A Large Field of Large Plots

So I was trying to see how many Bread Bushes could fit in a Large Radius. The answer: 12. You can fit 12 Large Soils in a Large Radius!

Need 12 magic = 36 Energy
Cost of 1 Large = 15 Energy
Saved Energy = 21 Energy

So I'm going to enjoy my Breadbasket. Hope everyone else enjoys their own too.

Gardening with Large Spells

Gardening with Large Radius spells - as you can see from the picture above, you can use a Large Radius gardening spell to care for 36 or more small pots and/or Plots. Aim at the gnome in the center, and one Pest control spell will get rid of every pest, one large care spell will take care of all needs of that type.

For those interested in the math behind this: 36 Needs * 3 Energy = 108 Energy, while 1 Large Radius spell is only 15 Energy. Therefore, if you are caring for a minimum of 6+ plants with the same needs when you use a Large area spell, you are using LESS energy than if you use the small spell on each one.

Remember -
Small - 3 Energy (Covers 1 Plant)
Medium - 8 Energy (Covers 9 Small Pots)
Large - 15 Energy (Covers 36+ Small Pots)

Also, when gardening with Small or Medium, it is better to use Pots over Plots because of Energy Conservation. Enchanted Soil - Move plot = 4 Energy (1 Plow, 3 Enchant Soil), Regular Soil - Move Plot = 2 Energy (1 Plow, 1 Soil)

We should also thank the Chillanthropist (Kevin Battleblood) for his testing of distance for Likes. A Liked object can be 8.5 Small Pots away from the plant it is liked by.

Making the most of your energy

Utilizing Pots, you can get 9 Small plants in an area for the Medium rank spells. This means you can spend 8 Energy taking care of 27 Energy worth of needs. You can also wipe out ALL pests with one spell, just by targeting the center plant. Make sure you are using your energy wisely!

A Seed Guide

Thanks to my friends Mythtress Tara and Anna Rainblossom for the awesome help with the information I have so far. Note, this guide is a Work In Progress. I just hit Rank 8 Gardener: Adept Gardener... seems a step down from Rank 7 Gardener: Expert Gardener

Wizard City Seed Dealer - Farley
Stinkweed
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 1
Mature XP: 2
Elder XP: 20
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Litter
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 2+

Laugh-O-Dil
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 1
Mature XP: 2
Elder XP: 20
Likes: King Parsley, Garden Gnomes, Water-Mole Statue (Gahlwok)
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Desparagus
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 2+

Desparagus
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 1
Mature XP: 2
Elder XP: 20
Likes: Desparagus, Broken Stump, Dragon Skull, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Laugh-o-dils
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 1+

Dandelion
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 1
Mature XP: 2
Elder XP: 20
Likes: Snap Dragons, Potted Cattail, Ball of Blue Yarn, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 1+

Honey Sickle
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 2
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: Evil Snow Peas, Fly Traps, Weapon Rack (MB Craft), Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 1+

Boom Shroom
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 2
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: Ninja Figs, Broken Stump, Pet Cannon, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 1+

Helephant Ears
Rewards: 2
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: 10
Elder XP: 100
Likes: Trumpet Vines, Gong of the Oni, Oni Statue, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 3+

Baby Carrots
Rewards: 2
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: 10
Elder XP: 100
Likes: Desparagus, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Trumpet Vines
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 3+

Evil Snow Peas
Rewards: 2
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: Honey Sickle, Garden Gnomes, Dragon Skull
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 4+

Fickle Pickle
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 4
Mature XP: 20
Elder XP: 200
Likes: Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Small Soil
Rank 5+

Krokotopia Seed Dealer - Charley
Snap Dragon
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 1
Mature XP: 2
Elder XP: 20
Likes: Regal Dragon Statue, Dandelions, Fly Traps, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Large Soil
Rank 3+

Bread Fruit Bush
Rewards: 1
Challenge: 1
Mature XP: 2
Elder XP: 20
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Sandwich Station (GH Craft)
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Large Soil
Rank 3+

Rye Bread Fruit Bush
Rewards: 2
Challenge: 2
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Sandwich Station (GH Craft)
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Large Soil
Rank 3+

