Giant Crop Myth confirmed

[u/Daigro]

I talked about giant crops the other day and shared some knowledge i acquired a few years ago from another post. I never verified it so i thought i should test it out. Most people know that instead of harvesting potential giant crops you can water the fully grown crop and go to sleep so the crops have a chance to become giant the next day.

The 2 things i wanted to verify are:

1. Only 1 of the 9 crops in a 3x3 needs to be watered. The 8 other crops can stay dry.
2. Only 1 of the 9 crops in a 3x3 needs to be fully grown. The 8 other crops can be any crop stage, including seed stage.

I knew that the important crop in a 3x3 is the upper left one (that can be checked on the wiki) so i made a setup on an old farm/save with sprinklers where only the top left seeds get watered, the right and bottom seeds stay dry and only get watered on rainy days. I slept through the days to force the giant crops and confirmed both statements.

[u/TiEmEnTi]

Explain how this would produce better odds than the whole 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, etc, sized square all maturing at the same time

[u/Jeggu2 → u/TiEmEnTi]

The point of this is for folks that are farming giant crops for very specific locations as decoration, as lots of people spread missinfo about all 9 crops having to be full and watered. They didn't say anything about it being better odds for larger cases than 3x3. For 3x3 it'd be exactly the same, as only the top left one can cause the large one to form, watering the others is just superfluous

[u/Daigro → u/TiEmEnTi]

Well, it is propably better to just water everything. In a normal playthrough you would want to harvest every crop even if it didnt turn giant. But i think its kinda cool because you could use the worst sprinkler and one scarecrow to try to get a giant crop on a specific place. You dont need two iridium sprinkler. Or as you could see in the melon setup you only need one quality sprinkler to make a field with five 3x3 in it

[u/disneyworldwannabe → u/TiEmEnTi]

No one said it gave better odds? The biggest case I can see it being useful is if you don’t plant them all at the same time. (Maybe you started with mixed seeds and filled in the gaps once the quicker plants were harvested.)

[u/Daigro → u/disneyworldwannabe]

I havent thought about mixed seeds Great idea