How to get silver/gold stars on tree fruit?

[Wraith_Magus]

OK, so I can't fertilize a tree... so how do I get silver/gold stars on fruit? I can finally afford one, and have to get it into the ground before Summer starts if I want apples by Fall. Is it just blind randomness, like forage, or is there something I'm going to screw up by just planting willy-nilly?

[Mackenzie]

You can't, but if you chose the fruit bats in your farm cave you can forage them in silver or gold star quality.

[Wraith_Magus]

That's horribly depressing...

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Wraith_Magus:

That's horribly depressing...

Why depressing? They produce a fruit every day... that more than makes up for the lack of stars.

[Wraith_Magus]

Depressing because I have a mushroom cave.

[Proteus]

Originally posted by Wraith_Magus:

Depressing because I have a mushroom cave.

Maybe it would bne more depressing to have to forage for your mushrooms out in the wild ;)

[Lionheart51281]

The fruit trees gives more payoff than the fruit bats anyway. Quantity over quality.

[MissLissaDay]

According to the wiki you can get silver and gold stared fruit from fruit trees. It's just a matter of age. The older the tree the higher the chanced you get higher quality items from it.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fruit_Trees

"Fruit trees will produce silver star fruit after one year, and gold star fruit after two years."

So no need to feel depressed :)

[Mackenzie]

@MissLissaDay: This was added in the most recent patch of the game, that is why. Back when this was originally posted, fruit trees did not produce quality fruit by age as the mechanic had not yet existed.

[GlassDeviant]

You don't need stars on fruit.

Put your fruit into Kegs to turn them into wine, which is always no-star whether your fruit is no-star, silver, gold or iridium. Take the wine and put it into Casks in the cellar of your Farmhouse, which will over time upgrade them to Iridium quality, though you might want to harvest them at gold quality to make room for the next batch of wine as you can fill your farm with fruit trees and kegs, but the casks are limited to how many you can cram into the cellar. The increased value of Iridium star quality is not worth as much as getting another batch of gold star quality, unless you aren't backlogged by the limited number of casks.

[Naruto]

Originally posted by MissLissaDay:

According to the wiki you can get silver and gold stared fruit from fruit trees. It's just a matter of age. The older the tree the higher the chanced you get higher quality items from it.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fruit_Trees

"Fruit trees will produce silver star fruit after one year, and gold star fruit after two years."

So no need to feel depressed :)

Thank you