Welcome to this guide about pre-planting hard farming contracts. The reason why we would wanna pre-plant seeds, is to have a chance at B2B completing contracts. By having plants pre-grown, you have a chance of completing multiple contracts in a row. Getting quicker seeds and completing the 50 farming contract hard task quicker! Let's get on with it.
Quick guide:
Seeds to plant:
Seeds that are underlined can be substituted for other seeds. See full guide for more information.
Watermelon seed
Snape grass seed
White lilly seed
Potato cactus seed
Poison ivy seed
Maple tree seed
Snapedragon seed
Celastrus tree seed
Dragonfruit tree seed
Redwood tree seed
Beginner tier guild:
Allotment patch:
There are 2 allotment patches, so we'll plant one of each to have both be ready. Below you can see how you can protect your plants so that they can't get diseased. It's still recommended to use super- or ultra compost on these patches to increase yield, and especially if no protection is used to decrease disease chances.
Plant protection: Nasturtium and White Lilly in the flower patch
Snape grass
Growth time: 1h10
Paid protection: Jangerberries x5
Plant protection: Nasturtium and White Lilly in the flower patch
Flower patch:
There is only one hard contract for this patch. So we'll want to have a white Lilly planted at all time. Which will also work by protecting both your allotment patches. White Lilly seeds can only be obtained via Hespori or bought from other players.
White Lilly
Growth time: 20 mins
Protection: N/A
Cactus patch:
There is only one hard contract for this patch. So we'll want to have a Potato Cactus planted at all time. This one is recommended to just pay the protection fee and not use compost on it, as this doesn't increase the yield.
Potato Cactus
Growth time: 1h10
Paid protection: Snape grass x8
Bush patch:
This is the first patch where we'll have to make a personal decision on what to pre-plant. As there's only 1 available patch and 2 contracts. Whiteberries and Poison Ivy. I always opt for the Poison Ivy, as this plant can't be diseased.
Whiteberrie:
Growth time: 2h40
Paid protection: Mushroom x8
Poison Ivy:
Growth time: 2h40
Paid protection: not deseasable.
Intermediate tier guild:
Herb patch:
Here we have a lot of choice, and is not really recommended to use for pre planting, but can be done of course. I mostly use this patch in my herb runs, and only plant a contract when given one.
Snapdragon
Cadantine
Lantadyme
Dwarf weed
Torstol
Tree patch:
Here we have 3 different options. My go to pre-plant for this are Maple trees, as paid protection for these are easy to obtain (fill a basket at charter ships).
Maple tree
Growth time: 5h20
Protection: Oranges (5)
Yew tree
Growth time: 6h40
Protection: Cactus spine x10
Magic tree
Growth time: 8h
Protection: Coconut x25
Advanced tier guild:
Special patch:
Here we can only plant the Celastrus seed. Same as with the cactus patch, we'll want to have one of these ready to be checked at all time if possible. It's advised to pay protection for this one and using compost on top of this will in fact increase yield of battlestaffs!
Celastrus tree
Growth time: 13h20
Protection: Potato cactus x8
Redwood tree patch:
Here we can only plant a Redwood tree. It is highly recommended to always pay the protection fee for this one. As it takes almost 4 and a half days to fully grow. Also, due to this time. It's of good practice to only harvest this tree only on contract in my opinion.
Redwood tree
Growth time: 4d10h40
Protection: Dragonfruit x6
Fruit tree patch:
This is the only advanced patch where we'll have to make a decision on what seed we're willing to plant. I don't think there's a preferred fruit tree to go for. Would just recommend to plant the one you can at least pay protection for. Using compost on these fruit trees doesn't affect the yield.