Jade vine

Jade Vine is a Tears of Guthix (minigame)-style repeatable reward which was introduced during the Back to my Roots quest. It involves 2 skills: Jade Vine is grown as a Farming skill; if not kept pruned it becomes a Slayer Wild Jade Vine. It can be repeated every 1-2 days, the time it takes to grow a mature jade vine plus the time it takes to become a Wild Jade Vine.

Jade Vine - Farming
As a plant, Jade Vine can be grown at level 53 Farming from a Jade Vine Seed. The Jade Vine can only be grown in the west patch located in front of Lord Handelmort's mansion, in East Ardougne.

Planting Jade Vine seeds gives 76 experience.

Farmer Horacio will watch the patch for 10 wildblood hops.

Once the plant has fully grown, it can be checked for 1500 farming experience.

After about 1/2 hour the vine will grow a branch and a new option 'Prune' will appear. Pruning with a pair of secateurs gives 30 Farming experience. It can grow up to 5 branches. Prune message: You prune the branches from vine, keeping it neat and tidy.

Horacio is growing a Jade vine in the east patch which is the same as Stage 6 in the table below.

Players use the west patch. It takes about 1-2 days to grow through 7 stages.

Wild Jade Vine - Slayer
If the Jade Vine is left alone after growing 5 branches, it will turn wild and become another level 167 Wild Jade Vine which can be killed for 2500 Slayer experience and 202 Woodcutting experience in addition to the combat experience.

The vine can only be damaged by a woodcutting axe. Protection prayers are only partially effective against the vine because it uses melee and magic attacks. Bring decent food, potions and optionally use prayer for additional offensive and defensive capabilities. The vine attack also will poison for 7 damage, so a dose of a super anti-poison potion can be used to defend against it.

After killing it, use the 'Cut' option with a pair of secateurs in inventory to get another Jade Vine Seed to replant. If the seed is lost, talk to Horacio to get another one.

Horacio also called the Wild Jade Vine a strongylodon macrobotrys vine.

Trivia

 * The Knowledge Base (Slayer - Extra Features) initially listed the reward from killing the wild vine as 3000 slayer experience instead of the actual 2500 slayer experience; it has been corrected.


 * Horacio stated during the quest: If you let this species get wild by leaving it unpruned, it will attack anything. Some closely related species that can pop up pretty much anywhere has a large purple fruit, you've probably seen it.  See Strange plant.