Pomegranate Sapling

Pomegranate Sapling

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

The Pomegranate Sapling is the dearest tree on Pierre's shelf, and it is bought with Fall in mind. Four weeks of growth stand between planting and the first fruit, and the tree then gives one Pomegranate every day of the season, year after year, with no watering and no replanting. The fruit is wanted at the Community Center twice over: the Enchanter's Bundle asks for a Pomegranate and a bottle of Wine, and one tree with a Keg behind it answers both lines by itself. A Keg also turns the daily fruit into Pomegranate Wine, which is where a grown tree stops looking expensive. Price is the only real obstacle, and the way round it is to get the sapling into the ground in the first year the gold allows.

Growing

Four stages of a week each carry the sapling to a fruiting tree, and the count runs through every season, Winter included. Only the planting date can be chosen, so the arithmetic is worth doing before the gold goes: a tree meant to fruit across the whole of Fall has to be standing in the soil four weeks earlier, and each day later costs one Pomegranate off the first autumn.

The sapling wants rough ground and elbow room. All eight tiles touching it have to stay clear of objects, paths, flooring and litter until the tree is up, and a morning message reports each night of growth lost to something in the way. Two neighbouring trees cannot both keep their ring, so an orchard row leaves two bare tiles between trunks.

Once the trunk is grown the ring stops mattering, and paving, chests and sprinklers can sit right against the bark. Fruit quality then climbs with the years the tree has stood, which means the orchard planted earliest stays permanently the better one.

Inside the Greenhouse the seasons stop applying altogether and the tree fruits on every day of the year. For a sapling costing this much, a slot along the Greenhouse border is the best return it can be given.

Buying

Pierre's General Store keeps the sapling in stock in all four seasons rather than only in Fall, which is what makes a Summer planting possible at all.

The Traveling Cart carries saplings on her forest days, and her asking band for this one runs both below and above Pierre's figure. A glance at her mat on the way past is worth it, since the low end of that band is a genuine saving on a tree this expensive, but waiting for her is not a plan.

Several routes give the sapling away. Lewis's Prize Machine in the Mayor's Manor lists it among the dearer prizes, won on a coin flip against the Apple Sapling, and the tickets that feed the machine come from starred Help Wanted jobs and finished Special Orders rather than from luck. Deep Skull Cavern treasure rooms give saplings up among their seed stacks, and Clint's Mystery Boxes hold one now and then. For a farm that cannot yet face six thousand gold, any of those is the whole orchard.

Selling a spare sapling back returns only a fraction of the shop price, so a second one belongs under Greenhouse glass rather than in the bin.

Uses

The Enchanter's Bundle on the Bulletin Board is the reason many farms buy this tree in the first place. It asks for one Pomegranate alongside Oak Resin, a Rabbit's Foot and a bottle of Wine, and a Keg fed the tree's own fruit supplies the wine as well as the fruit. Five Gold Bars come back for it. The Artisan Bundle in the Pantry accepts a Pomegranate as one of its six items too, so a single Fall harvest can be pointed at two rooms at once.

Pomegranate Wine is a steady keg product rather than a spectacular one, worth several times the raw fruit and more again after a spell in a Cask. Volume is what does the work here: a whole Fall of one fruit a day fills a keg row without a single seed being planted.

Saplings are unwelcome as presents throughout the village, which leaves the fruit as the thing worth wrapping.

Notes

Count back four weeks from the first day of Fall before spending. This is the one purchase where a week of hesitation costs a week of fruit.

Give the Greenhouse border to the dearest trees. Under glass a Pomegranate turns one month of fruit a year into twelve.

Point the first Fall harvest at the Bulletin Board. One fruit and one bottle of its own wine close the Enchanter's Bundle, and the gold bars that come back outweigh a month of shipped fruit.

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