Hops patch

Hops patches are used with the Farming skill to grow hops and barley used for brewing, and fibre crops used for spinning and weaving. Players can pay a nearby farmer to eliminate disease risk altogether, or alternatively use various types of compost and water the patch to reduce (but not eliminate) the chance of disease. The number of seeds required for hops patches varies; with fibre crops requiring 3, while hops and barley require 4.

Harvesting a plant grown in the hops patch tends to result in a relatively high yield, similar to most produce grown in allotments (see variable crop yield). At level 99, using both ultracompost and a pair of magic secateurs, a hops patch can be expected to yield 27 crops on average. Flax, Hemp, and Cotton may yield more/less (35/25/15 respectively) per sailing resource poll. After a hops patch has been harvested, the patch has to be re-planted. Hops on average give less experience in planting and harvesting than allotments. Hop plants are generally more susceptible to disease than herbs, although they are more hardy than crops grown in an allotment patch.^[1] Hops patches do not have a compost bin nearby but do have a Tool Leprechaun.

Hop seeds are commonly used as bait while engaging in bird house trapping, due to their low cost and ease of acquisition (for a table comparing them by cost, see Bird house trapping § Seeds).

Location	Closest teleport	Map	League region
North of Lumbridge farm Gardener: Vasquen	Canoe Chronicle teleport Combat bracelet to Champions' Guild Cowbell amulet teleport Lumbridge Teleport		Misthalin✓
North of McGrubor's Wood Gardener: Rhonen	Music cape teleport Camelot Teleport to Seers' Village (after Kandarin Hard Diary) Combat bracelet to Ranging Guild Fairy ring code ALS to McGrubor's Wood		Kandarin✓
Yanille Gardener: Selena	Watchtower Teleport to Yanille (after hard Ardougne Diary) Yanille house portal: Teleport to House spell or redirected house tab Minigame teleport to Nightmare Zone Fairy ring code CIQ		Kandarin✓
Entrana Gardener: Francis	Balloon transport system Minigame teleport to Rat Pits (Port Sarim) Explorer's ring 2 or higher, then run south to Port Sarim Amulet of glory to Draynor Village, then run to Port Sarim Spirit tree (if grown, requires 83 Farming) to Port Sarim		Asgarnia✓
Aldarin Gardener: Ercos	Fairy ring code CKQ Quetzal Transport System to Aldarin Aldarin house portal: Teleport to House spell or redirected house tab North Aldarin teleport via the Pendant of ates (Requires completion of Death on the Isle and subsequent activation of the North Aldarin statue)		Varlamore✓

A hops patch can also be found in Keldagrim, but it is exclusively used during the Forgettable Tale... quest to grow kelda hops, and cannot be used to grow anything else.

Due to an update, the information in this article may be out-of-date. Reason: Experience amounts from planting have been moved to the end of the harvest or the check-health stage You can help improve it by updating the information.

Level	Seed	Protection[a]	Growth time[b]	Plant			Crop	Value	Experience		Uses
									Plant[c]	Harvest[d]
3	Barley × 4	Compost × 3	4×10 mins			Barley	Barley	527	8.5	9.5	Making barley malt Protecting jute plants
4	Hammerstone × 4	Marigold × 1	4×10 mins			Hammerstone	Hops	391	9	10	Dwarven stout ingredient
8	Asgarnian × 4	Onions(10) × 1	5×10 mins			Asgarnian	Hops	344	10.9	12	Asgarnian ale ingredient
13	Jute × 3	Barley malt × 6	5×10 mins			Jute	Fibre	674	13	14.5	Weaving sacks or drift nets Protecting sweetcorn plants
16	Yanillian × 4	Tomatoes(5) × 1	6×10 mins			Yanillian	Hops	838	14.5	16	Wizard's mind bomb ingredient Protecting mahogany trees
18	Flax × 3	Grain × 6	3×20 mins			Flax	Flax	2	16	17.5	Spinning bowstrings or linen yarn Protecting hemp plants
21	Krandorian × 4	Cabbages(10) × 3	7×10 mins			Krandorian	Hops	112	17.5	19.5	Dragon bitter ingredient
28	Wildblood × 4	Nasturtiums × 1	8×10 mins			Wildblood	Hops	33	23	26	Slayer's respite ingredient
37	Hemp × 3	Flax × 6	4×20 mins			Hemp	Hemp	1,235	33	37	Spinning hemp yarn Protecting cotton plants
71	Cotton × 3	Hemp × 6	5×20 mins			Cotton	Cotton	2,831	72	82	Spinning cotton yarn

The following money making guides are available for Hops patch:

Method	Profit per instance	Skills
Farming Yanillian hops	105,261	16 80+ (recommended)
Farming jute fibre	85,120	13 80+ (recommended)
Farming cotton bolls	143,091	71 (80+ recommended)

• Until the update that introduced Sailing, hops patches were exclusively used to grow plants for brewing (hops and barley), as well as jute which is used for weaving. The update introduced means to grow the already existing flax, as well as cotton and hemp.
  • Volume 3 of Gielnor's Flora, which was added to the game before the other fibre plants, states that the reason jute is grown alongside hops is due to its similarity as a crop.
• Interestingly, while most of the non-hop plants that can be grown in these patches are not closely related to hops in the real world, hemp is in the same family: Cannabaceae.