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Didn't take long for you to start doing your farm runs! Hope they're profitable for you

*Takes Deep Breath*

Righteo, the fastest way (and usually most costly) to train farming is by planting Trees and Fruit Trees (I think there's others but I'm stuck in the old ways of training ). The best of both that you can plant currently are: Maple and Papaya . Each time you plant one of these, you'll need to give a payment of a basket of Oranges and 10 Pinapples respectively. These can be in note form.

Before planting, the tree seeds need to be placed into a plant pot with soil (buyable from the Grand Exchange - you'll also need a seed dibber unless on toolbelt) and then watered (the magic watering can from the Fairy Tale quests will help here). Once this is done you can place them in the bank indefinately, you won't need to re-water them or anything.

There are currently 5 Tree Patches and 4 Fruit Tree Patches (that you can access), the Tree Patches are at:
- Lumbridge (Western side of river, between the two bridges)
- Falador Park
- Taverly
- Varrock Castle Courtyard
- Gnome Tree Stronghold (SW of the Bank)

The Fruit Tree Patches are at:
- Tree Gnome Stronghold (Within walking distance of Agility Course)
- Catherby (By the base of White Wolf Mountain)
- Gnome Maze (west)
- Brimhaven (by the docks)

Both trees grow in stages, with Maples going through 8 stages at 40 minutes each (5hrs 20mins), Yews going through 10 stages at 40 minutes each (6hrs 40mins) and Fruit Trees going through 6 stages at 160 minutes each (16hrs) - but they can sometimes take longer! It's a pain, but it happens sometimes.

With these times, you should be able to fit in 2 Trees and 1 Fruit Tree a day, depending on when you login. If you do your run when you first log on, then you might be able to sneak in a tree run before you log off for the night.

Your inventory should be:
5x Maple/Yew Sapling (depending on which route you take)
{Noted} 5x Basket of Oranges / 50x Cactus Spines

4x Papaya Tree Sapling
{Noted} 40x Pineapples

Provided your toolbelt is full you shouldn't have a problem with the tools, you should also have an hatchet on your toolbelt if you wish to chop your tree down, or you can always pay the nearby farmer to chop it and then remove the stump yourself.

Next up, this is my suggested route to take, just as it flows nicely, from one area to the other, you can change it if you wish (or if someone else says another route is better):

1)
2) Run to GE Spirit Tree and teleport to Gnome Tree Stronghold, run to Fruit Patch
3) Run SW to Tree Patch in Gnome Tree Stronghold
4) Spirit Tree to Gnome Tree Village, get guided out of maze, run to Fruit Patch
5) Lodestone to Lumbridge, run NNE to Tree Patch
6) Lodestone to Falador, run to Tree Patch
7) Lodestone to Taverly, run to Tree Patch
8) Lodestone to Catheryby, run to Tree Patch
9) Run to Catherby Docks, take regular (30gp) ship to Brimhaven, run to Fruit Patch.

-- Run Complete --

When picking the Papayas from your Fruit Tree Patches, use the 6 Papayas with the Tool Leprechaun and they will be noted, to save you from having to bank. Now, onto the numbers:

Firstly, do one run of regular Trees, as you won't be able to plant Papayas yet. This should get you 57 Farming, so you'll be able to plant Papayas. Then you have two options to get to 80:

- Maples/Papayas to 60, Yews/Papayas to 80
or
- Maples/Papayas to 80

The difference is around 8m cost, but also 12 days provided you do 2 Trees and 1 Fruit Tree per day.

(Provided my Maths is right...)
Doing Maples/Papayas to 60, then Yews/Papayas to 80 :
2x Runs to 60 (20 Maples, 8 Papayas)
19x Runs to 80 (190 Yews, 76 Papayas)


Doing Maples/Papayas to 80:
33x Runs to 80 (330 Maples, 132 Papayas)


You'll also get about 2.5m back from the Papayas, too. Right, I think that's everything, if you need anymore help just give us a shout in-game! Sorry for the long post

*breathes*