Blueberry

Blueberry

Type	Crop
Season	Summer
Seed	Blueberry Seeds
Growth Time	13 days
Regrowth	Every 4 days
Sell Price	50g
Energy	25
Health	11

Blueberry is a Summer fruit bush and one of the most reliable money crops of the first year. The plant takes almost two weeks to mature, but it then gives a handful of berries every few days until Fall. One seed bought on the first of Summer returns its cost many times over without replanting. Blueberries are required for the Summer Crops Bundle, and they go into Blueberry Tart and Fruit Salad. Lewis likes them, and the crop is a dependable start for a first Summer.

The in-game description reads: A popular berry reported to have many health benefits. The blue skin has the highest nutrient concentration.

Growing

Blueberry grows through five stages before its first harvest. After that, the bush regrows and gives a new crop every four days for the rest of Summer. The bush stays in the ground for the whole season.

Each harvest gives three berries, with a small chance of extra ones. A Summer 1 planting gives four harvests before Fall arrives. That adds up to a dozen berries from a single seed.

Pierre's General Store sells Blueberry Seeds in Summer. The Traveling Cart sometimes carries them too.

Regular Speed-Gro is a good match for Blueberry. Cutting the first growth by a little is enough to fit in an extra harvest before Fall. The Agriculturist profession has the same effect.

Fertilizer for quality is less useful here. Only the first berry of each harvest can gain quality, and the other berries stay at normal quality. Quality Fertilizer therefore adds only a small amount to a whole harvest. Deluxe Fertilizer makes iridium berries possible.

Blueberries grow in the Greenhouse and on Ginger Island all year, where they keep producing without a season limit.

Prices

A single berry sells for little, but the volume makes up for it. A Summer 1 seed returns around seven times its cost by the end of the season, all from one planting.

Blueberry Wine and Blueberry Jelly sell for the same price, because of the berry's low base value. Jelly finishes in a few days, while wine takes a full week in the Keg. For Blueberries, the Preserves Jar is the better machine. Both products gain forty percent with the Artisan profession.

The Dehydrator turns five berries into one pack of Dried Blueberries by the next morning. It is quick, but the pack is worth far less than five jars of jelly.

Starfruit and Hops can earn more per tile in Summer, but they need either desert access or plenty of Kegs. Blueberry is the easy choice for a first Summer with neither.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	50g	55g
Silver	62g	68g
Gold	75g	82g
Iridium	100g	110g

Uses

The Summer Crops Bundle in the Pantry needs one Blueberry. With the Remixed Bundles, five gold-quality Blueberries can count toward the Quality Crops Bundle. Blueberry may also be an option in the remixed Dye Bundle.

A Blueberry cooked with Wheat Flour, Sugar and an Egg makes Blueberry Tart. Pierre mails the recipe at three hearts of friendship.

Cooking a Blueberry with a Melon and an Apricot makes Fruit Salad. The Queen of Sauce teaches it. The dish restores a large amount of energy and health and sells for a good price.

In tailoring, Blueberry can colour Shorts made with the Sewing Machine. A Blueberry is also a blue dye for the pots in Emily and Haley's house.

Cooking

Cooking Blueberry with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Blueberry Tart		Blueberry (1), Wheat Flour (1), Sugar (1), Egg (1)
Fruit Salad		Blueberry (1), Melon (1), Apricot (1)

Bundles

The Community Center asks for Blueberry in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Summer Crops Bundle	Pantry	1

Gifts

Demetrius, Elliott, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Lewis, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like Blueberries.

Abigail, Haley, Jas and Vincent dislike them.

The Dwarf, Krobus and the Wizard feel neutral about Blueberry. The bachelors and bachelorettes Alex, Emily, Maru, Penny, Sam and Sebastian feel neutral about it too, and so do the shopkeepers Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre and Willy. Leo also feels neutral about it. So do the older residents Caroline, Evelyn and George.

On Sundays in Summer, Mayor Lewis sometimes asks whether any blueberries are growing on the farm. He does like them as a gift.

Notes

Plant Blueberries on the very first day of Summer. Every day of delay costs part of a harvest, and a late planting may only give two or three.

Keep the gold-quality berries from early harvests apart. They cover the remixed Quality Crops Bundle and are worth more when sold.

All Crops

Every crop, with its season, growth time and normal-quality sell price.

Crop	Season	Growth	Price
Blue Jazz	Spring	7 days	50g
Carrot	Spring	3 days	35g
Cauliflower	Spring	12 days	175g
Garlic	Spring	4 days	60g
Green Bean	Spring	10 days	40g
Kale	Spring	6 days	110g
Parsnip	Spring	4 days	35g
Potato	Spring	6 days	80g
Rhubarb	Spring	13 days	220g
Strawberry	Spring	8 days	120g
Tulip	Spring	6 days	30g
Unmilled Rice	Spring	-	-
Ancient Fruit	Spring, Summer, Fall	28 days	550g
Tea Leaves	Spring, Summer, Fall	20 days	-
Blueberry	Summer	13 days	50g
Hops	Summer	11 days	25g
Hot Pepper	Summer	5 days	40g
Melon	Summer	12 days	250g
Poppy	Summer	7 days	140g
Radish	Summer	6 days	90g
Red Cabbage	Summer	9 days	260g
Starfruit	Summer	13 days	750g
Summer Spangle	Summer	8 days	90g
Summer Squash	Summer	6 days	-
Tomato	Summer	11 days	60g
Corn	Summer, Fall	14 days	50g
Sunflower	Summer, Fall	8 days	80g
Wheat	Summer, Fall	4 days	25g
Amaranth	Fall	7 days	150g
Artichoke	Fall	8 days	160g
Beet	Fall	6 days	100g
Bok Choy	Fall	4 days	80g
Cranberries	Fall	7 days	-
Eggplant	Fall	5 days	60g
Fairy Rose	Fall	12 days	-
Pumpkin	Fall	13 days	320g
Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	24 days	-
Yam	Fall	10 days	160g
Powdermelon	Winter	-	60g
Broccoli	-	-	-
Cactus Fruit	-	-	75g
Grape	-	-	80g
Pineapple	-	-	-
Qi Fruit	-	-	-
Taro Root	-	10 days	100g