Apricot

Apricot

Type	Fruit
Grows On	Apricot Tree
Season	Spring
Sell Price	50g

Apricot is the Spring fruit of the Apricot Tree, the cheapest fruit tree in Pierre's General Store. The fruit itself sells for the least of all the tree fruits, so its value lies in its uses rather than its price. Emily asks for an Apricot by mail early in the second Spring, and the Fruit Salad recipe needs one. Nearly every villager likes it as a gift, and it can fill a slot in the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. Apricot is also the rare fruit that earns as much as jelly as it does as wine, which makes the Preserves Jar the natural choice for it.

Growing

Apricots grow on the Apricot Tree. Pierre's General Store sells Apricot Saplings for less than any other sapling, and the Traveling Cart sometimes stocks them too. The tree needs a clear square of ground around it and four weeks to mature. Planting the sapling by the first day of Winter means it is ready to fruit on the first day of Spring.

A mature tree grows one Apricot every day in Spring. The fruit can wait on the branches for up to three days. Anything left when Spring ends is lost.

Fruit quality climbs as the tree ages. The first year gives normal Apricots, and each later year adds one level until the tree reaches iridium. A tree in the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island fruits all year round.

Apricots also turn up in the farm cave when the fruit bats are chosen. The bats leave random fruit there overnight, in any season.

Prices

A raw Apricot is the cheapest fruit a tree can grow. On its own it makes slow money, so processing matters more here than for any other tree fruit.

Putting an Apricot in a Keg makes Apricot Wine after about a week. Putting one in a Preserves Jar makes Apricot Jelly in two to three days. The two products sell for the same price. The jar finishes far sooner, so jelly is clearly the better choice for Apricots. Low-priced fruit gains the most from the jar's flat bonus, and Apricot sits right at that point.

The Artisan profession adds forty percent to both products.

The Dehydrator takes five Apricots and turns them into one pack of Dried Fruit by the next day. The pack is worth more than the five raw fruit, but five jars of jelly are worth almost twice as much. The Dehydrator is best kept for a backlog of fruit.

Aged in a Cask, Apricot Wine can double in value at iridium quality. That is the one way wine pulls ahead of jelly for this fruit.

Quality fruit makes no difference to wine or jelly. Gold and iridium Apricots are therefore worth selling raw or saving for cooking and gifts.

Uses

Emily sends a request by mail early in the second Spring. The quest is called "Fresh Fruit", and she asks for a single Apricot. Delivering it pays 600g. The tree needs a full month to mature, so it has to be planted during the first year to make the deadline.

Cooking an Apricot with a Blueberry and a Melon makes Fruit Salad. The Queen of Sauce teaches the recipe in Fall of the second year. Fruit Salad restores a large amount of energy and health, and Haley loves it as a gift. A low-quality Apricot loses nothing by going into the salad.

The Artisan Bundle in the Pantry takes any six items from a list of fruit and artisan goods. An Apricot counts as one of them, and the bundle rewards a Keg.

At the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house, an Apricot counts as an orange dye.

Cooking Apricot with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Fruit Salad		Blueberry (1), Melon (1), Apricot (1)

Gifts

The Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard count Apricots as a liked gift. Jas, Leo and Vincent like them as well. The older residents Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam like them too. The same goes for Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane, and for Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy.

Because it is the cheapest tree fruit, an Apricot is the cheapest liked gift a tree can give. Giving a low-quality Apricot costs very little in lost sales.

Notes

Plant at least one Apricot Tree in the first year. It covers Emily's request, supplies Fruit Salad and fills a slot in the Artisan Bundle.

Apricot and Cherry are the two Spring fruit trees. Cherries sell for more, but the Apricot Tree costs less to buy and also covers Emily's quest.

All Fruit

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Season	Price
Apple	Fall	100g
Apricot	Spring	50g
Banana	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	150g
Cherry	Spring	80g
Mango	Summer in Stardew Valley; All on Ginger Island	130g
Orange	Summer	100g
Peach	Summer	140g
Pomegranate	Fall	140g