Spangle Seeds

Spangle Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Summer Spangle
Season	Summer
Growth Time	8 days
Pierre	50g
JojaMart	62g
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	25g

Spangle Seeds are the cheapest flower packet Pierre's General Store puts out in Summer, and the plant they make earns far more standing in a field than it ever does in the Shipping Bin. A Summer Spangle growing beside a Bee House turns that hive's output into Summer Spangle Honey, worth well over double what plain honey fetches, and the honey keeps arriving every few days while the flower sits untouched. The packet is also one of the five things the Tub o' Flowers recipe calls for, so a spare one is worth keeping in a chest. The flower itself opens in one of six colours at random, and each colour takes up its own slot in the bag. A few dozen packets bought at the start of Summer set up a honey yard that pays for itself many times over.

Growing

The packet goes into tilled, watered soil during Summer and comes up over four stages in a little over a week. Each plant gives one flower and then stops, so the bed is cleared and resown rather than left to bear again.

The planting dates that matter all fall early. A sowing on the opening day of Summer is cut on the ninth and leaves room for two more rounds inside the season, while the twentieth is the last day a packet still ripens before Fall arrives. Anything later is better saved for the Greenhouse, where the seasons stop applying, or carried over to the farm plot on Ginger Island, which grows Summer crops all year.

Bee placement is the part worth planning on paper. A Bee House reads any flower growing in the ground within a few tiles of it, and a flower in a Garden Pot does not count. One plant is enough to flavour every hive in range, so a ring of Bee Houses around a single Summer Spangle works as well as a flower beside each one.

Timing the two harvests is where honey gets lost. A hive takes four days to fill and only looks for a flower at the moment the honey is collected. Cutting the Summer Spangle first leaves plain Wild Honey in the hive, which is the least valuable kind of all. Emptying the Bee Houses before the bed is cleared keeps the flavoured honey safe.

Colour is settled when the flower matures and cannot be steered. Quality varies in the usual way, and the Tiller profession lifts what the flowers fetch at the bin, though the honey is normally the better end of the plant.

Buying

Pierre's General Store carries the packet right through Summer, and that is the cheapest standing counter for it. JojaMart lists it as well at a higher figure, so the general store wins on price unless the town has already gone the other way.

Winter brings one more chance. The Night Market's floating Magic Shop Boat puts out a Summer seed list on the sixteenth, Spangle Seeds among them and no dearer than at Pierre's. That single evening is the one opening the cold months offer, and a Greenhouse planted with Summer Spangles straight afterwards starts earning honey at once.

A Summer Spangle put through the Seed Maker returns a packet or three. The first bed therefore funds every bed after it, and the shop visit need never be repeated. Planting Mixed Flower Seeds turns up Spangle Seeds now and then as well, which is the free route for a farm that cuts a lot of weeds.

The Traveling Cart stocks the packet occasionally at many times the shop price. That is only worth taking in Winter, or in a save where the general store has shut its doors.

Uses

Crafting a Tub o' Flowers takes Wood, a Tulip Bulb, a Jazz Seed, a Poppy Seed and a Spangle Seed. Pierre sells that recipe from his stand at the Flower Dance, and the finished tub blooms through Spring and Summer as a piece of farm decoration.

The honey trade is the real use. A hive left to fill beside the flower turns a packet costing less than a bag of fertiliser into a steady artisan good, and the Artisan profession lifts the value of every jar further.

Villagers across Pelican Town dislike being handed a packet of seed, so these belong in the soil, the crafting menu or the Seed Maker.

Crafting Spangle 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

Put the flower in the middle and the hives around it. A Bee House reads any flower in range, so one plant can carry a whole cluster of them.

Collect the honey before clearing the bed at the end of Summer. The hive checks for a flower at the moment of collection, and an empty tile costs the flavour.

Keep one packet back for the Tub o' Flowers. The recipe wants a single seed, and buying a fresh one in Winter means a trip out to the Night Market.

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