Stardew Valley: Complete Guide To Fruit Trees

After a full season to grow, fruit trees make for excellent passive income.

In a farming simulation game like Stardew Valley, it’s no surprise when growing and tending to crops takes up the majority of your time. However, if you’re looking for produce that requires far less hands-on work, consider planting a fruit tree orchard on your farm!

With two trees that grow during every season but Winter (on your farm in Pelican Town, that is) and two more to find and grow on Ginger Island, there are eight total fruit trees you can plant in Stardew Valley. Our guide will help you plan out your fruit tree orchard for the best harvests.

Fruit Trees And When They Bear Fruit

Fruit trees in Stardew Valley require a bit more planning and growth time than your regular crops, but they end up being much more hands-off than a regular crop field once you've gotten them into the ground.

Fruit trees grow from fruit tree saplings, which can be purchased from Pierre's Shop (or the Joja Mart) regardless of which season it currently is in the game. This is because fruit trees take 28 days to mature, meaning you'll need to plan ahead and plant them at least a full season earlier than when you intend to harvest them.

Like other crops, fruit trees only bear fruit during one season after they've matured, but unlike other crops, once a fruit tree has reached maturity, it will produce fruit every year until you cut down the tree.

New in the 1.6 update , we now get a fruit tree sapling when cutting down a fruit tree, and the sapling will be of the same quality as the fruit the tree bore. No more do fruit trees only drop Wood when chopped!

Fruit trees grow one fruit per day during the season in which they produce fruit, and you're able to stack up to three fruits on one tree before new ones stop growing in, so be sure to harvest at least every three days during their harvest season to optimize your profits!

Fruit grows in different qualities, and the quality of your harvest is typically determined by the age of the tree, with the fruit quality seeming to increasing over time.

As such, it's a good idea to plant your fruit trees year one to begin growing better fruit for the future.

Like other trees, fruit trees need space to grow, requiring the sapling to be planted in untilled ground in the center of a three by three area, like what's watered with the Regular Sprinkler. It's important to note that your fruit tree won't grow if anything is in this three by three space, including randomly spawned debris around the farm, furniture, pathways, and more.

Once the tree is fully grown, though, it will continue to produce fruit regardless, meaning items can be safely placed in that grid without impacting the health of the three once it reaches maturity.

To help prevent debris from hindering growth, you'll see a message in the morning stating that your (fruit) tree wasn't able to grow overnight, which is your cue to go check the area around your tree and break up any branches, grass, or rocks that may have spawned.

Not largely impacted by weather, fruit trees grow during every season, meaning you can safely plant trees in the Winter and expect a normal harvest the following year after they've used the Winter to grow to maturity.

Fruit trees can be struck by lightning during big storms, though, which will cause them to produce Coal instead of fruit for four days after the storm. After that, they'll return to normal , so don't make the mistake of cutting them down like we did!

All Fruit Trees In Stardew Valley And When They Produce Fruit

* If you've chosen a profession that boosts the sale price of your crops, your numbers may be different from base values in the table above.

Once you've harvested everything from your fruit tree, you can sell your harvest as-is or use it like other fruits in Stardew Valley to make wine or jelly to increase the value.

How To Grow Fruit Trees All Year

Use The Greenhouse

Like other crops, you can use the Greenhouse to grow fruit trees year-round. An advantageous difference for fruit trees, though, is that you can safely plant them along the perimeter of the Greenhouse to maximize the soil space for traditional crops.

When planted inside the Greenhouse, fruit trees need 28 days to mature as normal, but they'll produce one fruit each day until cut down, without regard for the current season.

Plant Fruit Trees On Ginger Island

Finally, just like all your other crops on the Island farm, fruit trees can be harvested year-round on Ginger Island.

Like in Pelican Town, fruit trees still need the full 28 days once planted to grow to maturity on Ginger Island, but once they reach maturity, your fruit trees will bear one fruit per day no matter the season. This means planting an orchard on your Ginger Island farm is a quick and easy way to have year-round access to fruit tree fruits!

When planting Ginger Island fruit trees like Banana and Mango Trees back in Pelican Town, they'll only produce fruit during the Summer.