Tulip Bulb

Tulip Bulb

Type	Seed
Grows	Tulip
Season	Spring
Growth Time	6 days
Pierre	20g
JojaMart	25g
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	10g

The Tulip Bulb is the cheapest flower seed on Pierre's shelf, and six days after it goes into the soil it opens in a colour nobody chose. Shipped, the flower repays the bulb and not a great deal more, which is why the bulb tends to be bought for something other than its own sale. A Bee House with a tulip inside its reach fills with Tulip Honey instead of the plain sort, and that lifts every jar the hive turns out for the rest of Spring. The bulb is also one of four seed packets the Tub o' Flowers craft swallows, and its low price makes it the forgiving way to fill spring tiles while money is still thin.

Growing

Six days of watering open the flower, and cutting it empties the tile for good. Nothing comes back, so a bed meant to be harvested twice has to be planted twice.

Six days is short enough to fit four times into the season. A bed sown on the first opens on the seventh, and the twenty-second is the last day a bulb can go in and still bloom before Summer arrives. Speed-Gro buys a day or two back for a bed that went in later than that.

The colour cannot be steered. Each bulb settles on one of several shades as it opens, which matters to a farm laying flowers out for the look of the place and not at all to one counting gold.

Where the bed sits decides whether the bulbs earn anything beyond their price. Bees look for a bloom within about five tiles to either side of the hive and four above or below it, and finding a tulip there they switch the jars over to Tulip Honey. The bloom has to be rooted in open soil, because a flower standing in a Garden Pot is invisible to them.

Tulip Honey is the weakest of the flower honeys, so a spring hive ringed with Blue Jazz does better per jar. The tulip's answer to that is the price of the bulb: a wide field of tulips costs a fraction of the same field in jazz, and a hive only needs one flower in range to change what it makes.

Buying

Pierre's General Store carries the bulb through Spring at the lowest price he asks for any flower seed. JojaMart sells the same bulb dearer.

Bulbs also turn up on the seed boat at the Night Market, on the first of the three Winter evenings, for what the General Store charges. A farm that buys there opens Spring with hives already surrounded instead of waiting a week for the first bloom.

Mixed Flower Seeds are cheaper still where a stack of them can be had. Sown in Spring, each packet comes up as either a tulip or a Blue Jazz, decided at the moment of planting, so a handful of them fills a honey ring without anyone naming the flower.

A cut tulip put through a Seed Maker returns bulbs, so a bed that worked can be laid again without a trip to the counter. The Traveling Cart lists the packet occasionally and charges many times what Pierre does for it.

Uses

The honey ring is the main reason to buy the bulb at all. A hive left standing beside a tulip bed hands over jars worth well over half again what plain Wild Honey fetches, and the flower asks for nothing once it has opened.

A Tub o' Flowers is the other call on the bulb. Pierre's stand at the Flower Dance is where that recipe is bought, and the craft itself eats fifteen Wood along with a packet each of four different flower seeds, the bulb among them. Keeping one spare bulb in a chest means the craft is never held up by its cheapest ingredient.

The timing between hive and flower is the trap on this bed. A hive that has been filling beside a tulip and then finds the tulip cut gives up plain honey instead, so the jars come out before the shears do. The simplest habit is to leave the honey row standing all season and take cut flowers from somewhere else.

Bulbs are disliked as presents throughout the village, so the spares belong in the ground.

Crafting Tulip Bulb 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

Treat the bulb as the cheap mistake. A whole spring bed of tulips costs less than a few rows of most vegetables, which makes it the sensible filler for tiles with nothing better to do while the first year's money is tight.

Keep the honey tulips and the cutting tulips apart. One row stands untouched beside the hives, the other supplies the Tub o' Flowers and anything else that wants a bloom in hand.

Buy bulbs at the Night Market in Winter. Spring then opens with flower honey in the jars instead of plain.

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