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Artichoke Seeds

Artichoke Seeds
Artichoke Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Artichoke
Season Fall
Growth Time 8 days
Pierre 30g (Year 2+)
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 15g

Artichoke Seeds are among the cheapest packets Pierre's General Store sells, and the crop they raise is worth several times what they cost. The catch is the shelf itself: Pierre only begins stocking them in the second year. Until then the way in is Mixed Seeds, which can turn into Artichoke Seeds even during the first Fall, and one lucky plant plus a Seed Maker is enough to build a patch a year ahead of schedule. In the Fall proper the plant is cut once and resown, so a bed opened on the first day fits three crops and the twentieth is the last sowing that ripens. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern are the best free haul, handing over seeds in stacks rather than singles.


Growing

The packet grows into an Artichoke, harvested once and then gone. Every further crop needs another packet in the ground, which is exactly why the low shop price matters more than it looks.

The season splits neatly into three rounds. A bed sown on the first of Fall is cut on the ninth, resown the same morning and cut again on the seventeenth, then resown for a third crop that comes in on the twenty-fifth. A fourth will not finish, so the twentieth of Fall is the last day a packet pays for itself outdoors. Later than that and the plant is still standing when the season turns.

Speed-Gro earns its keep on a crop like this. It shortens a plant's first growth, and every round of a single-harvest crop is a first growth, so the fertiliser works on all three rounds instead of just the opening one. Deluxe Speed-Gro with the Agriculturist profession takes better than a third off the growing time, which is enough to fit a fourth crop into the same bed.

In the Greenhouse the year stops being a constraint. A bed there can be cut and resown as long as the seeds keep coming, which turns a Skull Cavern haul into a permanent rotation.

Buying

Pierre's General Store is the cheapest counter and the only reliable one, but his Fall stock of Artichoke Seeds starts in the second year. Nothing brings that forward.

The Magic Shop Boat at the Night Market sells the packet on the third night of the market, at Pierre's price, and it carries the same second-year condition. What it does offer is timing: buying in the depths of Winter means a Fall field is already paid for and sitting in a chest when the season opens.

The Traveling Cart stocks the packet occasionally on its Friday and Sunday visits, and its asking band starts several times above Pierre's price. For a seed this cheap the cart is never the sensible route, though it is the one way to get hold of a packet during the first year.

Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern are the standout free source. A single chest can hold anywhere from five to twenty packets, which is a whole bed and more from one dive. A Mystery Box cracked open by Clint can also give a stack of them during Fall. Both routes ignore the second-year rule entirely.

Delivering Pierre's Missing Stocklist, bought from Qi's Walnut Room with Qi Gems, puts the packet on his shelves in every season at half again the Fall price. That is a late-game convenience rather than an early-game answer.

Uses

The Seed Maker is what makes the first year possible. Mixed Seeds planted in Fall sometimes come up as Artichoke, and a single harvested Artichoke dropped into the machine returns one to three packets. Two or three generations later there are enough seeds for a proper bed, all of it a year before Pierre will sell a single one.

The same machine occasionally returns something else: a few Mixed Seeds, or on rare runs a packet of Ancient Seeds. That makes it worth feeding surplus Artichokes in rather than shipping them, at least while the patch is still being built up.

A packet makes a poor present. Artichoke Seeds sit on the disliked list for nearly the whole village, so the stack is for the soil and the machine.

Notes

Plant a few Mixed Seeds in the first Fall and watch what comes up. One Artichoke among them is all a Seed Maker needs to skip the second-year wait.

Buy the second year's packets at the end of Summer. A bed sown on the first morning of Fall is the only one that manages three crops, and a shopping trip on day one costs a day of growing.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Grows Season Pierre
Acorn Acorn Oak Tree All -
Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Fall 70g
Ancient Seeds Ancient Seeds Ancient Fruit Spring; Summer; Fall -
Apple Sapling Apple Sapling Apple Fall 4,000g
Apricot Sapling Apricot Sapling Apricot Spring 2,000g
Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Fall 30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling Banana Sapling Banana All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Bean Starter Bean Starter Green Bean Spring 60g
Beet Seeds Beet Seeds Beet Fall -
Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Spring; Summer; Fall -
Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Summer 80g
Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Fall 50g
Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Fall -
Cactus Seeds Cactus Seeds Cactus Fruit All -
Carrot Seeds Carrot Seeds Carrot Spring -
Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Spring 80g
Cherry Sapling Cherry Sapling Cherry Spring 3,400g
Coffee Bean Coffee Bean - Spring; Summer -
Corn Seeds Corn Seeds Corn Summer; Fall 150g
Cranberry Seeds Cranberry Seeds Cranberries Fall 240g
Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Fall 20g
Fairy Seeds Fairy Seeds Fairy Rose Fall 200g
Fall Seeds Fall Seeds Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum Fall -
Fiber Seeds Fiber Seeds Fiber All -
Garlic Seeds Garlic Seeds Garlic Spring 40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter Grape Starter Grape Fall 60g
Grass Starter Grass Starter Grass Spring; Summer; Fall 100g
Hops Starter Hops Starter Hops Summer 60g
Jazz Seeds Jazz Seeds Blue Jazz Spring 30g
Kale Seeds Kale Seeds Kale Spring 70g
Mahogany Seed Mahogany Seed Mahogany Tree All -
Mango Sapling Mango Sapling Mango All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Maple Seed Maple Seed Maple Tree All -
Melon Seeds Melon Seeds Melon Summer 80g
Mixed Flower Seeds Mixed Flower Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mixed Seeds Mixed Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mossy Seed Mossy Seed Green Rain Tree All -
Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree All -
Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree All -
Orange Sapling Orange Sapling Orange Summer 4,000g
Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Spring 20g
Peach Sapling Peach Sapling Peach Summer 6,000g
Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds Hot Pepper Summer 40g
Pine Cone Pine Cone Pine Tree All -
Pineapple Seeds Pineapple Seeds Pineapple All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Fall 6,000g
Poppy Seeds Poppy Seeds Poppy Summer 100g
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds Potato Spring 50g
Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Winter -
Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Fall 100g
Qi Bean Qi Bean Qi Fruit All -
Radish Seeds Radish Seeds Radish Summer 40g
Rare Seed Rare Seed Sweet Gem Berry Fall -
Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Summer 100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Spring -
Rice Shoot Rice Shoot Unmilled Rice Spring 40g
Spangle Seeds Spangle Seeds Summer Spangle Summer 50g
Spring Seeds Spring Seeds Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion Spring -
Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Summer -
Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Spring -
Summer Seeds Summer Seeds Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea Summer -
Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Summer -
Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Summer; Fall 200g
Taro Tuber Taro Tuber Taro Root All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Tea Sapling Tea Sapling Tea Leaves All -
Tomato Seeds Tomato Seeds Tomato Summer 50g
Tulip Bulb Tulip Bulb Tulip Spring 20g
Wheat Seeds Wheat Seeds Wheat Summer; Fall 10g
Winter Seeds Winter Seeds Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root Winter -
Yam Seeds Yam Seeds Yam Fall 60g