Seeds

This article is about the items used for growing crops with the Farming skill. For other uses, see Seeds (disambiguation).

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

Notes: Growth times given here are minimum times. Disease occurs at the end of a growth cycle and prevents advancement to the next cycle, essentially causing the cycle to be repeated. Occasionally cycles can be repeated, anyway, without the incidence of disease. Using compost or supercompost reduces the occurrence of repeated cycles, whether through disease or at random, helping to ensure the speediest growth.

Allotments

Level	Seed	Protection		Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
Level	Seed	Flower ^[3]	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
1	Potato seed	Marigold	Compost×2	4×10 mins	8	9	98	732	6,098	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect onion plants (10 = 1 sack)
5	Onion seed	Marigold	Potatoes×1 ^[4]	4×10 mins	9.5	10.5	114.5	726	5,274	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect cabbage plants and asgarnian hops (10 = 1 sack)
7	Cabbage seed	Rosemary	Onions×1 ^[4]	4×10 mins	10	11.5	125	621	8,379	Garden pie ingredient Payment to protect tomato plants (10 = 1 sack), krandorian hops (30 = 3 sacks), and redberry bush (40 = 4 sacks)
12	Tomato seed	Marigold	Cabbages×1 ^[4]	4×10 mins	12.5	14	152.5	612	6,668	Pizza ingredient Payment to protect yanillian hops, oak tree (5 = 1 basket), and cadavaberry bush (15 = 3 baskets)
20	Sweetcorn seed	Scarecrow	Jute fibres×10	5×10 mins	17	19	207	894	7,646	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect apple tree (9)
31	Strawberry seed	No	Apples×1 ^[5]	6×10 mins	26	29	316	3,225	3,115	Summer pie ingredient Payment to protect dwellberry bush, and orange tree (15 = 3 baskets)
47	Watermelon seed	Nasturtiums	Curry leaves×10	7×10 mins	48.5	54.5	593.5	10,770	−5,400	Summer pie ingredient Used to make scarecrow Payment to protect jangerberry bush (6), pineapple tree, and potato cactus patch (10)
80	Snape grass seed	No	Dwellberries×15	200 mins	175	80	975	4,995	−3,655	Herbalism ingredient
87	Sunchoke seed	No	Yanillian hops×15		208	95	303	297	−297	Strength experience
93	Fly trap seed	No	Cadava berries×15		225	50	275	285	−285	Thieving experience

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Assume 10 crops are harvested.
^ All allotments can also be protected by White lily.
^ ^a ^b ^c All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
^ All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.

Flowers

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Cost	Profit	Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Cost	Profit	Uses
2	Marigold seed	No	4×5 mins	8.5	N/A	47	55.5	318	5,009	Creating Bull ant pouch Protecting potato, onion, tomato plants Payment to protect hammerstone hops (1)
11	Rosemary seed	No	4×5 mins	12	N/A	66.5	78.5	408	562	Making Impling jars Protecting cabbage plants
24	Nasturtium seed	No	4×5 mins	19.5	N/A	111	130.5	224	1,436	Making Imp repellent Protecting watermelon plants
25	Woad seed	No	4×5 mins	20.5	N/A	115.5	136	414	−336	Making Blue dye
26	Limpwurt seed	No	4×5 mins	21.5	18.5	120	160	5,207	10,363	(Super) Strength potion ingredient
52	White lily seed	No	4×20 mins ^[3]	70	N/A	250	320	Mole skin×1	95 ^[4]	Protect all allotment plants
88	Butterfly flower seed	No	4x40mins	210	N/A	280	490	2,682

^ 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 and limpwurt roots will yield 3 leaves/roots.
^ 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.
^ Ashes are harvested when picking the flower.

Hops

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
3	Barley seed	Compost×3	4×10 mins	8.5	9.5	103.5	332	3,918	Raw ingredient for brewing Payment to protect jute plants (6)
4	Hammerstone seed	Marigold×1	4×10 mins	9	10	109	280	11,500	Dwarven stout ingredient Payment to protect barberry bush (15)
8	Asgarnian seed	Onions×1 ^[3]	5×10 mins	10.9	12	130.9	332	6,868	Asgarnian ale ingredient Payment to protect reed plants (15)
13	Jute seed	Barley malt×6	5×10 mins	13	14.5	158	237	10,533	Weaving an empty sack on a loom Repairing the windscreen of the 12th beacon near the God Wars Dungeon
16	Yanillian seed	Tomatoes×1 ^[4]	6×10 mins	14.5	16	174.5	384	3,846	Wizard's mind bomb ingredient
21	Krandorian seed	Cabbages×3 ^[3]	7×10 mins	17.5	19.5	212.5	404	24,216	Dragon bitter ingredient Payment to protect grapevines (15)
28	Wildblood seed	Nasturtiums×1	8×10 mins	23	26	283	756	2,494	Slayer's respite ingredient Payment to protect wishing well bush (15), and jade vine (10)
78	Reed seed	Asgarnian hops×15	4x30mins^{[source needed]}	180	190	370	10,772		Produces several swamp-related items: Toad egg sac, Swamp tar, and Swamp lizards
95	Grapevine seed^[5]	Krandorian hops×15		250	330	580	115,404		Creating God wine (Grapes of Saradomin, Grapes of Zamorak, Grapes of Guthix)

