Blueberry Seeds

Blueberry Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Blueberry
Season	Summer
Growth Time	13 days
Pierre	80g
Cart	120 to 1,000g
Sell Price	40g

Blueberry Seeds buy the single best-value bush a first Summer can plant. One seed sown on the opening morning of the season gives four separate pickings, and each picking comes off the bush as a handful of berries rather than one fruit. That turns a modest outlay into a return several times over without a second purchase. Pierre's General Store is the only shop in town that carries them, and the Magic Shop Boat at the Night Market sells them months early at the same price. The one mistake that really hurts is sowing late, because the bush takes almost half the season to come good.

Growing

Blueberry needs close to two weeks of watering before the first berries appear. After that the bush refreshes itself every fourth day and keeps cropping until Summer ends. A bush sown on the first morning of Summer reaches four pickings, and each one hands over a small cluster of fruit instead of a single berry.

Delay is expensive in a way that is easy to miss. Because the regrowth cycle is four days long, every four days of waiting removes an entire picking from the total, not a fraction of one. A seed sown on the fifth of Summer gives three, the ninth gives two, and the fifteenth is the last day a bush can mature at all. Past that the seed is money thrown away.

Even one picking covers the seed price comfortably, since a cluster of berries is worth several times what Pierre asks. That is why a late Summer bush is still worth putting in, right up to the cut-off. It is also why blueberry forgives mistakes that would ruin a Melon.

The bush is an ordinary crop tile and can be walked over, so a solid block of blueberries needs no lanes cut through it. Fertiliser suits it badly, however, because only the first berry of a picking can take on a quality grade and the rest come out ordinary. Speed on the first growth is the better investment, and Sandy stocks Deluxe Speed-Gro at the Oasis on Thursdays.

Nothing survives the turn into Fall, ripe berries included, so the final sweep belongs on the last day of Summer. In the Greenhouse and on the Ginger Island farm the season rule does not apply, and a bush planted there simply keeps cropping.

Buying

Pierre's General Store puts Blueberry Seeds out for the Summer and is the cheapest counter for them by a wide margin. No other shop in Pelican Town competes.

The Night Market is the alternative worth planning around. The Magic Shop Boat ties up at the beach docks and runs a Summer seed night on the sixteenth of Winter, with Blueberry Seeds at the General Store's price. Buying there puts the seeds in a chest before Spring has even started, which matters because the whole crop turns on a bush standing in watered soil when Summer opens. The boat swaps its stock each evening of the three-night festival, so that one night is the chance.

The Traveling Cart keeps blueberry in her random rotation and charges a steep premium for it. She is useful only for a farm that somehow missed the Summer shelf.

Free seeds do exist. Skull Cavern treasure rooms can yield Blueberry Seeds in bulk, and those rooms begin appearing below the tenth floor. Mixed Seeds sown on Ginger Island sometimes come up as blueberry bushes, which is a cheap way to add a few plants to an island farm. A Seed Maker fed a berry hands seeds back, and since each picking produces a surplus, a couple of berries a season quietly cover the Greenhouse.

Uses

The Seed Maker is the one machine involved with the seed itself, and it runs in reverse: berries in, seeds out. On a farm with a Greenhouse that is the whole point of keeping a few berries aside, because the indoor bush never needs buying again.

A packet of seed makes a bad present. Everyone in the valley who reacts to it at all dislikes being handed one, so the berry is the gift and the seed stays in the chest.

Selling spare seeds over a counter returns only part of their cost. A leftover stack is better kept for the following Summer, or put straight into Garden Pots and the Greenhouse where the season never turns.

Notes

Treat the first morning of Summer as a deadline rather than a suggestion. Blueberry is the crop that rewards being ready, and the Night Market purchase exists precisely so the seeds are already in hand.

Plant in a wide block rather than thin rows. Nothing about a blueberry bush blocks movement, so the only limit is sprinkler coverage and how far the watering can reaches in the first fortnight.

Keep the Greenhouse in mind from the start. One bush indoors removes blueberry from the shopping list for good.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

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