Tea Leaves

Tea Leaves

Type	Crop
Season	Spring, Summer, Fall
Seed	Tea Sapling
Growth Time	20 days

Tea Leaves are picked from Tea Bushes, a hardy plant grown from a Tea Sapling. Unlike most crops, a Tea Bush is planted once and lasts for good, and it never needs watering to survive. It gives one leaf a day during the last week of every Spring, Summer and Fall, and in Winter too when it grows indoors. The leaves are cheap to sell, but a Keg turns them into Green Tea. The drink raises maximum energy, and Caroline and Lewis love it. The whole chain starts with Caroline, who shares the sapling recipe once she becomes a friend.

Growing

The Tea Sapling crafting recipe arrives by mail the day after Caroline's two-heart event in her sunroom. The recipe uses two Wild Seeds of any season, five Fiber and five Wood, so saplings are cheap to make once it is known. The Traveling Cart also sells saplings now and then, and Caroline's stall at the Desert Festival sells them for Calico Eggs.

A sapling takes 20 days to grow into a mature Tea Bush. It can be planted in any season, and it keeps growing through season changes like a tree rather than dying like a crop. Once mature, the bush produces Tea Leaves on each of the last seven days of Spring, Summer and Fall. Outdoors in Winter the bush rests and gives nothing. Planted in the Greenhouse or in a Garden Pot indoors, it also produces in the last week of Winter.

The bush does not need to be watered to stay alive. That makes tea bushes a low-effort addition to the edges of a farm. A few bushes can be picked on the way past during the final week of each season.

Prices

A raw Tea Leaf sells for very little. The Tiller profession adds 10%.

A Keg turns each leaf into Green Tea in a few hours, and the real value of Green Tea is the drink itself. A Preserves Jar makes Pickled Tea Leaves instead, worth twice the leaf's price plus 50g, which triples the value of a cheap leaf. The Artisan profession adds 40% to both.

Because each bush gives only a handful of leaves per season, tea is rarely a money crop. Its worth lies in Green Tea for gifts and energy.

Uses

Green Tea gives a temporary boost of 30 to maximum energy when drunk. It also restores a little energy and health. That makes it useful on long days in the Mines or on the farm.

Caroline and Lewis both love Green Tea. A few tea bushes can supply weekly loved gifts for both of them. Caroline is also the one who started the tea chain in the first place.

A Woodskip pond can take one Tea Leaves in place of two Jade for one of its later capacity quests.

At the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house, Tea Leaves count as a green dye.

Gifts

Caroline likes Tea Leaves. Every other villager is neutral towards them. Green Tea is the far better gift, since Caroline and Lewis love it and most other villagers like it.

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