Sunflower

Sunflower

Type	Crop
Season	Summer, Fall
Seed	Sunflower Seeds
Growth Time	8 days
Sell Price	80g
Energy	45
Health	20

The Sunflower is a tall flower that grows across two seasons, Summer and Fall. It earns little as a cash crop, but it is useful in several other ways. Each harvest drops Sunflower Seeds as well as the flower. The flower can be pressed into Oil, and a Bee House near it makes Sunflower Honey in both seasons. Haley loves Sunflowers, and the Dye Bundle on the Community Center Bulletin Board needs one. For a farm that cooks a lot, the Sunflower is also a cheap, home-grown supply of Oil.

The in-game description reads: A common misconception is that the flower turns so it's always facing the sun.

Growing

Pierre's General Store and JojaMart both sell Sunflower Seeds in Summer and Fall. They are the one seed that JojaMart sells for less than Pierre does. The seeds are expensive compared with the price of the flower, so buying them every round does not pay well.

The harvest makes up for that. Picking a Sunflower drops the flower itself plus zero, one or two Sunflower Seeds, with each outcome equally likely. On average a field gives back about one seed per flower, so after the first purchase a patch of sunflowers can keep replanting itself.

The Sunflower grows in both Summer and Fall and behaves the same in each. Like Corn and Wheat, a Sunflower still growing on the last day of Summer simply carries on into Fall. A field planted in late Summer therefore loses nothing at the turn of the season. The flower does not regrow, and each bloom needs a new seed.

Prices

The raw flower is one of the cheaper crops to sell, and seed costs eat most of that unless the dropped seeds are replanted. The Tiller profession adds 10% to every raw sale.

An Oil Maker turns one Sunflower into one Oil in about an hour. Oil is worth a little more than the flower, so it is only a small gain for selling. Sunflower Seeds also go into the Oil Maker and make one Oil each, though they take much longer. Running sunflowers through a Seed Maker first gives about two seeds per flower. Pressing those seeds then gives about two Oil per flower instead of one.

Oil matters more as an ingredient than as a sale. Hashbrowns, Radish Salad, Bruschetta, Crab Cakes and several other dishes need it, and Pierre sells Oil at twice what it fetches. A sunflower patch next to an Oil Maker covers all of that cooking for free.

Honey is the other strong use. A Bee House within five tiles of a fully grown Sunflower makes Sunflower Honey. It is worth more than two and a half times as much as Wild Honey. It is a weaker honey than Poppy Honey in Summer or Fairy Rose Honey in Fall, but the Sunflower works in both seasons. The Artisan profession adds 40% to the honey.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	80g	88g
Silver	100g	110g
Gold	120g	132g
Iridium	160g	176g

Uses

The Dye Bundle on the Bulletin Board asks for one Sunflower. The other items are a Red Mushroom, a Sea Urchin, a Duck Feather, an Aquamarine and a Red Cabbage. The reward is a Seed Maker. The remixed Garden Bundle in the Pantry also accepts a Sunflower as one of its flower options.

At the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house, the Sunflower counts as a yellow dye.

Bundles

The Community Center asks for Sunflower in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Dye Bundle	Bulletin Board	1

Gifts

Haley loves the Sunflower. It is one of her easiest loved gifts, and a stack of sunflowers saved from Summer and Fall can last until her birthday in Spring. Clint, George and Sebastian dislike it. Almost every other villager likes it, as they like most flowers.

These villagers love receiving Sunflower as a gift.

Villager	Image
Haley

The Traveling Cart sometimes sells Sunflowers and Sunflower Seeds, always at a mark-up.

All Crops

Every crop, with its season, growth time and normal-quality sell price.

Crop	Season	Growth	Price
Blue Jazz	Spring	7 days	50g
Carrot	Spring	3 days	35g
Cauliflower	Spring	12 days	175g
Garlic	Spring	4 days	60g
Green Bean	Spring	10 days	40g
Kale	Spring	6 days	110g
Parsnip	Spring	4 days	35g
Potato	Spring	6 days	80g
Rhubarb	Spring	13 days	220g
Strawberry	Spring	8 days	120g
Tulip	Spring	6 days	30g
Unmilled Rice	Spring	-	-
Ancient Fruit	Spring, Summer, Fall	28 days	550g
Tea Leaves	Spring, Summer, Fall	20 days	-
Blueberry	Summer	13 days	50g
Hops	Summer	11 days	25g
Hot Pepper	Summer	5 days	40g
Melon	Summer	12 days	250g
Poppy	Summer	7 days	140g
Radish	Summer	6 days	90g
Red Cabbage	Summer	9 days	260g
Starfruit	Summer	13 days	750g
Summer Spangle	Summer	8 days	90g
Summer Squash	Summer	6 days	-
Tomato	Summer	11 days	60g
Corn	Summer, Fall	14 days	50g
Sunflower	Summer, Fall	8 days	80g
Wheat	Summer, Fall	4 days	25g
Amaranth	Fall	7 days	150g
Artichoke	Fall	8 days	160g
Beet	Fall	6 days	100g
Bok Choy	Fall	4 days	80g
Cranberries	Fall	7 days	-
Eggplant	Fall	5 days	60g
Fairy Rose	Fall	12 days	-
Pumpkin	Fall	13 days	320g
Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	24 days	-
Yam	Fall	10 days	160g
Powdermelon	Winter	-	60g
Broccoli	-	-	-
Cactus Fruit	-	-	75g
Grape	-	-	80g
Pineapple	-	-	-
Qi Fruit	-	-	-
Taro Root	-	10 days	100g