Seeds

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

There are currently 71 seeds in the game.

Growth times given here are minimum times. Diseases can occur at the end of a growth cycle and prevents advancement to the next cycle, essentially causing the cycle to be repeated. Using compost, supercompost or ultracompost reduces the occurrence of repeated cycles through disease, helping to ensure the speediest growth.

Allotment seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection		Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience			Uses
Level	Seed	Flower	Farmer	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Harvest	Total^{[n 2]}	Uses
1	Potato	Marigold or White lily	Compost×2	4×10 mins	8	9	98	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect onion plants (1 sack)
5	Onion	Marigolds or White lily	Potatoes(10)×1^{[n 3]}	4×10 mins	9.5	10.5	114.5	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect cabbage plants and Asgarnian hops (1 sack)
7	Cabbage	Rosemary or White lily	Onions(10)×1^{[n 3]}	4×10 mins	10	11.5	125	Garden pie ingredient Payment to protect tomato plants (2 sacks), Krandorian hops (3 sacks), and redberry bush (4 sacks)
12	Tomato	Marigolds or White lily	Cabbages(10)×2^{[n 3]}	4×10 mins	12.5	14	152.5	Pizza ingredient Payment to protect Yanillian hops, oak tree (1 basket), and cadavaberry bush (3 baskets)
20	Sweetcorn	Scarecrow or White lily	Jute fibre×10	6×10 mins	17	19	207	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect apple tree (9 harvests)
31	Strawberry	White lily	Apples(5)×1^{[n 4]}	6×10 mins	26	29	316	Summer pie ingredient Payment to protect dwellberry bush (3 baskets) and orange tree (3 baskets)
47	Watermelon	Nasturtiums or White lily	Curry leaf×10	8×10 mins	48.5	54.5	593.5	Summer pie ingredient Used to make scarecrow Payment to protect jangerberry bush (6 harvests) and pineapple tree (10 harvests)
61	Snape grass	White lily	Jangerberries ×5	7×10 mins	82	82	902	Used in the making of prayer potion and fishing potion Used when making a hangover cure Payment to protect Potato cactus(x8)

^ 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.
^ Assume 10 crops are harvested.
^ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Each sack must be filled with 10 harvests.
^ Each basket must be filled with 5 harvests.

Flower seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience			Uses
Level	Seed	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Harvest	Total^{[n 2]}	Uses
2	Marigold	4×5 mins	8.5	47	55.5	Protecting potato, onion, tomato plants Payment to protect hammerstone hops. (1)
11	Rosemary	4×5 mins	12	66.5	78.5	Making Impling jars Protecting cabbage plants
24	Nasturtium	4×5 mins	19.5	111	130.5	Making Imp repellent Protecting watermelon plants Payment to protect wildblood hops. (1)
25	Woad seed	4×5 mins	20.5	115.5	136	Making various dyes
26	Limpwurt	4×5 mins	21.5	120	141.5	(Super) Strength potion ingredient
58	White lily	4×5 mins	42	250	292	Protects all neighboring allotments from disease

^ 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.
^ Most flowers yield 1 flower when picked, but woad leaves will yield 3 leaves and limpwurt roots will yield a minimum of 3 and up to 13 roots, depending on farming level.

