Cauliflower

Cauliflower

Type	Crop
Season	Spring
Seed	Cauliflower Seeds
Growth Time	12 days
Sell Price	175g

Cauliflower is the classic money crop of the first Spring. It grows slowly, but each head sells for a high price, and it can grow into a Giant Crop. A three-by-three patch of ripe Cauliflower has a small daily chance to merge into one huge plant that yields a big pile of heads. Cauliflower is required for the Spring Crops Bundle, Jodi asks for one by mail in Spring, and Maru loves it as a gift. For a new farm without desert access, it is one of the best Spring earners from day one.

Growing

Cauliflower grows through five stages and gives one head per plant. Each tile is replanted after harvest.

The long growing time leaves room for only two plantings in Spring. A crop sown on the first of Spring is ready about halfway through the season. Replanting at once gives a second harvest just before Summer. A third planting would not finish in time, so missing the first days of Spring costs a whole harvest.

Pierre's General Store sells the seeds in Spring. JojaMart sells them too, at a higher price.

Speed-Gro and the Agriculturist profession shorten the growing time. Deluxe Fertilizer is the only way to reach iridium quality. Higher quality heads sell for more and restore more energy and health.

Cauliflower is one of the few crops that can become a Giant Crop. Plant it in a solid three-by-three square and keep watering the heads once they are ripe. Each day, every full square of ripe heads has a small chance to fuse into one giant plant. A Giant Cauliflower is cut down with an Axe and drops far more heads than the nine plants would have given. Bigger fields have more possible squares, which raises the odds of seeing one.

Prices

Each head sells for more than twice the seed cost. Among the crops that Pierre sells from the first day of Spring, Cauliflower and Potato are the strongest earners. Strawberry and Rhubarb can earn more, but Strawberry Seeds only appear at the Egg Festival and Rhubarb Seeds come from the desert.

The Tiller profession adds ten percent to the raw price. Gold and iridium heads are worth noticeably more.

As a vegetable, Cauliflower becomes Juice in a Keg or Pickles in a Preserves Jar. The two are worth almost the same, both more than double the raw head. Pickles edge ahead and finish faster. The Artisan profession adds forty percent to either one. Neither machine looks at crop quality, so normal heads are the ones to process.

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

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	175g	192g
Silver	218g	239g
Gold	262g	288g
Iridium	350g	385g

Uses

The Spring Crops Bundle in the Pantry needs one Cauliflower. With the Remixed Bundles, five gold-quality heads may be an option for the Quality Crops Bundle.

Jodi sends a letter on the nineteenth of Spring asking for a fresh Cauliflower. The quest is called "Jodi's Request". It pays a good amount of gold and a full heart of friendship with Jodi. Cauliflower planted on the first of Spring is ready in time for it.

Cooking one Cauliflower with one Cheese makes Cheese Cauliflower. Pam mails the recipe once she reaches three hearts of friendship. The dish restores a large amount of energy and health.

Cauliflower may also appear as a Spring request on the Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store. Filling the request earns three times the Cauliflower's value, plus friendship with whoever posted it.

In tailoring, Cauliflower in the Sewing Machine with Cloth makes a dyeable Shirt And Belt. On a dyeable clothing item it gives a white colour.

Cooking

Cooking Cauliflower with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Cheese Cauliflower		Cauliflower (1), Cheese (1)

Bundles

The Community Center asks for Cauliflower in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Spring Crops Bundle	Pantry	1

Gifts

Maru loves Cauliflower. It is one of the easiest loved gifts for her in Spring.

Alex, Caroline, Clint, Demetrius, the Dwarf, Elliott, Emily, Evelyn, George, Gus, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Krobus, Leah, Leo, Lewis, Linus, Marnie, Pam, Penny, Pierre, Robin, Sandy, Sebastian, Shane, Willy and the Wizard like it.

Abigail, Haley, Jas, Sam and Vincent dislike it.

These villagers love receiving Cauliflower as a gift.

Villager	Image
Maru

Notes

Plant Cauliflower on the first of Spring to fit in both harvests. Keep at least one head from the first harvest for Jodi's letter and one for the Spring Crops Bundle.

Plant in blocks of three by three, never in single rows. A block costs nothing extra and gives every patch a chance at a Giant Crop.

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