Fruit tree seed

Fruit tree seeds are used to grow fruit trees in fruit tree patches in the Farming skill. Growing fruit trees is somewhat different to other plants, in that there is an intermediate growing stage where the seed must be grown into a sapling before being planted into a cleared fruit tree patch. First, an empty plant pot may be used on any farming patch, even if something is growing in it, with a gardening trowel in the player's inventory to fill the plant pot with soil. Use a single seed on a filled plant pot with the gardening trowel still in the player's inventory and water it with a watering can. At this point, the seed has grown into seedling. After a few minutes, the seedling will grow into a sapling which can then be planted in a cleared fruit tree patch. In order to do this, the player must have a spade in their inventory. Add compost or supercompost to the cleared fruit tree patch before transplanting the sapling. Seedlings and saplings are unable to become diseased while growing in a plant pot. However, once a sapling is planted in a fruit tree patch, it can become diseased and needs to be protected. Seedlings and saplings are not tradeable.

Like bushes, most of the experience gained in the Farming skill is from checking on the fruit tree's health, not in planting it or harvesting its fruit.

Note: Saplings and fruit trees do not need watering.

Level	Seed	Payment	Growth time*	Plant XP	Harvest or Check-health XP	GE Seeds Price	Notes
27	Apple seed	9 raw sweetcorn	960 mins	22	C:1199.5 H:8.5	5	Cooking apples can be used to cook Apple pies.
33	Banana seed	4 baskets of apples	960 mins	28	C:1750.5 H:10.5	12	Bananas are used for a variety of actions.
39	Orange seed	3 baskets of strawberries	960 mins	35.5	C:2470.2 H:13.5	8	Oranges are edible and restore twenty life points when consumed, used in gnome cooking.
42	Curry seed	5 baskets of bananas	960 mins	40	C:2906.9 H:15	66	Curry leaves are used for making curry.
51	Pineapple seed	10 watermelons	960 mins	57	C:4605.7 H:21.5	4514	Pineapples are edible, used in the cooking skill, used to make supercompost.
57	Papaya seed	10 pineapples	960 mins	72	C:6146.4 H:27	32938	Papayas are edible, used to make supercompost, and required bait when hunting pawyas. Can be added to Super Energy (3) to make Recover Special.
68	Palm seed	15 Papayas	960 mins	110.5	C:10150.1 H:41.5	121922	Coconut milk is used for making Super strong weapon poison. Coconut shells are supercompost items.

Cost vs Experience

This table counts total experience as planting + checking health + picking six fruit.

Seed	Cost	Total Farming experience	Cost/XP
Apple tree seed	coins	1272.5	0.00393 gp/xp
Banana tree seed	coins	1841.6	0.00652 gp/xp
Orange tree seed	coins	2586.7	0.00309 gp/xp
Curry tree seed	coins	3036.9	0.03584 gp/xp
Pineapple seed	coins	4791.7	0.94205 gp/xp
Papaya tree seed	coins	6380.4	5.16237 gp/xp
Palm tree seed	coins	10509.6	11.60101 gp/xp