Ancient fruit sadly can't grow in pots but you can just plant starfruit since it's just as profitable

Well you wouldn't have a garden pot either since you get the recipe only after greenhouse. But no, ancient fruit is the single crop that will refuse garden pot.

No. Also I don’t think you get the garden pot recipe until you’ve completed the greenhouse. 

Actually if you got it in summer or earlier you can plant it, it grows in all seasons except winter, plant it and use the seed maker to make even more for when the green house is ready

Edit: keep in mind it takes 28 days to grow, so fall is bad to plant it

Edit 2: I see you're in winter, at the start of your next year plant it outside, and make sure you got a scarecrow next to it

They grow from spring to fall, but die in winter.

Have you unlocked ginger island?

They will grow spring through fall outdoors on your farm.

Depends on how you wanna play & what your current setup is.

Do you want money more & have alot of kegs? Buy starfruit from sandy to grow and make wine with until you get ancient fruit fir the ease of the multi harvest without rebuying & growing.

Do you want more of a variety? Then i would say grow multi-harvest crops that have a nice sell price as well like cranberries, blueberrys or strawberrys. {you can even start putting them in seed makers for when the season comes around to have loads to plant outside on day one}

Do you want gifts for the villagers? Then why not grow their loved food.

Do you want food to use for things like energy or speed? Why not grow crops to make them for example like for crab cakes you could grow corn {for oil} & wheat {for flour} then all you will need is crabs and eggs to make a crab cake which gives nearly a full days worth of speed buff.

Do you want to have a happy horse? Then you could grow carrots to feed to them each day for the speed boost you get from it as well.

Do you just want to collect? Then why not try growing all the multi-harvest crops possible.

Do you want a big lump payday from just crop selling? Then why not try growing sweet gem berrys & then putting them in seed makers to make more & so on until you have loads then one year in fall plant them all & see how much you can get from just selling the crop its self.

Do you just want it to look good? Then why not just grow what looks nice.

If you've fixed the bus you can get starfruit seeds. Other than that anything that you don't have to replant. Since you're in Fall cranberries should be available.

We've got an array of hops. Fresh harvest everyday, make beer or just sell as is.

But based on the comments here we might get a couple rows of something else going. Will try it out tonight :)

I like to put some fruit trees in there on the perimeter :]

Yr 5 and I still have the very same 20-25 strawberry bushes I planted during yr 1 🥹

if you can afford it though, (and have unlocked the bus), starfruit is always a good investment imo while you transition the rest of the space to ancient fruit if that’s your end goal!

There is some subtlety to it if you really get into the weeds of optimization, but broadly speaking, yes, ancient fruit is the best crop. It takes a lot of work to get a large crop going, though.

Also once grown ancient fruit keeps producing every 7 days, whereas starfruit you have to get the seeds and plant them after every harvest, and they are expensive.

I leave star fruit for Ginger Island and fill the greenhouse with ancient fruit.

For me it’s opportunity cost. Ancient fruit frees up so much time. I’m able to plant 1k ancient fruits day 1 of spring. Then all I have to do is harvest. No replanting. No tilling. Freeing me up to crush mines, skull cavern or volcano. The money and progress made between loots makes it so worth it.

I plant other stuff outside. Getting new ancient fruit seeds for replanting every year is just annoying, takes away from your earnings, and requires significant pre-planning. Also, variety is great. I'll usually plant ancient fruit in the greenhouse and on Ginger Island, since this only requires the initial investment, and you'll get way more cash than you need with just that space.

I keep the main farm seasonal and try to plant a variety of crops. Best crops, cash-wise, are cauliflower and strawberries for spring, starfruit for summer, and pumpkin and beets for fall. Or just fill it with buildings like sheds, fish ponds, and barns, since you can't build these anywhere else.

Until the green house is full of ancient fruit, use the seed maker to turn every fruit you get into seeds. Use speed grow to speed up the growing process (this only affects the initial growth, but since the process is so long, 10% makes a huge difference).

It’s an exponential process. At first, you’ll only have one plant producing fruit to make seeds. Then you’ll have 2-4 (depending on how many seeds the seed maker gives you), then you’ll have more and more. It does take a while, though.

To get them all on the same day, just pick a day of the week to harvest once the green house is full. If you go on Friday and they’re not all ready, harvest the ones that are. When you go next Friday, they’ll all be ready. You are giving up one week’s perfect efficiency for convenience.

Turn all ancient fruit into seeds and plant as you go. It will definitely start filling up faster. I usually plant starfruit in the empty spaces while I wait.

While I build my ancient fruit stash I aim for 1/4 green house coffee 1/4 strawberries, or random ingredients I need for food and 1/2 green house ancient fruit but it take a while to get them all full grown

I'm surprised so many people sync them in the greenhouse when I go in every 1-3 days for my fruit trees anyway.

You just turn all ancient fruit imto seeds ant plant them as soon as you get them until the greenhouse is full. You synchronise the plants once they are fully grown by not collecting the fruit until all plants carry a fruit and then harvest them all at once.

You can buy them from the traveling cart sometimes. If you have one donate it to Gunther and he gives you the crafting recipe. You can put a fruit into the seed maker to get seeds.

You can run a ton of fruit through seed makers

The best way to get it is from killing bugs, the mutant bugs liar is the best place. Use the burglar’s ring to maximize your chances.

I got them most often from killing things in the mine.

Sometimes the seeds can be at the traveling cart. I started a new save last night on my switch, and she actually had 1 ancient seed for only 400. It was only the 7th of spring, so I went a head and scrounge up enough gold to buy that one too.

You may also want to try going to lower levels of the mines and using your hoe

I seem to recall getting my first one from Gunther as a reward. Could be wrong though.

If you kill bugs at 15-25th floors or mutant bug layer for like 1-3 days, you should be able to get at least one ancient seed (0.5% per bug). Even easier with a burglar ring.

Another method is to line up like 10 seed makers and feed cheap crops (0.5% per crop).

I always put all of my produce through seed makers for the next year, and I usually get 3 or 4 a season that way

I always get a ton by killing the worms in the first levels of the normal mine (don't remember exactly how they are called, sorry)

It's so random, on my last playthrough I still don't have it in year 3, have the fishing treasure perk and have done the mines tons of times on good luck days. Been doing Starfruit instead.

On my latest playthrough I got mine in Fall 01 on an extremely bad luck day by hitting the first slime I saw on level 5 in the mines (pretty sure it was a slime not a bug). Then I died to the prismatic slime which is what I was looking for and had to pay the adventurer's guild 5 gold to recover the ancient seed lmao.

Yeah, you can't grow them in the gardening pots, but you can grow them in other indoor places besides just the greenhouse if you use the cellar expansion mod which adds a patch of tillable soil in a new cellar room and a particular shed added by Stardew Valley Expanded.

Slightly off topic but has anyone else gotten ancient seeds by putting rice in the seed maker

Ancient fruit is female confirmed

Ancient fruit doesn't grow in pots, it needs to be planted in tilled soil. If you don't want it to die come winter, plant it in the greenhouse or Ginger Island.

You have displeased the seed