Farming -- beYou Seeds

In order to grow ingredients for meals, paints, prescriptions and other crafting tools, you will need to plant seeds and harvest them.

## Requirements/Restrictions

* Seeds are only sold at the main beYou sim.
* You may purchase seeds in quantities of 1, 5 and 25.
* You must be a registered beYou Citizen to farm.
* You can only plant seeds on beYou soil (different seeds need different soils, read further down).
* You will need land to plant on your own soils (or be in a community that has space for you to put your farm down).
* You can not give your seeds to someone else. However, you can always purchase seeds a gift using the vendors at beYou.
* You can plant your seeds on someone else's soil if they have security set up to allow you to do so.
* You can harvest other farmers' soils if they have allowed access to do so. Don't be a jerk. Follow their rules on this, especially if you're living/working in a community-based setting.
* Raw beYou seeds from the garden center can not used in recipes or crafting projects. They are ONLY for planting.
* You can grow seeds all year around, even if they are out of season.

Now that you know more about what you can and can't do with seeds, let's talk about them! To learn more about beYou farming, please visit the Intro to Farming page.

## Seeds

Almost all seeds will grow in five stages.  In-season seeds will go through their five stages within five days; out of season, ten. To see how long any of our seeds grow as well as their season, you can view the list on the official beYou Farming Info page.

Seeds do not expire.

There are several different types of seeds used in beYou.

### Vegetables

* Soil required: regular beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting
* Used for cooking or can be eaten individually (exception: some berries can’t be eaten)
* Sometimes used in other beYou crafting projects/products
* Harvests vary depending on your profession level for each seed planted
* Uses regular beYou fertilizer
* Grows in beYou regular or garden soil with 1 or 2 exceptions
* Vegetable harvest vendors can be retrieved from either the compost manager or farmers scale. Read the beYou Vendors wiki page to learn more about how beYou vendors work.

### Fruit Trees

* Soil required: regular beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting
* Set your security in the soil **before** you grow these (see note under harvesting).
* Used for cooking or can be eaten individually via the beYou Refrigerator. Some tree items byproducts (like Olives)
* Sometimes used in other beYou crafting projects/products.
* Once the tree is ready to be harvested, the tree can be dug up from the soil and will be sent to you inworld.
	+ REMINDER: You must be level 15 to pick fruit from your fruit trees (done after pulling, aka harvesting, from the soil).
	+ Once initially harvested from the soil, the tree will be delivered to you inworld (meaning stored in your Second Life Inentory) so you can rez and pick it at your leisure once you're level 15 or higher.
* Uses Holiday Tree Fertilizer only (see below regarding fertilizers).
* Fruit harvest vendors can be retrieved from either the compost manager or farmers scale. Read the beYou Vendors wiki page to learn more about how beYou vendors work.
* **IMPORTANT**: You do **not** receive fitness skill points from harvesting trees of any kind.

### Herbs

* Soil required: herbal planters
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* Used for cooking, prescriptions & possibly some other beYou crafting projects/products.
* Harvests vary depending on your profession level for each seed planted.
* Uses regular beYou fertilizer.
* Herb vendors can be retrieved from either the Basic Herb Table (sold as part of the herb starter kit at beYou) or the Crafted Herb Table (which also allows you to retrieve vendors for cut herbs; user-made item). Read the beYou Vendors wiki page to learn more about how beYou vendors work.
* **SPECIAL NOTE**: The Ginkgo herb grows like a fruit tree (in fruit tree soil) but is still an herb that is harvested using the herb table.
* **SPECIAL NOTE #2**: Crafted herb tables (only made by users) are the only herb table that can package cut herbs. The basic herb table can not and is only sold in the herbal set at the main beYou sim. To purchase a crafted herb table, you should use the ad boards at the main beYou sim to visit farmer's markets, join spam groups to ask if anyone is selling one or you can also search the SL marketplace (beware that this is a crap shoot as there are scammers on the SL marketplace).

