Best way to get gold star crops?

[Jay the Fox]

I need 5 gold star pumpkins and 5 gold star corn in order to complete the "Quality Crops" bundle and I can't seem to get the crops up to gold. I'm using the best fertilizer I can make but none of my crops are yielding what I need. Help?

[dino_inc]

Plant a LOT of crops, I never used fertilizer and didn't have a problem getting gold crops for the bundle.

[Jay the Fox]

Originally posted by dino_inc:

Plant a LOT of crops, I never used fertilizer and didn't have a problem getting gold crops for the bundle.

I usually plant about 30-40 at a time, but I wonder if fertilizer actually hinders your crops quality?

[dino_inc]

Originally posted by TheGoodMadame:

Originally posted by dino_inc:

Plant a LOT of crops, I never used fertilizer and didn't have a problem getting gold crops for the bundle.

I usually plant about 30-40 at a time, but I wonder if fertilizer actually hinders your crops quality?

If you're using the quality fertilizer... it shouldn't. Not sure about speed grow though.

[Jay the Fox]

Originally posted by dino_inc:

Originally posted by TheGoodMadame:

I usually plant about 30-40 at a time, but I wonder if fertilizer actually hinders your crops quality?

If you're using the quality fertilizer... it shouldn't. Not sure about speed grow though.

Before I used fertilizer I would get 1-2 gold crops out of every 5 I planted and maybe 1 silver. Afterwards I used the Quality Retaining Fertilizer I get 0 gold stars and 1 silver out of every 30.

[Uncle Cam Wants YOU]

see, the problem here is that you are planting so little pumpkins :^) you gotta mass produce that crop fam. other than that, quality fertilizer does work at raising the quality of your crop, however, if your farming level isnt high enough, then youll only be picking silver stared crops the most and rarely any gold

[dino_inc]

Originally posted by TheGoodMadame:

Originally posted by dino_inc:

If you're using the quality fertilizer... it shouldn't. Not sure about speed grow though.

Before I used fertilizer I would get 1-2 gold crops out of every 5 I planted and maybe 1 silver. Afterwards I used the Quality Retaining Fertilizer I get 0 gold stars and 1 silver out of every 30.

Use this fertilizer, the retaining soil ones don't improve quality.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Basic_Fertilizer
or, if you can afford it, quality fertilizer.

[Greywolf]

Originally posted by TheGoodMadame:

I need 5 gold star pumpkins and 5 gold star corn in order to complete the "Quality Crops" bundle and I can't seem to get the crops up to gold. I'm using the best fertilizer I can make but none of my crops are yielding what I need. Help?

What is your farming level? Farming level also plays a role in the quality of your crops. The best way to get gold star crops is just to play the numbers game, plant and fertilize as much as you can and hope some of them come out gold star.

[Jay the Fox]

Originally posted by Greywolf:

Originally posted by TheGoodMadame:

I need 5 gold star pumpkins and 5 gold star corn in order to complete the "Quality Crops" bundle and I can't seem to get the crops up to gold. I'm using the best fertilizer I can make but none of my crops are yielding what I need. Help?

What is your farming level? Farming level also plays a role in the quality of your crops. The best way to get gold star crops is just to play the numbers game, plant and fertilize as much as you can and hope some of them come out gold star.

I'm farming level 8. I was getting them like crazy before.

Originally posted by dino_inc:

Originally posted by TheGoodMadame:

Before I used fertilizer I would get 1-2 gold crops out of every 5 I planted and maybe 1 silver. Afterwards I used the Quality Retaining Fertilizer I get 0 gold stars and 1 silver out of every 30.

Use this fertilizer, the retaining soil ones don't improve quality.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Basic_Fertilizer
or, if you can afford it, quality fertilizer.

I can afford it so I probably will use that. I really need those crops.

[Nakos]

Quality and Basic fertilizer should both improve crop quality, as should your Farming level.

It sounds like you've had a bad streak with the RNG. Keep trying, it'll improve.

[ImSoCool599]

mod

[tikiman572]

As others have said, you should plant en masse and, at the very LEAST, use Basic Quality Fertilizer. If you've been stockpiling Sap from the trees you cut down, you should be able to easily make up some for your farming needs.

[GrammaCora]

It took a while but you have to raise your farming levels and as the others have said.. plant lots of crops...

[Zero Angel (Ocelot)]

The quality retaining soil doesn't improve crop quality, it simply makes it so that you don't have to water the crops on some days. I only use it for some of the more out-of-the-way areas that I don't want to dedicate a sprinkler to. And i'm thinking of not even using that any more as the retaining soil is unreliable and I usually still have to go out of my way to water those bits.

Go for proper fertilizer. If you have a large body of water near your house you can just place a bunch of crab pots and use the snails/crayfish as the 'fish' to make quality fertilizer. Place a chest near the crab pots so you can dump any junk they collect and make a few of those worm bins so you don't have to worry about running out of bait for the crab pots. When the seasons change over you'll be able to make a bunch of quality fertilizers at once.

[Its All Zen]

The best way to do this in year 1 in my opinion is to use basic fertilizer for the spring crop that you need and plant about 20 at a time-your energy will be an issue early on and the first crop has a short grow time so you can keep trying if needed to get 5 golds. Summer you will likely still have energy issues but to a lesser degree if you're leveling up farming skill. The problem here is that the crop for summer takes a lot longer so you can't get more than 2 harvests. Depending on what level you got farming up to in spring use either basic or quality fertilizer and plant nothing but the summer gold crop you need in all spots for your first harvest. Once those pop you can switch over to something else if you like. Fall do the same thing since pumpkins are a great crop for many different things during this year. I'll leave it to you to figure it out since I don't feel like hitting a spoiler tag. Some may argue the point here as to being the 'most efficient' way to do this but this'll allow you enough time to complete the crops you need for your other bundles as well as ensure you have all the gold quality crops you need for the quality bundle. Quality is 'one of' the hardest to complete in year 1 if you don't get the spring crop done since by fall you have so much other stuff going on-animals, grass, mines, birthdays, buildings, foraging, etc. Starting out it's a little slower with less going on so that's a 'freebie' crop if you can get it done it'll make life a little easier.

[Micko]

plant apple trees when fully grown you get purple star apples