praying (no altar in house :oops: )

 

thieving at Ardougne market or master farmer + farming

 

thieving at Draynor market + master farmer + farming

 

 

 

Good luck!