### Flowers

* Soil required: regular beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* Grown to make satchels.
* Used for paints, prescriptions & possible other beYou crafting projects/products.
* Harvests 1 flower per seed planted. On harvest, the flower is sent to your assets. More detail about your harvests and yields can be found by reading the beYou Flower Stand page.
* Uses regular beYou fertilizer.
* Grows in beYou regular or garden soil with 1 or 2 exceptions.
* **IMPORTANT**: You do **not** receive a fitness point for harvesting flowers.
* Vendors for potted flowers and satchels can be retrieved using the beYou Flower Stand.

### Feed Barley

* Soil required: regular beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* **Only** used for creating chicken feed.
* 10 harvests per seed planted.
* Uses regular beYou fertilizer.
* Grows in beYou regular or garden soil.
* Vendors for feed barley can be retrieved using the beYou Farmers Scale under the Grains Category.

### Lilb Seeds

* Soil required: Lil'b soil
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have Lil’b Crop Warehouse to get the seed packs for planting.
* Used only for Lilb items.
* Harvests vary.
* Uses Lilb beYou fertilizer.

### Chopping Tree Seeds

* Soil required: regular beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* On purchase, seeds are delivered to your assets.  Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* Set your security in the soil **before** you grow these (see note under harvesting).
* Used for crafting projects and in conjunction with equipment.
* Harvests vary depending on your profession level for each seed planted.
	+ **REMINDER**: You must be level 5 to chop your chopping trees (done after pulling, aka harvesting, from the soil).
	+ Once initially harvested from the soil, the tree will be delivered to you inworld (meaning stored in your Second Life Inentory) so you can rez and chop at your leisure once you're level 5 or higher.
* Once chopped, the bY Logs will automatically be added to your assets.
* Uses Holiday Tree Fertilizer only.
* Vendors for each type of wood can be found under their respective packagers. See the beYou Logs & Woods wiki page for more information.
* **IMPORTANT**: You do **not** receive fitness skill points from harvesting trees of any kind.

### JackOLantern Seeds

* **IMPORTANT**: You do **not** receive fitness skill points from harvesting trees of any kind.
* Soil required: regular beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* Seeds are only available during the Halloween Season (October).
* 1 harvest per seed planted.
* Uses regular beYou fertilizer.
* Can only be used on the JackOLantern Carving Table.
* Vendors for JackOLantern harvests can be retrieved using the beYou Farmers Scale under the Holiday Crops Category.

### Halloween House Plant Seeds

* Soil required: grows only in their own planters, also available at the main beYou sim.
* Must dig for the seeds at the main beYou sim.
* Used in supernatural potions made with the Cauldron.
* Used for potions.

### Magic Tree & Enchanted Tree Seeds

* Uses fruit tree soil (included with purchase; seeds sent to assets). If the soil doesn't arrive with purchase, submit a ticket via the support portal for assistance.
* Used for stat building.
* Requires additional watering after fully grown & harvested.
* Limited life span after you begin using it.
* Uses the Oculi feature (more info on both trees on same page).
* **IMPORTANT**: You do **not** receive fitness skill points from harvesting trees of any kind.

### Poinsetta Seeds

* Soil required: beYou soil (single, 4/5 plot, garden soils)
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* Seeds are only available during the Winter Season.
* Yields 10 harvested plants per seed.
* You do not earn fitness points from harvesting these plants.

### Holiday Tree Seeds

* Soil required: Non beYou Tree Soil - 1 Plot (included with purchase; seeds sent to assets). If the soil doesn't arrive with purchase, submit a ticket via the support portal for assistance.
* Seeds sent to assets on purchase. Must have a compost manager or farmers scale to get seed packs for planting.
* Seeds are only available during the Winter Season.
* Uses Holiday Tree Fertilizer only.

**VERY IMPORTANT**: beYou Crop Soil Ground Cover Sets (located over by the Windmills, Turbines and Chicken Barn) are NOT functional soils. They are for decoration ONLY. To purchase regular beYou soils, please visit the garden center next to the seeds inside the main building.

## Purchasing Seeds

Once you have purchased your seeds, they will automatically be added to your assets.  If your seeds come with their own planting soil (fruit trees for example), the soils will deliver inworld and the seeds will be automatically added to your assets.  To retrieve & use your seed packets, you will need either a compost manager or a farmers scale.
To purchase seeds:

1. Click a seed vendor.
2. Choose your quantity (1, 5 or 10).
3. Choose either myself or gift.  If you choose the gift option, you must paste the Avatar Key of the person you are sending the gift to in the pop-up box, then choose submit.
4. After it confirms the person for whom you’re buying, right-click the seed pack and choose pay.