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Assume 10 hops are harvested.
^ ^a ^b All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
^ All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.
^ Also needs a frame built, requiring 60, 5 Planks, and a Hammer.

Bushes

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check health	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
10	Redberry seed	Cabbages×4 ^[3]	5×20 mins	11.5	64	4.5	93.5	77	2,323	Redberry pie ingredient Making red dye
22	Cadavaberry seed	Tomatoes×3 ^[4]	6×20 mins	18	102.5	7	148.5	99	8,677	Making Cadava potion
36	Dwellberry seed	Strawberries×3 ^[4]	7×20 mins	31.5	177.5	12	257	64	18,748	Quest item - Plague City Cooking ingredient
48	Jangerberry seed	Watermelons×6	8×20 mins	50.5	284.5	19	411	79	3,385	Quest item - Watchtower Zamorak brew ingredient
59	Whiteberry seed	Bittercap mushroom×8	8×20 mins	78	437.5	29	631.5	136	15,940	Quest item - The Hand in the Sand (Super) Defence potion ingredient
70	Poison ivy seed	N/A ^[5]	8×20 mins	120	675	45	975	302	12,750	Weapon poison++ ingredient
77	Barberry seed	Hammerstone hops×15		175	1600	50	1825	82	−82	Agility experience
96	Wishing well bush seed	Wildblood hopsx15		220	2200	50	2470	1

^ N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ ^a ^b Assume 4 berries are picked.
^ All sacks required must be filled with 10 harvests.
^ ^a ^b All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.
^ Poison ivy will never become diseased.

Wood trees

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses ^[3]
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Total	Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses ^[3]
15	Acorn	Tomatoes×1 ^[4]	5×40 mins	14	467.3	481.3	354	6,269	Source of oak logs Axeman's folly ingredient (Roots)
30	Willow seed	Apples×1 ^[4]	7×40 mins	25	1456.5	1481.5	275	21,242 ^[5]	Source of willow logs Weaving a Basket on a loom (Branch) Creating Giant ent pouch (Branch) Quest item - Enlightened Journey (Branch)
45	Maple seed	Oranges×1 ^[4]	8×40 mins	45	3403.4	3448.4	8,519	−6,932	Source of maple logs
60	Yew seed	Cactus spine×10	10×40 mins	81	7069.9	7150.9	15,302	−12,631	Source of yew logs Antipoison+ ingredient (Roots)
75	Magic seed	Coconut×25	12×40 mins	145.5	13768.3	13913.8	52,464	−44,662	Source of magic logs Making magic string (Roots) Antipoison++ 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.
^ Assume 10 logs and its tree roots are harvested.
^ All tree roots can be used to make supercompost and crossbow string.
^ ^a ^b ^c All baskets required must be filled with 5 harvests.
^ Including the 6 Willow branch obtained.

Fruit trees

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Cost	Profit ^[2]	Uses
27	Apple tree seed	Sweetcorn×9	6×160 mins	22	1199.5	8.5	1272.5	290	2,704	Cooking ingredient Payment to protect strawberry plant, willow tree (5 = 1 basket), banana tree (20 = 4 baskets)
33	Banana tree seed	Apples×4 ^[3]	6×160 mins	28	1750.5	10.5	1841.5	171	1,581	Cooking ingredient Creating Fruit bat pouch Ape Atoll teleport
39	Orange tree seed	Strawberries×3 ^[3]	6×160 mins	35.5	2470.2	13.5	2586.7	163	12,233	Cooking ingredient
42	Curry tree seed	Bananas×5 ^[3]	6×160 mins	40	2906.9	15	3036.9	233	14,977	Curry ingredient
51	Pineapple seed	Watermelon×10	6×160 mins	57	4605.7	21.5	4791.7	618	2,580	Cooking ingredient
57	Papaya tree seed	Pineapple×10	6×160 mins	72	6146.4	27	6380.4	2,896	30,476	Hunting Pawya Adrenaline potion ingredient
68	Palm tree seed	Papaya fruit×15	6×160 mins	110.5	10150.1	41.5	10509.6	39,600	5,742	Making high-level potion

