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Potato Seeds

Potato Seeds
Potato Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Potato
Season Spring
Growth Time 6 days
Pierre 50g
JojaMart 62g
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 25g

Potato Seeds are the first real investment a new farm makes. The packet is cheap, the plant is up in under a week, and every potato pulled takes a repeating roll at giving another one free, so a potato bed quietly behaves as though it were larger than it looks. That extra roll is what turns the opening parsnip money into something worth planting again, and it is why so many first Springs run on potatoes rather than on anything dearer. The Spring Crops Bundle wants one, and the Queen of Sauce turns a potato and a bottle of oil into Hashbrowns. The thing to watch is the calendar, because the plant is pulled once and the bed has to be sown again from scratch.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in the spring. Takes 6 days to mature, and has a chance of yielding multiple potatoes at harvest.


Growing

Six days of watering take the seed to a pullable plant, with the fourth stage holding for two nights rather than one. Pulling clears the tile, so a bed that is to run all Spring has to be sown four separate times.

The extra potato is the mechanic that makes the crop. When the plant comes up the game rolls for a second potato at about one chance in five, and a success rolls again, so a single plant occasionally gives three or four. Averaged out that works to roughly a quarter more potatoes than plants, a free quarter on top of an already cheap seed. Daily Luck also affects the same roll, and a good fortune on the morning television can double what the roll pays out that day.

That makes harvest day worth choosing. Watching the forecast before pulling a large bed, and leaving the pull a day when the omens are poor, is one of the few ways a farmer bends crop yield without spending a thing.

Six days inside a twenty-eight day season allow four full cycles, and the last of them has to be in the ground by the twenty-second of Spring. A seed sown later dies with the season before it can ripen. Clearing the bed before the month turns and keeping the leftover packets for next year is the tidy finish.

Speed-Gro shortens each cycle and can squeeze a fifth sowing out of the season. Quality fertiliser is the better spend on a crop pulled only once, since each potato is graded on its own and a bundle slot or a Help Wanted request may ask for a good one.

In a Garden Pot, under Greenhouse glass or in Ginger Island soil the seed plants in any season, which covers a request for a potato out of Spring.

Buying

Pierre's General Store sells the packet through Spring and is the cheapest counter in town. JojaMart stocks the same seed at a higher price, useful only on a day when Pierre's door is shut.

Winter's fifteenth is the other date worth marking. The boat moored at the Night Market that night carries potato seed at shop price, and a Spring's worth bought then means the first morning of the year goes on watering instead of queuing.

The cart out in the forest offers potato seed occasionally, with a floor price already double the shop's. It is not the route for a seed this ordinary.

Bulk arrives free once the desert opens. Below it, the treasure rooms of the Skull Cavern give seed away in stacks, and a Mystery Box or Golden Mystery Box opened at the Blacksmith often holds eight packets or more, with Spring seed well represented among them. Mixed Seeds sown on the farm in Spring can come up as potatoes as well.

Dropping a pulled potato into a Seed Maker returns seed, though on a packet this cheap the machine earns more pointed at something dearer.

Uses

The Spring Crops Bundle in the Crafts Room asks for one Potato beside a Parsnip, a Green Bean and a Cauliflower, and the reward is a stack of Speed-Gro that goes straight back into the next bed.

The Queen of Sauce teaches Hashbrowns in Spring, and the Saloon sells the same recipe over the counter for a small sum. It takes one Potato and one Oil, gives a farming boost for the morning, and is among the first dishes a new kitchen can make entirely from the farm's own produce.

A Seed Maker turns a pulled potato back into packets.

Seed packets go down badly as presents across Pelican Town, so cooked food buys friendship better than the packet ever will.

Notes

Put the parsnip money into potatoes rather than into more parsnips. The extra-potato roll outpays a faster cycle as soon as there is enough soil hoed to use it.

Pull a big bed on a lucky day. The fortune on the morning television changes what the extra roll is worth, and a large harvest held back a day can come up noticeably bigger.

Sow the last bed by the twenty-second. A potato still in the ground when Summer opens is gone, plant and packet together.

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