Tulip

Tulip

Type	Crop
Season	Spring
Seed	Tulip Bulb
Growth Time	6 days
Sell Price	30g
Energy	45
Health	20

The Tulip is the classic Spring flower and one of the cheapest crops in the game to plant. It earns very little as a cash crop, but it is a cheap, friendly gift that almost every villager likes, and Evelyn loves it. A Bee House near a Tulip makes Tulip Honey, which is worth more than plain Wild Honey. The flower is also a handy early supply of energy in the first Spring, when money and food are both short. Most players grow tulips for gifts, honey and decoration rather than profit.

Growing

Pierre's General Store sells Tulip Bulbs in Spring for very little. The flower blooms in under a week and does not regrow, so each bloom needs a new bulb. A bulb planted on Spring 1 leaves room for four blooms in the season, as long as the next bulb goes in on each harvest day.

The short growing time makes the Tulip easy to fit around other crops. It also means the first batch of Tulip Honey arrives early in Spring. Speed-Gro can make room for an extra round, and Quality Fertiliser raises the share of silver and gold flowers for gifting.

Prices

The profit on a raw Tulip is tiny, because the flower sells for only a little more than the bulb costs. The Tiller profession adds 10% to the sale, but even then tulips are one of the weakest crops for money.

Honey is a better use. A Bee House within five tiles of a fully grown Tulip produces Tulip Honey instead of Wild Honey. Flower honey is worth the price of Wild Honey plus twice the base price of the flower, so Tulip Honey earns a modest premium. Blue Jazz is the stronger Spring honey flower, because its higher base price gives a more valuable honey. Tulips still work well for hives early in the season, while the first Blue Jazz is growing. The Artisan profession adds 40% to the honey.

One flower is enough for every Bee House around it, since the bees never use it up. The flower must stay in the ground until the honey is collected, or the next batch turns into Wild Honey.

A Tulip can also be eaten. For the price of a bulb, it restores a good amount of energy. A small tulip bed is a cheap supply of energy during the first Spring.

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

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	30g	33g
Silver	37g	40g
Gold	45g	49g
Iridium	60g	66g

Uses

The remixed Garden Bundle in the Pantry accepts the Tulip as one of its flower options, alongside the Summer Spangle, Blue Jazz, Sunflower and Fairy Rose.

The Traveling Cart sometimes sells tulips, always for far more than they cost to grow.

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

Gifts

Evelyn loves the Tulip. A stack of cheap tulips covers her weekly gifts for the whole of Spring, so she is easy to befriend early. Clint, George and Sebastian dislike the Tulip. Almost every other villager likes it, as they like most flowers. That makes it a safe gift for anyone met during the first Spring.

These villagers love receiving Tulip as a gift.

Villager	Image
Evelyn

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