Deluxe Speed-Gro
| Deluxe Speed-Gro | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Farming Level 8 |
| Produces | 5 Deluxe Speed-Gro per craft |
| Sell Price | 40g |
Deluxe Speed-Gro is the middle step in the growth fertiliser line, between Speed-Gro and Hyper Speed-Gro. Mixed into the soil, it makes a crop reach harvest about a quarter faster. The Agriculturist profession pushes that close to a third. Shorter growing times can fit an extra harvest into a season, which is where the fertiliser earns its keep. It is easy to get hold of: farmers can craft it, buy it in two shops, or pull it from a Bone Mill.
The in-game description reads: Stimulates leaf production. Guaranteed to increase growth rate by at least 25%. Mix into tilled soil.
Recipe
The recipe unlocks at Farming level 8. Crafting one Oak Resin with five Bone Fragments makes a batch of five bags. A Tapper on an Oak Tree collects the resin. Bone Fragments drop from Skeletons and other monsters, and breaking bone nodes at the Ginger Island Dig Site gives more.
Buying is the other route. Pierre's General Store stocks it from the second year onward. The Oasis in the Calico Desert sells it on Thursdays for less than Pierre charges. Demetrius sells it for Calico Eggs at his stall during the Desert Festival.
It also arrives as a bonus in several places. A Bone Mill fed with bones sometimes produces a handful. Opening a Mystery Box or a Golden Mystery Box can give a stack. The gift exchange at the Feast of the Winter Star sometimes hands over a bundle of bags too.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Resin | 
|
1 |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
5 |
Use
The bag goes onto tilled soil, either before the seed goes in or at any point while the crop grows. Each tile holds only one fertiliser, so it cannot be stacked with a quality fertiliser on the same spot.
Timing matters. The speed boost is worked out stage by stage, and early stages lose the most days. Mixing it in on planting day gives the full effect. Applied later, it only shortens the stages still to come, so the saving is much smaller than the label promises.
Regrowing crops gain less than single-harvest ones. The fertiliser speeds up the wait for the first picking only. After that, Blueberries, Cranberries and other regrowing crops return on their normal schedule. One-harvest crops gain the most, because every replanting starts the clock again with the full boost.
Variants
The other fertilisers in the game, with what each one takes and where the recipe comes from.
| Name | Image | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Fertilizer | 
|
Sap (2) | Farming Level 1 |
| Basic Retaining Soil | 
|
Stone (2) | Farming Level 4 |
| Deluxe Fertilizer | 
|
Iridium Bar (1), Sap (40) | Qi's Walnut Room (20) |
| Deluxe Retaining Soil | 
|
Stone (5), Fiber (3), Clay (1) | Island Trader for Cinder Shard (50) |
| Hyper Speed-Gro | 
|
Radioactive Ore (1), Bone Fragment (3), Solar Essence (1) | Qi's Walnut Room for 30 |
| Quality Fertilizer | 
|
Sap (4), Any Fish (1) | Farming Level 9 |
| Quality Retaining Soil | 
|
Stone (3), Clay (1) | Farming Level 7 |
| Speed-Gro | 
|
Pine Tar (1), Moss (5) | Farming Level 3 |
| Tree Fertilizer | 
|
Fiber (5), Stone (5) | Foraging Level 7 |
Notes
Agriculturist and Deluxe Speed-Gro work well together. The profession adds its own tenth on top of the quarter the bag already takes off.
A single Oak Resin and a few Bone Fragments cover five tiles. Once a few Oak Trees carry Tappers, a steady supply of resin keeps the recipe running.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
