Agriculturist and growth rates

[NotThatHarkness]

At farming skill level 10 I took Agriculturist (crops grow 10% faster), largely by accident since Artisan (artisan products worth 50% more) sounds a lot better.

This is the growth time in days I'm seeing in game now. I'm wondering if this is a bug or whether this is expected based on how growth rate is calculated in game. Unless otherwise stated, I'm using Quality Fertilizer (not the Speed-Gro stuff) which shouldn't affect growth rate.

Wheat (with Basic Fertilizer) - 2 days to harvest (normally 4)
Potato - 3 days to harvest (normally 6) (edit: corrected days to harvest)
Cauliflower - 8 days to harvest (normally 12)
Cranberries 4 days to first harvest (normally 7), 2nd harvest 5 days later (normally additional harvests every 5 days after, apparently no benefit)
Starfruit - 9 days to harvest (normally 13)
Melon - 8 days to harvest (normally 12)
Red cabbage - 5 days to harvest (normally 9)
Bok choy - 2 days to harvest (normally 4)

Growth stages are impacted, at least with wheat. On day 1 after planting wheat is at stage 4. The next day it's harvestable. http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Crops#Wheat Same with bok choy.

Is there anything related to growth times that I'm missing? Most of the above was done in the greenhouse, but harvest times were similarly affected outside in summer and fall. So I don't think the greenhouse has anything to do with it. It's winter currently in my game and I just thought to take notes yesterday.

My other thought was perhaps Agriculturist was rebalanced to compare better with Artisan, but I doubt that since the explanation in-game said 10% when I made the choice. Maybe it's the way growth rate is calculated?

Does anyone have any insight?

[NotThatHarkness]

I have also noticed a higher level of gold star crops now that I'm at level 10 farming. I often use the quality fertilizer, but on crops destined for the kegs I don't use anything, and I get much more gold and silver star produce than when I first started the game.

[Shantidoge]

I found this thread by accident while looking up on how many days it will take for rare seed to grow with deluxe speed-gro. I'm on Fall 5(Friday) 1st Year and the traveling merchant isn't selling the rare seed. If he happens to sell it on Fall 7(sunday), I can still grow it before fall ends (24 days->18 days theoretically with deluxe speed-gro) and trade the it for the stardrop fruit. Also, has the agriculturist profession been fixed by now?

[redplatform]

Agriculturalist has indeed been fixed as of the last patch, 1.07. I believe the merchant will not randomly sell the rare seed in Fall and Winter. You'll have to wait until Spring or Summer.

[Shantidoge]

Damn I wish I bought one earlier