This is what the q growth looks like, depending on how many different plots you have. 100 plantings means you get 100 totally separate random number roles.
x -> crop cycles
y -> q
The solid lines are the average, the dotted lines are +/- 2 standard deviations. They represent 95.4% of cases
Average number of crop cycles to get from q10 to q1000
1 532.23
2 345.77
3 285.19
4 272.06
5 261.61
6 253.05
8 246.62
10 241.82
100 225.99
Most of us don't have time to plant 100 different times over hundreds of different mini-maps. Robots have time to do this and more. End the injustice