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I'm looking into the magic plants and I just want to confirm I have the right time. Specifically I want goodberry bushes to provide food for a place where sufficient food can't be grown to feed the inhabitants. I just want to confirm I am correct with the following . . .
1) Per the rules growing a plant is 1 week per 1,000 GP base price and the goodberry bushes are 4,000 GP to buy. So growing a new bush would take 1 month?
2) Magic plants are a magic item and can be crafted/grown if you have the feat for 1/2 the base price so if you are growing them over a month you only pay 2,000 GP not 4,000 GP for them?
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Terminology issues to clear up:
Price is what it would cost to buy the plant on the market. For a goodberry bush that is 8000 gp.
Cultivation cost is how much the grower spends while growing the plant. It is half the price so for a goodberry bush the cultivation cost is 4000 gp.
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For your specific questions
1) Goodberry bushes cost 8000 gp to buy. Cultivation cost of a new bush is 4000 gp so yes, it would take 4 weeks to grow to maturity.
2) No. You cannot grow a magic plant at all without the Cultivate Magic Plants feat. When you have that feat, you then use the cultivation cost while growing plants. So 4000 gp cultivation cost for a goodberry bush.
Senko, you can't "grow them for half sale price". You can grow them for half the market price, and sell them for also half the market price (typically).
A big feature of the Pathfinder Economy has always been that (ignoring abilities that make it cheaper to craft) crafting an item and selling an item have the same associated gold cost.
Buying a mature goodberry bush would cost 8000 gp. Growing a goodberry bush would cost 4000 gp and 4 weeks. You could sell either the original you purchased or the one you grew for 4000 gp.
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Senko, you can't "grow them for half sale price". You can grow them for half the market price, and sell them for also half the market price (typically).
A big feature of the Pathfinder Economy has always been that (ignoring abilities that make it cheaper to craft) crafting an item and selling an item have the same associated gold cost.
Buying a mature goodberry bush would cost 8000 gp. Growing a goodberry bush would cost 4000 gp and 4 weeks. You could sell either the original you purchased or the one you grew for 4000 gp.
Same price we're just using different words for it.
I know it's semantics, but your word usage is incorrect because you said you can grow it for half the sale price (otherwise called cost). The sale price for PCs is half the market price. So you are effectively saying 1/4 market price, which would be 2000 gp. I don't think that's what you intended, but that's exactly the problem of the wording.