Eggplant Seeds

Eggplant Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Eggplant
Season	Fall
Growth Time	5 days
Pierre	20g
JojaMart	25g
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	10g

Eggplant Seeds are the cheapest thing Pierre sells in Fall, and they behave like the expensive seeds do. The bush comes good in under a week and then keeps producing to the end of the season, so one packet yields five times over instead of once. That combination of a low price and a regrowing plant makes eggplant the crop to reach for when a bad Summer has left the purse thin, because a whole field can be sown for less than a handful of cranberry seed. The Community Center wants one Eggplant for its Fall Crops Bundle, which gives even a profit-chasing farm a reason to keep a few bushes going. Nothing about the packet is complicated: buy a lot, sow early, and let the bed run.

Growing

Five days of growth bring the first fruit, which is as quick as Fall gets, and the bush is then picked every five days and left standing. Each picking hands over a single Eggplant, with a very slim chance of more, so the yield comes from the number of bushes rather than from any one of them.

A bed sown on the opening morning of Fall gives five pickings before Winter, with the last one landing neatly inside the season. Delaying costs a whole picking for every five days of hesitation, which on a seed this cheap is an argument for buying far more than seems necessary on the first day.

The deadline is late and generous. A seed put in as late as the twenty-third is ready to pick on the closing day of Fall and gives one fruit, so a plot that falls empty in the last week still earns something from a fresh sowing. Winter kills whatever is left standing, ripe fruit and all, which puts the final walk round the bed on the closing day of Fall.

Because the price is so low, fertiliser decisions change character. Quality Fertilizer costs more than the seed under it, which means a fertilised eggplant bed is a deliberate choice about grades rather than a routine one. Deluxe Speed-Gro does something more useful: trimming the five Day Cycle can fit an extra picking into the season across the whole bed.

Under Greenhouse glass the bush never dies back, and a plot of eggplant turns into a quiet supply of fruit that asks for nothing but water. For a Greenhouse that is still filling up, it is the cheapest regrowing bed to lay down.

Buying

Pierre's General Store carries the packet through Fall at the lowest price in town, and that price is low enough that stocking a field is a rounding error against anything else bought that season. JojaMart lists the same seed higher, so the warehouse only earns the walk on Pierre's closed days.

Winter holds one chance to buy Fall seed. On the seventeenth the Magic Shop Boat at the beach docks lists eggplant with the rest of the Fall seeds, at the figure Pierre asks, which suits a Greenhouse bed and lets a farm hold next year's field in a chest through Winter.

The Traveling Cart is the one route to refuse outright. Her lowest asking price for a packet of Eggplant Seeds is several times what Pierre charges, and on a seed this cheap the markup is absurd rather than merely annoying.

Free seed arrives often enough to matter. Mixed Seeds sown in Fall come up as Eggplant about as readily as Artichoke, Corn or Pumpkin, treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern can hold stacks of the seed, and Mystery Boxes opened at the Blacksmith pay out in vegetable seed packets. A Seed Maker will also turn a harvested fruit into seed, though with a price like this the machine almost always has something better to chew on.

Uses

The packet exists to be planted, and its one other job is the Community Center. The Fall Crops Bundle asks for a single Eggplant alongside Corn, Pumpkin and Yam, and five days from sowing to fruit makes eggplant the fastest of those four to deliver. A farm that reaches Fall with the Pantry unfinished should put eggplant in the ground on the first day for that reason alone.

Keeping a stack in reserve has a practical use beyond that. Because the bush is cheap and quick, a bag of eggplant seed is the handiest way to fill any plot that has just been cleared, which keeps tilled and watered soil working instead of idling for a week.

The Seed Maker runs the other way on this one, taking a fruit and returning seed, but the sums rarely favour it. The shop price is lower than the fruit is worth, so the machine earns more running something dear.

Handing the packet over as a present is a dead end. Every villager who reacts to a bag of eggplant seed dislikes it.

Notes

Buy far more than the plan calls for on the first day of Fall. The packet is cheap enough that over-buying costs almost nothing, and every five days of delay costs a picking across the whole bed.

Keep sowing right to the end of the third week. A seed in the ground on the twenty-third still returns a fruit, which is more than most Fall seeds manage that late.

Lay an eggplant bed in the Greenhouse before anything expensive goes under glass. It regrows on a five Day Cycle, never dies back indoors, and costs almost nothing to set up.

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