Rare Seed

Rare Seed
Sow in fall. Takes all season to grow.
Information
Crop:	Sweet Gem Berry
Growth Time:	24 days
Season:	Fall
Sell Price:	data-sort-value="200">200g
Purchase Prices
General Store:	Not Sold
JojaMart:	Not Sold
Traveling Cart:	data-sort-value="1000">1,000g (Spring and Summer) data-sort-value="200"600–1,000g (1.26% chance, any season)

The Rare Seed is a type of seed. A mature plant yields a Sweet Gem Berry.

One to five Rare Seeds can be purchased at the Traveling Cart for data-sort-value="1000">1,000g each during Spring and Summer. During any season, there is also a 1.26% chance that the merchant will be selling 1-5 Rare Seeds for data-sort-value="200"600–1,000g each. (You may see Rare Seeds occupying two slots in the merchant's offerings in Spring and Summer). Rare Seeds can also be obtained by using the Seed Maker.

Despite the description stating that this seed "takes all season to grow", it takes only 24 days. If using Speed-Gro or Deluxe Speed-Gro, the player has up to Day 7 of Fall to plant this seed, and it will be harvestable before Winter.

Stages

Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Harvest	Sells For	Restores
						data-sort-value="3000" 3,000g 3,750g 4,500g 6,000g	Inedible
2 Days	4 Days	6 Days	6 Days	6 Days	Total: 24 Days	data-sort-value="83.3">83.3g/d*

*Assuming Rare Seed purchased from Traveling Cart for data-sort-value="1000">1,000g.

Tips

• Since the Seed Maker creates an average of two seeds from one Sweet Gem Berry, and that only 97.5% of the time, and since a Sweet Gem Berry is worth at least data-sort-value="3000">3,000g (more if it's of advanced quality), each Rare Seed produced from the Seed Maker is created at a cost of more than data-sort-value="1500">1,500g, perhaps as much as data-sort-value="2250">2,250g. This makes the maximum price of data-sort-value="1000">1,000g at the Traveling Cart a much better buy, even though the quantities offered there are limited.

• Rare Seeds bought from the Traveling Cart yield the highest per-day profit of any crop. But if you farm rare seeds in quantity with seeds produced by a Seed Maker, per-day profits drop dramatically. Assuming you get an average of 1.975 seeds per equipment use, seeds made from regular quality Sweet Gem Berries yield profits at a minimum rate of only about data-sort-value="60.9">60.9g per day each. Using silver quality fruit for seeds, profits drop to about data-sort-value="45.3">45.3g per day each, still the highest of any crop. Using gold quality fruit for seeds, minimum profits are about data-sort-value="29.7">29.7g per day, a good return, but less than a few other crops.

These numbers are based on the value of new fruits grown at regular quality, and can be raised significantly if you fertilize and get better quality in return. In practice, between the odds for seed maker production and the resulting quality of new crops, values and profits will vary quite a bit. This suggests that best results will usually be achieved by selling your gold-quality fruit as is, without making them into seeds, and using only lesser quality fruit for seeds and replanting.

Notes

A Livin' Off The Land tip (1 Fall, Year 2) informs the player that Rare Seeds take only 24 days to grow, not the full 28 days of the season.