Seeds

This article is about the items used for growing crops with the Farming skill. For other uses, see Seeds (disambiguation).

Seeds are items that members use to grow crops with the Farming skill.

Notes:Growth times given here are minimum times. Disease occurs at the end of a growth cycle and prevents advancement to the next cycle, essentially causing the cycle to be repeated. Occasionally cycles can be repeated, anyway, without the incidence of disease. Using compost or supercompost reduces the occurrence of repeated cycles, whether through disease or at random, helping to ensure the speediest growth.

Allotments

Level	Seed	Protection		Growth time <ref>N×10 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 10 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.</ref>	Experience			Cost	Profit <ref name="assumption">Assume 10 crops are harvested.</ref>	Uses
		Flower <ref>All allotments can also be protected by White lily.</ref>	Farmer		Plant	Harvest	Total <ref name="assumption"/>
1	Potato seed	Marigold	Compost×2	4×10 mins	8	9	98	3	1,047	Cooking ingredient
5	Onion seed	Marigold	Potatoes×1 <ref name="sack">All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.</ref>	4×10 mins	9.5	10.5	114.5	3	207	Cooking ingredient
7	Cabbage seed	Rosemary	Onions×1 <ref name="sack"/>	4×10 mins	10	11.5	125	9	501	Garden pie ingredient
12	Tomato seed	Marigold	Cabbages×1 <ref name="sack"/>	4×10 mins	12.5	14	152.5	3	717	Pizza ingredient
20	Sweetcorn seed	Scarecrow	Jute fibres×10	5×10 mins	17	19	207	9	181	Cooking ingredient
31	Strawberry seed	No	Apples×1 <ref>All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.</ref>	6×10 mins	26	29	316	276	264	Summer pie ingredient
47	Watermelon seed	Nasturtiums	Curry leaves×10	7×10 mins	48.5	54.5	593.5	5,583	−5,013	Summer pie ingredient

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Flowers

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time <ref>N×5 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 5 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.</ref>	Experience				Cost	Profit	Uses
				Plant	Check	Harvest	Total <ref>Most flowers yield 1 flower when picked, but woad leaves and limpwurt roots will yield 3 leaves/roots.</ref>
2	Marigold seed	No	4×5 mins	8.5	N/A	47	55.5	9	3,362	Creating Bull ant pouch Protecting potato, onion, tomato plants
11	Rosemary seed	No	4×5 mins	12	N/A	66.5	78.5	10	8	Making Impling jars Protecting cabbage plants
24	Nasturtium seed	No	4×5 mins	19.5	N/A	111	130.5	1	303	Making Imp repellent Protecting watermelon plants
25	Woad seed	No	4×5 mins	20.5	N/A	115.5	136	1	68	Making Blue dye
26	Limpwurt seed	No	5×5 mins	21.5	18.5	120	160	147	2,385	(Super) Strength potion ingredient
52	White lily seed	No	4×20 mins <ref>N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.</ref>	70	N/A	250	320	Mole skin×1	276	Protect all allotment plants

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Hops

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time <ref>N×10 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 10 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.</ref>	Experience			Cost	Profit <ref name="assumption">Assume 10 hops are harvested.</ref>	Uses
		Farmer		Plant	Harvest	Total <ref name="assumption"/>
3	Barley seed	Compost×3	4×10 mins	8.5	9.5	103.5	4	1,856	Raw ingredient for brewing
4	Hammerstone seed	Marigold×1	4×10 mins	9	10	109	8	332	Dwarven stout ingredient
8	Asgarnian seed	Onions×1 <ref name="sack">All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.</ref>	5×10 mins	10.9	12	130.9	8	62	Asgarnian ale ingredient
13	Jute seed	Barley malt×6	5×10 mins	13	14.5	158	9	4,351	Weaving an empty sack on a loom Repairing the windscreen of the 12th beacon near the God Wars Dungeon
16	Yanillian seed	Tomatoes×1 <ref>All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.</ref>	6×10 mins	14.5	16	174.5	116	−46	Wizard's mind bomb ingredient
21	Krandorian seed	Cabbages×1 <ref name="sack"/>	7×10 mins	17.5	19.5	212.5	8	52	Dragon bitter ingredient
28	Wildblood seed	Nasturtiums×1	8×10 mins	23	26	283	8	332	Slayer's respite ingredient

