Fruit tree seed
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Fruit tree seeds are used to grow fruit trees in fruit tree patches in the Farming skill. Growing fruit trees is somewhat different to other plants, in that there is an intermediate growing stage where the seed must be grown into a sapling before being planted into a cleared fruit tree patch. First, an empty plant pot may be used on any farming patch, even if something is growing in it, with a gardening trowel in the player's inventory to fill the plant pot with soil. Use a single seed on a filled plant pot with the gardening trowel still in the player's inventory and water it with a watering can. At this point, the seed has grown into seedling. After a few minutes, the seedling will grow into a sapling which can then be planted in a cleared fruit tree patch. In order to do this, the player must have a spade in their inventory. Add compost or supercompost to the cleared fruit tree patch before transplanting the sapling. Seedlings and saplings are unable to become diseased while growing in a plant pot. However, once a sapling is planted in a fruit tree patch, it can become diseased and needs to be protected. Seedlings and saplings are not tradeable.
Like bushes, most of the experience gained in the Farming skill is from checking on the fruit tree's health, not in planting it or harvesting its fruit.
Note: Saplings and fruit trees do not need watering.
| Level | Seed | Payment | Growth time* | Plant XP | Harvest or Check-health XP | GE Seeds Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit tree | |||||||
| 27 |  Apple seed | 9 raw sweetcorn | 880 mins | 22 | C:1199.5 H:8.5 | 22 | Cooking apples can be used to cook Apple pies. |
| 33 |  Banana seed | 4 baskets of apples | 880 mins | 28 | C:1750.5 H:10.5 | 26 | Bananas are used for a variety of actions. |
| 39 |  Orange seed | 3 baskets of strawberries | 880 mins | 35.5 | C:2470.2 H:13.5 | 393 | Oranges are edible and restore two hitpoints when consumed, used in gnome cooking. |
| 42 |  Curry seed | 5 baskets of bananas | 880 mins | 40 | C:2906.9 H:15 | 2008 | Curry leaves are used for making curry. |
| 51 |  Pineapple seed | 10 watermelons | 880 mins | 57 | C:4605.7 H:21.5 | 17200 | Pineapples are edible, used in the cooking skill, used to make supercompost. |
| 57 |  Papaya seed | 10 pineapples | 880 mins | 72 | C:6146.4 H:27 | 45200 | Papayas are edible, used to make supercompost, and required bait when hunting pawyas. |
| 68 |  Palm seed | 15 Papayas | 880 mins | 110.5 | C:10150.1 H:41.5 | 93300 | Coconut milk is used for making Super strong weapon poison. Coconut shells are supercompost items. |