Herb seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience			Uses	Average Profit (Ultracompost and Magic Secateurs)^{[n 2]}
Level	Seed	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant^{[n 3]}	Harvest	Total^{[n 4]}	Uses	Average Profit (Ultracompost and Magic Secateurs)^{[n 2]}
9	Guam seed	4×20 mins	11	12.5	98.5	Ingredient of Attack potion Guam tar Guthix rest	-365.88
14	Marrentill seed	4×20 mins	13.5	15	118.5	Ingredient of Antipoison Guthix rest Marrentill tar Burning incense	−595
19	Tarromin seed	4×20 mins	16	18	142	Ingredient of Strength potion Serum 207 Tarromin tar	238.44
26	Harralander seed	4×20 mins	21.5	24	189.5	Ingredient of Guthix rest Compost Potion Stat restore potion Guthix balance Energy potion Combat potion Harralander tar	4,847.28
29	Gout tuber	4×20 mins	105	45	420	Making a gem-bladed machete Exchange with Sanfew for random herbs	−996,015
32	Ranarr seed	4×20 mins	27	30.5	240.5	Ingredient of Defence potion Prayer potion	20,519.08
38	Toadflax seed	4×20 mins	34	38.5	303.5	Ingredient of Agility potion Antipoison+ Saradomin brew	21,070.44
44	Irit seed	4×20 mins	43	48.5	382.5	Ingredient of Super attack Super antipoison Antipoison++	6,045.80
50	Avantoe seed	4×20 mins	54.5	61.5	485	Ingredient of Fishing potion Super energy Hunter potion	19,562.28
56	Kwuarm seed	4×20 mins	69	78	615	Ingredient of Super strength Weapon poison	19,416.20
62	Snapdragon seed	4×20 mins	87.5	98.5	777	Ingredient of Super restore Sanfew serum	21,308.64
67	Cadantine seed	4×20 mins	106.5	120	946.5	Ingredient of Super defence	18,260.68
73	Lantadyme seed	4×20 mins	134.5	151.5	1,195	Ingredient of Antifire potion Magic potion	12,542.96
79	Dwarf weed seed	4×20 mins	170.5	192	1,514.5	Ingredient of Ranging potion	6,252.52
85	Torstol seed	4×20 mins	199.5	224.5	1,771	Ingredient of Zamorak brew Super combat potion Anti venom+	20,536.92

^ N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ Assumes average of 8.56 herbs per seed in a standard (non-protected) herb patch based on empirical data from Herbs/Ultracompost.
^ This experience is gained upon harvesting the final herb, rather than when planting the seed.
^ Assume 7 herbs are picked.

Hops seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Crop	XP			Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Crop	Plant	Harvest	Total^{[n 2]}	Uses
3	Barley	Compost×3	4×10 mins	Barley	8.5	9.5	103.5	Raw ingredient for brewing Payment to protect jute plants (6)
4	Hammerstone	Marigold×1	4×10 mins	Hops	9	10	109	Dwarven stout ingredient
8	Asgarnian	Onions(10)×1^{[n 3]}	5×10 mins	Hops	10.9	12	130.9	Asgarnian ale ingredient
13	Jute	Barley malt×6	5×10 mins	Fibre	13	14.5	158	Weaving an empty sack on a loom Weaving drift nets for drift net fishing Payment to protect sweetcorn allotment (10)
16	Yanillian	Tomatoes(5)×1^{[n 4]}	6×10 mins	Hops	14.5	16	174.5	Wizard's mind bomb ingredient Payment to protect Mahogany Trees (25)
21	Krandorian	Cabbages(10)×3^{[n 3]}	7×10 mins	Hops	17.5	19.5	212.5	Dragon bitter ingredient
28	Wildblood	Nasturtiums×1	8×10 mins	Hops	23	26	283	Slayer's respite ingredient

^ 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.
^ Assume 10 hops are harvested
^ ^3.0 ^3.1 All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
^ Each basket must be filled with 5 harvests.

Bush seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check health	Harvest	Total^{[n 2]}	Uses
10	Redberry	Cabbages(10)×4^{[n 3]}	5×20 mins	11.5	64	4.5	93.5	Redberry pie ingredient Making red dye
22	Cadavaberry	Tomatoes(5)x3^{[n 4]}	6×20 mins	18	102.5	7	148.5	Making Cadava potion
36	Dwellberry	Strawberries(5)×3^{[n 4]}	7×20 mins	31.5	177.5	12	257	Quest item - Plague City Cooking ingredient
48	Jangerberry	Watermelons×6	8×20 mins	50.5	284.5	19	411	Quest item - Watchtower Zamorak brew ingredient
59	Whiteberry	Bittercap mushroom×8	8×20 mins	78	437.5	29	631.5	Quest item - The Hand in the Sand (Super) Defence potion ingredient
70	Poison ivy berry	N/A^{[n 5]}	8×20 mins	120	675	45	975	Weapon poison++ ingredient Payment for Calquat trees

^ 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.
^ Assume 4 berries are picked.
^ All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
^ ^4.0 ^4.1 Each basket must be filled with 5 harvests.
^ Poison ivy will never become diseased.