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Bushes

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time <ref>N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.</ref>	Experience				Cost	Profit <ref name="assumption">Assume 4 berries are picked.</ref>	Uses
		Farmer		Plant	Check health	Harvest	Total <ref name="assumption"/>
10	Redberry seed	Cabbages×4 <ref name="sack">All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.</ref>	5×20 mins	11.5	64	4.5	93.5	1	1,651	Redberry pie ingredient Making red dye
22	Cadavaberry seed	Tomatoes×3 <ref name="basket">All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.</ref>	6×20 mins	18	102.5	7	148.5	1	279	Making Cadava potion
36	Dwellberry seed	Strawberries×3 <ref name="basket"/>	7×20 mins	31.5	177.5	12	257	1	467	Quest item - Plague City Cooking ingredient
48	Jangerberry seed	Watermelons×6	8×20 mins	50.5	284.5	19	411	2	614	Quest item - Watchtower Zamorak brew ingredient
59	Whiteberry seed	Bittercap mushroom×8	8×20 mins	78	437.5	29	631.5	24	2,984	Quest item - The Hand in the Sand (Super) Defence potion ingredient
70	Poison ivy seed	N/A <ref>Poison ivy will never become diseased.</ref>	8×20 mins	120	675	45	975	31	2,329	Weapon poison++ ingredient

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Regular trees

Level	Seed	Payment	Growth time (Cycles at length each)	Plant XP	Harvest or Check-health XP	GE Seeds Price	Notes
15	Acorn	1 basket of tomatoes	2 hrs 40 min (4 at 40 min)	14	C:467.3	18	Oak trees can be cut down for Oak logs. Oak roots can be used to make Supercompost, spun into crossbow strings or to brew Axeman's Folly.
30	Willow seed	1 basket of apples	4 hrs (6 at 40 min)	25	C:1456.3	482	Willow trees can be cut down for Willow logs. Willow roots can be used to make Supercompost or spun into crossbow strings. Willow trees can be trimmed with secateurs when fully grown to get willow branches for the Enlightened Journey quest, for weaving into baskets on a loom or as a tertiary ingredient in the Giant ent summoning pouch.
45	Maple seed	1 basket of oranges	5 hours 20 min (8 at 40 min)	45	C:3403.4	32087	Maple trees can be cut down for Maple logs. Maple roots can be used to make Supercompost or spun into crossbow strings.
60	Yew seed	10 Cactus spines	6 hrs 40 min (10 at 40 min)	81	C:7069.9	84903	Yew trees can be cut down for Yew logs. Yew roots can be used to make antipoison+ and Supercompost or spun into crossbow strings.
75	Magic seed	25 Coconuts	8 hrs (12 at 40 min)	145.5	C:13768.3	294483	Magic trees can be cut down for Magic logs. Magic roots can be used to make Magic String for threading Amulets of Nature, Super strong anti-poison, and Supercompost.

