Cherry

Cherry

Type	Fruit
Grows On	Cherry Tree
Season	Spring
Sell Price	80g

Cherry is the Spring fruit of the Cherry Tree, the second fruit tree of Spring after the Apricot Tree. It sells for more than an Apricot, and the sapling costs less than any Summer or Fall sapling at Pierre's. Every villager in the valley likes a Cherry, so a mature tree hands out a friendly gift every day of Spring. The fruit can fill a slot in the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. Most of its money comes from the Keg and the Preserves Jar, which turn each Cherry into wine or jelly worth far more than the raw fruit.

The in-game description reads: It's popular, and ripens sooner than most other fruits.

Growing

Cherries grow on the Cherry Tree. Pierre's General Store sells Cherry Saplings, and the Traveling Cart sometimes stocks them at a varying price. Planted with a clear square of ground around it, a Cherry Sapling takes four weeks to mature. Planting it by the first day of Winter means the tree fruits from the very start of Spring.

A mature tree grows one Cherry each day of Spring. The fruit can wait on the branches for up to three days. Anything left on the tree when Summer arrives is lost.

The tree improves with age. Its first year of fruit is normal quality. Each later year lifts the quality by one level, until it grows iridium Cherries. Higher-quality Cherries sell for more raw.

A Cherry Tree in the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island fruits every day of the year. That turns a Spring-only fruit into a year-round income.

A tree struck by lightning in a storm grows coal instead of fruit for a few days.

The fruit bats in the farm cave can leave Cherries overnight as well, in any season.

Prices

A raw Cherry sits in the middle of the tree fruits. It earns more than an Apricot but less than an Apple or an Orange.

Putting a Cherry in a Keg makes Cherry Wine after about a week. The wine sells for three times the value of the fruit. Putting a Cherry in a Preserves Jar makes Cherry Jelly in two to three days. The jelly sells for only a little less than the wine.

That small gap makes the jar the better machine for most farms. A jar finishes more than twice as fast as a Keg, so it handles far more Cherries in the same time. Wine only pulls ahead when there are more Kegs than Cherries to fill them. Aged in a Cask, the wine can then double in value at iridium quality.

With the Artisan profession, Cherry wine and jelly each sell for forty percent more.

The Dehydrator turns five Cherries into one pack of Dried Fruit by the next day. The pack is worth more than the five raw Cherries, though much less than five jars of jelly.

The quality of the fruit has no effect on wine or jelly. Gold and iridium Cherries keep their extra value only when sold raw or given as gifts.

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

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	80g	88g
Silver	100g	110g
Gold	120g	132g
Iridium	160g	176g

Uses

In the Pantry, the Artisan Bundle wants any six items from a list of fruit and artisan goods. A Cherry is one of the options. Completing the bundle rewards a Keg, which is handy for turning more fruit into wine.

At the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house, a Cherry counts as a red dye.

The Community Center asks for Cherry in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Artisan Bundle	Pantry	1

Gifts

Cherries are a welcome gift for the marriage candidates Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. The older villagers Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam like them too, and so do the Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard. The shopkeepers Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy share that view, and so do the children Jas, Leo and Vincent.

That makes the Cherry an easy gift for villagers who are hard to please with crops. Abigail, Haley, Jas and Vincent dislike tropical fruit such as the Mango, but they all like a Cherry.

Notes

The Cherry's description says it ripens sooner than most other fruits. The Cherry Tree actually takes the same four weeks to mature as every other fruit tree, and it fruits in Spring alongside the Apricot.

For a first orchard, Cherry and Apricot together cover Spring. The Cherry earns more per fruit, while the cheaper Apricot covers Emily's request and the Fruit Salad recipe.

All Fruit

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Season	Price
Apple	Fall	100g
Apricot	Spring	50g
Banana	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	150g
Cherry	Spring	80g
Mango	Summer in Stardew Valley; All on Ginger Island	130g
Orange	Summer	100g
Peach	Summer	140g
Pomegranate	Fall	140g