Best crops for preserve jars

[nastolgichoney]

Whats the best crop for preserve jars? I'm only looking at crops that regrow. Strawberries are a clear answer during spring but what about summer and fall? There's a lot of crops in summer that regrow and I have a hard time deciding which one to use. I have a junimo hut set up so all I have to do is preserve jar the crop. I'm looking for most profit possible. (I know kegs are better than preserve jars, but I have kegs for other crops)

[MadDawg2552]

Blueberries are always the best summer crop unless you can get access to tons of starfruit seeds.

In Fall, it's cranberries.

[no1schmo]

Preserve jars are actually better than kegs in terms of profit-per-day, due to taking MUCH less time.

[Twiztidpiksi]

Early in the game, crops that don't require replanting like peppers, corn, and blueberries are good. Ultimately you can earn lots with a greenhouse and ancient fruit in kegs and jars.

[nastolgichoney]

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

Blueberries are always the best summer crop unless you can get access to tons of starfruit seeds.

In Fall, it's cranberries.

thanks! i've been growing starfruit and ancient fruit year round just wanted to grow another thing for variety through the seasons without much effort

[ShiZniTe]

fish eggs? pref lava fish

[Playzr 🐵]

The answers seem to be more about what's easier and less labour intensive to produce in vast quantities rather than say being about what you get for turning a standard quality crop into jam compared to just selling the standard crop. What increases the value the most? And at the same time surely the highest value thing is more relevant here because you have a finite number of preserve jars. So the answer is going to be some combination of all three of these factors. Blueberries are are popular choice because you can produce a lot of them and not have to replant all season. I suppose, if you can produce enough of them, ancient fruit is going to be the best. That's what you should aim for, but it may be a while before you produce enough of them to make it worth it. And you'd probably sell the gold star quality stuff and keep the silver as backup in case you run out of standard.

[nastolgichoney]

Originally posted by Рlαγζr 🐵:

The answers seem to be more about what's easier and less labour intensive to produce in vast quantities rather than say being about what you get for turning a standard quality crop into jam compared to just selling the standard crop. What increases the value the most? And at the same time surely the highest value thing is more relevant here because you have a finite number of preserve jars. So the answer is going to be some combination of all three of these factors. Blueberries are are popular choice because you can produce a lot of them and not have to replant all season. I suppose, if you can produce enough of them, ancient fruit is going to be the best. That's what you should aim for, but it may be a while before you produce enough of them to make it worth it. And you'd probably sell the gold star quality stuff and keep the silver as backup in case you run out of standard.

Actually, my entire ginger island farm is covered in ancient fruit and I keg all of them consistently. I do have a good flow of money I just want to passively use preserve jars on the side to fill in a few days since I find myself sometimes skipping an entire day because I'm not sure what to do in game. I settled for Strawberries, blueberries, and cranberries.

[Playzr 🐵]

Well if you have more ancient fruit than you can keg you may as well preserve jar the standard quality left over to make better use of the limited number of preserve jars.

[Adam1]

Beans

[Dimensional Traveler]

Originally posted by Adam1:

Beans

They do have the added benefit of jet propulsion making you run faster when you eat them but finding just bean seeds is difficult.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

I know OP is asking about most profitable, but I love using salmon berries and blackberries for jelly. I always have a surplus of jelly on me to hand out as gifts, as everyone in town likes it except Sebastian.

[FilthyGorilla]

Originally posted by no1schmo:

Preserve jars are actually better than kegs in terms of profit-per-day, due to taking MUCH less time.

That depends on a multitude of factors, just saying one is more profitable than another is quite misleading as it doesn't really account for much.

Sure per day they are better for the large majority of crops but there are a few common problems that can be evident when calculating that:
1. If you have a 1for1 crop to processing machine then for most crops the processing time and growth period will not be the same, resulting in a loss of profit, this is most evident with longer-growing crops. This can be combated with more machines but then the cost overturns any point o fusing them rather than kegs.
2. Having fewer crops than processing machines. This is similar to the last point but basically hinges on the difference in per-day profits and purely end profits when the former is not fully utilized. Say you have 100 sf and both 100 kegs and 100 jars. It's better to put them into the kegs for obvious reasons, while the jars make more money per day you are only using that for 4~ days. Because the growth time is lower it's optimal to use kegs because they are selling for more anyway with no overlap.
Say you only had 50 of each machine, then it would be superior to use the jars because the full profit ratio of wine and raw to fully jarred is not equal. There is a point where the scale tips and selling a portion of the produce raw with wine actually sells for more than all produce jarred. This changes with growth time.

This is only really looking at high-value, slower-growing crops, for low-value, multigrowth crops jars are superior except for a couple of crops like hops. At this point though the sheer amount of machines needed to process a meaningful amount of the crops for them to be worth processing at all. It's nearly never worth processing things like berries as you are much better off making a larger field of a slower-growing crop.

[happybjorn]

For all seasons it's Ancient Fruit. After that it's Tomato for Summer and Grape for Fall.

[no1schmo]

Sure, yeah; if you have too many processing devices and not enough to put in them, I agree. It's not impossible. But I think it's a bit of an unusual problem--most people would tend to gradually and consistently increase the number of jars or kegs as they progress, trying to keep it around the point that they can consistently keep them used without wasting resources and space on empty units. So it wouldn't be the normal circumstance. And in his case, he specifically asked about crops that turn out a harvest every few days, so kegs would result in him having stockpiles to process.

But again, you are correct, for anyone who wants a more detailed breakdown.