Crops & seeds

Where to buy seeds

1. Kavita runs the seed stall at the Wisk market every day, from about 6:30 until almost midnight. Her stock changes with the season and goes back to the Spring list after Winter. All year she also sells Wheat Seeds (20, for making your own Flour), the Sprinkler Plant (120), the Scythe (65) and the Bug Catcher (55); in Spring only, the Spundlewood Sapling (235) and the Waterskin (5).
2. Two seeds appear in two seasons: Moon Poppy in Spring and Summer, Sunflower in Summer and Autumn.
3. The Waterfall Grotto is a hidden seed shop behind the waterfall at Wisk Pool — just walk through the water. It sells out-of-season seeds at double the price. Its shelves are empty in Spring; from Summer it carries Kavita’s Spring seeds, the Spundlewood Sapling, Instagrow (180), Log, Stone and Twigs; from Autumn it adds the Summer seeds, Amber Dragon Seeds and two exclusives — Tomato (130) and Twilight Blossom (160); from Winter it adds the Autumn seeds, and after Winter most of the Winter ones.

4. Mel and Lusina sell Cranberry Seeds (20) for the pond and Sprinkler Plants (120) at their Shell, south of town; the mermaid shop that replaces them keeps selling the cranberry seeds. Gwen sells Nocturne Squash Seeds (85) in Nocturne Forest.

Seed Collective crates

1. With the Seed Collective skill (Mana Enrichment → Seed Collective) a free crate of seeds turns up by the Dorm Hall mailbox on days 1 and 8 of every season (in the first year it starts on Spring 8). What’s inside depends on the date you open it, so open each crate before the next one arrives.

2. The Seed Collective is the only source of Gloomroot, Onion, Pansy, Stinging Nettle and Viperwort seeds.

Seeds from stories and from the wild

1. Shears in your bag (anywhere — no need to equip them) make some wild plants drop 0–2 seeds when you pick them, one on average. You learn the schematic in the Summer 2 Herbotany class.
2. Wild plants that give seeds:
   1. Dandelion and Wild Leeks (wild in Spring).
   2. Thistle and Fiddlehead (wild all year; Fiddlehead gives spores).
   3. Berry bushes give seeds of what they grow: Blueberry in Spring, Blackberry in Summer, Winter Berry in Winter. There’s a bush by the garden gate, others around Linden’s farm, in the woods by Bristlecone’s House and in the Ochre Woods.
3. Garden crops never give extra seeds this way.

Every crop

1. Seed is Kavita’s price (the Grotto charges double, except for its own two exclusives). Days is the number of watered days before the first harvest. Regrows is how often it ripens again afterwards — keep watering it. Sells for is the Magic Well price for one.

2. A few crops grow differently and aren’t in the tables:
   1. Spundle Bean grows on the Spundlewood tree (see Farming).
   2. Cranberry grows in the garden pond.
   3. Colossal Pumpkin is only for the Pumpkin Moon contest (below).
   4. Lakedew Lily grows beside the dragon egg during “The Briny Bathhouse”.
3. Some plants only grow in the wild and their seeds can’t be bought or gathered — Witchfire, Frostleaf, Ruby Bells, Ember Hearts and Wild Mint among them. Pick them where they grow (see Foraging).

The best crops for money

1. Figures per plot, without the Farm Merchant bonus:
2. The winners:
   1. Cocoa Bean is the best crop in the game: a 105 seed, 6 days to the first harvest, then a bean worth 100 every 2 days — about 50 Gold Petals a day per plot.
   2. Cucumber is the best cheap crop: a 30 seed that then makes 30 every day.
   3. Blueberry and Sleepless Peas come next at about 27 a day; Borage makes about 22 a day in Winter.
   4. Each pond Cranberry spot makes about 27 a day without any watering.
   5. Of the one-harvest crops, Nocturne Squash pays best: 145 from an 85 seed in 3 days. Moon Poppy, Frostwoven Nightshade, Rhubarb, Spring Tuber and Quicksilver Cabbage leave 30–40 profit per harvest.

3. Watch out for pests: regrowing crops can be eaten on any night they’re regrowing. Without a Briar Fox you’ll lose the odd plant.

The Seaflower Festival float

1. In Intro to Herbotany on Spring 5, Professor Rohesia asks the class to donate flowers for the float at the Seaflower Festival on Spring 14 (“Herbotany Homework”). Put them in the Flower Chest in the Herbotany classroom before the festival. Only flowers count: Chamomile, Dandelion, Lavender, Moon Poppy, Pansy, Sunflower, Thistle, Tulip, Twilight Blossom and Wild Thyme.
2. Donate at least 21 flowers to win — the biggest donor receives the Conch instrument at the festival. Donate fewer and Amka wins.

The Colossal Pumpkin contest

1. After the Colossal Flora Herbotany class on Autumn 2, talk to Professor Rohesia and sign up. You get a single Colossal Pumpkin Seed — there’s no way to get another.
2. How it works:
   1. Plant it in a tree plot that same day and water it.
   2. Water it every day. The pumpkin never ripens or gets harvested — it just keeps growing. The giant pumpkin appears after 4 growth steps, and a stalk starts sprouting from it after 11.
   3. It’s collected on Autumn 12, and the Pumpkin Moon Festival is on Autumn 13 at 16:00. The judges measure its growth up to the morning of Autumn 13.
3. To win you need 19 growth steps, when the stalk reaches the clouds. Watering every day from Autumn 2 to 12 only gives 11, so you need 8 more from growth items: two Mud Pies (6 steps each) is the easy way; one Mud Pie plus a High or Exceptional Instagrow also works; otherwise 3 Legendary, 4 High/Exceptional or 8 Average (Grotto) Instagrows.
4. Winning gives you the Purple Winter Cloak and the Massive Pumpkin achievement. If yours falls short, Arthur wins.

Crops that stories ask for