Cranberries

Cranberries

Type	Crop
Season	Fall
Seed	Cranberry Seeds
Growth Time	7 days

Cranberries are a Fall fruit bush and one of the best money crops of that season. The seeds cost a lot, but a single planting keeps giving berries every five days until winter. Each harvest gives at least two berries, so one seed returns its price several times over. Cranberries go into four dishes, including Cranberry Sauce, Stuffing and the Super Meal. They are the Fall answer to Blueberries in Summer: a crop planted once and picked all season.

The in-game description reads: These tart red berries are a traditional winter food.

Growing

Cranberries grow through five stages before the first harvest. After that, the bush regrows and gives berries every five days for the rest of Fall.

Each harvest gives two berries, with a small chance of an extra one. A Fall 1 planting gives five harvests before winter, which adds up to around ten berries from one seed.

Pierre's General Store sells the seeds in Fall. JojaMart also stocks them, at a higher price. A Seed Maker can turn berries back into seeds.

Speed-Gro and the Agriculturist profession only shorten the first growth. The five-day regrowth stays the same. A small speed boost can still fit in an extra harvest if it moves the first one earlier.

Quality fertilizer only affects the first berry of each harvest. The second berry is always normal quality, so fertilizer adds less here than on single-harvest crops. Deluxe Fertilizer makes iridium berries possible.

On its second day, the young plant looks almost like a dead crop, just without the brown colour. It is still growing, so leave it in the ground.

Cranberries keep producing all year in the Greenhouse and on Ginger Island.

Prices

Planted on the first of Fall, a bush earns back its seed cost about three times over by winter. Among the regular Fall crops, few beat it for profit per day. The big seed cost is the only hurdle, so Cranberries suit a farm that saved money over Summer.

The Tiller profession adds ten percent to the raw price.

As a fruit, Cranberries make wine in a Keg or jelly in a Preserves Jar. Wine is worth a little more, but jelly is far quicker. The Artisan profession adds forty percent to both. With two berries per harvest, a big field produces more fruit than most farms have machines for. Jelly keeps up better because the jars empty faster.

The Dehydrator turns five berries into one pack of dried Cranberries by the next day. It is quick, but five jars of jelly are worth much more than one pack.

Uses

Cooking one Cranberry with one Sugar makes Cranberry Sauce. Gus mails the recipe at seven hearts of friendship. It gives a Mining buff, which helps on long trips down the mines.

Cooking Bread with Cranberries and a Hazelnut makes Stuffing. Pam mails the recipe at seven hearts. It gives a Defense buff.

Cooking Cranberries with an Apple and Sugar makes Cranberry Candy. The Queen of Sauce teaches it at the end of the first Winter.

Cooking Cranberries with Bok Choy and Artichoke makes the Super Meal. Kent mails the recipe at seven hearts. It raises maximum energy and adds a point of speed.

In tailoring, Cranberries in the Sewing Machine make dyeable Farmer Pants. They also work as a red dye in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house.

Cooking

Cooking Cranberries with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Cranberry Candy		Cranberries (1), Apple (1), Sugar (1)
Cranberry Sauce		Cranberries (1), Sugar (1)
Stuffing		Bread (1), Cranberries (1), Hazelnut (1)
Super Meal		Bok Choy (1), Cranberries (1), Artichoke (1)

Gifts

Demetrius, Elliott, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like Cranberries.

Abigail, Haley, Jas and Vincent dislike them.

The Dwarf, Krobus and the Wizard feel neutral about Cranberries. Alex, Emily, Maru, Penny, Sam and Sebastian feel neutral about it as well, as does Leo. The older residents Caroline, Evelyn, George and Lewis feel neutral about it too, and so do Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre and Willy.

Notes

Plant Cranberries on the very first day of Fall. A late planting loses whole harvests, and each lost harvest is two or more berries.

Save some berries at the end of Fall. All four recipes need them, and the bushes do not survive into winter outdoors.

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