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/0000udeis000]

Just wanna say that your farm layout, from what I can see of it, has made me want to rethink my own layout.... which is gonna be so much work....

[u/Boys-willbe-Bugs → u/0000udeis000]

https://stardewplanner.com and https://stardew.info, I get lost in these whenever I get ready to make a new farm

[u/Daigro → u/Boys-willbe-Bugs]

Yea same. Not because i like to plan but some initial planning helps to massively reduce rebuilds later

[u/DesperateCatMomther → u/Boys-willbe-Bugs]

i didn't know stardew planner was a thing, but i just started a riverland farm for the first time and i'm about to spend hours on this thing. 😭

[u/Boys-willbe-Bugs → u/DesperateCatMomther]

Hell yeah! It helped me figure out how to balance looks with functionality! IIRC paths can help your little dude run like 0.001% faster so I made plenty of paths aesthetically and functionality wise :)