Back On My Roots

Official quest description: Use your Slayer skills to battle out of control vegetation with an attitude, cultivate your wits and stretch your Agility to solve a cunning maze - all to make a gardener's day. Do you have what it takes to cut this quest down to size?
Release date: 9 October 2007
Start: Speak to Horacio outside Lord Handelmort's mansion, in East Ardougne.
Difficulty: *****
Length: Medium
Members only: Yes
Requirements:
A Fairy Tale Part I
Hand in the Sand
One Small Favour
Tribal Totem
55 agility
53 farming
59 slayer
72 woodcutting
You cannot use boosts to meet these level requirements
Must be able to defeat a level 167 foe.
Items needed:
Anti-poison potion(or anything to cure poison)
Food
A woodcutting axe
A machete
A plant pot with soil
A spade
A soft clay
A pair of secateurs
A pot
A gardening trowel
30 coins or Ring of Charos.
Monsters to kill:
Jade vine (Level 167)
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Helping Horacio

Begin by talking to Horacio and offer to help him with his gardening. He'll want you to get a special vine that grows near Shilo Village. He cannot give too much information and he recommends visiting Wizard Cromperty in East Ardougne.

Go to Cromperty and he will ask you to investigate the reason the RPDT is not delivering Cromperty's parcel.
Next stop is the RPDT headquarters south of Ardougne bank. Talk to any of the RPDT employees. The employee will say that the package is delayed because the address is unreadable. The RPDT employee takes the subtle hint that a non RPDT employee can open the parcel, so locate the parcel on the table and open it. Inside there is a severed wizard's hand. It has no use during the course of the quest, but it is used in the Returning Clarence miniquest.
Go back to Cromperty and talk to him. He opens the package and discovers that the item in the package appears to be broken. Make a new potlid out of soft clay. Make sure to 'use' the unfired potlid on the pottery oven. You can find a Potter's wheel west from the north bank. Note that a potlid made prior to talking to Cromperty will not work; Cromperty will say the lid is too small.
Cromperty's next instructions are to talk to Garth, the farmer near the fruit tree patch in Brimhaven. A boat to Brimhaven can be found slightly east of the RPDT workers, for 30 coins. Garth will tell you how to get the jade vine to grow in Horacio's garden.
Karamja Vine Maze
You CAN NOT take a familiar with you into the maze.
Bring a machete, a normal pot, Wizard Cromperty's pot lid, a plant pot with soil, a spade, axe, and a pair of secateurs. Given that the maze is loaded with aggressive monsters, take decent armour, food and anti-poison. A super defence potion is recommended as well. Alternative to food, armour and anti-poison would be a few prayer potions, equipment with prayer bonus and a Prayer book with Holy Symbol to cure from poison. With this method, protection from melee will nullify almost any damage, except failing obstacles and occasional poisoning.

The entrance to the maze northeast of Shilo Village.
From the Shilo Village exit, go east and jump on the stepping stones. Go far north past the maze to a log, cross it, and go south again. An alternative path is to walk around Shilo and go east along the northern fence of Shilo. Try to find an endpoint of a vine to climb onto on the north-west corner of the maze. The 'climb-on' vine point forms the maze entry. As the maze is fairly close to the Nature runecrafting altar, all paths to the maze are fairly similar to the nature runecrafting trips. The Eagle transport system provides an alternative entrypoint (see step 3 below) further down the path through the maze. Unfortunately, that transport option is pretty isolated as well.
Fairy ring code CKR Karamja: South of Tai Bwo Wannai Village Shilo Village, Fastest way to maze
Creatures
In the maze are many creatures, some aggressive, some poisonous. Players should bring anti poison potion.
Monkey lvl 3
Jungle spider lvl 40
Giant ant soldier lvl 50
Giant ant worker lvl 40
Tenacious toucan lvl 70
Giant Wasp lvl 62
Frog lvl 62 (poisonous)
Pernicious parrot lvl 66
Snake wrapped around tree. Not attackable but can poison player. Your Agility enables you to evade the snake strike.
Path through Maze

Vine scar.
The maze has a number of navigational options :
enter a hole
enter vine
climb up/down vine
cut/squeeze/crawl through vines hanging down
swing-on vine
Tips : Scars on vine will help players to find their way.
Climb on, east, up, south-east, down, north-west, climb off.
Walk south, cut vines, crawl-through, again south, squeeze through, south-west, climb on vine.
Climb up, climb up, meet the eagle and walk east across the net to the other side.
climb down, two or three steps north, swing-on vine to the east, north, down and climb off vine (east).

The maze.
Crawl through vines (south), squeeze through vine (south), south-east to climb onto vine.
Go up (east) and cross vine (east). Note, you can fall down and need to find your way back to the vine crossing the river. Look for a hole that will take you into the maze.
On other side of river, down vine and climb off vine at north east. Cut vines (south) and crawl-through vines.
Climb back onto vines south east, south, west, climb up, west, climb down, climb up, cross vine across river back (can fail) to the west side of maze. Go a bit west, south, east, then climb down the vine and climb off.
The end of the maze features the vine root that can be obtained by digging up loose soil. This exposes the root so it can be cut. Use the root cutting on the plant pot. With a bit of luck it will grow. Use plant pot on normal pot to end up with a sealed pot that contains the root.
If the root does not grow in the pot. dig another root in a different loose soil spot.
Do not teleport until the root has been sealed in the pot.
If the sealed pot is lost, talk to Garth to get another.
Growing the Vine

The Wild jade vine.
Talk to Horacio again in Ardougne and bring the root cutting sealed in the pot. The player must plant the vine in Horacio's vine patch, found northeast of Horacio with a gardening trowel. A tool leprechaun is nearby.
After planting the vine, a cut scene appears where the jade vine has grown out of control. Horacio now insists that the vine needs to be killed. Fortunately, there is an opportunity to prepare for the battle.
Horacio is bound.
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.
It is recommended that you do NOT use a Prayer book. It will drain your prayer each time you use it, and the vine poisons quite frequently, causing you to waste a lot of your much needed prayer points.
Bring a teleport as a player will not be able to walk away from the battle area until the vine or player is killed. Horacio is bound by the vine at the exit of the garden preventing the player from exiting.
After killing the vine, cut the last remainder of it using the secateurs.
Talk one more time to Horacio to complete the quest.