Cornbread Fruit Bush
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: 10
Elder XP: 100
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Sandwich Station (GH Craft)
Dislikes: Stinkweed

Prickly Bear Cactus
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 4
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: Pile of Sand, Krok Insect Tablet
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Medium Soil
Rank 4+

Mooshu Seed Vendor - Marley
Pink Laugh-o-Dil
Rewards: 2
Challenge: 2
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: King Parsley, Water Mole Statue, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Desparagus
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 4+

Orange Dandelion
Rewards: 2
Challenge: 2
Mature XP: 5
Elder XP: 50
Likes: Snap Dragons, Potted Cattail, Ball of Blue Yarn, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 4+

Burning Snap Dragon
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: 10
Elder XP: 100
Likes: Dandelions, Fly Traps, Regal Dragon Statue, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Large Soil
Rank 6+

Venus Fly Trap
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: 10
Elder XP: 100
Likes: Snap Dragons, Garden Gnomes, Dragon Skull
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 4+

Celestia Seed Vendor - Harley
Trumpet Vine
Rewards: 4
Challenge: 4
Mature XP: 20
Elder XP: 200
Likes: Helephant Ears, King Parsley, Gong of the Oni, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Baby Carrots
Requires: Enchanted Medium Soil
Rank 6+

White Desparagus
Rewards: 4
Challenge: 4
Mature XP: 20
Elder XP: 200
Likes: Baby Carrots, Broken Stump, Dragon Skull, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Laugh-o-Dils
Requires: Enchanted Small Soil
Rank 6+

Frozen Fly Trap
Rewards: 4
Challenge: 5
Mature XP: 50
Elder XP: 500
Likes: Evil Snow Peas, Snap Dragons, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Medium Soil
Rank 5+

Crowns Shop
Pink Dandelion
Rewards: 4
Challenge: 4
Mature XP: 20
Elder XP: 200
Likes: Snap Dragons, Potted Cattail, Ball of Blue Yarn, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 1+

Happy Holidaisy
Rewards: 3
Challenge: 3
Mature XP: ??
Elder XP: ???
Likes: Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Small Soil
Rank 2+

Ninja Fig
Rewards: 5
Challenge: 5
Mature XP: 50
Elder XP: 500
Likes: Boom Shroom, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Large Soil
Rank 2+

King Parsley
Rewards: 6
Challenge: 6
Mature XP: 100
Elder XP: 1,000
Likes: Helephant Ears, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 3+

Silver Trumpet Vine
Rewards: 7
Challenge: 7
Mature XP: 300
Elder XP: 3,000
Likes: Helephant Ears, King Parsley, Gong of the Oni, Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Baby Carrots
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 4+

The Giving Tree
Rewards: 7
Challenge: 4
Mature XP: 300
Elder XP: 3,000
Likes: Garden Gnomes
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Medium Soil
Rank 1+

Dropped Seeds:
Maelstrom Snap Dragon
Rewards: 6
Challenge: 6
Mature XP: 100
Elder XP: 1,000
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Regal Dragon Statue, Dandelions, Fly Traps
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Large Soil
Rank 7+

Deadly Ninja Fig
Rewards: 6
Challenge: 6
Mature XP: ??
Elder XP: ???
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Boom Shroom
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Large Soil
Rank 7+

White Laugh-o-Dil
Rewards: 6
Challenge: 6
Mature XP: ??
Elder XP: ???
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Water-Mole Statue, King Parsley
Dislikes: Stinkweed, Desparagus
Requires: Enchanted Small Soil
Rank 8+

Deadly Fly Trap
Rewards: 7
Challenge: 7
Mature XP: ??
Elder XP: ???
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Snap Dragons, Dragon Skull
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Medium Soil
Rank 6+

Fiery Boom Shroom
Rewards: 6
Challenge: 6
Mature XP: ??
Elder XP: ??
Likes: Garden Gnomes, Ninja Figs, Broken Stump, Pet Cannon
Dislikes: Stinkweed
Requires: Enchanted Small Soil
Rank 8+

Gardening and a Shocking Drop!

So over the course of the past, what is it... 3 days...? I've been gardening my heart out. Anyways, it's come to my attention that there are a bunch of items that help plants develop.