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

Herbs

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience			Cost	Profit ^[2]^[3]	Uses
Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Harvest	Total ^[2]	Cost	Profit ^[2]^[3]	Uses
9	File:Herb seed 5.png Guam seed	No	4×20 mins	11	12.5	98.5	176	4,787	Ingredient of Attack potion Guam tar Guthix rest Super fishing explosive Macaw
14	File:Herb seed 5.png Marrentill seed	No	4×20 mins	13.5	15	118.5	179	15,970	Ingredient of Antipoison Guthix rest Burning incense
19	File:Herb seed 5.png Tarromin seed	No	4×20 mins	16	18	142	137	598	Ingredient of Strength potion Serum 207 Tarromin tar
26	File:Herb seed 5.png Harralander seed	No	4×20 mins	21.5	24	189.5	196	4,991	Ingredient of Guthix rest Stat restore potion Guthix balance Energy potion Combat potion Harralander tar
29	Gout tuber	No	4×20 mins	105	45	420	219,978	−219,978 ^[4]	Making a gem-bladed machete Exchange with Sanfew for random herbs
32	File:Herb seed 5.png Ranarr seed	No	4×20 mins	27	30.5	240.5	976	12,044	Ingredient of Defence potion Prayer potion
36	Spirit weed seed	No	5×20 mins	32	36	284	78,260	37,765	Ingredient of Summoning potion
38	File:Herb seed 5.png Toadflax seed	No	4×20 mins	34	38.5	303.5	9,872	68,878	Ingredient of Agility potion Antipoison+ Saradomin brew
44	File:Herb seed 5.png Irit seed	No	4×20 mins	43	48.5	382.5	1,018	34,038	Ingredient of Super attack Super antipoison Antipoison++
46	Wergali seed	No	4×20 mins	52.8	52.8	422.4	1,903	17,004	Ingredient of Crafting potion Fletching potion
50	File:Herb seed 5.png Avantoe seed	No	4×20 mins	54.5	61.5	485	375	6,926	Ingredient of Fishing potion Super energy Hunting potion Extreme attack
56	File:Herb seed 5.png Kwuarm seed	No	4×20 mins	69	78	615	12,857	69,617	Ingredient of Super strength Weapon poison
62	File:Herb seed 5.png Snapdragon seed	No	4×20 mins	87.5	98.5	777	293	12,230	Ingredient of Super restore Sanfew serum
67	File:Herb seed 5.png Cadantine seed	No	4×20 mins	106.5	120	946.5	1,438	28,816	Ingredient of Super defence
73	File:Herb seed 5.png Lantadyme seed	No	4×20 mins	134.5	151.5	1195	726	52,131	Ingredient of Antifire Magic potion Extreme defence
79	File:Herb seed 5.png Dwarf weed seed	No	4×20 mins	170.5	192	1514.5	822	58,510	Ingredient of Ranging potion Extreme strength
85	File:Herb seed 5.png Torstol seed	No	4×20 mins	199.5	224.5	1771	540	37,183	Ingredient of Zamorak brew Overload
91	Fellstalk seed	No	4×20 mins	225	315.6	2434.2	725	47,295	Ingredient of Prayer renewal

^ N×20 mins means the crop will grow a little for each 20 minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ ^a ^b Assume 7 herbs are picked.
^ Calculator:Farming/Herb profits calculates profit up to 20 herbs/seed.
^ Goutweed, the herb of gout tuber, is not tradable.

Cactus

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Cost	Profit	Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Cost	Profit	Uses
55	Cactus seed	Cadava berries×6	7×80 mins	66.5	374	25	515.5 ^[2]	1,016	15,553 ^[2]	Weapon poison+ ingredient
76	Prickly pear seed	Jangerberriesx15	7×80 mins	170	2250	50	2470	88	−88	Defence experience
86	Potato cactus seed	Watermelon×10	7×80 mins	205	2700	93	2998	372		Herblore/Summoning ingredient

