Rhubarb Seeds

Rhubarb Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Rhubarb
Season	Spring
Growth Time	13 days
Oasis	100g
Cart	150 to 1,000g
Sell Price	50g

Rhubarb Seeds are a desert purchase. Sandy keeps them on the Oasis counter in the Calico Desert all year round at a flat price, and nothing in Pelican Town carries them at all. Reaching that counter is the real cost, since the bus at the Bus Stop has to be repaired before it runs and every trip afterwards needs a ticket. Once the route is open the packet becomes one of the better things to do with Spring soil, because the stalks are headed for a Keg rather than straight for the Shipping Bin.

Growing

Thirteen days of watering, one cutting, and the tile is clear again.

Thirteen days fits a Spring twice over. A packet sown on the first morning is ready halfway through the season, and a second sown on that cutting day finishes just before Summer. The fifteenth of Spring is the last morning a plain packet can go in and still ripen, so the useful sowing window shuts in the middle of the season. Speed-Gro on the first round buys enough slack to keep the second one safe.

The Oasis counter never changes with the season, and that is the quiet advantage of this packet. A single trip to the desert in Winter buys the whole of Spring's field, and the field then goes into the ground on the first morning without a bus journey eating half the day.

Buying

Sandy's Oasis is the only counter that stocks the packet, and it does so in every season at the same price. Getting there means repairing the bus, which the Vault bundles in the Community Center pay for at considerable expense, and then buying a desert ticket from the stand at the Bus Stop. Pam drives out from mid morning.

The Traveling Cart turns the packet up occasionally at a markup. That is the only way rhubarb reaches the soil before the bus runs, and it is worth a look on a Friday or a Sunday in a first Spring.

A cut stalk put through a Seed Maker returns packets, so one desert trip can seed several years once the machine is standing.

Uses

The packet is only worth anything in the ground, and what it grows is worth much more in a Keg than in the bin. Rhubarb Wine fetches several times the price of the stalk it came from, which is why a desert trip for seed pays for itself inside one Spring.

Shipping a packet back returns half of what Sandy charged. A bag of seed is also disliked by every villager who reacts to the gift, so spare packets belong in a chest beside the field.

Notes

Make one desert trip in Winter rather than several in Spring. Sandy sells Starfruit Seeds and Beet Seeds from the same counter, so a single visit can cover three seasons of planting at once.

Count the packets before leaving the desert. A second trip costs another ticket and most of a morning, and the Spring sowing window is too short to spend a day on the bus.

Keep a few packets for the Greenhouse. Rhubarb grown under glass ignores Spring entirely and can feed a Keg row through the whole year.

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