Ushi No Tane - Harvest Moon

I was browsing Gamefaq and came upon THIS

It's a water and light requirement guide for all the crops. Now I won't kill my plants so often! I'll copy past it here too.

All credit for this goes to Rabid Possum at Gamefaqs.

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Crop FAQ – Water and Sun

There seems to be a lot of questions about the crop system in this, so I have put this together to see if it will help.

Growth Stages
Crops grow in stages. The first day is always the seed stage. This is followed by 1-4 growth stages in which the plant increasingly matures. To get to the next growth stage, 3 things need to have happened:

1) The minimum number of days in the growth stage need to have passed.
2) The crop needs to have received the minimum level of sunlight.
3) The crop needs to have received the minimum level of water.

Sunlight
The only way for the crops to get sunlight is during certain types of weather.

Sunny days (blazing sun icon): 3
Fair (sun with straight lines for rays): 1
All other weather: 0

The Greenhouse gives +1 light every day

Water
Crops can receive water from the weather as well as from you physically watering them.

Typhoons and blizzards: 3
Rain and snow: 2
Drizzle: 1
All other weather: 0

Watering with your watering can adds 1 water. You can water as many times as you want in one day and it will increase the water level by 1 each time you do it.

Highest Quality Crops
You want to aim for the minimum amount of water and sunlight for the crop to get the highest quality. Each type of crop has different requirements. If you exceed the maximum, the crops will wilt and die.

Don’t Water if you Don’t Need To
If you reached the minimum water amount in the growth stage, stop watering! Also, take into account next day’s weather before you water your crops, because depending on what the weather is the next day, when your growth stage ends, and your water levels, you may not even need to water that day.

Quality, Size and Freshness
Each item in IoH has 3 different characteristics to determine the rank (D, C, B, A, S). These are quality, size, and freshness.

To get S rank crops, you want a high quality bar, size, and freshness bar.

Quality: As mentioned above, you want the minimum sun and water in each growth stage. The closer to the minimum, the higher the quality bar.

Size: To max the size bar, do not harvest the crop right away. Leave it. The longer you leave it, the bigger it gets. Just make sure it doesn't exceed days, water, and sun that will cause it to wilt. I will put a list below.

Freshness: Starts at full bar. Will start to decrease after picking. Put in refrigerator to slow this down. Put in mythic stone refrigerator to stop completely.

If you wait to harvest your crops, do not exceed these amounts once the crop is ready to harvest. You would not want to water them at all in this stage. It is unnecessary since their is no minimum amount to move on to the next growth stage.

Bell Pepper: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Buckwheat: 10 days / 40+ light / 20+ water
Cabbage: 10 days / 10+ light / 10+ water
Carrot: 10 days / 15+ light / 4+ water
Corn: 10 days / 20+ light / 20+ water
Cucumber: 10 days / 20+ light / 8+ water
Eggplant: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Grass: 60 days / 90+ light / 60+ water
Onion: 10 days / 15+ light / 10+ water
Pineapple: 8 days / 20+ light / 12+ water
Potatoes: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Pumpkin: 10 days / 20+light / 6+ water
Rice: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Soybeans: 10 days / 40+ light / 20+ water
Spinach: 5 days / 10+ light / 4+ water
Strawberries: 10 days / 10+ light / 10+ water
Tomato: 10 days / 20+ light / 8+ water
Turnips: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Wheat: 10 days / 40+ light / 10+ water
Yams: 10 days / 15+ light / 4+ water

Crop List

Apples
Seed stage: 9 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 20-100
1st stage: 12 days / Sunlight 15-60 / Water 25-120
2nd stage: 30 days / Sunlight 40-120 / Water 60-120
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 5-40 / Water 10-60
Repeat Harvest: Sunlight 4-20 / Water 5-30

Banana
Seed stage: 9 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 4-20
1st stage: 6 days / Sunlight 15-100 / Water 3-20
2nd stage: 24 days / Sunlight 50-120 / Water 12-60
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 5-40 / Water 3-20
Repeat Harvest: Sunlight 4-30 / Water 2-16

Bell Pepper
Seed stage: 2 days / Sunlight 4 - 18 / Water 2-10
1st stage: 1 day / Sunlight 2-10 / Water 1-6
2nd stage: 2 days / Sunlight 3-12 / Water 2-16
3rd stage: 2 days / Sunlight 4-12 / Water 1-16

