Cherry Tree
| Cherry Tree | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Fruit Tree |
| Sapling | Cherry Sapling |
| Sapling Price | 3400g |
| Growth Time | 28 days |
| Season | Spring |
| Fruit | Cherry |
The Cherry Tree is a Spring fruit tree that gives one Cherry every day of the season once grown. Its sapling costs more than the Apricot Sapling, and its fruit is worth more too. Cherries make better wine and jelly than Apricots, so the tree is the stronger of the two Spring trees for a farm with Kegs. Every villager likes Cherries, and the fruit is one of the choices for the Artisan Bundle. In the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island, the tree fruits all year round.
Growing
Pierre's General Store sells the Cherry Sapling. Sometimes the Traveling Cart has a Cherry Sapling as well, priced above or below what Pierre asks.
The sapling is planted straight into plain ground. While it grows, the eight tiles around it must stay empty of objects, paths and flooring. Two fruit trees cannot share that space, so each tree needs at least two empty tiles between it and its neighbour. If debris or an object lands in the space, the sapling skips that night's growth. A message the next morning explains why.
The sapling passes through four stages and reaches full size after four weeks. It keeps growing in every season, Winter included. For a Spring tree, timing is everything. A sapling planted in the first Spring is not ready until Summer, so its first Cherries come the following Spring. Planted in Fall, or on the first day of Winter at the latest, it is ready for the first day of Spring.
After the tree is fully grown, the space around it is free again. Paths, chests and sprinklers can sit right beside it without harm.
The Cherries get better as the tree ages. One year after maturing, the tree gives silver-quality fruit. After two years the fruit is gold, and after three years it is iridium. The tree does this on its own.
A fruit tree cannot be picked up and carried. To move one, chop it down with an Axe. It drops wood and a Cherry Sapling of the same quality as its fruit. A higher-quality sapling grows to full size faster when replanted.
In the Greenhouse, a Cherry Tree fruits every day of the year. Fruit trees can stand on the stone edge inside the Greenhouse, which leaves the soil for crops. A Cherry Tree on the Ginger Island farm also fruits all year.
Storms are the one danger, because they bring lightning. A struck tree turns black and gives Coal instead of fruit for four days. It then returns to normal by itself, so it is best left standing.
Fruit
A full Spring of normal Cherries sells for about two thirds of the sapling's price. The tree has paid for itself during its second Spring. After that, each year's rise in quality adds a little more to every harvest.
Cherries are a good fit for machines. A Keg turns each Cherry into Cherry Wine, worth three times the raw fruit. A Preserves Jar makes Cherry Jelly, worth a little over double, in much less time. Both beat the same products made from Apricots by a clear margin. A Dehydrator turns five Cherries into one pack of Dried Cherries by the next morning. The Artisan profession adds forty percent to all three, while the Tiller profession raises the price of the raw fruit.
Kegs and Preserves Jars ignore fruit quality. A gold Cherry makes the same wine as a normal one. Normal-quality Cherries are therefore the ones to process, while the raw fruit from an old tree slowly gains on the wine.
Cherry is one of the choices for the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry.
The shopkeepers Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy all like Cherries. Jas, Leo and Vincent like them as well, as do the bachelors and bachelorettes Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. The Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard share that view, and so do the older residents Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam. That makes the fruit a safe Spring gift for nearly anyone in the valley.
Choosing the fruit bats for the Farm Cave brings Cherries and other fruit to the cave from time to time. The Traveling Cart can also sell single Cherries.
Notes
The Cherry Tree and the Apricot Tree are the two Spring trees. The Apricot Sapling is cheaper, but the Cherry pays more from every Keg and Preserves Jar.
Spring trees give the lowest return of the fruit trees. A Cherry Tree is still a steady earner once it is grown, and it looks after itself.
Buy the sapling in Fall of the first year to have Cherries from the very first day of the next Spring.
All Fruit Trees
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Season | Fruit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Tree | 
|
Fall | Apple |
| Apricot Tree | 
|
Spring | Apricot |
| Banana Tree | 
|
All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley | Banana |
| Cherry Tree | 
|
Spring | Cherry |
| Mango Tree | 
|
All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley | Mango |
| Orange Tree | 
|
Summer | Orange |
| Peach Tree | 
|
Summer | Peach |
| Pomegranate Tree | 
|
Fall | Pomegranate |