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Fairy Seeds

Fairy Seeds
Fairy Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Fairy Rose
Season Fall
Growth Time 12 days
Pierre 200g
JojaMart 250g
Cart 300 to 1,000g
Sell Price 100g

Fairy Seeds are the dearest packet on Pierre's Fall shelf, and a full field of them is a painful purchase in a first autumn. The flower they raise, Fairy Rose, is grown for honey far more often than for the shipping bin, which changes how many packets a farm actually needs: a ring of Bee Houses only wants a plant or two standing in the middle of it. The saving lies in where the seeds come from. Jas sells a block of twenty-five for a few Calico Eggs at the Desert Festival in Spring, months before the Fall shelf opens, and a Seed Maker turns each cut flower back into packets. The one firm rule is the calendar, because twelve days of growing make the sixteenth of Fall the last morning a sowing still blooms.


Growing

A packet sown into watered soil takes twelve days to open, and then the plant is cut once and finished. Every later bloom needs another packet in the ground.

Two rounds fit into Fall and no more. A bed opened on the first morning blooms on the thirteenth, and a packet put straight back into the same tile flowers again on the twenty-fifth. After the sixteenth a sowing cannot ripen before the season turns, and a plant still standing when Winter arrives is lost along with the packet that bought it.

Speed-Gro pulls those twelve days in, and because nothing here regrows, the fertiliser helps every round rather than only the opening one. Deluxe Speed-Gro in the hands of an Agriculturist shaves away more than a third of the wait, which opens real slack at the end of the season.

Each plant opens in one of several colours, settled when it blooms. The colour changes nothing about what the flower does, so a bed sown from one stack of packets still behaves as a single crop.

A honey bed is handled quite differently. The flower has to stay rooted for the Bee Houses around it to take its flavour, so those tiles are sown once and then left alone for the whole of Fall. A handful of packets becomes a season-long fixture rather than a crop to be cut and replaced.

Under glass the deadline stops mattering. A Fairy Rose in the Greenhouse or in the island soil on Ginger Island ignores the season, and the island keeps its Bee Houses working all year, which is where a serious honey operation ends up living.

Buying

Pierre's General Store is the cheaper of the two town counters through Fall. JojaMart stocks the identical packet and asks more for it, so the walk north buys nothing.

The Desert Festival is the real bargain. Two villagers set out stalls on each of the three Spring days of the festival, and when Jas is one of them she offers a block of twenty-five Fairy Seeds for a small pile of Calico Eggs. The eggs themselves are won at the festival games or dug out of the bin beside the Calico Egg Merchant, so the whole stack costs no gold at all. Which villagers turn up is drawn fresh each day, which makes the stalls worth a look on all three.

The Magic Shop Boat gives a second chance in Winter. It ties up at the beach for three nights, and its Fall range, Fairy Seeds included, comes out on the last of them for what Pierre asks. Buying there means next autumn's flowers are already sitting in a chest.

The Traveling Cart carries the packet now and then on her forest days, and even her lowest asking price sits above the General Store's. For a seed this expensive the cart is worth a glance rather than a plan.

Uses

The Seed Maker is what stops Fairy Seeds being an annual expense. A cut Fairy Rose fed to the machine comes back out as one, two or three packets, so a dozen harvested flowers pay for the next bed with some to spare. The machine also hands back a few Mixed Seeds on some runs, and very occasionally a packet of Ancient Seeds, which makes feeding spare blooms through it more attractive than shipping them while a patch is still being built up.

Honey tiles never reach that machine, since the flowers on them are never cut. A honey farm therefore wants a small cutting bed kept aside purely to keep the seed supply turning over.

Handing a packet to a villager goes down badly. Nearly everyone in town, Jas included, dislikes being given seed, so the bloom is what changes hands.

Notes

Visit Jas's stall on whichever festival day she appears. One stop covers a whole autumn of flowers in festival currency instead of gold.

Sow the honey tiles before the cutting bed. Those plants have to go in early and stay put, and the rest of the planting can be arranged around them afterwards.

Save a packet for Ginger Island. Flowers there bloom whatever the month, and the Bee Houses beside them keep filling, which is the only way to run Fairy Rose Honey outside Fall.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Grows Season Pierre
Acorn Acorn Oak Tree All -
Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Fall 70g
Ancient Seeds Ancient Seeds Ancient Fruit Spring; Summer; Fall -
Apple Sapling Apple Sapling Apple Fall 4,000g
Apricot Sapling Apricot Sapling Apricot Spring 2,000g
Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Fall 30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling Banana Sapling Banana All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Bean Starter Bean Starter Green Bean Spring 60g
Beet Seeds Beet Seeds Beet Fall -
Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Spring; Summer; Fall -
Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Summer 80g
Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Fall 50g
Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Fall -
Cactus Seeds Cactus Seeds Cactus Fruit All -
Carrot Seeds Carrot Seeds Carrot Spring -
Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Spring 80g
Cherry Sapling Cherry Sapling Cherry Spring 3,400g
Coffee Bean Coffee Bean - Spring; Summer -
Corn Seeds Corn Seeds Corn Summer; Fall 150g
Cranberry Seeds Cranberry Seeds Cranberries Fall 240g
Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Fall 20g
Fairy Seeds Fairy Seeds Fairy Rose Fall 200g
Fall Seeds Fall Seeds Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum Fall -
Fiber Seeds Fiber Seeds Fiber All -
Garlic Seeds Garlic Seeds Garlic Spring 40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter Grape Starter Grape Fall 60g
Grass Starter Grass Starter Grass Spring; Summer; Fall 100g
Hops Starter Hops Starter Hops Summer 60g
Jazz Seeds Jazz Seeds Blue Jazz Spring 30g
Kale Seeds Kale Seeds Kale Spring 70g
Mahogany Seed Mahogany Seed Mahogany Tree All -
Mango Sapling Mango Sapling Mango All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Maple Seed Maple Seed Maple Tree All -
Melon Seeds Melon Seeds Melon Summer 80g
Mixed Flower Seeds Mixed Flower Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mixed Seeds Mixed Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mossy Seed Mossy Seed Green Rain Tree All -
Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree All -
Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree All -
Orange Sapling Orange Sapling Orange Summer 4,000g
Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Spring 20g
Peach Sapling Peach Sapling Peach Summer 6,000g
Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds Hot Pepper Summer 40g
Pine Cone Pine Cone Pine Tree All -
Pineapple Seeds Pineapple Seeds Pineapple All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Fall 6,000g
Poppy Seeds Poppy Seeds Poppy Summer 100g
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds Potato Spring 50g
Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Winter -
Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Fall 100g
Qi Bean Qi Bean Qi Fruit All -
Radish Seeds Radish Seeds Radish Summer 40g
Rare Seed Rare Seed Sweet Gem Berry Fall -
Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Summer 100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Spring -
Rice Shoot Rice Shoot Unmilled Rice Spring 40g
Spangle Seeds Spangle Seeds Summer Spangle Summer 50g
Spring Seeds Spring Seeds Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion Spring -
Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Summer -
Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Spring -
Summer Seeds Summer Seeds Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea Summer -
Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Summer -
Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Summer; Fall 200g
Taro Tuber Taro Tuber Taro Root All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Tea Sapling Tea Sapling Tea Leaves All -
Tomato Seeds Tomato Seeds Tomato Summer 50g
Tulip Bulb Tulip Bulb Tulip Spring 20g
Wheat Seeds Wheat Seeds Wheat Summer; Fall 10g
Winter Seeds Winter Seeds Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root Winter -
Yam Seeds Yam Seeds Yam Fall 60g