Most profitable crops for greenhouse?

[Your Neighbour]

Hi was wondering what's gives most gold per day crops with regrowth can be planted in the greenhouse minus advanced ones like coffee and starfruit? Still in first year and don't want to fix bus just yet

[dalgo]

If you brought strawberry seeds at the Egg Festival in spring then saved the harvest to put through the seed maker you can now fill up your greenhouse with strawberries.

[Lurlex]

Short answer: Blueberries are going to be worth more than strawberries if you're growing through multiple seasons in your greenhouse.

Longer answer:

It depends on what seeds you have access to; that means knowing what season you're in. If you have the greenhouse restored already, I doubt very much you're still in Spring, for example ... unless you went the Jojamart route rather than restoring the Community Center, and somehow saved up 40,000 gold within those first 28 days.

So, let's assume strawberries are out -- for greenhouse growing, they're not even worth the most per day, anyway! If regrowth is a must, and you plan on selling the crops directly with no further processing ... the answer is simple: Blueberries (seeds available in Summer), followed by cranberries (seeds available in Fall). Blueberries and cranberries are worth less individually than Strawberries, but because they yield multiple fruit with each harvest, they actually net you comparable gold per day if you just plan on selling the crops directly.

Blueberries in particular are actually worth more in the long haul than strawberries, as you don't need to worry about season changes in the greenhouse. They regrow in the same number of days (4), but you get 3 blueberries every harvest, so that's 150 total gold compared to the 120 of Strawberries.

The only consideration that puts strawberries at a higher gold per day over blueberries applies to outside growing only. Blueberries take 13 days to reach maturity, so you can only get 4 harvests in the season, and strawberries can reach maturity in 8 days, meaning you can get as many as 5 harvests in _IF_ you plant on Day 1 in Spring (which you can't even do your first year anyway, so it's a moot point).

If you plan on involving kegs or preserves jars and processing things, that complicates things a bit ... it'll be difficult to get enough of either item in the first year to process regrowth crops fast enough, so the yield could overwhelm you. You could always process what you can and sell the rest off, I suppose.

[Nakos]

It also depends a bit on what you're using the Greenhouse for.

Traditionally, Greenhouses are used to "get a jump" on a season.

In SDV this means growing a given crop out of season, and running the produce through a Seed Maker in order to grow far larger quantities of said crop outside, during its proper season. Strawberries are the most obvious choice there, due to the fact that the seeds can only be purchased at the Egg Festival. But ... regardless of which season it is, you can still save on the expense of buying seeds by doing this.

So... that could be a consideration too.

It's also an issue of your time and attention. Unless you plan to visit the Greenhouse every day, you might want to put low attention plants in there. Ancient Seeds being one possibility, Starfruit being the other.

[RidexOrxPie]

Hops, but you have to put them in a Keg for it to matter. With artisan profession they generate 210 g/day as Pale ale. If you are the type that like monotonous tasks, coffee beans are insane as well, and you need far less kegs to process your yield at 100% efficiency.

[Your Neighbour]

Thanks all, much appreciate the feedbacks

[Clovis Sangrail]

Hops -- but you will need a ton of kegs and will be harvesting and kegging every day. I use hops initially after I have the greenhouse if I don't have sprinklers yet, because it is easy to grow and water 50 plants.

Starfruit -- Requires cash up front but when made into wine is very profitable. You get a crop every two weeks, but you have to replant each time.

Ancient fruit -- You have to start slow and run all of you harvest through a seedmaker, but once you can plant the greenhouse in ancient fruit, it gives fruit every week forever. Ancient fruit wine doesn't sell for as much as starfruit wine, but you get twice as much.

Don't forget to put 18 trees around the edge. Pomegranate and peach make the best wine. 18 trees will give you 54 fruit every 3 days with very little effort other than to harvest the fruit and plop it into a keg.

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Hops -- but you will need a ton of kegs and will be harvesting and kegging every day. I use hops initially after I have the greenhouse if I don't have sprinklers yet, because it is easy to grow and water 50 plants.

Starfruit -- Requires cash up front but when made into wine is very profitable. You get a crop every two weeks, but you have to replant each time.

Ancient fruit -- You have to start slow and run all of you harvest through a seedmaker, but once you can plant the greenhouse in ancient fruit, it gives fruit every week forever. Ancient fruit wine doesn't sell for as much as starfruit wine, but you get twice as much.

Don't forget to put 18 trees around the edge. Pomegranate and peach make the best wine. 18 trees will give you 54 fruit every 3 days with very little effort other than to harvest the fruit and plop it into a keg.

Listen to this man! He knows what he's taking about! Honestly, just look up efficient Green house placement in the Stardew Valley wiki.

[RattikusMaximus]

Personally I'd do blueberries if your planning ahead and it's summer or cranberries if it's fall, until I had my hands on an ancient fruit to start extracting seeds from, then slowly replace my berries. Hops are very profitable with kegs, but i'm lazy and not a fan of trellis crops enough to deal with 50 of them

As a side note, Hops are edible and will keep you in food/energy forever, it's worth having some in there just to never have to worry about food again.

[enderphilia]

I can confirm, starfruit wines are profitable, especially if you let them age. Trees are always a good option, since you can harvest them about every day.

[Lurlex]

I don't know why so many people are recommending ancient fruit or starfruit when the OP said in his very first sentence he's not going to have access to Starfruit or large quantities of 'advanced' seeds (like Ancient Fruit, which require some time to acquire a lot of seeds).

He specifically wants first-year accessible stuff that's realistic within the confines of that single year.

[Lurlex]

If you actually read the OP's post, and not just the title ... it's pointless to recommend stuff like Starfruit or Ancient fruit, as he's already ruled those out. He's in his first year, with limited resources, and no desert access.

He's likely not going to have the resources or time to build a barn-full of kegs, either, so I'm not sure it's even helpful to be talking about wine. He just wanted a greenhouse full of a regrowth crop that's practical to get within the confines of Pierre's goods.

[Your Neighbour]

Thanks all again, happen to got a few coffee beans and been multiplying them in the greenhouse. I don't like planting so starfruit is off the table for me.

[Lurlex]

Coffee is good in that there's actually a use to it, not just profit. I can't stand to travel in the game without a coffee speed boost. I just wish the buff lasted longer than 2 minutes. :-(

I never go anywhere now without at least 30 in my inventory. I grew my own supply at first, but once I started having regular balances in the hundreds of thousands, I began to just buy them from Gus in bulk.