Fruit trees

Level	Seed	Payment	Growth time	Plant XP	Harvest or Check-health XP	GE Seeds Price	Notes
27	Apple seed	9 raw sweetcorn	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins)	22	C:1199.5 H:8.5	5	Cooking apples can be used to cook Apple pies as well as put into a basket to pay gardeners to look after Banana trees, Willow trees, and Strawberries.
33	Banana seed	4 baskets of apples	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins)	28	C:1750.5 H:10.5	12	Bananas are used for a variety of actions.
39	Orange seed	3 baskets of strawberries	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins)	35.5	C:2470.2 H:13.5	8	Oranges are edible and restore 20 life points when consumed, used in gnome cooking. A basket of oranges can be paid to gardeners to protect Maple Trees.
42	Curry seed	5 baskets of bananas	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins)	40	C:2906.9 H:15	66	Curry leaves are used for making curry, and 10 curry leaves can be paid to gardeners to protect Watermelon Patches.
51	Pineapple seed	10 watermelons	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins) ((up to 30 hours))	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	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins)	72	C:6146.4 H:27	32938	Papayas are edible, used to make supercompost, and required bait when hunting pawyas. They are also used in herblore to make the level 84 Recover special potion.
68	Palm seed	15 Papayas	16 hrs (6 at 160 mins)	110.5	C:10150.1 H:41.5	121922	Coconut milk is used for making Antipoison+ and Antipoison++ potions as well as Weapon poison+ and Weapon poison++ potions. Coconut shells are supercompost items.

Herbs

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time <ref>N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little and can be watered again for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.</ref>	Experience			Cost	Profit <ref name="assumption">Assume 7 herbs are picked.</ref>	Uses
				Plant	Harvest	Total <ref name="assumption"/>
9	Guam seed	No	4×20 mins	11	12.5	98.5	5	3,642	Ingredient of Attack potion Guam tar Guthix rest Super fishing explosive Macaw
14	Marrentill seed	No	4×20 mins	13.5	15	118.5	3	284	Ingredient of Antipoison Guthix rest Burning incense
19	Tarromin seed	No	4×20 mins	16	18	142	7	385	Ingredient of Strength potion Serum 207 Tarromin tar
26	Harralander seed	No	4×20 mins	21.5	24	189.5	4	2,691	Ingredient of Guthix rest Stat restore potion Guthix balance Energy potion Combat potion Harralander tar
29	Gout tuber	No	4×20 mins	105	45	420	6,720	−6,720 <ref>Goutweed, the herb of gout tuber, is not tradable.</ref>	Making a gem-bladed machete Exchange with Sanfew for random herbs
32	Ranarr seed	No	4×20 mins	27	30.5	240.5	2,935	21,621	Ingredient of Defence potion Prayer potion
36	Spirit weed seed	No	5×20 mins	32	36	593.5	3,869	24,124	Ingredient of Summoning potion
38	Toadflax seed	No	4×20 mins	34	38.5	303.5	989	18,079	Ingredient of Agility potion Antipoison+ Saradomin brew
44	Irit seed	No	4×20 mins	43	48.5	382.5	100	10,372	Ingredient of Super attack Super antipoison Antipoison++
46	Wergali seed	No	4×20 mins	52.8	52.8	422.4	389	14,185	Ingredient of Crafting potion Fletching potion
50	Avantoe seed	No	4×20 mins	54.5	61.5	485	1,306	18,833	Ingredient of Fishing potion Super energy Hunting potion Extreme attack
56	Kwuarm seed	No	4×20 mins	69	78	615	1,042	19,272	Ingredient of Super strength Weapon poison
62	Snapdragon seed	No	4×20 mins	87.5	98.5	777	26,078	13,542	Ingredient of Super restore Sanfew serum
67	Cadantine seed	No	4×20 mins	106.5	120	946.5	997	8,355	Ingredient of Super defence
73	Lantadyme seed	No	4×20 mins	134.5	151.5	1195	28,328	13,686	Ingredient of Antifire Magic potion Extreme defence
79	Dwarf weed seed	No	4×20 mins	170.5	192	1514.5	43,732	8,943	Ingredient of Ranging potion Extreme strength
85	Torstol seed	No	4×20 mins	199.5	224.5	1771	274,040	−78,502	Ingredient of Zamorak brew Overload
91	Fellstalk seed	No	4×20 mins	225	315.6	2434.2	1,026	5,421	Ingredient of Prayer renewal

