Is speed-gro worth it on crops that keep growing

[CaliTurian]

Does it apply to all new batches, or just the first one? Which fertilizer is best for plants that keep producing?

[Buffmania]

It will reduce the time to the first harvest, but not the time between additional harvests. In many cases it'll allow you to get an additional harvest or two, depending on crop, per season. If you're going to put the crop into a keg or preserve jar it's the thing to use as boosting the quality of a crop would be wasted.

[Radiosity]

Just the initial growth period, after that they take the normal length of time for each harvest. Getting some speed grow before the egg festival means you can squeeze in three total harvests of strawberries, so it's well worth it for that. I also use speed grow for ancient fruit seeds to get as many harvests as possible before winter so I can grind them up for more seeds to put in the greenhouse when it's unlocked.

Speed grow is also nice for squeezing in an extra harvest of a longer-growing crop like cauliflower.

In general, fertiliser is best used for anything you're going to sell directly rather than processing in a keg/jar, since you lose the star quality the moment you put produce in those (at least in the vanilla game).

[Hiroko]

Just the first. Other fertilizers will work on regrow phases.

Retaining - for places where you can't use a sprinkler
Speed-grow - for crops that are 100% going to be dedicated to processing, since quality doesn't matter.
Quality - everything else

[Coffee Addict]

quality till you get some kegs/jars then speed to keep the kegs/jars producing

[Shrub]

Speed grow only works til the plant is fully mature. Doesn't make the inbetween faster. Same with quality if I remember correctly it will only effect first harvest?

[Buffmania]

Originally posted by Shrub:

Speed grow only works til the plant is fully mature. Doesn't make the inbetween faster. Same with quality if I remember correctly it will only effect first harvest?

The restriction on quality fertilizer only applies to crops that give you several items each harvest. For example, when picking blueberries, only the first of the four berries will have the quality bonus.

[Queen Droxxanna]

there is a mod that lets you instantly grow crops to harvest ready, where you only have to hit one button, (i use the G button), Ya that may be a cheat, but it sure save me time.
The one thing about fertilizers is once you fertilize the ground, it STAYS fertilized so you can plant a succession of crops without having to add more.

[red255]

Originally posted by CaliTurian:

Does it apply to all new batches, or just the first one? Which fertilizer is best for plants that keep producing?

its worth it for ancient fruit. especially the first harvest. main use of it is to it for starfruit, where you can squeeze out 3 harvests in summer, and then plant wheat so you can keep the harvest for fall.

but yeah if I get some quick ancient fruit seeds in spring year 1. if I get some speed grow to shave off a week I get more seeds for my greenhouse in fall if I actually care.

but yeah if you cover the ground with sprinklers and speed grow and wheat you can get alot of wheat grown for ale. (which I grow for that, and the fodder to get me thru winter)