Money making guide/Growing magic saplings

Magic saplings are used to train Farming. Because it is time consuming and gives little to no experience, planting the magic seeds in filled plant pots to grow saplings is often skipped in favour of buying the saplings directly from the Grand Exchange. This opens up an opportunity to grow magic saplings for profit. Like all methods involving large amounts of buying and selling, which require a relatively high capital to start, it is recommended to test the market by growing one sapling first to make sure it is profitable. This guide assumes all magic seeds are purchased on the Grand Exchange.

To plant the seeds in the pots, use one of them on the other with a gardening trowel in your inventory. This produces a seedling. When all the plant pots are filled with seeds, cast Humidify to water them. These watered seedlings will take approximately five minutes to turn into saplings, but this will happen even when banked. Repeating this process quickly will make around 1,700 saplings an hour.

Saplings can also be watered with watering cans instead of Humidify, however this makes the process far more click-intensive and time-consuming.

Please note that magic seeds have a relatively low buying limit, so you may want to stock up on them beforehand, or grow several different trees at once. It is especially recommended to put in low buy offers overnight and slow sell the finished saplings, as the margins are already small relative to the price of a magic seed, and the GE tax eats heavily into the profit anyway.

Once you've finished making the saplings, sell them on the Grand Exchange. Maximise your profit by buying one sapling instantly, and selling all of yours for slightly less than that.

If for whatever reason magic trees aren't possible for you, this method can be very profitable with other seeds as well. Use this table to determine what the best seed for you is.

Tree seed	Farming level required	Seed price	Sapling price	Profit per seed	Profit per hour (1700 estimate)	Seed Volume	Sapling Volume
Acorn	15	124	327	191.61	325,737	30894	5831
Apple tree seed	27	23	238	204.50	347,650	15928	3061
Willow seed	30	60	362	290.26	493,442	19153	12366
Banana tree seed	33	14	240	215.48	366,316	7646	2704
Teak seed	35	49	263	203.25	345,525	4515	5049
Orange tree seed	39	20	102	72.86	123,862	8672	2334
Curry tree seed	42	13	277	253.11	430,287	6302	4581
Maple seed	45	4,765	5,801	969.87	1,648,779	20869	22591
Pineapple seed	51	52	189	126.99	215,883	9758	6884
Mahogany seed	55	1,074	1,602	503.86	856,562	12140	13796
Papaya tree seed	57	942	1,791	822.97	1,399,049	14194	20238
Yew seed	60	26,449	28,002	1,264.86	2,150,262	24967	27803
Palm tree seed	68	36,353	37,586	849.02	1,443,334	15523	20417
Calquat tree seed	72	72	375	291.13	494,921	11079	9777
Magic seed	75	97,288	100,255	1,956.33	3,325,761	17104	22148
Dragonfruit tree seed	81	175,577	178,052	686.36	1,166,812	3854	5164
Celastrus seed	85	69,321	71,565	1,520.23	2,584,391	2583	2020
Redwood tree seed	90	20,284	22,575	2,057.13	3,497,121	1248	2006

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