Crops that produce more than once

[Metanoia]

Do you need to keep watering them for them to produce more? Or can you just leave them alone after they're grown and they'll make more crops?

[Metanoia]

Vinyl Scratch a écrit :

Metanoia a écrit :

Well that really sucks, guess I'm sticking with single harvest stuff then.

Were you not just going to re-plant new crops anyways? Which you would need to continue watering as well?

Yeah but I was thinking even though multiple harvest crops are worth less money, I figured if they didnt need to be watered after being grown that I'd grow those instead.

if they need to be watered regardless then I may as well grow the most profitable crops anyway.

[Stardustfire]

if you dont want to water use fruit trees, tea bushes and i guess rice dont need watering as well?
also there are the sprinklers like already mentationed above.

[Vinyl Scratch]

Metanoia a écrit :

if they need to be watered regardless then I may as well grow the most profitable crops anyway.

Well...oddly enough...each season's Best crop ARE the ones that regrow. (other than more end-game type crops that is)
You're free to do your own experimenting. And hell, I sometimes like doing the big crops just for simplicity as well.
The stardew Wiki has a great page though to use for figuring out which crops you want to grow if you want to use it. It actually tells you the gold-per-day you make planting each crop.
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Crops

Otherwise play on, and plant what you want. Pretty much everything will make you money.

[kornflakes89]

Metanoia a écrit :

Yeah but I was thinking even though multiple harvest crops are worth less money, I figured if they didnt need to be watered after being grown that I'd grow those instead.

if they need to be watered regardless then I may as well grow the most profitable crops anyway.

Multi-harvest crops being worth less money isn't what you should be looking at, you gotta look beyond what individual crops are worth because planting nothing but the crops that are worth the most isn't exactly a guarantee that you'll make more money planting them.

Lets see...alright, melons vs blueberries. Melons are worth 250 to 375 depending on the quality, but they take almost two full weeks to harvest. Blueberries are worth 50 to 75 depending on the quality, take a day longer than melons to harvest, but can be harvested every four days and each blueberry plant yields at least three blueberries. For melons, you'd only have two harvests in the season, with blueberries, you'd have four.

So while multi-harvest crops might be worth less (Which isn't always true, strawberries are worth more than potatos for example) you're potentially looking to make more in the long run going with blueberries over melons.

Now I put this together pretty quickly so my math might not be 100% spot on, but this is what I came up with. Both crops are planted on the first day of the season, no speed grow, skills or giant crops were taken into consideration and I'm using just the normal quality crops and only selling at the end of the season.

You plant 100 melons, you have enough time in the season for two harvests so that's 200 melons, each melon is worth 250. Added up that's 50k.

You plant 100 blueberry plants, you have enough time in the season to harvest them four times, each plant gives three blueberries, that's 1,200 blueberries, each blueberry is worth 50. Added up that's 60k. You're making 10k more with blueberries than you are melons.

But before that, you have to buy the seeds. Blueberry and melon seeds are 80 each, 100 of either seed is 8k. Blueberry seeds only need to be purchased once, subtracting the cost of seeds from the end of season profits is 52k. Melon seeds need to be purchased again after harvesting, subtracting the cost of seeds from the end of season profits is 34k. So you're making just shy of 20k more with blueberries than with melons.

So in the long run, you're making less money going with melons over blueberries, not more.

Now if you want to bring speed grow and deluxe speed grow into the mix. Speed grow will give you five blueberry harvests, 1,500 blueberries and 75k in profit. Deluxe speed grow will give you three melon harvests, 300 melons and 75k in profit. Speed grow is 20 each, 100 of that is 2k. Deluxe speed grow is 40 each, 100 of that is 4k.

With blueberries, you're spending 10k on seeds and speed grow to make a 65k profit.
With melons, you're spending 28k on seeds and deluxe speed grow oto make a 47k profit.

So at the end of the season, with seed and speed grow purchasing, you've spent roughly half of what you make in profits growing melons.

[Metanoia]

kornflakes89 a écrit :

Metanoia a écrit :

Yeah but I was thinking even though multiple harvest crops are worth less money, I figured if they didnt need to be watered after being grown that I'd grow those instead.

if they need to be watered regardless then I may as well grow the most profitable crops anyway.

Multi-harvest crops being worth less money isn't what you should be looking at, you gotta look beyond what individual crops are worth because planting nothing but the crops that are worth the most isn't exactly a guarantee that you'll make more money planting them.

Lets see...alright, melons vs blueberries. Melons are worth 250 to 375 depending on the quality, but they take almost two full weeks to harvest. Blueberries are worth 50 to 75 depending on the quality, take a day longer than melons to harvest, but can be harvested every four days and each blueberry plant yields at least three blueberries. For melons, you'd only have two harvests in the season, with blueberries, you'd have four.

So while multi-harvest crops might be worth less (Which isn't always true, strawberries are worth more than potatos for example) you're potentially looking to make more in the long run going with blueberries over melons.

Now I put this together pretty quickly so my math might not be 100% spot on, but this is what I came up with. Both crops are planted on the first day of the season, no speed grow, skills or giant crops were taken into consideration and I'm using just the normal quality crops and only selling at the end of the season.

You plant 100 melons, you have enough time in the season for two harvests so that's 200 melons, each melon is worth 250. Added up that's 50k.

You plant 100 blueberry plants, you have enough time in the season to harvest them four times, each plant gives three blueberries, that's 1,200 blueberries, each blueberry is worth 50. Added up that's 60k. You're making 10k more with blueberries than you are melons.

But before that, you have to buy the seeds. Blueberry and melon seeds are 80 each, 100 of either seed is 8k. Blueberry seeds only need to be purchased once, subtracting the cost of seeds from the end of season profits is 52k. Melon seeds need to be purchased again after harvesting, subtracting the cost of seeds from the end of season profits is 34k. So you're making just shy of 20k more with blueberries than with melons.

So in the long run, you're making less money going with melons over blueberries, not more.

Now if you want to bring speed grow and deluxe speed grow into the mix. Speed grow will give you five blueberry harvests, 1,500 blueberries and 75k in profit. Deluxe speed grow will give you three melon harvests, 300 melons and 75k in profit. Speed grow is 20 each, 100 of that is 2k. Deluxe speed grow is 40 each, 100 of that is 4k.

With blueberries, you're spending 10k on seeds and speed grow to make a 65k profit.
With melons, you're spending 28k on seeds and deluxe speed grow oto make a 47k profit.

So at the end of the season, with seed and speed grow purchasing, you've spent roughly half of what you make in profits growing melons.

Sure but I just rush starfruit and SGB's anyway, since they're worth the most money and most worthwhile to grow.

[Turtleswatter]

To further complicate things some cheap seeds ramp up their value if you process them. For example wheat is dirt cheap and takes 4 days to grow but is worth £200 if you put it through a keg. It takes 29 hours to process.

[xicewindex]

And one of the biggest advantages of multiple harvest crops, they stay on the field at seasons end.

So first day of summer/fall, your cropsfield is ready to get the new batch of seeds in, and if you have sprinklers its watered aswell. The only thing you have to do is hoe the whitered plants down wich go's very fast.

Now for fall season there is a way for it even with melons/starfruit, Just sew wheat after you harvested the second batch and calculate it so that you harvest the wheat on first day of Fall. Your fields will even keep the groundenrichments this way ( fertiliser or speed-gro)