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Bok Choy Seeds

Bok Choy Seeds
Bok Choy Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Bok Choy
Season Fall
Growth Time 4 days
Pierre 50g
JojaMart 62g
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 25g

Bok Choy Seeds are the fastest thing a Fall farm can put in the ground from a town shop. A plot sown with them is back to bare soil in four days, which makes them the seed to reach for when money is needed quickly rather than in three weeks. Pierre's General Store is the cheap counter, JojaMart asks more for the same packet, and the Magic Shop Boat at the Night Market sells them at Pierre's price long before Fall arrives. Their earnings per day are modest, so their real job is turning the first week of Fall into the seed money for Cranberry and Pumpkin. Nothing else bought over a counter cycles as often.


Growing

Bok Choy moves through its whole life in four days and is then cut once. There is no regrowth, so the plot has to be sown again each time, which is exactly what makes the crop useful: the same square of soil earns six times in one Fall.

Sowing on the first morning and re-sowing each plot the moment it is cleared runs the chain out to six harvests, with the last of them landing on the twenty-fifth. Three days of the season are left over after that, too few for another cycle, which is the moment to drop in something cheaper or simply leave the soil tilled for Winter. A single late sowing as far out as the twenty-fourth will still mature on the last day of Fall, so a half-empty field never has to stay empty.

Everything in the ground dies when the season turns, cut-ready heads included, so the last sweep of a Bok Choy chain belongs on the twenty-eighth and not the morning after. Deluxe Speed-Gro trims the cycle further, which on a four-day crop can shift the whole chain forward and squeeze in an extra round; Sandy sells it at the Oasis on Thursdays.

Inside the Greenhouse the deadline vanishes, and Bok Choy becomes the quickest way to turn indoor soil over for farming experience, since every sowing and cutting counts.

Buying

Pierre's General Store keeps Bok Choy Seeds on the Fall shelf, and JojaMart stocks the same packet at a markup. The General Store is the cheaper route by a clear margin, so the Joja version is only worth buying by a farm that has already signed up and has nowhere else to shop.

The Night Market gives the best planning option. The Magic Shop Boat runs its Fall seed night on the seventeenth of Winter, with Bok Choy Seeds priced as they are at the General Store, beside Pumpkin, Cranberry, Yam, Eggplant and the rest of the Fall list. A stack bought that evening sits ready for the following Fall, and because this crop is sown over and over, buying in bulk once saves a great many shop visits later.

The Traveling Cart carries Bok Choy occasionally and charges many times the shop price, so she is not a sensible route for a seed this cheap and this plentiful.

Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern cost nothing but a deep dive, and their chests can hold enough Bok Choy Seeds to run a full chain, with those rooms appearing below the tenth floor. A Seed Maker fed a cut head gives seeds back, though on a crop with a low shop price the machine earns far more running something expensive.

Uses

The seed's only machine is the Seed Maker, used backwards: a head of Bok Choy goes in and fresh seed comes out. On a farm short of cash in the first week of Fall, that loop is a way to grow the patch without going back to Pierre.

A cheap, fast seed is handy for keeping prepared soil in use. A plot that has been tilled and fertilised keeps its fertiliser while a crop is standing in it, so filling gaps with Bok Choy keeps good soil working instead of lying idle for a week.

Offering the packet as a present falls flat. Everyone in the valley who reacts to it dislikes a bag of seed, so the cut head is what changes hands.

Notes

Sow the first rows on the opening morning of Fall. The first cutting comes in before any of the season's slower crops have even sprouted, and that money buys the expensive seeds.

Buy more than seems necessary. Six rounds of sowing on the same plot needs six packets, and running out mid-season means an unplanned walk into town.

Watch the last week. A chain that is one day out of step leaves soil standing empty while a final crop could still have finished.

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