Tree seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience			Seed and protection cost	Cost per XP		XP over time (xp/min)	Uses^{[n 2]}
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check-health	Total	Total	Seed only	Seed and Protection	XP over time (xp/min)	Uses^{[n 2]}
15	Acorn	Tomatoes(5)×1^{[n 3]}	5×40 mins (3hrs 20mins)	14	467.3	481.3	440	0.17	0.91	2.45	Source of oak logs Axeman's folly ingredient (Roots)
30	Willow	Apples(5)×1^{[n 3]}	6×40 mins (4hrs)	25	1,456.5	1,481.5	1,278	0.14	0.86	6.17	Source of willow logs Weaving a Basket on a loom (Branch) Quest item - Enlightened Journey (Branch)
45	Maple	Oranges(5)×1^{[n 3]}	8×40 mins (5hrs 20mins)	45	3,403.4	3,448.4	16,077	3.99	4.66	10.78	Source of maple logs
60	Yew	Cactus spine×10	10×40 mins (6hrs 40mins)	81	7,069.9	7,150.9	53,485	6.76	7.48	17.88	Source of yew logs Antidote+ ingredient (Roots)
75	Magic	Coconut×25	12×40 mins (8hrs)	145.5	13,768.3	13,913.8	142,281	5.64	10.23	29.99	Source of magic logs Making magic string (Roots) Antidote++ ingredient (Roots)

^ N×40 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 40 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ All tree roots can be used to make supercompost and crossbow string.
^ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.

Fruit tree seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience				Seed and Protection Cost	Cost per XP		Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total^{[n 2]}	Total	Seed only	Seed and Protection	Uses
27	Apple	Sweetcorn×9	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	22	1,199.5	8.5	1,272.5	1,221	0.00	0.96	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect strawberry plants, willow trees, and banana trees
33	Banana	Apples(5)×4^{[n 3]}	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	28	1,750.5	10.5	1,841.5	4,313	0.00	2.34	Cooking ingredient Ape Atoll Teleport Payment to protect curry trees
39	Orange	Strawberries(5)×3^{[n 3]}	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	35.5	2,470.2	13.5	2,586.7	1,989	0.00	0.77	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect maple trees
42	Curry	Bananas(5)×5^{[n 3]}	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	40	2,906.9	15	3,036.9	1,751	0.00	0.58	Curry ingredient Payment to protect watermelons
51	Pineapple	Watermelon×10	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	57	4,605.7	21.5	4,791.7	301	0.01	0.06	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect papaya trees Supercompost for Ironmen
57	Papaya	Pineapple×10	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	72	6,146.4	27	6,380.4	5,246	0.31	0.82	Payment Method for Palm Tree Restores Run Energy
68	Palm tree	Papaya fruit×15	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	110.5	10,150.1	41.5	10,509.6	51,569	3.84	4.91	Used for making Coconut milk and Coconut shell Payment to protect dragonfruit and magic trees
81	Dragonfruit	Coconut×15	6×160 mins (16 Hours)	140	17,335	70	17,895	198,092	8.93	11.07	They are an ingredient in dragonfruit pie Used to create bottled dragonbreath Redwood tree protection

^ N×160 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 160 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ Assume 6 fruit is harvested.
^ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.

Special seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Uses
23	Giant seaweed	Numulite × 200	4 × 10 mins	19	N/A	21	40^{[n 2]}	Used to make soda ash for molten glass
36	Grapes	Free	7 × 5 mins	31.5	625	40	400^{[n 3]}	Cooking ingredient
53	Mushroom	N/A	6 × 40 mins	61.5	N/A	57.7	407.7^{[n 4]}	Cooking ingredient
63	Belladonna	N/A	4 × 80 mins	91	N/A	512	603	Weapon poison++ ingredient
65	Hespori	Immune	3 × 640 mins	62	N/A	12600	12,662^{[n 5]}	Spawns Hespori

^ N×X mins means the crop will grow a little for each X minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ 6-53 giant seaweeds are harvested per patch.
^ Assumes 10 grapes are harvested.
^ 6 Bittercap mushrooms are harvested at a time.
^ Once fully grown, it will grow into the Hespori, a demi-boss that can be defeated for 12,600 Farming experience.

