Summary
Like in any farming sim, getting started onCoral Islandcan be confusing. There are so many activities to take part in, townsfolk to meet, and crops to plant. While the starter quests give you a good direction to go in, you might still be wondering what the best use of your time might be.
While you slowly begin descending into the mines or diving deeper into the ocean, farming is still an important part of Coral Island that should not be neglected. While every crop has a use and should be grown at one point or another, here is a list of the best crops to grow each season for your first year.
10Spring: Daisy
Cheap and affordable, growing daisies early on can help you down the road, especially when they only take four days to grow. If you decide to immediately sell your daisies, you might be wondering why daisies are so great. After all, they are purchased for 15 coins and are sold at a base price of 40 coins. However, growing daisies has two main purposes.
Firstly, daisies make for agreat gift for townsfolk, with the only two who do not like daisies being Yuri and Charles, who hate them. Secondly, you can also choose to save your daisies for later when you unlock the crafting recipe for the bee house. Putting daisies into a bee house will yield you daisy honey worth 138 coins with a base quality daisy, a worthy investment for those initial 15 coins spent on seeds.
9Spring: Cauliflower
Cauliflowers are both the most expensive rank F spring crop and also sold for the most. Cauliflowers take ten days to grow but are definitely worth it when sold at a base price of 175 coins. If you want to become close friends with Betty, cauliflowers are a loved gift for her as well.
If you choose to save your cauliflowers for later, they have a number of additional uses down the road. They become significantly more profitable if you choose to put them into a mason jar, which can be quickly unlocked at farming level three for 280 coins. Additionally, buying the skillet for your kitchen after upgrading your house will allow you to cook your cauliflowers into cauliflower casserole, anamazing food itemto have.
8Spring: Sugarcane
While only able to be bought at town rank D, sugarcane seeds are awarded if you complete the spring alter offering. Sugarcane takes five days to grow, but it is special because it only takes one day to produce subsequent harvests, making it more valuable the sooner you plant them in the spring.
While sugarcane can be sold at a base price of only 23 coins, its large amount of potential harvests makes it such a valuable crop to plant. If you choose to keep some of your sugarcane for later instead of selling it all, you can profit most from processing the sugar cane into syrup with a cheese press.
7Spring + Summer: Radish
If you can quickly bring your town up to rank E, radish seeds can be planted and grown in both the spring and summer seasons. Taking only six days to grow, radishes can be sold for a base price of 119 coins, just shy of double the original seed price of 60 coins.
Radishes also both sell for more and cost less than carrots, making them a good alternative if you feel like growing cauliflower takes too long. They can be both pickled in mason jars to sell at a base price of 195 coins or turned into radish juice in a keg for 260 coins, though it is recommended that you pickle them as there are much better crops to use for your kegs.
6Summer: Melon
Melons can be thought of as the summer crop equivalent to the cauliflower in spring. It is a crop that takes longer to grow than others but offers a significant reward for all that waiting. Costing 130 coins per seed, melons take 12 days to grow and are sold at a base price of 233 coins.
If you focus enough on your farming, it is likely that you will have unlocked level 3 farming by summer and unlocked the recipe for mason jars. Placing melons in a mason jar will yield melon jam after six hours, selling at a base price of 419 coins. If kegs are unlocked, it will take 12 hours to yield melon juice, which sells at a base price of 475, though it is recommended to save kegs for other crops if you have a surplus.
5Summer: Blueberry
Blueberries are the store owner Sam’s favorite fruit and among the better crops to grow for your first summer. Blueberries take ten days to grow but will subsequently regrow every four days, meaning the sooner you plant them, the better. With so many blueberries, they make for an acceptable gift for all but three townsfolk: Leah, Lily, and Macy.
Blueberry seeds cost 50 coins and are sold at a base price of 41 coins, but you will quickly make your money back with future harvests. You can make more money by turning your blueberries into jam, which sells for 75 coins, but you should not place blueberries into kegs as blueberry juice takes double the processing time for the same selling price.
4Summer + Fall: Hot Pepper
On the surface, hot peppers have a few major advantages compared to other summer crops. While selling for slightly less than blueberries, at a base of 36 coins, hot peppers take only seven days to mature and regrow every three days. Additionally, while its seeds are only purchasable in the summer, hot peppers also continue to grow in the fall.
Hot peppers can help you earn money continuously as you wait for other important early-game fall crops to grow. Meanwhile, hot peppers can be placed in mason jars to produce kiracha sauce, which can be used as an ingredient for Vegan Tacos. Just do not put hot peppers in kegs, as hot pepper juice sells for less than kiracha sauce and takes longer.
3Fall: Cranberry
A crop that will be cheap and bountiful, cranberry seeds cost only 20 coins each, take five days to grow, and produce cranberries every two days. Though cranberries only sell at a base amount of 18 coins, planting them early in the season will ensure that you will be swimming in cranberries all season.
In addition to being a consistent income source, cranberries are a liked gift by almost every townsfolk, except Pablo, who is neutral towards them, and Leah, Lily, and Macy, who all hate them. With the number of cranberries you will have, you will definitely have plenty to spare for gifts. Once again, as a cheaper crop, it is advised that you only place these in mason jars as its jam sells for more than its juice.
2Fall: Rice
A staple crop for most of the world, rice should be one for your farm during the fall as well. Rice takes nine days to grow with seeds, is bought for only 15 coins, and is sold at a base amount of 46 coins. However, it is advised that you should not sell the raw rice itself but instead put it to other uses.
If your aim is profit, forget about mason jars. Placing rice in a keg will produce Sake to be sold at a base amount of 400 coins. Meanwhile, sake can also be gifted to most townsfolk, except Theo or any of the children in town. Rice flour can also be made at the mill and used in the kitchen to make a few helpful recipes.
1Winter: Tea Leaf
Tea leaf seeds are unlocked at town rank D and are sold for 25 coins each. However, you do not need to reach town rank D or buy seeds to plant tea leaves for the winter. Instead of the few winter crops available, wild seeds planted in the winter will plant tea leaf seeds instead.
Tea leaves take 11 days to grow and can be sold for the base amount of 68 coins, but you should place your tea leaves in a keg to make green tea instead. Green tea is universally either liked or loved by all townsfolk, making it a great gift item. Green Tea also sells for 135 coins at the base price and is processed in only five hours.
