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Mixed Flower Seeds

Mixed Flower Seeds
Mixed Flower Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Varies
Season Spring Summer Fall
Growth Time Varies
Sell Price 0g

Mixed Flower Seeds are a free lottery ticket for a flower bed. Cutting summer weeds with almost any tool drops them, so a farm that clears its own ground collects them without trying. What grows is not decided until the seed is in the soil, and the draw comes from the flowers of whatever season that is. The same packet is therefore worth very different things at different points in the year: a Spring planting can only come up as a Tulip or a Blue Jazz, while a Fall planting has a real chance at a Fairy Rose, the flower behind the most valuable honey on any farm. The seeds fetch nothing over a counter, which settles the question of what to do with them.


Growing

The crop is chosen at the moment of planting, and from then on the plant behaves exactly like the flower it became. A bed sown from one stack comes up mixed, with different flowers ripening on different days and asking for different numbers of watering mornings.

The season at planting time sets the pool. Spring draws from Tulip Bulb and Jazz Seeds. Summer draws from Sunflower Seeds, Spangle Seeds and Poppy Seeds. Fall draws from Sunflower Seeds and Fairy Seeds. A seed planted on Ginger Island always gives the summer set, whatever the mainland calendar says.

Winter is the odd case and the useful one. The seed cannot go into outdoor soil at all once Winter arrives, but indoors, in the Greenhouse or in a Garden Pot, a winter planting draws from every season's flowers at once. That is the only way a mixed seed will ever produce a Fairy Rose in the middle of Winter.

Shelter does not otherwise widen the draw. Indoors in Summer the pool is still the three summer flowers, so a Greenhouse buys growing time rather than variety.

Buying

Nothing stocks these over a counter in Pelican Town, and nothing has to. Weeds cut down in Summer drop them, and the tool that cuts the weed makes no difference at all. Bombs count too. The drop only happens when neither Fiber nor plain Mixed Seeds come out instead, and reading the Raccoon Journal raises the odds for the rest of the save.

The Desert Festival is the one place they are actually sold. Emily, Evelyn and Jodi all keep stalls there, all three trade in Calico Eggs rather than coin, and all three sell Mixed Flower Seeds in bulk for very few eggs. Since Calico Eggs are worth nothing the moment the festival packs up, turning a surplus into a stack of flower seed is a far better ending for them than watching them vanish.

Three other places hand them over in quantity. A Mystery Box holds ten of them now and then. The prize machine in the Mayor's Manor gives fifteen as one of its middle prizes. Supply Crates washed up on the Beach Farm hold four or five.

Uses

Planting is the only thing the seed does, so the question is purely when. Fall is the best draw by a distance, because a Fairy Rose raised from a free seed produces the most valuable honey a Bee House can make, and the other outcome is no loss either, since a Sunflower sown in Summer carries on through Fall and keeps a hive supplied across the season change. Summer is respectable, with Poppy and Summer Spangle both worth more at a hive than anything Spring can offer. Spring is the weak draw, and a spring stack is usually better held back for a season than put straight into the ground.

A ring of Bee Houses around a mixed bed costs nothing to supply, since the flowers arrived free and the hives only need one in range. Leaving that bed uncut is what keeps the jars flavoured, because a hive reads the flower when the jar is collected.

Villagers dislike receiving them and no shop will buy them back, so the ground really is the only sensible destination for a stack.

Notes

Hoard the summer drops instead of sowing them as they arrive. The same stack is worth considerably more in the ground in Fall, where a Fairy Rose is among the possible results.

Keep a mixed bed away from any single-flower bed grown for a particular hive. A hive takes its flavour from a flower in range and cannot be told which one, so cheap blooms scattered among valuable ones will cost jars.

Save a handful for a Garden Pot in Winter. Indoors out of season the draw opens up to every flower in the game, which is the one time the gamble is worth taking deliberately rather than for free.

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