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

Special

Level	Seed	Protection	Growth time ^[1]	Experience				Cost	Profit	Uses
Level	Seed	Farmer	Growth time ^[1]	Plant	Check-health	Harvest	Total	Cost	Profit	Uses
42	Evil turnip seed	N/A	1×4.5 mins	41	N/A	46	87 ^[2]	121	2,714 ^[2]	Creating Evil turnip pouch
53	Bittercap mushroom spore	After completion of the medium tasks of Morytania Tasks	6×40 mins	61.5	N/A	57.7	407.7 ^[3]	1,768	52,292 ^[3]	Cooking ingredient Moonlight Mead ingredient Repairing the fairy ring in Ancient Cavern
53	Jade vine seed ^[4]	Wildblood hops×10	6×160 mins	50	1500	30 ^[5]	1580	N/A	N/A	Killing the Wild jade vine for slayer experiences
63	Belladonna seed	N/A	4×80 mins	91	N/A	512	603 ^[6]	1,007	−1,007 ^[7]	Weapon poison++ ingredient
72	Calquat tree seed	Poison ivy berries×8	8×160 mins	129.5	12096	48.5	12516.5 ^[8]	321	1,827 ^[8]	Making Calquat kegs Damaging Broodoo victims
74	Morchella mushroom spore	After completion of the medium tasks of Morytania Tasks	6×40 mins	160	N/A	77.7	859.3 ^[9]	132	45,255 ^[9]	Prayer renewal ingredient
83	Spirit seed ^[10]	Monkey nuts×5 Monkey bar×1 Ground tooth×1	11×320 mins	199.5	19301.8	N/A	19501.3	N/A	N/A	Spirit tree network

^ N×X mins means the crop will grow a little for each X minutes. This happens N times until it is fully grown.
^ ^a ^b 1 Evil turnip is harvested at a time.
^ ^a ^b 6 Bittercap mushrooms are harvested at a time.
^ They can be obtained after Back to my Roots quest.
^ Can also be leave alone after checking health to become a Wild jade vine, but no farming experiences will be gained.
^ 1 Cave nightshade is harvested at a time.
^ Cave nightshade is non-tradeable.
^ ^a ^b Assume 6 Calquat fruit is harvested.
^ ^a ^b 9 Morchella mushrooms are harvested at a time.
^ Only 1 spirit tree can be planted at a time, or 2 after the completion of the quest Prisoner of Glouphrie.

Herblore Habitat

Main article: Herblore Habitat/Farming

Payment item alternative locations

Payment Item	Locations
Compost	Buy from farming shops near vegetable patches or from farmers near farming patches.
Potatoes	North of Ardougne, Northwest of Lumbridge, Northeast 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 northwest of Lumbridge, Rellekka, buy from Hudo in The Grand Tree.
Cabbages	Cabbage field near Falador, field in Rimmington, Monastery, northwest 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, There are 3 quickly respawning barrels of apples on the pirate ship to Moon Clan Island 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 or Hudo - 10 at each store.
Pineapples	Pineapple plants on Karamja, buy in The Grand Tree from Heckel Funch or Hudo - 10 in each store, noted pineapples dropped by tortoises at Grand Tree and north of Tree Gnome Village, noted and un-noted pineapples dropped by kurask in either slayer dungeon. Arhein in Catherby will sell players up to 40 pineapples for 2 coins apiece every day; players must talk to him to get this option. 40 per day available from Dell Monti in Brimhaven with any set of Karamja gloves in inventory or worn (it is not necessary to have them equipped).
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

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

Almost all seeds can be bought from other players directly or through the Grand Exchange. In most cases, this is the fastest option. Low-level seeds in particular are very cheap due to low demand.
Buying low-level seeds from Head Farmer Jones just north of the Taverley lodestone.
Buying low-level seeds from Olivia who runs the seed stall in Draynor Village.
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 the Master Farmer 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.)
Pickpocketing Master Farmers (including Martin the Master Gardener) with level 38 Thieving for all seeds except tree seeds and fruit tree seeds.
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 unless you have a Vial of stench (a) in your inventory.)
Bird's 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.
Managing Miscellania for seeds and bird's 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).
Playing the Vinesweeper minigame. Tree seeds can be obtained this way, but it is not efficient for getting seeds in general. It is suggested to only use this minigame for seeds if specific seeds are sought.
Monster drops. Ogres, Moss giants, Aberrant spectres, and Dagannoths are a few examples of monsters with good seed drops.
Catching implings, especially Nature implings.
Foraged by a Compost mound or Fruit bat.
Watermelon seeds can be obtained as a reward in the Temple Trekking minigame.
Jadinkos in Herblore Habitat can be hunted for seeds. They primarily drop the special seeds used in the activity; certain types of jadinko will also drop apple, banana, and orange tree seeds as well, especially Amphibious jadinkos.
Hunting Pawyas will occasionally result in finding a Papaya tree seed.