Seeds not leveling up

[Plague Dr.]

So played this a really long time ago on the 3DS but never saved venti, so decided to pick it up on steam.

Near as I remember, selling leveled up produce or their seeds would make it so shops would then start selling higher level seeds, right now that is not happening, i'm only 10 days into spring first play through and have had like 2-3 turnip harvests so far...

Is there another pre requeisit before seeds start leveling up?

[Fel]

You need to use the sickle on a fully grown plant to get a higher level seed from it.
Each sickle also has a limit to how high it can go.

Of course, selling a higher level product works as well.

But you need to have done the request related to seed levels before the shops start selling seeds at a higher level (which can be confusing, especially to returning players).

[Bun]

On seed levels: When a ready-to-harvest crop is cut with a good sickle, it drops an increased level seed. When shipped, shops will sell that seed level.

Seed level is capped at 10. Better sickle gives higher seed level iirc.

[Mackenzie]

Originally posted by matthewsmather:

Near as I remember, selling leveled up produce or their seeds would make it so shops would then start selling higher level seeds, right now that is not happening

For the above feature to unlock, you have to complete the Eliza request for shipping a level 2 turnip.

For actually obtaining higher level seeds, as mentioned already, you need to use a sickle on a ready to harvest crop. High tier of sickle raises the cap on highest seed level you can yield. Think it's something to the affect of T2 sickle is up to level 5, T3 is level 7, T4 is level 10.. but this information might not be exact if you bring the particular soil plot up to Quality 2.00 using many Greenifiers or a few Greenifier+s on it, as I recall specifically yielding level 10 seeds with the Green tier sickle.

[Plague Dr.]

Ah I havent got through the seed level request yet, trying to get requests done asap good to know.

I remembered about the sickle bit, was just confused why the shop seed levels were not increasing was worried I was misremembering or doing something wrong, turns out I was, need to get to the right request/quest.