Anima seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience				Effect
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Effect
76	Kronos	Immune	8 × 640 mins^{[n 2]}	100	N/A	N/A	100	Provides a chance for farming patches to skip a growth stage.
76	Iasor	Immune	8 × 640 mins^{[n 2]}	100	N/A	N/A	100	Decreases the chance of farming patches becoming diseased.
76	Attas	Immune	8 × 640 mins^{[n 2]}	100	N/A	N/A	100	Increases the yield of farming patches.

^ N×X mins means the crop will grow a little for each X minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Anima plant effects are active as soon as they are planted. Over their life span of 85.3 hours (three and a half days), they grow from a seedling into a withering state. The withering state is one stage away from death; once it dies, they must be replanted to gain the effects once more.

Special tree seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Uses
35	Teak tree	Limpwurt root × 15	7 × 640 mins	35	7,290	N/A	7,315	Source of teak logs
55	Mahogany tree	Yanillian hops × 25	8 × 640 mins	63	15,720	N/A	15,783	Source of mahogany logs
72	Calquat tree	Poison ivy berries × 8	8 × 160 mins	129.5	12,096	48.5	12,516.5^{[n 2]}	Making Calquat kegs Damaging Broodoo victims
74	Crystal tree	Immune	6 × 80 mins	126	13,240	N/A	13,366	Source of Crystal shards
83	Spirit tree^{[n 3]}	Monkey nuts × 5 Monkey bar × 1 Ground tooth × 1	12 × 320 mins	199.5	19,301.8	N/A	19,501.3	Spirit tree network
85	Celastrus tree	Potato cactus × 8	5 × 160 mins	204	14,130	23.5	14,475^{[n 4]}	Can be fletched into a battlestaff
90	Redwood tree	Dragonfruit × 6	10 × 640 mins	230	22,450	N/A	22,680	Source of redwood logs

^ N×X mins means the crop will grow a little for each X minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ Assume 6 Calquat fruit is harvested.
^ Only 1 spirit tree can be planted at a time. This can increase by levelling up Farming.
^ Assume 6 Celastrus bark is harvested.

Cacti seeds[edit | edit source]

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Experience				Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time^{[n 1]}	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Uses
55	Cactus	Cadava berries × 6	7 × 80 mins	66.5	374	25	515.5^{[n 2]}	Weapon poison+ ingredient Payment to protect yew tree (10)
64	Potato cactus	Snape grass × 8	7 × 10 mins	68	230	68	706^{[n 3]}	Magic potion ingredient Payment to protect Celastrus tree (8)

^ N×X mins means the crop will grow a little for each X minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ Assume 3 Cactus spines are harvested.
^ Assume 6 Potato cactus is harvested.

Payment item alternative locations[edit | edit source]

Payment Item	Locations
Compost	Buy from farming shops near vegetable patches or from farmers near farming patches.
Potatoes	North of Ardougne, north-west of Lumbridge, north-east 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 north-west of Lumbridge, Rellekka, buy from Hudo in the Grand Tree.
Cabbages	Cabbage field near Falador, field in Rimmington, Edgeville Monastery, north-west 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. 3 quickly respawning barrels of apples on the pirate ship to Lunar Isle (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 (20 in stock) or Hudo (10 in stock).
Pineapples	Pineapple plants on Karamja, buy in the Grand Tree from Heckel Funch or Hudo - 10 in each store, Trader Crewmember at charter docks - 15 in each store, noted pineapples dropped by tortoises at the Grand Tree and north of Tree Gnome Village, noted and un-noted pineapples dropped by kurask in either slayer dungeon.
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[edit | edit source]

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

Most seeds can be bought from other players.
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 a master farmer or completing farming contracts 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.)
Opening seed packs given as farming contract rewards.
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, or from Amelia's Seed Shop in the Farming Guild. 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.)
Bird 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.
- Doing birdhouse runs.
Managing Miscellania for seeds and bird 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).
Monster drops. Ogres, Moss giants, Aberrant spectres, and Dagannoths are a few examples of monsters with good seed drops.
Catching implings, especially Nature implings.
Watermelon seeds can be obtained as a reward in the Temple Trekking minigame.
Seaweed spores spawn randomly in the Fossil Island underwater area.