Orange Tree

Orange Tree

Type	Fruit Tree
Sapling	Orange Sapling
Sapling Price	4000g
Growth Time	28 days
Season	Summer
Fruit	Orange

The Orange Tree is a Summer fruit tree that gives one Orange every day of the season once it has grown. Its sapling sits in the middle of Pierre's price range, the same as the Apple Sapling, and its fruit sells for the same as an Apple. It is the cheaper of the two Summer trees sold in the valley. Gus loves Oranges, which makes the tree a steady way to build friendship with him. In the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island, the tree fruits all year.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells the Orange Sapling. It also turns up at the Traveling Cart from time to time, where the price can beat Pierre's or exceed it.

The sapling is planted in plain ground. While it grows, the eight tiles around it must stay clear of objects, paths and flooring. Two fruit trees cannot share that space, so each one needs at least two empty tiles between it and the next. If something blocks the space overnight, the sapling does not grow that night. A message the next morning says the tree could not grow.

An Orange Sapling grows through four stages and reaches maturity after four weeks. It grows in every season, Winter included. For a Summer tree, the best time to plant is during Spring. A sapling planted on the first day of Spring is ready on the first day of Summer and fruits for the whole season. A sapling planted in early Summer still gives a short first harvest before Fall.

Once the tree is fully grown, the area around it is free to use. Paths, chests and other objects can go right next to it.

The Oranges improve with the tree's age. One year after the tree matures, it gives silver-quality fruit. After two years the fruit is gold, and after three years every Orange is iridium. The tree does this on its own.

Fruit trees cannot be lifted and moved. Chopping one down with an Axe is the way to move it. The tree drops wood and an Orange Sapling of the same quality as its fruit. A higher-quality sapling grows to full size faster when replanted.

In the Greenhouse, an Orange Tree gives fruit every day of the year. Trees can go on the stone edge of the Greenhouse, which keeps the soil free for crops. A tree on the Ginger Island farm also fruits all year round.

Storms are the one danger. Lightning sometimes strikes a fruit tree and leaves it burnt. For four days it gives Coal instead of Oranges, then it recovers by itself. A burnt tree is best left standing.

Fruit

A full Summer of normal Oranges sells for most of the sapling's price. The tree has paid for itself early in its second Summer. Each later year brings better quality and more gold per Orange.

A Keg turns each Orange into Orange Wine, worth three times the raw fruit. A Preserves Jar makes Orange Jelly, worth a little over double, and it is ready much sooner. A Dehydrator turns five Oranges into one pack of Dried Oranges by the next morning. The Artisan profession adds forty percent to all three products. The Tiller profession raises the price of the raw fruit instead.

Kegs and Preserves Jars ignore fruit quality. An iridium Orange makes the same wine as a normal one. So the normal-quality fruit belongs in the machines, and the gap between raw fruit and wine narrows as the tree ages.

Orange is one of the choices for the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry.

Gus loves Oranges. Abigail, Alex, Caroline, Clint, Demetrius, the Dwarf, Elliott, Emily, Evelyn, George, Haley, Harvey, Jas, Jodi, Kent, Krobus, Leah, Leo, Lewis, Linus, Marnie, Maru, Pam, Penny, Pierre, Robin, Sam, Sandy, Sebastian, Shane, Vincent, Willy and the Wizard all like them. A single Orange Tree in the Greenhouse keeps a gift for Gus on hand all year.

Choosing the fruit bats for the Farm Cave brings Oranges and other fruit to the cave from time to time. The Traveling Cart can also sell single Oranges.

Notes

Plant the Orange Sapling in Spring, so it is ready for the first day of Summer.

The Orange Tree and the Peach Tree are the Summer trees sold in the valley. Peaches are worth more, but the Orange Sapling costs less. Banana and Mango Trees also fruit in Summer, but their saplings come from Ginger Island.

The Orange Tree is a good middle choice. It pays back faster than the dearest trees, and its fruit has a clear use as Gus's loved gift.

All Fruit Trees

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Season	Fruit
Apple Tree	Fall	Apple
Apricot Tree	Spring	Apricot
Banana Tree	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	Banana
Cherry Tree	Spring	Cherry
Mango Tree	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	Mango
Orange Tree	Summer	Orange
Peach Tree	Summer	Peach
Pomegranate Tree	Fall	Pomegranate