Buckwheat
Seed stage: 4 days / Sunlight 4-32 / Water 4-40
1st stage: 4 days / Sunlight 4-36 / Water 4-32
2nd stage: 4 days / Sunlight 4-36 / Water 4-32
3rd stage: 4 days / Sunlight 4-32 / Water 4-40
4th stage: 4 days / Sunlight 4-32 / Water 4-40

Cabbage
Seed stage: 4 days / Sun 7 -20 / Water 3-12
1st stage: 5 days / Sun 9-22 / Water 4-12
2nd stage: 5 days / Sun 9-20 / Water 5-16

Carrots
Seed stage: 3 days / Sun 5-16 / Water 3-12
1st stage: 4 days / Sun 6-20 / Water 4-16

Corn
Seed stage: 3 days / Sunlight 5-16 / Water 3-12
1st stage: 4 days / Sunlight 6-16 / Water 4-20
2nd stage: 4 days / Sunlight 6-20 / Water 4-20
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 6-20 / Water 3–16

Cucumber
Seed stage: 4 days / Sun 5-20 / Water 3-12
1st stage: 3 days / Sun 4-16 / Water 2-8
2nd stage: 2 days / Sun 3-12 / Water 2-10

Eggplants
Seed stage: 3 days / Sun 5-18 / Water 3-12
1st stage: 3 days / Sun 6-20 / Water 4-14
2nd stage: 3 days / Sun 6-20 / Water 3-16

Grapes
Seed stage: 3 days / Sunlight 9-60 / Water 10-60
1st stage: 21 days / Sunlight 55-120 / Water 65-120
2nd stage: 33 days / Sunlight 70-120 / Water 80-120
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 15-80
Repeat Harvest: Sunlight 10-40 / Water 10-50

Grass
Seed stage: 3 days / Sun 3-18 / Water 1-20
1st stage: 4 days / Sun 4-18 / Water 1-20
2nd stage: 4 days / Sun 4-18 / Water 1-20

Matsutake
Seed stage: 5 days / Sunlight 5-20 / Water 12-50
1st stage: 10 days / Sunlight 10-30 / Water 25-80
2nd stage: 15 days / Sunlight 10-40 / Water 20-80
3rd stage: 15 days / Sunlight 10-40 / Water 20-80
Repeated Harvest: Sunlight 3-12 / Water 6-20

Onions
Seed: 3 days / sun 3-12 / water 3-10
1st stage: 4 days / sun 4-20 / water 4-14

Oranges
Seed stage: 3 days / Sunlight 5-30 / Water 6-40
1st stage: 21 days / Sunlight 25-100 / Water 30-100
2nd stage: 18 days / Sunlight 20-90 / Water 30-60
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 4-20 / Water 6-24
Repeat Harvest: Sunlight 4-20 / Water 6-24

Peaches
Seed stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 4-40
1st stage: 10 days / Sunlight 20-100 / Water 20-100
2nd stage: 39 days / Sunlight 50-120 / Water 30-120
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 5-40 / Water 3-20
Repeat Harvest: Sunlight 4-20 / Water 4-16

Pineapples
Seed stage: 5 days / Sunlight 10-30 / Water 5-16
1st stage: 5 days / Sunlight 8-24 / Water 6-20
2nd stage: 5 days / Sunlight 8-24 / Water 6-18
3rd stage: 5 days / Sunlight 10-32 / Water 6–16

Potatoes
Seed: 3 days / sun 3-10 / water 3-10
1st stage: 4 days / sun 4-14 / water 4-14

Pumpkins
Seed stage: 4 days / Sun 10-30 / Water 4-12
1st stage: 5 days / Sun 13-40 / Water 5-14
2nd stage: 5 days / Sun 14-40 / Water 5-16

Rice
Seed stage: 10 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 0-20
1st stage: 10 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 0-28
2nd stage: 10 days / Sunlight 15-80 / Water 0-40
3rd stage: 10 days / Sunlight 20-100 / Water 0-60
4th stage: 10 days / Sunlight 20-100 / Water 0-60

Shiitake
Seed stage: 2 days / Sunlight 2-12 / Water 5-40
1st stage: 5 days / Sunlight 5-30 / Water 10-80
2nd stage: 10 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 20-120
3rd stage: 5 days / Sunlight 5-30 / Water 10-60
Repeated Harvest: Sunlight 3-20 / Water 6-36

Soybeans
Seed stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 10-60
1st stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 12-60
2nd stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-80 / Water 12-60
3rd stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-100 / Water 14-80
4th stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-100 / Water 12-68

