Poppy

Poppy

Type	Crop
Season	Summer
Seed	Poppy Seeds
Growth Time	7 days
Sell Price	140g

The Poppy is a Summer flower with a split personality. As a gift it is the worst flower in the game: every villager hates it except Penny, who loves it. As a crop it is the best honey flower of the Summer, and Poppy Honey is worth far more than plain Wild Honey. The flower also goes into the Chef's Bundle and into Poppyseed Muffins, another of Penny's favourite gifts. Anyone courting Penny or running Bee Houses in Summer has a good reason to keep a patch of poppies.

The in-game description reads: In addition to its colorful flower, the Poppy has culinary and medicinal uses.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells Poppy Seeds during Summer. The flower is quick to grow, so a Summer can fit several rounds of poppies one after another. A seed planted on the first day of the season leaves room for three full harvests before Fall. The next seed simply has to go in on the day of each harvest.

Each flower is a single harvest. The plant does not regrow, so a fresh seed is needed after every pick. Speed-Gro helps fit in the extra rounds, and Quality Fertiliser or Deluxe Fertiliser improves the stars on each bloom.

A harvested Poppy comes out in one of three colours at random. The colours behave as different items, so they stack apart in the inventory and in chests. A field of poppies sorted by quality can therefore fill a dozen inventory slots.

Prices

Sold raw, the Poppy is a modest earner. The seed costs a large share of the sale price, so a single bloom only clears a small profit after the seed is paid for. The Tiller profession adds 10% to every raw sale.

The real value of the Poppy is honey. A Bee House within five tiles of a fully grown Poppy makes Poppy Honey instead of Wild Honey. Poppy Honey is worth almost four times as much as Wild Honey. The game sets flower honey at the price of Wild Honey plus twice the base price of the flower. The Poppy has the highest base price of any Summer flower. That makes it the strongest Summer choice for a honey farm. The Artisan profession raises the honey by a further 40%.

The bees do not use up the flower. One Poppy can feed every Bee House around it, so a single plant in the middle of a ring of hives is enough. The flower must stay in the ground until the honey is collected. Picking it early turns the next batch into Wild Honey. Speed-Gro on the Poppy gets the first batch of flower honey sooner.

Poppyseed Muffins sell for more than a raw Poppy, but the recipe also uses Wheat Flour and Sugar. The muffin is better kept as a gift than cooked for profit.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	140g	154g
Silver	175g	192g
Gold	210g	231g
Iridium	280g	308g

Uses

The Chef's Bundle in the Community Center Bulletin Board asks for one Poppy. Any colour fits the slot.

Cooking one Poppy with one Wheat Flour and one Sugar makes a Poppyseed Muffin. The Queen of Sauce teaches the recipe on television. Penny loves the muffin as well as the flower, so both are reliable ways to raise her friendship.

The Traveling Cart sometimes stocks poppies, but at a large mark-up compared with growing them.

At the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house, the Poppy counts as an orange dye.

Cooking

Cooking Poppy with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Poppyseed Muffin		Poppy (1), Wheat Flour (1), Sugar (1)

Bundles

The Community Center asks for Poppy in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Chef's Bundle	Bulletin Board	1

Gifts

Penny loves the Poppy. It is one of the few cheap, easy loved gifts for her, and it can be grown in bulk in Year 1. Every other villager hates it, which is unusual because most people like other flowers. Giving a Poppy to the wrong person costs friendship. Keeping poppies in a separate chest from gift flowers such as Tulips and Summer Spangles avoids that mistake.

Notes

A Bee House takes the honey type from the closest flower in range. A Poppy placed next to the hives, with no other flowers nearer, makes sure every batch is Poppy Honey.

All Crops

Every crop, with its season, growth time and normal-quality sell price.

Crop	Season	Growth	Price
Blue Jazz	Spring	7 days	50g
Carrot	Spring	3 days	35g
Cauliflower	Spring	12 days	175g
Garlic	Spring	4 days	60g
Green Bean	Spring	10 days	40g
Kale	Spring	6 days	110g
Parsnip	Spring	4 days	35g
Potato	Spring	6 days	80g
Rhubarb	Spring	13 days	220g
Strawberry	Spring	8 days	120g
Tulip	Spring	6 days	30g
Unmilled Rice	Spring	-	-
Ancient Fruit	Spring, Summer, Fall	28 days	550g
Tea Leaves	Spring, Summer, Fall	20 days	-
Blueberry	Summer	13 days	50g
Hops	Summer	11 days	25g
Hot Pepper	Summer	5 days	40g
Melon	Summer	12 days	250g
Poppy	Summer	7 days	140g
Radish	Summer	6 days	90g
Red Cabbage	Summer	9 days	260g
Starfruit	Summer	13 days	750g
Summer Spangle	Summer	8 days	90g
Summer Squash	Summer	6 days	-
Tomato	Summer	11 days	60g
Corn	Summer, Fall	14 days	50g
Sunflower	Summer, Fall	8 days	80g
Wheat	Summer, Fall	4 days	25g
Amaranth	Fall	7 days	150g
Artichoke	Fall	8 days	160g
Beet	Fall	6 days	100g
Bok Choy	Fall	4 days	80g
Cranberries	Fall	7 days	-
Eggplant	Fall	5 days	60g
Fairy Rose	Fall	12 days	-
Pumpkin	Fall	13 days	320g
Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	24 days	-
Yam	Fall	10 days	160g
Powdermelon	Winter	-	60g
Broccoli	-	-	-
Cactus Fruit	-	-	75g
Grape	-	-	80g
Pineapple	-	-	-
Qi Fruit	-	-	-
Taro Root	-	10 days	100g