Apple Tree

Apple Tree

Type	Fruit Tree
Sapling	Apple Sapling
Sapling Price	4000g
Growth Time	28 days
Season	Fall
Fruit	Apple

The Apple Tree is a Fall fruit tree that gives one Apple every day of the season once it has grown. Pierre's General Store sells the Apple Sapling at a middle price, and the tree pays that back during its second Fall. After that, every Apple is profit for as long as the tree stands. The fruit fills the Fodder Bundle on the Bulletin Board, and almost the whole valley likes it as a gift. In the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island, the same tree gives Apples all year round.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells the Apple Sapling. The Traveling Cart sometimes carries it too, at a price that can be lower or higher than Pierre's.

The sapling goes straight into plain ground. It needs room while it grows. The eight tiles around it must stay free of objects, paths and flooring. Two fruit trees cannot share that space, so each tree needs at least two empty tiles between it and the next one. If debris or an object blocks the space, the sapling does not grow that night. A message the next morning says the tree could not grow.

The sapling passes through four stages and is fully grown after four weeks. It keeps growing in every season, Winter included. Because of this, the best time to plant an Apple Sapling is during Summer. The tree is then ready when Fall begins and gives fruit from the first day. A sapling planted on the first day of Fall misses its whole first season.

Once the tree is fully grown, the space around it is free to use. Paths, chests, sprinklers and other objects can then go right next to it.

The fruit gets better with age. One year after the tree matures, it gives silver-quality Apples. After two years, the Apples are gold. After three years, every Apple is iridium quality. This happens on its own over time.

A fruit tree cannot be picked up and moved. Chopping it down with an Axe is the way to move it. The tree drops wood and an Apple Sapling of the same quality as its fruit. A sapling of higher quality grows to full size faster than a normal one when it is replanted.

In the Greenhouse, an Apple Tree gives fruit every day of the year. Trees can go on the stone edge of the Greenhouse, which leaves all the soil free for crops. A tree on the Ginger Island farm also fruits all year.

Storms are the one danger. Lightning can strike a fruit tree and leave it black and burnt. For four days, the burnt tree gives Coal instead of Apples. It then recovers on its own, so it is best left standing.

Fruit

One Apple a day across a full Fall gives a basket of fruit worth most of the sapling's cost, even at normal quality. The tree has paid for itself early in its second Fall. From then on, the rising quality makes each season worth more than the last.

A Keg turns each Apple into Apple Wine, worth three times the raw fruit. A Preserves Jar makes Apple Jelly, worth a little over double, and it finishes much sooner than wine. A Dehydrator turns five Apples into one pack of Dried Apples by the next morning. The Artisan profession raises the value of all three products by forty percent. The Tiller profession raises the price of the raw fruit instead.

Kegs and Preserves Jars ignore the quality of the fruit. A normal Apple and an iridium Apple make the same wine. As the tree ages, the gap between raw fruit and wine gets smaller. Normal-quality Apples are the best ones to put in a Keg.

Apples are needed for the Fodder Bundle on the Bulletin Board, together with Wheat and Hay. Apple is also one of the choices for the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. An Apple Tree planted early makes both bundles easy to finish.

Cooking an Apple with Cranberries and Sugar makes Cranberry Candy.

Among those who like Apples are the older villagers Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam. So do Jas, Leo and Vincent. The same goes for the shopkeepers Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy, and for Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. The Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard like them too. That makes them a handy gift in Fall.

Choosing the fruit bats for the Farm Cave brings Apples and other fruit to the cave from time to time. The Traveling Cart can also sell single Apples.

Notes

Buy the Apple Sapling during Summer and plant it straight away. It will then be ready for the first day of Fall.

The Apple Tree and the Pomegranate Tree are the two Fall trees. Pomegranates sell for more, but the Apple Sapling costs less. A farm with both trees has fruit for the Fodder Bundle and the Enchanter's Bundle.

Plant fruit trees early in the game. Their fruit quality counts up from the day they mature, so a tree planted in the first year reaches iridium Apples sooner.

All Fruit Trees

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Season	Fruit
Apple Tree	Fall	Apple
Apricot Tree	Spring	Apricot
Banana Tree	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	Banana
Cherry Tree	Spring	Cherry
Mango Tree	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	Mango
Orange Tree	Summer	Orange
Peach Tree	Summer	Peach
Pomegranate Tree	Fall	Pomegranate