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Crops will only grow in certain seasons. They will usually tell you when you equip the bag, and stores only sell what is in season. Spring: Turnips - 5 days Potatoes - 8 days Cucumbers - 10 days, harvest again in 2 days Strawberries - 8 days, harvest again in 2 days Cabbage - 15 days (sold at Sprite Casino Shop) Summer: Onions - 8 days Pumpkins - 15 days Corn - 15 days, harvest again in 3 days Tomatoes - 10 days, harvest again in 3 days Pineapple - 21 days, harvest again in 5 days (sold at Sprite Casino Shop) Fall: Carrots - 8 days Spinach - 6 days Eggplant - 10 days, harvest again in 3 days Yams - 6 days, harvest again in 2 days Bell Pepper - 8 days, harvest again in 2 days (sold at Sprite Casino Shop) A little tip is that you can plant the day before a season starts (ie plant Summer crops on the last day of Spring) and it will work out fine. You have to hoe an area up to 3x3 (you can leave spots undone if you want gaps in the crops, especially good for regrow crops.) Crops are either one time harvest or they regrow. If they are one time harvest, that's it, you pick them and if you want to grow more you have to plant more. Crops that regrow will stay there after you pick them, and the ripe crops will reappear in less time than it took the whole plant to grow. Crops grow at different rates in different areas. The figures above are for regular fields like your farm. Crops grow one day faster near the mine and near the Sprite Station. Crops grow super fast underneath the waterfall (read Mining section for how to get into there.) All the other fields are slow growth fields, so it will take slightly longer for crops to ripen (so why grow stuff there?) You can also grow fruit trees and mushrooms. Fruit trees are easy enough. You have to dig a 2x2 plot with nothing around it to get in the way, and then plant seeds. The trees will grow in about 40 days, and they make fruit every other day in their season. (Bananas, Oranges, and Peaches grow in summer, and Grapes and Apples grow in Fall.) You start out with a peach tree on your farm. Mushrooms have to grow in the mushroom house. It costs a bit of money to build, and it isn't a big money maker for the time you put in, so only do this if you really want to. You have to put a piece of wood lumber on one of the pallets in the mushroom house. Then, stand in front of it and sow seeds. Water the log each day. It takes over a season to grow just one. The longer you wait to pick it, the bigger it will get. There are three types of mushrooms, toadstool, matsutake, and shiitake. You have to buy shiitake seeds from Vesta, but the other two can be picked around the valley in fall, and put into the seed maker to make seeds. 8. Leveling Up Crops (LVL) The seeds you buy from the stores are Level 1. If you sow more than one bag of those seeds right on top of another, there is a chance that some of the crops will be Level 2 crops. You can sow more than 2 bags of seeds to increase the odds, but generally 2 bags is enough (you'll get about 3 Level 2's out of 9 total crops.) To further level up crops, you need to upgrade your house first. That will open up the "Maker Barn" in Gotz's shop. Have that made, then get a piece of Adamantite (found in 3rd mine, see Mining - MNG) and ask Gray to make a seed maker for you. Once it's finished, you can throw those Level 2 crops into it. One crop will make one bag of seeds, so in order to get to level 3, you need to put at least 2 Level 2 crops in. Then you will get at least 2 bags of Level 2 seeds, which you can sow on top of each other. That will result in some of the crops being Level 3, and you repeat this process. Leveled up crops sell for a LOT more (just one Level 10 turnip sells for about 2000G!) To level up fruit trees, it's the same process, except that you need to remember that there is only one "crop" to this planting, so you need to sow more than two bags to really ensure the tree will be leveled up. Then put the leveled up fruits in the seed maker, and plant a new tree with several bags. This process obviously takes a while. The same goes for mushrooms. You need to put down a lot of bags to make sure they level up.