Cauliflower Seeds

Cauliflower Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Cauliflower
Season	Spring
Growth Time	12 days
Pierre	80g
JojaMart	100g
Cart	120 to 1,000g
Sell Price	40g

Cauliflower Seeds are the first expensive gamble a new farm takes. They sit on Pierre's shelf next to the cheap spring packets, cost several times as much, and then tie up the soil for most of the season before paying anything back. What makes them worth the wait is the Giant Crop: cauliflowers planted in a square can fuse overnight into one enormous plant that yields far more than the nine tiles it grew on. The Community Center wants a Cauliflower for its Spring Crops Bundle, and the Museum hands out nine free packets after only five donations, which is exactly enough to lay out that square without spending a coin. Getting the timing right matters more here than with any other spring seed, because a sowing made too late simply dies in the ground.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in the spring. Takes 12 days to produce a large cauliflower.

Growing

A cauliflower spends twelve days coming up, which is most of a season, and the plant is cut once and done. Nothing grows back on the tile afterwards.

That length sets a hard cut-off. A seed sown on the sixteenth of Spring is ready to cut on the closing day of Spring, and a seed sown on the seventeenth never ripens at all. Everything still standing when Summer arrives is lost, so the middle of the third week is the point at which the money is better spent on something quick. Deluxe Speed-Gro buys a few days of slack for a late sowing, which is the main reason to keep some in the chest in Spring.

The Giant Crop is what rewards planting in bulk. Cauliflower laid out in a three by three block has a small chance each morning of merging into a single giant plant, provided every tile in the block holds the same crop, is fully grown and is watered. Because every possible square in a field gets its own roll, including squares that overlap, a wide bed of cauliflower rolls far more often than a single tidy block does. A giant plant takes three swings of an Axe and drops a pile of cauliflower worth well more than the nine plants it replaced. Leaving a ripe bed unharvested and watered keeps the rolls coming, though only until the season turns.

Nine seeds make one block, which is why the Museum reward lines up so neatly with the mechanic. A farm that donates five items early can put a giant crop attempt in the ground in its first Spring for nothing.

Inside the Greenhouse the twelve day wait stops mattering, since nothing there dies at the season change and a bed can simply be cut and sown again whenever it comes free.

Buying

Pierre's General Store is the straightforward route and stocks the packet through Spring. JojaMart lists the same seed for more, so the Joja membership only wins on the days Pierre has his doors shut.

The Museum beats both of them outright. Donating five items of any kind, minerals and artifacts alike, brings nine Cauliflower Seeds from Gunther the following morning. Five donations is an afternoon of cracking geodes at the Blacksmith, which makes this the cheapest cauliflower a first year will ever see.

Winter brings one more counter. For three nights the Magic Shop Boat trades from the beach, and on the fifteenth its shelf carries the spring seed list at the figure Pierre asks, which means a stack can be bought and stored while the fields are frozen. A farm that shops on that night walks into the first morning of Spring with its seed already in hand instead of queueing at the General Store.

On Fridays and Sundays the Traveling Cart parks in Cindersap Forest, and the packet sometimes appears among her random goods, but her floor price starts above Pierre's and climbs from there. She is a fallback, not a bargain.

Free stacks come from two other places. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern sometimes hold cauliflower seed in quantity, enough to fill a bed from one trip, and Mixed Seeds sown in Spring come up as Cauliflower roughly as often as they come up Parsnip or Potato. A Seed Maker also takes a harvested head and returns seed, which with a price this high is one of the better uses the machine gets in Spring.

Uses

Seed left over at the end of Spring is better stored than sold, because the shop buys it back for a small share of what it charged. A chest of cauliflower seed is next Spring's giant crop attempt already paid for.

A Seed Maker reverses the usual direction: a cut head goes into the machine and fresh seed comes out of it. On an expensive seed that trade is worth making, and a bed grown from machine seed costs nothing but the first purchase.

Handing the packet over as a present goes nowhere. Every villager who reacts to a bag of cauliflower seed dislikes it, so the gift box wants the vegetable or something else entirely.

Notes

Donate five things to the Museum in the first Spring. The nine seeds that come back are exactly one giant crop block, and nothing else in the game gives spring seed away in that quantity.

Stop sowing cauliflower after the sixteenth of Spring unless Deluxe Speed-Gro is going into the soil with it. A seed that cannot finish is money thrown away.

Plant the bed wide rather than neat. Overlapping squares each take their own chance at a giant plant, so a long run of cauliflower is far likelier to fuse than one careful block of nine.

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