Gardening

Gardening is a non-Skill based activity that any character can try. It allows you to grow many different types of decorative plants, some of which even produce valuable resources. Though potions that can only be brewed via Alchemy are required, these can often be purchased from vendors owned by other players.

Beginning

Plant Bowl

The first step towards the mastery of botany involves finding some Seeds and a Plant Bowl. The bowl can be purchased from NPC Provisioner Vendors and needs to be filled with dirt; there are two ways you can go about doing this: You can locate a farmer's field (such as those that produce Cotton or Wheat) and use the bowl on the ground there. This is regular, non-fertile dirt. Another way is to collect twenty units of Fertile Dirt to fill the bowl with. While it can take some time to collect, the use of this enhanced soil will speed the rate at which your plants are able to grow. You can find fertile dirt on Earth Elementals, Deep Earth Elementals and Whipping Vines. These are my primary source of Fertile Dirt collection. With the bowl filled, it must next be watered. Two applications from a Pitcher of Water will be enough to take the dirt from "hard" to "soft". Be careful not to pour any more, or the dirt will become "squishy"!

The next step is to plant a Seed in the bowl. When this is done, it's fully prepared: You can now lock it down in your House, or place it in your bank box (plants will not grow in other places).

Growth Checks

Every 24 hours - at the time you last maintained them - a plant will take a "growth check".

The check will fail unless it's been in a valid growing location (eg. locked down in a house) for at least 24 hours from the last server start (which happens once per day at a time dependent on your shard). A check failed in this way means nothing happens - the plant will not change for better or worse.

Typically plants will advance one stage each growth check, though they will stay at the same level if they are unhealthy. Seeds planted in Fertile Dirt have a chance of advancing two stages in a single night. The current growth stage is written in the top left corner of the plant's display window, revealed by double clicking on it.

Plants begin at stage one. When they reach stage seven, their true form becomes revealed. They can then pollinate and then be pollinated by other plants. They will not advance beyond stage nine, though at this stage some will start to produce Seeds and other plant resources.

Credit

Bunnky https://www.uoforum.com/threads/guide-gardening.42560/