What to plant in Greenhouse

So I'm really in need of money, between smithing, building houses, giving stuff away, and being horrible with money management, I've managed to spend 40k+ since I got Dawnguard and Hearthfire a few weeks ago.

I've seen this quite a lot, that people can make a ton of cash off of their greenhouses, but I'm not really sure what they plant, as I am not an alchemist, and google didn't really help me. Any insight is very much appreciated, I am down to below 1k now lol.

Bourn said:

So I'm really in need of money, between smithing, building houses, giving stuff away, and being horrible with money management, I've managed to spend 40k+ since I got Dawnguard and Hearthfire a few weeks ago.

I've seen this quite a lot, that people can make a ton of cash off of their greenhouses, but I'm not really sure what they plant, as I am not an alchemist, and google didn't really help me. Any insight is very much appreciated, I am down to below 1k now lol.

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I already posted a similar question. Try a search.

Is it possible to plant Crimson Nirnroot in the greenhouse ?

feliciano182 said:

Is it possible to plant Crimson Nirnroot in the greenhouse ?

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No you can't. But I believe you can get the woman outside Iverstead to grow them.

I'm just completely lost on Alchemy right now. I can't find a super simple guide to get into it, but may look more tomorrow.

Fun fact. Poisons are one of the most reliable ways to slow down your opponent! They really have "poison of slow" that makes them act like they were hit with a few ice storms. It's fantastic!

In my experience, Potions of Damage Magicka Regeneration sell for the highest amounts. You want to plant Blue Mountain Flowers, Nightshade and Hanging Moss in your garden for those. Blue Mountain Flowers and Blue Butterfly Wings sell for a higher amount as they are a multi-effect potion. If you get a greenhouse, you automatically get lots of butterflies.

FullmetalHeart20 said:

No you can't. But I believe you can get the woman outside Iverstead to grow them.

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How exactly ?

have a read of my guide http://skyrimforum.com/threads/tips-to-level-alchemy-and-make-easy-gold.20633/
It's exactly what you're looking for

Plant whatever costs the most. the rarer the ingrediant the more expensive it is. It also depends if you want to use the potion you create or sell it.

Flowers attract bees and butterflies too.

I planted creep clusters, but honestly I find fast travelling to Dragon burrows, and Giant places to be much quicker for myself. That's not to say that I don't still make potions when I'm at one of my houses, but I just smash a bunch of plops together and see what it makes.

Bourn said:

I planted creep clusters, but honestly I find fast travelling to Dragon burrows, and Giant places to be much quicker for myself. That's not to say that I don't still make potions when I'm at one of my houses, but I just smash a bunch of pl*** together and see what it makes.

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Just for your information, there is a guide on how to brew specific potions if you want to make money out of your Greenhouse with Alchemy. It is in the Skyrim Game Guide, the physical book, or here on the Elder Scrolls Wiki. In case you haven't found it yet

Bourn said:

I'm just completely lost on Alchemy right now. I can't find a super simple guide to get into it, but may look more tomorrow.

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When playing any difficulty alchemy has always been the key to my success and it makes you tons of money. Blue mountain flower, lavender and hanging moss/ dragons tongue, mora tapinella, fly amanita are great power potions. Worth a lot and make plops tons of money. Also creep cluster, giants toe and wheat. Combat potions, I use elves ear and juniper berries for fortify archery. Bear claws and hawk feathers for fortify one handed. Frost miriam and purple mountain flower I believe is fortify sneak. Charus eggs and nirnroot or luna moth wings will make invisibility potions. And for dragon defense I do dragons tongue, purple mountain flower, snow berries will make you resist frost and fire at the same time. Blisterwort and glowing mushrooms for fortify smithing and blue butterfly wing/ snowberries for fortify enchanting. I don’t do poisons of slow, waste of time in my opinion. I do paralyze all day which is imp stool and canis root or swamp fungal pod. Swamp fungal pod will however add a heal to the target so you would use that paralyze at the beginning of combat and then finish them off. Damage health poisons are great. Mora tapinella, giants toe or human flesh/human heart and river betty. If I’m missing anything. Someone can chime in haha.

To gain both Alchemy experience and gold I plant Creep Cluster and Wheat, then combine them with Giant's Toes.

DdraigGwyn said:

To gain both Alchemy experience and gold I plant Creep Cluster and Wheat, then combine them with Giant's Toes.

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Probably the best power potion in the game. Between that and the other two I mentioned you can power level to 100 alchemy in about an hour.