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Wheat Seeds

Wheat Seeds
Wheat Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Wheat
Season Summer; Fall
Growth Time 4 days
Pierre 10g
JojaMart 12g
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 5g

Wheat Seeds are the cheapest packet in the valley and the quickest thing growing in it: four days from soil to a cut, and the same seed works through Summer and Fall alike. A Scythe brings the harvest in, which means a whole field falls in a few swings with nothing picked by hand, and many of those swings leave a bale of Hay in the bag as well. The stalk on its own is worth almost nothing, so wheat only makes money through a machine. A Keg turns one stalk into Beer worth around eight times as much, and a Mill turns it into the Wheat Flour the kitchen runs on. Because the crop lives through a season change, a late Summer bed is also the standard way to stop tilled, watered ground from resetting.


Growing

Four days of watering and the field is ready. Each stalk is cut once and the tile then wants new seed, but four days turns over seven times inside a single season.

The Scythe is not optional here. Wheat cannot be picked by hand, so a field cannot be gathered until the tool is in the bag, and the swing clears a tile at a time rather than asking for a click on every plant. Across a large field that difference is minutes off each harvest morning.

Spanning two seasons is the crop's quiet advantage. Seed planted late in Summer carries on growing once Fall arrives, and because the plant survives the change the tile keeps both its tilled state and whatever water a Sprinkler put on it. Letting a field empty at the turn of the season instead means hoeing every tile again. A cheap wheat bed sown over a Sprinkler grid around the twenty-fifth of Summer is the usual way round that.

Hay is the other half of the harvest. A good share of the stalks cut with a Scythe leave a bale of Hay behind as well, and unlike grass cuttings that hay arrives in the bag rather than dropping into the Silo on its own, so it has to be carried over and put in by hand. A field of wheat sown in Fall is one of the standard ways of filling a Silo for Winter, when the grass outside has stopped growing and the animals are shut in.

Buying

Pierre's General Store sells the packet through both seasons at the lowest price he asks for anything. JojaMart marks the same seed up, and on a crop bought a hundred at a time that gap adds up quickly.

The magic shop boat at the Night Market carries wheat on two of its three Winter evenings at Pierre's price, which lets a stockpile be laid in before Summer opens.

Mixed Seeds sometimes come up as wheat when they are planted, so weeding occasionally pays for a bed by itself. A stalk put through a Seed Maker returns seed, and a Mystery Box or a Golden Mystery Box opened up often holds eight or more packets. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern turn up handfuls of them as well. The Traveling Cart lists them at a price nobody would pay for the cheapest seed in the valley.

Uses

The Keg is where wheat becomes worth growing. One stalk goes in and Beer comes out inside a day or so, worth around eight times what the raw stalk would have fetched, which is a better multiplier than any vegetable gets from juice. A row of kegs fed by a wheat field is one of the standard early money engines on a farm.

A Mill does the other job. Robin puts one up over a couple of days in exchange for gold, Stone, Wood and four lengths of Cloth, and wheat dropped inside becomes Wheat Flour waiting in the box beside it next morning, one stalk for one bag. Flour fetches less than beer, but the kitchen cannot work without it, so most farms end up running both machines off the same field.

Hay off the harvest feeds the barn and the coop, which is money saved rather than earned, and it is the only part of the crop that needs no machine at all.

Nobody in town thanks a farmer for a packet of wheat seed.

Notes

Sow wheat late in Summer across any ground meant to carry Sprinklers into Fall. The bed costs next to nothing and saves a morning of hoeing at the season change.

Build the Keg before planting a large field. Raw wheat barely covers its own seed, while beer turns the same field into real money.

Cut on the fourth morning and resow the same day. Seven rounds a season is the ceiling, and a day's hesitation costs one of them.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Grows Season Pierre
Acorn Acorn Oak Tree All -
Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Fall 70g
Ancient Seeds Ancient Seeds Ancient Fruit Spring; Summer; Fall -
Apple Sapling Apple Sapling Apple Fall 4,000g
Apricot Sapling Apricot Sapling Apricot Spring 2,000g
Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Fall 30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling Banana Sapling Banana All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Bean Starter Bean Starter Green Bean Spring 60g
Beet Seeds Beet Seeds Beet Fall -
Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Spring; Summer; Fall -
Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Summer 80g
Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Fall 50g
Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Fall -
Cactus Seeds Cactus Seeds Cactus Fruit All -
Carrot Seeds Carrot Seeds Carrot Spring -
Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Spring 80g
Cherry Sapling Cherry Sapling Cherry Spring 3,400g
Coffee Bean Coffee Bean - Spring; Summer -
Corn Seeds Corn Seeds Corn Summer; Fall 150g
Cranberry Seeds Cranberry Seeds Cranberries Fall 240g
Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Fall 20g
Fairy Seeds Fairy Seeds Fairy Rose Fall 200g
Fall Seeds Fall Seeds Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum Fall -
Fiber Seeds Fiber Seeds Fiber All -
Garlic Seeds Garlic Seeds Garlic Spring 40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter Grape Starter Grape Fall 60g
Grass Starter Grass Starter Grass Spring; Summer; Fall 100g
Hops Starter Hops Starter Hops Summer 60g
Jazz Seeds Jazz Seeds Blue Jazz Spring 30g
Kale Seeds Kale Seeds Kale Spring 70g
Mahogany Seed Mahogany Seed Mahogany Tree All -
Mango Sapling Mango Sapling Mango All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Maple Seed Maple Seed Maple Tree All -
Melon Seeds Melon Seeds Melon Summer 80g
Mixed Flower Seeds Mixed Flower Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mixed Seeds Mixed Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mossy Seed Mossy Seed Green Rain Tree All -
Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree All -
Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree All -
Orange Sapling Orange Sapling Orange Summer 4,000g
Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Spring 20g
Peach Sapling Peach Sapling Peach Summer 6,000g
Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds Hot Pepper Summer 40g
Pine Cone Pine Cone Pine Tree All -
Pineapple Seeds Pineapple Seeds Pineapple All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Fall 6,000g
Poppy Seeds Poppy Seeds Poppy Summer 100g
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds Potato Spring 50g
Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Winter -
Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Fall 100g
Qi Bean Qi Bean Qi Fruit All -
Radish Seeds Radish Seeds Radish Summer 40g
Rare Seed Rare Seed Sweet Gem Berry Fall -
Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Summer 100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Spring -
Rice Shoot Rice Shoot Unmilled Rice Spring 40g
Spangle Seeds Spangle Seeds Summer Spangle Summer 50g
Spring Seeds Spring Seeds Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion Spring -
Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Summer -
Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Spring -
Summer Seeds Summer Seeds Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea Summer -
Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Summer -
Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Summer; Fall 200g
Taro Tuber Taro Tuber Taro Root All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Tea Sapling Tea Sapling Tea Leaves All -
Tomato Seeds Tomato Seeds Tomato Summer 50g
Tulip Bulb Tulip Bulb Tulip Spring 20g
Wheat Seeds Wheat Seeds Wheat Summer; Fall 10g
Winter Seeds Winter Seeds Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root Winter -
Yam Seeds Yam Seeds Yam Fall 60g