Hops patch

Hops patches are used with the Farming skill to grow hops and barley used for brewing, and fibre crops used for spinning and weaving. Players can pay a nearby farmer to eliminate disease risk altogether, or alternatively use various types of compost and water the patch to reduce (but not eliminate) the chance of disease. The number of seeds required for hops patches varies; with fibre crops requiring 3, while hops and barley require 4.

Harvesting a plant grown in the hops patch tends to result in a relatively high yield, similar to most produce grown in allotments (see variable crop yield). At level 99, using both ultracompost and a pair of magic secateurs, a hops patch can be expected to yield 27 crops on average. Flax, Hemp, and Cotton may yield more/less (35/25/15 respectively) per sailing resource poll. After a hops patch has been harvested, the patch has to be re-planted. Hops on average give less experience in planting and harvesting than allotments. Hop plants are generally more susceptible to disease than herbs, although they are more hardy than crops grown in an allotment patch.^[1] Hops patches do not have a compost bin nearby but do have a Tool Leprechaun.

Hop seeds are commonly used as bait while engaging in bird house trapping, due to their low cost and ease of acquisition (for a table comparing them by cost, see Bird house trapping § Seeds).

Hops patches

Location	Closest teleport	League region
North of Lumbridge farm Gardener: Vasquen	Canoe Chronicle teleport Combat bracelet to Champions' Guild Cowbell amulet teleport Lumbridge Teleport	Misthalin✓
North of McGrubor's Wood Gardener: Rhonen	Music cape teleport Camelot Teleport to Seers' Village (after Kandarin Hard Diary) Combat bracelet to Ranging Guild Fairy ring code ALS to McGrubor's Wood	Kandarin✓
Yanille Gardener: Selena	Watchtower Teleport to Yanille (after hard Ardougne Diary) Yanille house portal: Teleport to House spell or redirected house tab Minigame teleport to Nightmare Zone Fairy ring code CIQ	Kandarin✓
Entrana Gardener: Francis	Balloon transport system Minigame teleport to Rat Pits (Port Sarim) Explorer's ring 2 or higher, then run south to Port Sarim Amulet of glory to Draynor Village, then run to Port Sarim Spirit tree (if grown, requires 83 Farming) to Port Sarim	Asgarnia✓
Aldarin Gardener: Ercos	Fairy ring code CKQ Quetzal Transport System to Aldarin Aldarin house portal: Teleport to House spell or redirected house tab North Aldarin teleport via the Pendant of ates (Requires completion of Death on the Isle and subsequent activation of the North Aldarin statue)	Varlamore✓

A hops patch can also be found in Keldagrim, but it is exclusively used during the Forgettable Tale... quest to grow kelda hops, and cannot be used to grow anything else.

Hops seeds

Level	Seed	Protection^[a]	Growth time^[b]	Plant		Crop	Value	Experience		Uses
Level	Seed	Protection^[a]	Growth time^[b]	Plant		Crop	Value	Plant^[c]	Harvest^[d]	Uses
3	Barley × 4	Compost × 3	4×10 mins		Barley	Barley	501	8.5	9.5	Making barley malt Protecting jute plants
4	Hammerstone × 4	Marigold × 1	4×10 mins		Hammerstone	Hops	373	9	10	Dwarven stout ingredient
8	Asgarnian × 4	Onions(10) × 1	5×10 mins		Asgarnian	Hops	333	10.9	12	Asgarnian ale ingredient
13	Jute × 3	Barley malt × 6	5×10 mins		Jute	Fibre	563	13	14.5	Weaving sacks or drift nets Protecting sweetcorn plants
16	Yanillian × 4	Tomatoes(5) × 1	6×10 mins		Yanillian	Hops	765	14.5	16	Wizard's mind bomb ingredient Protecting mahogany trees
18	Flax × 3	Grain × 6	3×20 mins		Flax	Flax	2	16	17.5	Spinning bowstrings or linen yarn Protecting hemp plants
21	Krandorian × 4	Cabbages(10) × 3	7×10 mins		Krandorian	Hops	102	17.5	19.5	Dragon bitter ingredient
28	Wildblood × 4	Nasturtiums × 1	8×10 mins		Wildblood	Hops	37	23	26	Slayer's respite ingredient
37	Hemp × 3	Flax × 6	4×20 mins		Hemp	Hemp	1,171	33	37	Spinning hemp yarn Protecting cotton plants
71	Cotton × 3	Hemp × 6	5×20 mins		Cotton	Cotton	4,965	72	82	Spinning cotton yarn

^ Each sack or basket must be fully filled with produce to serve as protection payment (i.e. 10 produce for sacks, and 5 for baskets).
^ 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.
^ The experience awarded once at the start when planting the crop.
^ The experience awarded for each hop harvested. The expected yield depends on Farming level and equipment. See Variable crop yield.

Money making

The following money making guides are available for Hops patch:

Method	Profit per instance	Skills
Farming Yanillian hops	93,104	16 80+ (recommended)
Farming jute fibre	70,290	13 80+ (recommended)
Farming cotton bolls	232,779	71 (80+ recommended)

Changes

Date	Changes
28 April 2016 (Update \| poll)	It is now possible to add compost or supercompost to any farming patch during any growth stage of a crop.

Trivia

Until the update that introduced Sailing, hops patches were exclusively used to grow plants for brewing (hops and barley), as well as jute which is used for weaving. The update introduced means to grow the already existing flax, as well as cotton and hemp.
- Volume 3 of Gielnor's Flora, which was added to the game before the other fibre plants, states that the reason jute is grown alongside hops is due to its similarity as a crop.
Interestingly, while most of the non-hop plants that can be grown in these patches are not closely related to hops in the real world, hemp is in the same family: Cannabaceae.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Mod Ash: "[(...) Are hops more prone to disease than herbs then?] I'd not be available to look up all the data for that, but it sure sounds like it. They're not necessarily all the same as each other."

[2] Each sack or basket must be fully filled with produce to serve as protection payment (i.e. 10 produce for sacks, and 5 for baskets).

[3] 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.

[4] The experience awarded once at the start when planting the crop.

[5] The experience awarded for each hop harvested. The expected yield depends on Farming level and equipment. See Variable crop yield.

[1] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Mod Ash: "[(...) Are hops more prone to disease than herbs then?] I'd not be available to look up all the data for that, but it sure sounds like it. They're not necessarily all the same as each other."

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