Once you pay the vendor you will see a message similar to this for each seed you purchase.

*[20:12] Black Safflower Seeds - 175L (1), 700L (5), 3500L (25): Please right-click and pay the vendor.*

*[20:12] Black Safflower Seeds - 175L (1), 700L (5), 3500L (25): Please wait 3 sec while your transaction processes...*

Once the transaction is complete, you will receive the following message: Your assets for “insert seed name here” has been updated (total seeds in assets).

## Soils

Depending on what you are growing, you may need a different type of soil. Each soil will rez a hand shovel, a hand trowel and a watering pitcher during the process of planting.

### Regular Soils

#### Planting Soil

Looks like a strip of soil or circular if single.

* beYou Farming 1 Plot Planting Soil
* beYou Farming 4 Plot Planting Soil
* beYou Farming 5 Plot Planting Soil
* beYou Farming 4 Plot Starter Pack: contains 1 4-plot soil, 1 25-use water bucket, 1 beYou Basic Crop/Compost Manager, 1 5-pack of seeds

#### Garden Soil

Looks like a strip of soil surrounded by a wood box.

NOTE: Garden soils only differ in appearance in that they have a wooden box surrounding the planting soil.

* beYou Farming 4 Plot Garden Soil
* beYou Farming 5 Plot Garden Soil

### Herbal Planter Soil

Even though these products may look different, they will grow the same type of plants the same way.

* beYou Herbal Planting Set
* beYou Herbal Planter Box 4 Plot
* beYou Herbal Stone Planting Set
* beYou herbal Stone Planter Box 4 Plot

**IMPORTANT**: While Cultivation Soils do exist, they will only be discussed and updated in the Cultivation section.

### Soil Nutrients

From time to time, you will receive a message that indicates that your soil needs to fed nutrients due to the number of harvests it has endured. To do this you will need the beYou Soil be'Juvenizer.

This item can only be used by the owner on their own soil.

To use this item:

1. Rezz the be'Juvenizer to load it into your assets.
2. Sit on the soil and choose Nutrients.
3. When the bottle rezzes, click it.

## Fertilizer

Fertilizer will help planted crops advance in their stages in percentages. You can either buy fertilizer from fellow beYou users or you can create your own by converting expired items into fertilizer.

### Types of Fertilizer

Below are the types of fertilizer one can get and/or use:

#### Regular Fertilizer

* Fertilizes everything but trees & Lilb crops & trees.
* Created using composter (basic or organic), or kitchen compost bin. Sometimes you may receive fertilizer randomly in the garbage picked up from the Excavator. Once created it is automatically sent to your assets.
* Can be purchased from other beYou members via the beYou local markets page.
* Available in bags of 5, 25, 50, 75 and 100%.
* Both bags and vendors are retrieved using the Orchard Shed.

#### Holiday Tree Fertilizer

* Fertilizes all types of trees (holiday, chopping and fruit trees) except for Lilb trees.
* Can be purchased from other beYou members via the beYou local markets page.
* Only available as 100% bags.
* Created by using the beYou Elf Workbench Table.
* Both bags and vendors are retrieved using the Orchard Shed.

#### Tree Fertilizer

* User-made using the beYou Elf Workbench Table.
* Same as Holiday Tree Fertilizer; just renamed.
* Fertilizes all types of trees (holiday, chopping and fruit trees), except for Lilb trees.
* Can be found on the beYou local markets page.
* Only available as 100% bags.
* Retrieved using the Orchard Shed.

#### Lil'b Fertilizer

* Only works on Lil'b plants
* Can be retrieved from the Lil'b Composting Cart

### Using Fertilizer

Depending on the percentage of fertilizer, your fertilized plant will advance in stage by that amount. The higher in percent the bag of fertilizer is, the more advanced in time the stage will progress, thus cutting down the time it will take for your plant to grow. To use fertilizer:

1. Retrieve a bag of it (based on percent size) from your Orchard Shed.
2. Rez the fertilizer bag.
3. Click it.
4. Within 15 seconds, click the plant you wish to fertilize.