Cranberry Seeds

Cranberry Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Cranberries
Season	Fall
Growth Time	7 days
Pierre	240g
JojaMart	300g
Cart	360 to 1,000g
Sell Price	60g

Cranberry Seeds carry the heaviest price tag on Pierre's Fall shelf, and they are still the best thing to spend Fall gold on. Sow one on the morning Fall opens and it comes good inside a week, then keeps producing to the very end for five pickings in all, each handing over a pair of Cranberries rather than one. The return on a single seed runs to many times what it cost, which is why a full field of cranberries is the standard way a farm turns its first profitable Summer into a serious one. The only real decisions are when to stop sowing and whether to buy the next year's seed at all, because a Seed Maker can make the whole purchase a one-off.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in the fall. Takes 7 days to mature, and continues to produce after first harvest.

Growing

A week of growth brings the first pair of berries, and from then on the bush is picked every five days and left where it stands. Each picking gives two Cranberries, with a modest chance of extras on top, and good luck on the day pushes those extras higher.

Sowing on the first day of Fall gets the full five pickings, and every day of delay after that eats into the count. The cliff edges are worth knowing: the fifth picking only lands if the seed goes in during the first few days, so a field sown on the opening morning earns noticeably more than the same field sown at the end of the first week. For a seed this expensive that difference decides whether a bed is excellent or merely good.

The last useful sowing falls in the third week. A seed put in on the twenty-first comes good on the closing day of Fall and gives a single picking, which roughly covers its own cost and nothing beyond it. Past that date the soil is better given to something quick, because everything left in the ground dies when Winter arrives, ripe berries included.

Deluxe Speed-Gro is unusually valuable here. Shaving days off the initial week does not just bring the first picking forward, it can shift the whole five Day Cycle enough to fit an extra picking in before the season ends, which on cranberries is worth far more than the fertiliser costs.

Inside the Greenhouse the bush never dies back, so a cranberry bed planted once under glass simply keeps producing every five days for the rest of the save. That is the single best use a Greenhouse plot can be put to by a farm that likes regrowing crops.

Buying

Pierre's General Store stocks the seed through Fall and is the cheapest counter in town for it. JojaMart lists the same packet higher, so the warehouse is only worth the walk when Pierre has shut.

One counter sells them out of season. On the seventeenth of Winter the Magic Shop Boat at the beach docks carries the Fall seed list, cranberries included, at the figure Pierre asks. That is the one chance in the year to buy Fall seed outside Fall, which suits a Greenhouse bed that needs filling in Winter and lets a farm walk into the following Fall with its field already bought.

Twice a week the Traveling Cart sets up among the trees south of the farm, and cranberry seed sometimes sits on her tarpaulin, but her lowest price starts above Pierre's and runs much higher. On a seed this dear she occasionally looks tempting and almost never is.

Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern are the free route, and they can hold cranberry seed in stacks large enough to plant out a whole bed. On an expensive seed that find is worth far more than the same stack of a cheap one, which makes a desert run in late Summer a sensible piece of preparation for Fall.

Uses

The Seed Maker is where cranberries stop being expensive. A harvested berry fed into the machine comes back as seed, and because the shop price is so high, the gold saved on one batch dwarfs the value of the berries given up. A farm that runs a few pickings through the machine each Fall never pays Pierre for cranberry seed a second time.

That makes the first purchase the only one that matters. Buying a modest bed in the first Fall, feeding part of the harvest to the Seed Maker, and sowing the saved seed the following year grows the field for nothing.

Seed left over at the end of the season belongs in a chest rather than the shipping bin, since the shop buys seed back for a small share of what it charges, while the same packet plants at full value a year later.

Offering the packet as a present is wasted. Every villager who reacts to a bag of cranberry seed dislikes it.

Notes

Sow on the first morning of Fall or not at all. The gap between an opening day field and a second week field is one whole picking across every bush.

Run part of the harvest through a Seed Maker before Winter. The seed saved is worth more than the berries spent, and it turns next year's field into a free one.

Give a Greenhouse plot to cranberries once the glass is up. The bush regrows on a five Day Cycle and never dies back indoors, so one planting keeps paying out indefinitely.

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