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Pepper Seeds

Pepper Seeds
Pepper Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Hot Pepper
Season Summer
Growth Time 5 days
Pierre 40g
JojaMart 50g
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 20g

Pepper Seeds are the cheapest way to put something in Summer soil that keeps paying. Five days after sowing the plant offers its first Hot Pepper, and it then sets another every three days without being replanted. A packet opened on the first morning of Summer can be picked eight times before the season turns, which is why a pepper bed is usually the one that funds the expensive blueberry and melon rows beside it. Every picking also rolls a small chance of a second pepper off the same stalk. The Community Center asks for one Hot Pepper in the Summer Crops Bundle, Shane is delighted to be handed one, and the island kitchen cooks them into curry, so a short row covers several jobs at once.


Growing

Five one-day stages take the seed to a pickable plant, and the plant then stays where it is. Picking does not clear the tile: the stalk sets another pepper over the following three days and carries on doing so until Summer ends.

That regrowth makes the sowing date forgiving. A bed put in on the opening morning of the season reaches eight pickings by its close, and each day of delay costs one picking rather than the whole crop. Even a packet sown in the last week ripens and gives a pepper or two before the frost.

Now and then a plant yields two peppers at a picking instead of one. The chance is slight, but it applies at every picking, and across a long row and a full season it quietly adds a harvest's worth. That is one more argument for sowing wide rather than deep.

Fertiliser behaves oddly on a crop picked over and over. Speed-Gro shortens only the first five days, so it buys one extra picking at best. Quality fertiliser keeps earning all season, because every picking is graded afresh, and a fertilised row is the easiest place to find gold peppers for a quest or a keg run.

A ripe pepper left on the stalk for a day or two comes to no harm. Under Greenhouse glass and on the Ginger Island farm the season never ends, so one sowing there keeps producing for years.

Buying

Pierre's General Store stocks the packet through Summer and sells it for less than anyone else. JojaMart keeps the identical seed behind its counter at a higher figure, which only matters on a Wednesday when Pierre's door is shut.

A cheaper habit than buying in season is buying out of it. The Magic Shop Boat moors at the Night Market on the sixteenth of Winter with Pepper Seeds among its goods at the shop's own price, so the row can be bought and stored two months before there is soil to put it in.

The Traveling Cart carries the packet now and then in Cindersap Forest, and her lowest asking price starts at more than twice what Pierre wants. For seed this cheap the walk out to her is never the answer.

Free stacks arrive in bulk once the mines are open. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern hold five to twenty packets in a single find, and a Mystery Box or Golden Mystery Box cracked open at the Blacksmith pays out eight to twenty. Either is more seed than one Summer can use. Mixed Seeds sown in Summer also come up as peppers sometimes, which adds plants to a bed without any purchase at all.

One picked pepper dropped into a Seed Maker comes back as packets, so a farm that keeps a single fruit aside never buys the seed again.

Uses

Reaching three hearts with Shane brings the recipe for Pepper Poppers in the post. It asks for one Hot Pepper and one Cheese, and it is the usual early reason to grow the crop at all. George parts with the Spicy Eel recipe at seven hearts, and that dish pairs a pepper with an Eel for a boost to luck and fishing. On Ginger Island, Gus sells the Tropical Curry recipe at the resort, and the pot takes a Hot Pepper, a Coconut and a Pineapple together.

Shane counts the raw pepper among his loved gifts, which turns one stalk into a steady supply of goodwill with the hardest villager in town to warm up. Offering him the packet instead gets nowhere, since seed goes down badly all round Pelican Town.

A Seed Maker runs the trade the other way, taking a picked pepper and handing packets back.

Notes

Sow the row on the first morning of Summer if the gold is there. Every day the packet sits in a bag is one picking fewer, and the gap between a first-day bed and a mid-month bed runs to several harvests.

Keep the row short and the visits regular. A pepper bed pays in attention rather than in acreage, so it belongs on the path the day already takes.

Hold one pepper back from the shipping bin before the season ends. A Seed Maker turns it into next Summer's row at no cost.

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