Spinach
Seed: 2 days / sun 2-8 / water 2-8
1st stage: 3 days / sun 3-12 / water 2-8

Strawberries
Seed stage: 4 days / Sun 3-10 / Water 4-12
1st stage: 3 days / Sun 2-10 / Water 3-12
2nd stage: 2 days / Sun 2-6 / Water 2-8

Toadstool
Seed stage: 3 days / Sunlight 3-20 / Water 5-40
1st stage: 10 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 17-120
2nd stage: 9 days / Sunlight 9-80 / Water 15-80
3rd stage: 5 days / Sunlight 5-30 / Water 9-80
Repeated Harvest: Sunlight 4-20 / Water 8-50

Tomatoes
Seed stage: 2 days / Sunlight 6-20 / Water 3-12
1st stage: 2 days / Sunlight 6-22 / Water 2-10
2nd stage: 2 days / Sunlight 6-20 / Water 2-10
3rd stage: 3 days / Sunlight 8-20 / Water 2-12

Turnips
Seed: 2 days / sun 2-10 / water 2-10
1st: 2 days / sun 2-10 / water 2-10

Wheat
Seed stage: 30 days / Sunlight 30-60 / Water 10-60
1st stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-60 / Water 6-48
2nd stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-80 / Water 4-48
3rd stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-100 / Water 4-48
4th stage: 8 days / Sunlight 10-100 / Water 6-48

Yams
Seed: 1 day / sun 2-8 / water 1-8
1st: 2 day / sun 3-16 / water 1-4
2nd: 2 day / sun 3-16 / water 1-4

This is so helpful! Now my crops won't die :D Thank you very much <3

:O

Someone should sticky this.

No problem, Pavi.

Page 5. BAD.

That looks basically like what is written in the guide book. But I like the format here better. It's a bit easier to follow. Thanks for posting.

It's no problem. It's helpful for the people who don't have the guidebook. (Like me! xD)

Aw, cool *w* thanks

YAY
i was really confused about how the water and light thing worked...
i'm so proud of myself. in my game it's almost the end of summer and i havent killed one plant yet xD
i just water them once a day and they live! YESH

I have only lost one crop of turnips so far- it was the end of the season and I think they ran out of time.

Thanks for the list!

Your welcome.

Thanks for posting this here. I was just about to go searching for it on Gamefaq because I saw it there a couple days ago. This saves me lotsa time. Lotsa loves!

This is awesome, actually, it really needs a sticky...

Hey guys, this is Rabid Possum from GameFAQs. I put together the above info and have some more that you might find useful.

Each item in IoH has 3 different characteristics to determine the rank (D, C, B, A, S). These are quality, size, and freshness.

To get S rank crops, you want a high quality bar, size, and freshness bar.

Quality: As mentioned above, you want the minimum sun and water in each growth stage. The closer to the minimum, the higher the quality bar.

Size: To max the size bar, do not harvest the crop right away. Leave it. The longer you leave it, the bigger it gets. Just make sure it doesn't exceed days, water, and sun that will cause it to wilt. I will put a list below.

Freshness: Starts at full bar. Will start to decrease after picking. Put in refrigerator to slow this down. Put in gold refrigerator to stop completely.

If you wait to harvest your crops, do not exceed these amounts once the crop is ready to harvest. You would not want to water them at all in this stage. It is unnecessary since their is no minimum amount to move on to the next growth stage.

Bell Pepper: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Buckwheat: 10 days / 40+ light / 20+ water
Cabbage: 10 days / 10+ light / 10+ water
Carrot: 10 days / 15+ light / 4+ water
Corn: 10 days / 20+ light / 20+ water
Cucumber: 10 days / 20+ light / 8+ water
Eggplant: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Grass: 60 days / 90+ light / 60+ water
Onion: 10 days / 15+ light / 10+ water
Pineapple: 8 days / 20+ light / 12+ water
Potatoes: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Pumpkin: 10 days / 20+light / 6+ water
Rice: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Soybeans: 10 days / 40+ light / 20+ water
Spinach: 5 days / 10+ light / 4+ water
Strawberries: 10 days / 10+ light / 10+ water
Tomato: 10 days / 20+ light / 8+ water
Turnips: 10 days / 20+ light / 10+ water
Wheat: 10 days / 40+ light / 10+ water
Yams: 10 days / 15+ light / 4+ water

Thanks for the info Rabid Possum. I'll add it to the first post in a moment.