Pomegranate Tree

Pomegranate Tree

Type	Fruit Tree
Sapling	Pomegranate Sapling
Sapling Price	6000g
Growth Time	28 days
Season	Fall
Fruit	Pomegranate

The Pomegranate Tree is a Fall fruit tree that gives one Pomegranate every day of the season once it has grown. Its sapling shares the top price at Pierre's General Store with the Peach Sapling. The fruit matches the Peach as the most valuable from any tree sold in the valley. Pomegranates fill a slot in the Enchanter's Bundle and count toward the Artisan Bundle. Elliott loves them, so the tree keeps a steady supply of gifts for him. In the Greenhouse or on Ginger Island, the tree fruits all year.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells the Pomegranate Sapling. Now and then the Traveling Cart sells the sapling as well, for more or less than Pierre charges.

The sapling is planted in plain ground. During growth, the eight tiles that surround the Pomegranate Sapling must stay clear of objects, paths and flooring. Two fruit trees cannot share that space, so each needs at least two empty tiles between it and the next. If debris or an object fills the space, the sapling does not grow that night. A message the next morning says the tree could not grow.

The Pomegranate Sapling moves through four stages over four weeks before it is fully grown. It keeps growing in every season, Winter included. For a Fall tree, the time to plant is Summer. A sapling planted on the first day of Summer is ready on the first day of Fall. Buying early in the first year means fruit in the very first Fall.

Once the tree is fully grown, the space around it is free to use. Paths, chests and sprinklers can sit right beside it.

The fruit improves with the tree's age. One year after the tree matures, it gives silver-quality Pomegranates. After two years they are gold, and after three years every Pomegranate is iridium. Time alone does this.

A fruit tree cannot be picked up and moved. To move one, chop it down with an Axe. The tree drops wood and a Pomegranate Sapling of the same quality as its fruit. A higher-quality sapling reaches full size faster when replanted.

In the Greenhouse, a Pomegranate Tree fruits every day of the year. Trees can go on the stone edge of the Greenhouse, which leaves all the soil for crops. A tree on the Ginger Island farm also fruits all year.

Storms are the one danger, because they bring lightning. After a strike the tree turns black, and for four days it drops Coal in place of fruit. It then recovers on its own, so it is best left standing.

Fruit

A full Fall of normal Pomegranates sells for well over half the price of the sapling. The tree has paid for itself during its second Fall. Every year after that, rising quality makes the harvest worth more.

A Keg turns each Pomegranate into Pomegranate Wine, worth three times the raw fruit. Only Banana Wine, from a Ginger Island tree, is worth more among fruit-tree wines. A Preserves Jar makes Pomegranate Jelly, worth a little over double, and it is ready much sooner. A Dehydrator turns five Pomegranates into one pack of Dried Pomegranates by the next morning. All three products gain forty percent with the Artisan profession, while the Tiller profession lifts the raw fruit's price.

Kegs and Preserves Jars ignore fruit quality. An iridium Pomegranate makes the same wine as a normal one. Normal-quality fruit is the best to process, while raw fruit from an old tree gains on the wine every year.

Pomegranate is part of the Enchanter's Bundle on the Bulletin Board. It is also one of the choices for the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. A tree planted in the first Summer covers both by the end of the first Fall.

Elliott loves Pomegranates. Abigail, Alex, Caroline, Clint, Demetrius, the Dwarf, Emily, Evelyn, George, Gus, 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 Pomegranate Tree in the Greenhouse keeps a loved gift for Elliott on hand in every season.

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

Notes

The Pomegranate Tree and the Apple Tree are the two Fall trees. The Apple Sapling is cheaper, but each Pomegranate is worth noticeably more.

Pomegranate and Peach Trees are a popular pair for the Greenhouse edge. Both give the highest-value valley fruit, and indoors they fruit every day instead of one season a year.

Buy the sapling during the first Summer to have Pomegranates for the Enchanter's Bundle in the first Fall.

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