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Cactus Seeds

Cactus Seeds
Cactus Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Cactus Fruit
Season All
Growth Time 12 days
Oasis 150g
Sell Price 0g

Cactus Seeds are the one seed that cannot go into open farmland at all. They belong under a roof: the Greenhouse, a Garden Pot indoors, or the plot over on Ginger Island. Sandy at the Oasis is the only shopkeeper who sells them, and they are the dearest thing on her permanent shelf. What makes them worth the trip is that a cactus has no season. Once a plant has matured it keeps setting Cactus Fruit every few days for as long as the farm stands, with no replanting and no harvest deadline at all. A Sandfish pond will eventually hand over seeds for free, which turns a one-off desert purchase into a renewable supply.


Growing

A cactus takes a little under two weeks to reach its first fruit. After that it sets another every third day and simply carries on. Nothing about the plant cares which month it is, so there is no last safe sowing date to work out and no season change to harvest ahead of. This is the Rare Seed where sowing late costs nothing at all.

Where it goes matters far more than when. The Greenhouse, a Garden Pot placed inside a building and the farmland on Ginger Island are the three places that will take a Cactus Seed. The main farm will not, and the game now refuses the planting outright rather than letting the seed die overnight, so a wasted seed is no longer a way to learn the rule.

That indoor requirement is what makes a Garden Pot in a Shed or the farmhouse so useful. A pot takes no field space, costs nothing to water once the plant is in, and keeps fruit arriving through Winter when the outdoor farm is bare. Cutting the fruit also pays out Farming experience, so a handful of pots slowly builds the skill over a long game.

Inside the Greenhouse a cactus competes with crops that earn far more per tile, so it is better set along an edge or in the border beds than in the middle of the good soil.

Buying

Sandy keeps Cactus Seeds at the Oasis every day of the year, alongside Rhubarb Seeds and Starfruit Seeds, with her door open from morning until evening. Nothing rotates, so there is no day of the week to wait for and no stock to miss. The desert itself has to be opened first by repairing the bus out of Pelican Town, which comes either from the Vault bundles at the Community Center or from the Joja route.

Hers is also the only shop price.

The free routes are better than the shop in the long run. A Fish Pond stocked with Sandfish or Scorpion Carp starts producing Cactus Seeds once the population has been built up, and a pond left alone will do that by itself. The pond raises its own ceiling through requests: a few Cactus Fruit or Coconuts first, then a Golden Relic, each unlocking a higher population. A mature pond therefore pays for the first fruit it was given many times over.

Skull Cavern treasure rooms are the other route that costs nothing, and they hand out Cactus Seeds in a bundle rather than one at a time. Those rooms begin appearing below the tenth floor, on exactly the kind of deep run a desert trip already involves.

Uses

The seed is worth nothing over a shop counter, so the shipping bin is never the answer for a spare. Everything about Cactus Seeds points back to planting: a pot, a Greenhouse bed or an island row.

Offering one as a present goes badly. Every villager who reacts to it, Sandy included, dislikes being handed cactus seed, so the fruit is what changes hands instead.

The one genuinely clever use of a spare is feeding the loop. A Sandfish or Scorpion Carp pond needs Cactus Fruit to raise its first population step, and that fruit comes from a cactus. A single bought seed, grown in a pot, supplies the fruit that unlocks the pond that then supplies every seed afterwards.

Notes

Buy a couple of seeds on the first desert visit. One in a Garden Pot indoors is enough to start the chain, and the plant never needs replacing.

Put a pot in a Shed rather than the Greenhouse if space is tight. The fruit arrives just the same, and good Greenhouse soil is better spent on a crop that earns more per tile.

Start a Sandfish pond early. The seeds it gives come at no cost and in quantity, which removes the Oasis from the shopping list for good.

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