Poppy Seeds

Poppy Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Poppy
Season	Summer
Growth Time	7 days
Pierre	100g
JojaMart	125g
Cart	150 to 1,000g
Sell Price	50g

Poppy Seeds raise a bright red flower in a week of Summer, and the whole question is what to do with it once it opens. Cut and shipped, a Poppy is a respectable single-harvest crop and nothing more. Left standing beside a Bee House, it turns that hive's output into Poppy Honey, worth nearly four times plain honey and beaten only by Fairy Rose among the flower honeys. The kitchen wants the flower too, since the Chef's Bundle asks for one and the Queen of Sauce teaches a muffin made from it. A small bed of poppies ringed with hives is one of the quieter money makers of Summer, and the watering it asks for is repaid by the honey.

Growing

Seven days of watering take the seed to an open flower, and cutting it clears the tile. Nothing regrows there, so a bed meant to be harvested more than once has to be sown again each time.

That makes the sowing date a real deadline. A seed in the ground on the twenty-first of Summer opens on the final day of the season, and anything sown after that is lost when Fall arrives with the bud still closed. Speed-Gro pulls the deadline back by a few days and is the only rescue for a late bed.

Where the bed goes matters more than when, because of the hives. A Bee House takes its flavour from any flower growing a few tiles around it, and one Poppy inside that reach turns every nearby hive over to Poppy Honey instead of the plain kind. The flower has to be rooted in open soil rather than a Garden Pot for the hive to notice it.

The timing between flower and hive is the trap. A hive fills over four days, and cutting the flower before that hive has been emptied drops the result back to plain Wild Honey, the least valuable grade there is. The habit worth building is to empty the hives first and cut the flowers afterwards, or simply to leave the poppies standing all month and never cut them at all.

A bed sown under Greenhouse glass or on the Ginger Island farm ignores the season, which is how a honey ring keeps running once Summer is over.

Buying

Summer puts the packet on Pierre's shelf at the General Store. It is one of his dearer seeds, because the flower is worth more than a vegetable, and JojaMart charges more again for the identical packet.

The boat moored at the Night Market deals on the sixteenth of Winter, and Poppy Seeds sit on its shelf at Pierre's own price. Buying then is how a honey ring is standing on the first day of Summer rather than the eighth.

Poppy packets appear in the Traveling Cart's stock sometimes, priced above the shop even at her best, so she is only useful to a farm that has already missed the season.

Mixed Flower Seeds are the cheap route in. Sown in Summer they come up as one of the season's flowers, and Poppy is on that short list, so a handful of mixed packets can fill a honey ring for a fraction of what named seed costs. The drawback is that the colour cannot be chosen, although a hive only needs one flower of the right kind within reach.

A cut Poppy fed into a Seed Maker returns packets, which is the cheapest way to repeat a bed that worked.

Uses

The Chef's Bundle on the Bulletin Board wants a single Poppy, next to Maple Syrup, a Fiddlehead Fern, a Truffle, a Maki Roll and a Fried Egg. One flower from the first Summer settles that line for good.

The Queen of Sauce teaches the Poppyseed Muffin in Winter, and the recipe bakes a Poppy with Wheat Flour and Sugar into something worth considerably more than the flower it came from.

Pierre's stand at the Flower Dance sells the recipe for a Tub o' Flowers, and that craft consumes a packet of Poppy Seeds along with Wood and three other flower seeds. It is the rare case of furniture built out of seed rather than out of the bloom.

The flower works the orange dye pot at 2 Willow Lane, and in the spool of a Sewing Machine it dyes cloth.

The flower is the thing to carry into town.

Crafting Poppy Seeds with the other materials below makes these items.

Item	Image	Ingredients
Tub o' Flowers		Wood (15), Tulip Bulb (1), Jazz Seeds (1), Poppy Seeds (1), Spangle Seeds (1)

Notes

Sow the poppies before the hives go down, not after. A Bee House set in bare soil spends its first four days making plain honey and nothing better.

Keep the honey bed and the cutting bed apart. Flowers meant for the Chef's Bundle, the muffin or the dye pots can be cut whenever they open, while the ones feeding hives should be left alone all season.

Buy the Summer packet at the Night Market in Winter. Gold is easy to spare that month, and the hives can be filled from the first morning of the season.

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