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Special

Level	Seed	Payment	Growth time (Cycles at length each)	Plant XP	Harvest or Check-health XP	GE Seeds Price	Notes
42	Evil turnip seed	----	5 mins (1 at 5 mins)	41	H: 46	52	Evil turnips are used in summoning.
53	Bittercap mushroom spore	----	4 hours (6 at 40 mins)	61.5	H: 57.7	7	Bittercap mushrooms are used to make Supercompost, to pay farmers to protect Whiteberries, to make potato toppings, and to brew Moonlight Mead, and a one time use for fixing the fairy ring in ancient caverns. (other fixable rings may follow)
53	Jade Vine Seed	10 Wildblood hops	16 hours (6 at 160 mins)	50	C: 1500	N/A	Available after Back to my Roots quest.
55	Cactus seed	6 Cadava berries	9 hours 20 mins (7 at 80 mins)	66.5	C: 374 H: 25	20	Cactus spines are used for making Extra strong weapon poison and as payment for farmed yew trees.
63	Belladonna seed	----	5 hours 20 min (4 at 80 mins)	91	H: 512	29	Nightshade can be used in Super strong weapon poison.
72	Calquat tree seed	8 Poison ivy berries	21 hours 20 mins (8 at 160mins)	129.5	C: 12096 H: 48.5	16644	A Calquat keg can be made by using a Calquat fruit with a knife and can be used as a keg for player-brewed ales.
74	Morchella mushroom spore	----	4 hours (6 at 40 mins)	160	H: 77.7	496	A Morchella mushroom can be combined with a Clean fellstalk to make a Prayer renewal potion.
83	Spirit seed	5 Monkey nuts, 1 Monkey bar, 1 Ground tooth	2 Days 10 hours 40 mins (11 at 320 Mins)	199.5	C: 19301.8	N/A	Players may only have one Spirit tree at a time (or two at 86 Farming and the completion of The Prisoner of Glouphrie) and once grown they can use it to teleport to Tree Gnome Village. After Path of Glouphrie quest players may speak to it to teleport to any Spirit Tree.

Herblore Habitat

Level	Seed	Payment	Growth time	Plant xp	Check xp	Harvest xp	Patch
54	Red blossom seeds	None	20 minutes	52	none	255	Vine flower
54	Blue blossom seeds	None	20 minutes	52	none	255	Vine flower
54	Green blossom seeds	None	20 minutes	52	none	255	Vine flower
58	Erzille seeds	3 green vine blossoms	?	87	None	87	Vine herb
61	Lergberry seeds	3 red vine blossoms	?	145.5	236.3	31.5	Vine bush
65	Argway seeds	4 red vine blossoms	?	110	None	125	Vine herb
70	Ugune seeds	3 blue vine blossoms	80 minutes	135	none	152	vine herb
76	Shengo seeds	5 lergberries	?	140.5	none	160	Vine herb
77	Kalferberry seeds	3 lergberries	75 minutes	220	375	52.5	Vine bush
80	Samaden seeds	5 kalferberries	60 minutes	170	none	190	Vine herb

