What should I grow in my garden pots?

[Dave1029]

I have 20. Not sure what to plant tbh.

[SanguineExpiry]

Originally posted by Inny【🐭】Nazrin:

Coffee

that's what I'm growing, since Sebbie's my husband

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

I use em for cactus. I may also grab the crop transplant mod someone recently revealed on reddit which allows you to pick up growing/grown plants with the pot and place them elsewhere.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/2594

[Rookwood]

Originally posted by Dave1029:

Originally posted by red255:

OK, indoor conditions.

67 pots 133 kegs. 3.15M per year on the hops.

so no. per indoor tile of space since you'd need more kegs with more hops plants ancient fruit does produce more per tile.

*sigh* no. Hops are 420 gold per day assuming greenhouse conditions. Ancient fruit is 330. Here is your forumula:
Hops: 300(1.4)/1=420
Ancient Fruit: 1650(1.4)/7=330

Hops produce 210 per tile. (1 for plant, 1 for keg)
Ancient Fruit produces 165 per tile (1 for plant, 1 for keg)

Each requires 1 keg per plant. Math is fun!

Thing is your math is wrong because it's not 1 keg per hop plant if you are being realistic or producing on a scale that would make this relevant. Pale Ale requires 2250 mins to brew. Hops produce every single day. Process time varies. It's 60mins for an hour awake and 100 for an hour asleep. So if we slept all day we could get 2400mins but then we don't have time to pick, water and brew the hops. So how much time do we actually have in your scenario?

We solve for waking hours (X):

60X+100Y=2250

X+Y=24

Y=24-X

60X+100(24-X)=2250

2400-40X=2250

X=3.75 hours

But since time advances in 1/6th increments we actually only have 3.67 hours, 9:40AM, to pick all our hops, water them and then put them in kegs every day. That's going to seriously limit how many hops we can support with this system.

So while technically, yes, this is the best income per tile achievable, it is not relevant because it will be on such a small scale that income per tile is not a concern. Over time, we would generate much more profit by planting as many Hops or Ancient Fruit as we can service in a 20 hour work day. Such a work day would require 1.5 kegs per hop plant. This actually makes them roughly equivalent.

420/2.5 tiles = 168 gold per hop per day per tile

Of course hops will be significantly more work than Ancient Fruit but this is all mute because Ancient Fruit are not plantable in pots.


Taking this further, the most efficient use of garden pots is actually Starfruit with Deluxe Speed-Gro.

Starfruit profit is as follows:

Costs:
400 per seed
80 per Deluxe Speed-Gro purchased from Sandy on Thursday

2250*1.4-480=2670 profit

Starfruit with Deluxe Speed-Gro take 9 days to mature.

2670/9= ~296 gold per starfruit per day

Since Starfruit only take ~6 days of full work to process in the keg, we actually only need 0.67 kegs per plant. This means:

296/1.67 = ~178 gold per starfruit per day per tile

[MadamLizzy]

I have four...two for peppers so I can make the pepper dinner for energy and two for cactus because Sam likes them.

[Aiv]

Binging on Stardew thanks to the 'Rona, read through this thread looking to make bank. Well, not only did I actually find useful information, I also got to read this beautiful masterpiece of logic and math. Never before have I seen such an exquisite and judicious shut-down.

You, Rookwood, are a true unsung hero.

Originally posted by Rookwood:

Originally posted by Dave1029:

*sigh* no. Hops are 420 gold per day assuming greenhouse conditions. Ancient fruit is 330. Here is your forumula:
Hops: 300(1.4)/1=420
Ancient Fruit: 1650(1.4)/7=330

Hops produce 210 per tile. (1 for plant, 1 for keg)
Ancient Fruit produces 165 per tile (1 for plant, 1 for keg)

Each requires 1 keg per plant. Math is fun!

Thing is your math is wrong because it's not 1 keg per hop plant if you are being realistic or producing on a scale that would make this relevant. Pale Ale requires 2250 mins to brew. Hops produce every single day. Process time varies. It's 60mins for an hour awake and 100 for an hour asleep. So if we slept all day we could get 2400mins but then we don't have time to pick, water and brew the hops. So how much time do we actually have in your scenario?

We solve for waking hours (X):

60X+100Y=2250

X+Y=24

Y=24-X

60X+100(24-X)=2250

2400-40X=2250

X=3.75 hours

But since time advances in 1/6th increments we actually only have 3.67 hours, 9:40AM, to pick all our hops, water them and then put them in kegs every day. That's going to seriously limit how many hops we can support with this system.

So while technically, yes, this is the best income per tile achievable, it is not relevant because it will be on such a small scale that income per tile is not a concern. Over time, we would generate much more profit by planting as many Hops or Ancient Fruit as we can service in a 20 hour work day. Such a work day would require 1.5 kegs per hop plant. This actually makes them roughly equivalent.

420/2.5 tiles = 168 gold per hop per day per tile

Of course hops will be significantly more work than Ancient Fruit but this is all mute because Ancient Fruit are not plantable in pots.


Taking this further, the most efficient use of garden pots is actually Starfruit with Deluxe Speed-Gro.

Starfruit profit is as follows:

Costs:
400 per seed
80 per Deluxe Speed-Gro purchased from Sandy on Thursday

2250*1.4-480=2670 profit

Starfruit with Deluxe Speed-Gro take 9 days to mature.

2670/9= ~296 gold per starfruit per day

Since Starfruit only take ~6 days of full work to process in the keg, we actually only need 0.67 kegs per plant. This means:

296/1.67 = ~178 gold per starfruit per day per tile

[Tristin]

Growing on garden pots for profit is not very practical/efficient, as you have to manually water and collect. Better to use as decorations or grow tea leaves just to have tea leaves, or use as to get particular ones for specific minimal purpose.

Using as decoration would really depend on how you decorated your in-door setting theme. I suggest trying each one out to get the feel of what you want.

Here's what I did with my garden pots:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2010679857