Apricot Tree

Apricot Tree

Type	Fruit Tree
Sapling	Apricot Sapling
Sapling Price	2000g
Growth Time	28 days
Season	Spring
Fruit	Apricot

The Apricot Tree is a Spring fruit tree and the cheapest fruit tree at Pierre's General Store. Its fruit is also the cheapest of any fruit tree, so it earns slowly. The low price makes it the easiest fruit tree to start with on a new farm. Apricots go into Fruit Salad, count toward the Artisan Bundle and answer Emily's Fresh Fruit request in the second Spring. In the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island, the tree gives Apricots every day of the year.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells the Apricot Sapling. The Traveling Cart stocks it now and then, sometimes cheaper and sometimes dearer than Pierre's price.

The sapling goes into plain ground. While it grows, the eight tiles around it must stay free of objects, paths and flooring. Two fruit trees cannot share that clear space, so each needs at least two empty tiles between it and the next tree. If something blocks the space, the sapling does not grow that night, and a message says so the next morning.

Four weeks and four growth stages take the Apricot Sapling to a full-grown tree. It grows in any season, Winter included. That matters most for a Spring tree. A sapling planted in the first Spring is not ready until Summer, so its first harvest comes the next Spring. Planting it in Fall, or at the very start of Winter, has it ready for the first day of Spring.

Once the tree is fully grown, the space around it is free to use. Paths, chests and other objects can go right up against the trunk.

The fruit improves with age. One year after the tree matures, it gives silver-quality Apricots. After two years they are gold, and after three years every Apricot is iridium quality. The tree does this on its own.

Fruit trees cannot be picked up and moved. Chopping the tree down with an Axe gives wood and an Apricot Sapling of the same quality as the fruit. A higher-quality sapling grows to full size faster when it is replanted somewhere new.

In the Greenhouse, an Apricot Tree fruits every day of the year. Trees can stand on the stone edge of the Greenhouse, which keeps the soil free for crops. A tree on the Ginger Island farm also fruits all year.

Storms are the one danger to the tree. A lightning strike leaves it burnt, and for four days it gives Coal instead of fruit. It then recovers by itself, so it should be left standing.

Fruit

A full Spring of normal Apricots sells for well under the price of the sapling. The tree pays for itself in about two seasons of raw fruit. From the second year on, the rising quality helps a little each season.

Apricots behave differently from other tree fruit in machines. Because the fruit is so cheap, Apricot Jelly and Apricot Wine sell for the same price. The Preserves Jar finishes much sooner than a Keg, so it is the better machine for Apricots. Kegs earn more from dearer fruit such as Peaches or Pomegranates. A Dehydrator turns five Apricots into one pack of Dried Apricots by the next morning. The Artisan profession adds forty percent to all three products, and the Tiller profession raises the price of the raw fruit.

Kegs and Preserves Jars ignore fruit quality. An iridium Apricot makes the same jelly as a normal one. As the tree ages, the raw fruit slowly closes the gap with jelly.

Cooking an Apricot with a Blueberry and a Melon makes Fruit Salad.

Apricot is one of the choices for the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. Its low price makes it the cheapest way to fill that slot.

In the second year, Emily sends a letter in Spring asking for an Apricot. This is the Fresh Fruit quest. Bringing her one earns gold and friendship. A tree planted in the first year has fruit ready in time.

Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy like Apricots. So do Jas, Leo and Vincent. The Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard like them as well, as do the older villagers Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam. Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane also like them. That makes them a cheap, safe gift for almost anyone in Spring.

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

Notes

Plant Apricot Saplings in the first Fall, or on the first day of Winter at the latest. They will then fruit from the first day of the second Spring, ready for Emily's request.

The Apricot Tree and the Cherry Tree are the two Spring trees. Cherries are worth more per fruit, but the Apricot Sapling is the cheaper start.

An Apricot Tree is a gentle first investment. It costs little, looks after itself and keeps paying for the rest of the game.

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