Payment item alternative locations

Payment Item	Locations
Compost	Buy from farming shops near vegetable patches or from farmers near farming patches.
Potatoes	North of Ardougne, Northwest of Lumbridge, Northeast of Lumbridge, Miscellania, buy from Hudo in The Grand Tree. Also found in larder in a Player-owned house
Onions	Onion field in Rimmington, small onion patch behind chicken coops northwest of Lumbridge, Rellekka, buy from Hudo in The Grand Tree.
Cabbages	Cabbage field near Falador, field in Rimmington, Monastery, northwest of Lumbridge, Miscellania, Rellekka.
Apples	3 spawns in Cooks' Guild, one spawn in farming shop north of Ardougne, buy from Food Chest in Lumbridge Castle after starting Recipe for Disaster, There are 3 quickly respawning barrels of apples on the pirate ship to Moon Clan Island Lunar Diplomacy.
Bananas	Banana trees on Karamja, right by Amulet of Glory teleport spot; buy from Trader Crewmember at charter docks, bones to bananas spell.
Oranges	Buy in The Grand Tree from Heckel Funch or Hudo - 10 at each store.
Pineapples	Pineapple plants on Karamja, buy in The Grand Tree from Heckel Funch or Hudo - 10 in each store, noted pineapples dropped by tortoises at Grand Tree and north of Tree Gnome Village, noted and un-noted pineapples dropped by kurask in either slayer dungeon. Arhein in Catherby will sell players up to 40 pineapples for 2 coins apiece every day; players must talk to him to get this option. 40 per day available from Dell Monti in Brimhaven with any set of Karamja gloves in inventory or worn (it is not necessary to have them equipped).
Tomato	Various single spawns. Purchase in Food stores around RuneScape. Buy in The Grand Tree from Hudo. Buy from Food Chest in Lumbridge Castle after starting Recipe for Disaster.

Acquiring seeds

A player pickpocketing Martin the Master Gardener.

The following are several ways to get the seeds needed for farming:

• Almost all seeds can be bought from other players directly or through the Grand Exchange. In most cases, this is the fastest option. Low-level seeds in particular are very cheap due to low demand.
• Picking a vegetable from one of the non-player-owned fields dotted around RuneScape occasionally provides a seed as well.
• Pickpocketing farmers with level 10 Thieving, which will occasionally give potato seeds.
• On populated worlds it is easy to get large amounts of lower level seeds from players training thieving at the Master Farmer and dropping the lower level seeds.
  • An alternative for lower-level players who wish to acquire seeds but do not have the required thieving levels to pickpocket from Martin the Master Gardener or from Olivia's stall is to simply stand around Draynor Marketplace near the stalls and wait for players to drop seeds they are pickpocketing. (Many players train thieving here and end up dropping a lot of their seeds on the ground because they're either doing it only for experience, have no room in their inventories, or are simply not getting the seeds they want and drop the lower-level ones.)
• Pickpocketing Master Farmers (including Martin the Master Gardener) with level 38 Thieving for all seeds except tree seeds and fruit tree seeds.
• Buying from Olivia who runs the seed stall in Draynor Village. Only low-level-farming seeds are available for purchase.
• Stealing from Olivia's stall with level 27 Thieving. (You will not be able to purchase seeds from her for a short period of time if you steal from her unless you have a Vial of stench (a) in your inventory.)
• Bird's nests give tree and fruit tree seeds and can be obtained from the following ways:
  • random events in Woodcutting;
  • trading mole claws and/or mole skins with Wyson the gardener at Falador Park. Mole claws and mole skins can be obtained by killing the Giant Mole or killing Molanisks with level 39 Slayer for mole claws alone.
• Playing Managing Miscellania activity for seeds and bird's nests. Allocating resources to cutting wood gives bird nests, allocating resources to herbs or flax can yield herb seeds, and allocating resources to farming gives a wide variety of seeds. The Throne of Miscellania quest is required (and Royal Trouble for the farming).
• Playing the Vinesweeper activity. Tree seeds can be obtained this way, but it is not efficient for getting seeds in general. It is suggested to only use this activity for seeds if specific seeds are sought.
• Monster drops. Ogres, Moss giants, Aberrant spectres, and Dagannoths are a few examples of monsters with good seed drops.
• Catching implings, especially Nature implings.
• Foraged by a Compost mound or Fruit bat.
• Watermelon seeds can be obtained as a reward in the Temple Trekking activity.
• Jadinkos in Herblore Habitat can be hunted for seeds. They primarily drop the special seeds used in the activity; certain types of jadinko will also drop apple, banana, and orange tree seeds as well, especially Amphibious jadinkos.
• Hunting Pawyas will occasionally result in finding a Papaya tree seed.

See also

• Disease
• Farming training
• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Farming