Best fruit?

[vertex]

I'm now using my greenhouse for 3 fruits, ancient fruit, sweet gem berry and starfruit, which one is better? Im mostly planting starfruit cause they're the one I've more seeds of, and im now starting to get more rare seeds and ancient seeds.

[Linkedwulf]

It really depends what you're looking for.

Starfruit seeds are always easy to buy in the desert.
Just selling the Fruits themselves Sweet Gem Berries give you the most money.
If you use Jars to make Jelly Ancient Fruits win Money wise.
If you use enough Kegs and don't mind a LOT of work Hops can actually give you actually the more money than any fruit.

Personally i just use Ancient fruit for convenience. I can use the 100% retaining soil, fill out all 120 spaces and just harvest once per week. Then put them in jars or kegs if i want to. Anyway decent enough money and very little effort.

[sverdrupjahn75]

I always plant a lot of starfruit and turn them into wine. Makes a nice profit. They'll go for even twice as much if they're stored, but it takes two seasons for them to reach top quality, so meh.

[ZombLabs]

I would say definitely the ancient fruit, mostly for the price. You can plant them, and then start making seeds out of it.

[Asha Man]

I use the greenhouse for ancient fruit, and around the edge put pomegranate trees with preserves jars. Ancient fruit is low maintenance and high profit, even more if you make ancient fruit wine. The trees take three days to grow which is exactly the amount of time to make pomegranate jelly, every three days that's an extra 24K or so. If you haven't grown trees in the greenhouse yet banana trees are actually the most profitable, so if you have access to them I would grow those instead. Once you get to ginger island, you can grow any crop you want year round, so I use that for starfruit unless I need Qi fruit.

[Asha Man]

One more thing, if you grow trees in there you can't have any crop or sprinkler in the one space around the edge of the greenhouse garden until the trees fully mature, or they will not grow. After one season they mature and you can use the space again.

[Queen Droxxanna]

Originally posted by Asha Man:

One more thing, if you grow trees in there you can't have any crop or sprinkler in the one space around the edge of the greenhouse garden until the trees fully mature, or they will not grow. After one season they mature and you can use the space again.

you can also grow trees around the edge of the green house so you dont use up the middle planting space.
If you are into using mods, Ellie's Ideal Greenhouse gives you the option of 3 larger sizes, the most Spacious gives you 4x planting space and a second room designed just for trees, which holds 48 trees. To make the tree harvesting easier, i also use the Automation mod, and place a chest in front of each tree, and the fruit go into the chest daily. Then after you have a few fruit in the chest, place a keg beside each chest, and the wine will be made automatically and go back into the chest for you to pick up later.
You could then place a cask behind each keg, and you wine will be aged automatically as well. Come back a month later and just pick up all the aged wines to take to market.

Note: if you already have your regular green house planted, and then add Ellie's mod, you wont lose your work, it will just be moved to the upper left corner of Ellie's Spacious GH. You need to install and set up the Spacious option before opening your farm.

[Lightning]

Ancient Fruit will start making more money than Starfruit at around day 80-90 after you plant the seed, and the gap will only get wider afterward.

What makes Starfruit better than Ancient Fruit, in a way, is that it only needs 0.54 keg per crop. If you have 116 Starfruit in your greenhouse, you'll need only 63 kegs while you'll need 116 kegs for the same amount of Ancient Fruits.

[McJiggy]

Ancient fruit is better for greenhouse, I use the island for starfruits.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by Lightning:

Ancient Fruit will start making more money than Starfruit at around day 80-90 after you plant the seed, and the gap will only get wider afterward.

Assuming no cost for the ancient seed and turning either fruit into wine:
Ancient is 1650g per 7 days
Starfruit is 2250-400=1850 per 13 days

1650/7 = 235.7 gold per day
1850/13 = 142.3 gold per day

The ancient fruit is making 93.4 gold per day more than starfruit from day one.

If you dock the ancient fruit 825g for half a fruit's worth of wine (on average) it only takes 18 days of production to catch up.

Given the long growth to first harvest you did also miss out on two possible starfruit harvests. That's 4525 gold of costs and lost profit potential versus starfruit, which is only 49 days of production. Add 21 days of extra growth and you get an even 70 days to pass starfruit.

Hmm. I don't have time right now to do the math with speed grow. That might have interesting results.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

OK let's assume Deluxe Speed Grow and Artisan bonus.

Starfruit is now a 9 day growth cycle and is worth 3150 gold (2750 profit).
Ancient fruit now has 14 extra days (down from 21) before the 7 day per harvest cycle and is worth 2310 gold.

Starfruit's daily profit is 305.5 gold.
Ancient's daily profit is 330 gold.

Ancient fruit has a 24.5 gold per day advantage.

With 14 days of dead time that's 4278 gold worth of starfruit profit plus 1155 gold of ancient fruit lost to the seed maker.

It takes 222 days for ancient fruit to net more than starfruit.

...I didn't expect that.

Um...

I play multiplayer so I have Agriculturalist and Artisan bonuses (as long as my friend plants everything).

Ancient fruit's dead time is down to 11 days.
Starfruit's cycle is down to 8 days.

Starfruit is 343.75 gold per day...which pretty much answers all the questions we could ask about ancient fruit's profitability.

...I might need to talk to my friends about replanting our greenhouse.

[Linkedwulf]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

OK let's assume Deluxe Speed Grow and Artisan bonus.

Starfruit is now a 9 day growth cycle and is worth 3150 gold (2750 profit).

If you assume that don't forget that you've to renew the fertilizer every time though XD.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

I've had extremely variable results with fertilizer. Sometimes it vanishes with the crop, sometimes it vanishes at the end of the season, sometimes it's just immortal. I've got three pots in my house that just will not stop having deluxe speed grow in them. Neat, but weird.

[Nakos]

By the time you're deciding what to fill your Greenhouse with, one has to bear in mind that at a certain point, more money becomes largely meaningless.

At that point, one might ask: What's the thing that I can grow that I'll enjoy the process the most? Do you want to have a more labor intensive crop? Or a less labor intensive one?

Pick the crop that will fit into your time management budget best.

[Linkedwulf]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

I've had extremely variable results with fertilizer. Sometimes it vanishes with the crop, sometimes it vanishes at the end of the season, sometimes it's just immortal. I've got three pots in my house that just will not stop having deluxe speed grow in them. Neat, but weird.

Hmm... maybe i'm mixing something up, i thought it vanished with single harvest crops, but after doing a quick search it does indeed appear to be seasonal.