Weapon Rack (MB Recipe Felicia Worthington) - Honey Sickle
Regal Dragon Statue (Kraysys drop) - Snap Dragon
Potted Cattail (Oakheart drop) - Dandelion
Ball of Blue Yarn (MB mob drop) - Dandelion
Gong of the Oni (Death Oni drop) - Helephants, Trumpet Vine
Pet Cannon (CL Furniture Vendor) - Boom Shroom
Broken Stump (Unknown location, bought in Bazaar) - Boom Shroom, Desparagus
Pile of Sand (Krokosphinx Furniture Vendor) - Prickly Bear Cactus

These items increase the speed that a plant grows, and decrease their time between harvests.

Both Logan and Talon are now Intermediate Gardeners

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Akuji is one of the most interesting bosses to fight. If you go into his house with 3+ wizards, you face 3 Akuji and 1 pig, not 1 Akuji and 3 pigs. He gave me 2 Red Banshees in a single battle drop!

Gardening in Live, Pest Report, Farming, and LNW News

So everyone who's a member of the Spiral and pays attention knows Gardening, the new System Upgrade for Wizard101, has gone Live. This is a very decent update, and if you keep your garden to a few plants, you can still train pets as well.

Gardening rewards are very nice, and for a very detailed and informed post on the basics of gardening, check out Paige's Page for all the information. She's a professional, so listen well to her.

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Beneficial Pest - Pixie (Rank 1 Pest)
Information Source - Arthur Wethersfield (KingsIsle Home Programmer), via W101Central

Pixie's are a beneficial pest. Plants like them and they make the plant grow a little faster. While the plant has pixies they can't get other less friendly pests. Pixies will eventually leave the plant.

Right now pixies aren't showing up as a like when you mouse over a plant but that's a bug of the programming kind.

Arthur

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Now back to Farming of the standard MMO kind (Battling the same enemy type over, and over, and over again)! Good news to report for crafters: FISHBOTS DROP SANDSTONE AND SUNSTONE! Also, for those interested in Gardening, I've got news as well. King Parsley and Pink Dandelion Crowns Seeds are available as drops in the Labyrinth, Silver Trumpet Vine Crowns Seeds are dropped in Celestia by Fishbot mobs and bosses.

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Of course the Latest news for Late Night Wizards: The Forum is up and Operational!
Late Night Wizards

Gardening, Pets, Power Leveling Issues, and an Email sent to KI

Well, today I made it to Journeyman Gardener (Rank 6). I got a Frozen Fly Trap (rank 6) from my Fly Trap plant, and planted it. My Happy Holidaisies became Mature and look so cute. Gardening is fun, but I'll have to have a much smaller garden when Gardening comes Live.

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Well, the results of yesterday's hatching are in. Both Talon and I got Tempest pets. Thank you Audi for the Wraith from when the Dorm Furniture glitch was around. I truly appreciate it. It allowed us to get Temepsts. Next thing on the plan: Hatch 1 Tempest with 1 Frostcaller. Frostcaller is already Adult, so Talon is raising Tempest to be an adult. Should be 9 more games of the Maze tomorrow morning and she'll be ready.

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Well, I tried to Power Level my life girl in the Solarium today, only to notice that KingsIsle, in an attempt to block this sort of thing from happening, has the XP limit set to the max XP for the current level of the Wizard so as to discourage this sort of activity. It happened in the Lunarium as well, so I'm sure it's not just a coincidence. Perhaps we will see what happens after tonight's maintenance.

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Today I filed a request with KingsIsle's Contact Us system on Wizard101.com. Below is the message I sent (will post their response when I receive it in another update):

Summary: Wing Drops on High Level Bosses Update
Category Level 1: Gameplay
Category Level 2: Other
Date Created: 12/05/2010 09:39 PM
Last Updated: 12/05/2010 09:39 PM
Status: Unresolved
How much longer do we have to wait? It's been 9 months, and you haven't gotten back to us with when this will be fixed. Could you please make a point of fixing this issue? Thank you

From your own Ravenwood News: https://www.wizard101.com/game/community/news/february2010
February 24
Wings on Bosses
It seems many young Wizards are diligently looking for the new Winged Mounts on the high level bosses of the Spiral.

