Growing palm saplings

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Growing palm saplings
Profit per instance
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372,136 per instance
Activity time
10 minutes
Minimum recurrence time
240 minutes
Effective profit
2,232,816 per hour
Skill requirementsQuest requirements
Farming 68
Magic 68
Combat level 85 needed for Dream Mentor, to unlock the spell "Humidify"
Dream Mentor
Item requirementsOther requirements
10,000,000+ recommended
Steam battlestaff
Gardening trowel
Lunar Spellbook
Experience gainedLocation
Magic 4,420 Grand Exchange
Inputs (3,451,464)Outputs (3,823,600)
200 × Palm tree seed 5.png Palm tree seed (3,450,600)200 × Filled plant pot.png Filled plant pot (400)8 × Astral rune.png Astral rune (464)200 × Palm sapling.png Palm sapling (3,823,600)

Palm saplings are used to train Farming. Because it is time consuming and gives little to no experience, planting the palm tree seeds in filled plant pots to grow saplings is often skipped in favour of buying the saplings directly from the Grand Exchange. This opens up an opportunity to grow palm saplings for profit. Like all methods involving large amounts of buying and selling, which require a relatively high capital to start, it is recommended to test the market by growing one sapling first to make sure it is profitable. This guide assumes all palm tree seeds are purchased on the Grand Exchange.

To plant the seeds in the pots, use one of them on the other with a gardening trowel in your inventory. This produces a seedling. When all the plant pots are filled with seeds, cast Humidify to water them. These watered seedlings will take approximately five minutes to turn into saplings, but this will happen even when banked. Repeating this process quickly will make around 1,700 saplings an hour.

Saplings can also be watered with watering cans instead of Humidify, however this makes the process far more click-intensive and time-consuming.

Please note that palm tree seeds have a relatively low buying limit, so you may want to stock up on them beforehand, or grow several different trees at once. It is especially recommended to put in low buy offers overnight and slow sell the finished saplings, as the margins are already small relative to the price of a magic seed, and the GE tax eats heavily into the profit anyway.

Once you've finished making the saplings, sell them on the Grand Exchange. Maximise your profit by buying one sapling instantly, and selling all of yours for slightly less than that.

If for whatever reason palm trees aren't possible for you, this method can be very profitable with other seeds as well. Use this table to determine what the best seed for you is.

Tree seed Farming level required Seed price Sapling price Profit per seed Profit per hour (1700 estimate) Seed Volume Sapling Volume
Acorn 15 30 290 255.68 434,656 47181 13494
Apple tree seed 27 5 204 194.68 330,956 21728 6972
Willow seed 30 37 262 220.68 375,156 33987 26541
Banana tree seed 33 1 96 90.68 154,156 15526 4852
Teak seed 35 20 452 427.68 727,056 10798 9310
Orange tree seed 39 7 98 86.68 147,356 14086 3282
Curry tree seed 42 3 248 240.68 409,156 12816 6681
Maple seed 45 8,745 10,214 1,464.68 2,489,956 24748 29097
Pineapple seed 51 9 251 237.68 404,056 13661 9833
Mahogany seed 55 2,184 2,880 691.68 1,175,856 19847 29939
Papaya tree seed 57 138 829 686.68 1,167,356 42077 40248
Yew seed 60 27,525 28,931 1,401.68 2,382,856 34540 47406
Palm tree seed 68 17,253 19,118 1,860.68 3,163,156 30510 44096
Calquat tree seed 72 42 502 455.68 774,656 27977 16786
Magic seed 75 65,525 68,463 2,933.68 4,987,256 37979 51550
Dragonfruit tree seed 81 151,928 157,708 5,775.68 9,818,656 6912 12175
Celastrus seed 85 75,333 78,490 3,152.68 5,359,556 3858 6548
Redwood tree seed 90 20,060 22,106 2,041.68 3,470,856 2800 5165

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