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Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Pumpkin
Season Fall
Growth Time 13 days
Pierre 100g
JojaMart 125g
Cart 150 to 1,000g
Sell Price 50g

Pumpkin Seeds are the packet a Fall field is usually built around. Pierre's General Store keeps them on the shelf all season at the cheapest counter price in town, and the Magic Shop Boat brings that same price back to the beach in the middle of Winter. The crop they grow is the best earner among the seeds Pierre sells, which is why the packet is bought by the dozen rather than the handful. Pumpkin also belongs to the short list of plants that fuse into a Giant Crop, so the shape of the bed matters as much as its size. The one real trap is the length of the wait, because a packet sown late in Fall never ripens at all.


Growing

A Pumpkin needs thirteen days of watering and is then cut once. The tile comes free afterwards and takes a fresh packet.

Thirteen days sets the sowing window. A seed pressed in on the first morning of Fall ripens in the middle of the month, and a second sown on that harvest day lands just before Winter closes the ground. The fifteenth of Fall is the last morning a plain packet can go in and still finish. Anything later needs Speed-Gro or Deluxe Speed-Gro to beat the frost, which is a good reason to lay in fertiliser before the season turns.

Lay the bed as a square rather than a line. Nine fully grown, watered pumpkins in any three by three block take a small chance each morning of merging into one giant plant, and overlapping blocks are each rolled on their own, so a wide rectangle gets far more chances than a long row ever can. A ripe bed left standing keeps rolling, and the pumpkins underneath wait perfectly well to be cut. A few blows of an Axe open the giant plant and spill a heap of fruit worth much more than the nine tiles held. Giant plants also ignore the turn of the season, so one that forms late can be left standing into Winter. The fusion only happens on open farm soil, never under Greenhouse glass, in a Garden Pot or on the Ginger Island farm.

Buying

Pierre's General Store is the cheap route and stocks the packet through Fall. JojaMart carries the identical seed for a quarter more, which adds up quickly across a field.

Fall seed also comes back on sale in the dead of Winter. The Magic Shop Boat ties up at the Night Market on the beach, and on its third evening Pumpkin Seeds sit there at the General Store price, so a Winter walk down to the docks can pay for the whole of next Fall's field.

The Traveling Cart turns the packet up now and then at a markup that only suits a farm caught short on planting day.

Clint will crack open a Mystery Box for a small fee, and a stack of Pumpkin Seeds is one of the prizes inside. One such stack pays for a great many boxes.

Mixed Seeds sometimes come up as pumpkin, and a cut pumpkin put through a Seed Maker returns packets for the next round. With a seed this dear, one pumpkin through the machine is a better trade than the machine usually makes.

Uses

The packet belongs in the ground. Shipping one back returns only half of what Pierre charged, so a field is better measured out carefully than bought in hope.

A Seed Maker fed on the harvest keeps a field going without another trip to the counter, and a handful of spare packets is cheap insurance against a planting day lost to rain.

Villagers think little of a bag of seed. Almost everyone who reacts to the gift dislikes it, so the packets are better kept in a chest by the field.

Notes

Buy the whole Fall field on the first morning of the season. Shop prices do not move while the season runs, and a field sown in one go ripens in one go.

Keep an Axe in the toolbar through Fall. Only an Axe opens a giant plant, and a ripe square can fuse on any morning.

Stock up at the Night Market even when the next Fall is already planned. Packets keep indefinitely in a chest, and seed money is easy to spare in Winter.

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