Peach Sapling

Peach Sapling

Type	Seed
Grows	Peach
Season	Summer
Growth Time	28 days
Pierre	6,000g
Cart	4,500 to 7,500g
Sell Price	1500g

The Peach Sapling is the most expensive thing on Pierre's seed shelf in Summer, and the reason farms buy it anyway is the price of a Peach. No other tree the valley sells produces fruit worth as much, which makes Peach Wine one of the strongest reasons to build a cellar full of Kegs. The sapling takes four weeks to become a Peach Tree, so the money is spent in Spring and the harvest comes in Summer. Robin loves Peaches, so one tree also keeps the carpenter cheerful while the barns go up. Lewis's Prize Machine hands out a Peach or Orange Sapling as its second prize at even odds, which is the only way most farms get this one for nothing.

Growing

A fruit tree sapling claims a three by three footprint while it grows. The sapling sits in the middle, and nothing may occupy the ring around it, whether that is paving, a fence post, a fallen branch or a chest nudged into one corner. Every night something sits there is a night the tree does not advance, and the next morning's report says as much, which saves a fortnight of wondering why nothing has happened.

Those footprints cannot overlap, so an orchard laid out properly puts a tree on every third tile. Debris creeping back in is the usual culprit when one sapling in a row falls behind its neighbours, and a quick sweep with the Scythe before bed fixes it.

The four weeks of growth run through every season without pause, Winter included, which turns the sowing date into simple counting. A Peach Sapling planted on the opening day of Spring is a grown tree on the opening day of Summer, and that single date is the difference between a full season of fruit and none at all. A sapling put in once Summer has started matures in Fall with nothing to show, waits out Winter and Spring, and only begins to pay in its second year. For a tree this expensive that delay is the costliest mistake available.

The money comes back faster than the price suggests. A full Summer of plain Peaches is worth well over half of what the sapling cost, so the tree clears its own price during its second Summer and everything after that is profit. The fruit improves on its own as well, climbing a quality grade each year after the tree matures until every Peach is iridium, so the same tree earns more every Summer without any further work.

Moving a tree is cheaper than replacing it. An Axe takes a grown Peach Tree down and returns a sapling carrying the quality grade its fruit had reached, and a graded sapling grows back to full size faster than a fresh one from the shop.

Buying

Pierre keeps the sapling on the shelf all year round, which means the purchase can be made in Winter and planted on the first morning of Spring without any rush.

The Traveling Cart stocks saplings now and then on her forest rounds, and for this one her range runs from a useful saving to well above the shop price. Given the sums involved, a cheap cart offer on a Peach Sapling is one of the better bargains in the game, and an expensive one is the worst.

Prize Tickets are the free route. The second slot in the Mayor's Manor Prize Machine holds this sapling or the Orange one, decided at random, and tickets are earned from marked Help Wanted quests, completed Special Orders and festival games rather than gambled for. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern occasionally hold saplings among their stacks, and a Mystery Box can produce one, though the odds there are long. A find like that in the first year is worth more than its gold value, since the years that improve the fruit begin counting the day the tree matures.

Uses

A spare sapling sells back for a quarter of the shop price, which makes selling one close to throwing it away. The better answer is the Greenhouse, where a tree on the stone border bears a Peach every single day of the year and uses none of the soil. Peach and Pomegranate Trees are the usual choice for that border for exactly this reason, since both give the highest-value fruit the valley sells.

The fruit's uses justify the outlay. A Keg turns each Peach into Peach Wine at several times the fruit's value, a Preserves Jar makes Peach Jelly much sooner for a smaller gain, and the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry accepts a Peach. Robin takes a Peach as a loved gift any day of the year.

Handed over as a present, the sapling itself pleases nobody in the valley, so a surplus belongs under glass.

Notes

Harvest a mature tree at least every third day. Fruit stacks up to three on the branches and then the tree stops producing, so a long trip to the island costs real gold from an orchard.

Prepare the ground before buying. Four weeks of growth is a long time to lose to a stray stone in the ring, and this is the sapling where that mistake hurts most.

Spend the first Prize Tickets early. The second prize slot is a sapling worth thousands, and claiming it in the first year starts the quality clock that much sooner.

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