We've just discovered that they're not dropping at a high enough rate, and we will be adjusting this rate in the future.

Until then, give the poor bosses a break and continue with your adventures in the Spiral. We will let you know when the drop rate has been reset.

December 2nd - Idiocy and Test Realm updates

Okay, we've all had issues with noobs and we all have things that irk us. Well, today, I encountered an Epic Noob, a Legendary Pyromancer who refused to stop casting blades, shields, and traps on Cuthalla, despite seeing that it made Cuthalla keep shielding. He also was swearing up a storm... I reported his foul language and when the battle was over, my friend and I changed realms.

Anyways, Talon got some great Level 58 No Trade / No Auction Celestian Stat shoes from Calypso, and she gave Logan a Starfish. That's about it for farming news today.
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Now onto the Test Realm. Some big changes occurred on Test Realm today:
1) Unbalance has returned. See Mildred Farseer to learn the Balance Dispel.
2) Energy. Pet Energy has now become Energy. Level 1 will start with 40 Energy and gain 1 Energy every Even Level. This means at Legendary (Level 60) you will have 70 Energy. With the Beastmaster gear you have 88 Energy. It takes almost 15 hours to fill 88 energy. I think it's actually 14 hours 40 minutes.
3) Crowns Seeds are no longer all Rank 1+. You can now buy these Seeds in the Housing section of the Crowns Shop for Gold and Crowns
4) Elder Harvests don't make your other plants disappear anymore! At least, they didn't for me anyways.
5) Inspect Plant is no longer needed, as it is always active as long as you have the Gardening Interface open, and it is now MORE DETAILED.

Anyways, see you all in the Spiral later. It's late, and I'm getting tired.

Gardening, Energy Concerns, and PVP does it AGAIN!

Well, sorry for being absent recently. Logan Soulsinger is back again.

Today, we talk about W101's latest Test Realm: Gardening. Gardening is an interesting addition to Wizard101 where you can raise plants in your Dorms and Houses. Level 12 and higher can participate in this new expansion. Plants can give various rewards, and come in a variety of types and sizes.

So far, my favorite plant is Honey Sickle. Honey Sickle take about 1-2 days to Mature, and when you Harvest them, they give Blade Treasure cards. Another 2-3 days to Elder and they give a lot of blades. Honey Sickle give 5 Gardening XP at Mature harvest and 50 at Elder harvest.

From the Crowns Plants I've received, I'd have to say Pink Dandelion is great. It's worth the extra time these guys take for their rewards. A Pink Dandelion takes on average 4-5 days to hit Mature. At Mature, each harvest nets you 20 Gardening XP and usually a High Level Reagent such as Blood Moss or Black Pearls. If they are like other plants, these guys will give 200 Gardening XP at Elder, which is 10 times their regular harvest reward. Crown Seeds can be won from various mobs and bosses around the spiral. I won mine from Maglump (while farming for Sunstone).

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The big concern about Gardening at the moment is that it uses a very LIMITED resource: Pet Energy. At Grandmaster you have 48 Energy, at Legendary 53. Of course, with the Beastmaster Set for 3,500 Crowns, you can get an additional 18 Energy raising your Legendary Energy to 71, but only while equipped. If Energy is going to be used for both Pets and Gardening then perhaps KingsIsle could add some Craftable Athame and Rings to Support Gardening. I could imagine one set of them already:

Green Thumb's Trowel
+16 Energy
-2 Minutes Energy Regen Time
Level 55+ Only

Beastmaster's Signet
+16 Energy
-1 Minute Energy Regen Time
Level 55+ Only

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PVP did it again... Ruining another fine addition. Low Level PVP has been abused by Polymorph Treasure Cards, and so KingsIsle, in an attempt to stop this Low Level abuse, is doing the following:
1) Polymorph Treasure cards are now No Trade, No Auction
2) Polymorph Treasure cards will not be received as Duel Rewards
3) Astral Archivist Polymorph Treasure cards have a LEVEL REQUIREMENT for purchase.
4) Unstoppable and Gargantuan cannot be Traded

Well, wizards of the spiral, that's all for now. I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled programs