rare seeds or ancient seeds

[BigBadBug]

which one is better for the greenhouse? rare seeds or ancient seeds?

[CalhounMKZ]

Ancient seeds as they keep producing every week once grown. The rare seeds need to be replanted after each harvest.

[HINA <3]

ancient, you dont need to keep replant the plant. makes everything so much easier

[darkdisciple1313]

Also, get the seed producer machine, which allows you to get another ancient seed to plant, eventually giving you a whole lot of ancient fruits to exploit...*ahem* harvest for fun and profit. Supposedly, they make damn fine jam and wine, as well. I've not tried to age ancient fruit wine to see if it gives more money, but it likely does.

[ehyder]

ancient wine definitely gives more money, especially if you have gone with the artisinal skills.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by ehyder:

ancient wine definitely gives more money, especially if you have gone with the artisinal skills.

Cool, then it's worth the 85 years it seems to take to age them to apparent perfection (he said, utilizing mild sarcasm). I'm using this playthrough to really get into the game more in depth, so having wine to age and eventually sell for high mark-up is one of my goals. Now if I can only learn the proper amount of patience...which is why I could never do any of this stuff in the game in real life. :D

[ehyder]

One thing I try to do is time it to sell everything just before the end of year two to get a huge bump in income. Cheese is often better for that strategy if you get a slow start since you can start the cheese off at gold level using big milks, and cheese does not need to age as long.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by red255:

Words. I mean sure you could wait. so you have a greenhouse with 116 (Well 120 but we use sprinklers) farmable tiles. and you have the field with ~3000 farmable tiles.

In a standard playthru you unlock the greenhouse in fall of year 1, when pumpkins come in toward the end of the fall.

so you got 5 weeks until spring of year 2. maybe 6. lets go with 6 weeks.

now lets also assume we managed to get a ancient seed from the mine off some bugs planting it in spring week 2, and replanting 3 seeds with quality speed grow in summer week 2, week 3 and week 4.

so fall week 1, 4 fruit
week 2, 11 fruit
week 3 21 fruit, week 4, 31 fruit.

so we can fill half the greenhouse with ancient seeds in winter of year 1. well, the whole thing but they won't be ripe in spring.

A full greenhouse is just going to get a weekly harvest of 116 plants. 1846 a year.

the field would get 8 yearly harvests of 3000 plants well I say 8 but you throw half of the harvest back into the mix to grow next year, you could manage an additional harvest with deluxe speed grow though. so fine 7.5 harvest of 3000 plants. 22,500 fruit a year.

my point is, no matter what you do with the greenhouse it pales in comparison with what you can do with the standard field.

if you want to age wine, what you do is seed the field with sprinklers. and scarecrows, plant I dunno potatoes. doesn't matter, leave them in the ground, buy 3000 strawberries. plant them when you get them.

this is merely to prep the field for summer.

summer starts you scythe the strawberry plants. you plant the 3000 starfruit seeds. with deluxe speed grow, you can theoretically manage 3 harvests of 3000, but I generally run out of time so 3 harvests of 1500, 2 harvests of 1500.

7500 starfruit a year.

made into wine thats roughtly 19,200 profit. from a starting investment of 3 million?

which is plenty of money and a bit less effort.

I had some elaborate jumino setups and whatnot. did some maximized profit builds but seriously. meh.

point is money isnt too important, you want money, kegs and sprinklers. you get money.

greenhouse is for fun.

Wow. That's some serious investment in the game, for which I salute you. I don't have that kind of patience, though, so I guess I'll just be taking 28 years in game time to get a decent profit margin. Gotta have some time to get jiggy with my spouse, after all. It's all good fun, in any case. At least there aren't any monsters to destroy things, a la Dragon Quest Builders 2.

[Stardustfire]

well there is the monster wood starting farmground if you miss that :)