Harvest Moon light of hope seed guide

[empress dee]

One goal of this game is to unlock all the seed variants. Now thanks to the official guide on fogu.com, I am able to come up with a chart of sorts to figure out what to plant when.

Spring year 1 - all you will have available to you in the beginning is Cabbage seeds, luckily cabbage mutates in spring, so what you are going to want to do is save 30 red cabbage as each cabbage becomes ready and clear out as much stuff as you can as the story progresses. Once you have 30 red cabbages, ship them.

Onions should be second to plant as you only need 10 scallions once the onions are ready.

You do get celery seeds, but I would only plant as many as the quest you are given from Jeanne requires for now. You need the celery seeds for winter year 1 because that mutates into white celery in winter and you need only 10 of them.

For each 10 mutations, plant 50 of each crop to be safe. And use fertilizers when you can. Save some fertilizer and compost for Dean as he helps you unlock more seed blend fertilizers which help certain crops later.

If you manage to unlock the mountains in the spring and have shipped the 10 scallions thus unlocking the seeds, then buy some scallion seeds and plant them on the mountain top. Be sure to have the hammer as well.

Year 1 of summer, you are going to want to plant lots of corn on your farm. Not only are you going to need it for animal feed later, but there are a pair of mutations that happen. Save 10 fodder corn and 20 sweet corn if you get those. The only other crop for your farm will be the green pepper. It mutates into orange pepper and you need 20 of those. So be sure to plant 100 green pepper.

For the mountain, just after you exit your farm, there is a planting area, plant wheat there in the summer and collect 10 durum wheat. On the mountain top where you woud have planted the scallions, now you want to plant tomatoes to unlock san marzanos and you need 10 of those to ship.

If you manage to unlock the beach, then plant carrots and pumpkins there in the summer. You need 20 brown carrots and 10 zucchini. Heneroshi managed to unlock the beach this early, but did not quite reach the brown carrot goal. Seeds can carry over into the following season so unless they wilted after planting, keep checking on em until harvest time.

For fall year 1, you want to plant your potatoes anywhere, so I would still get 50 of these, but I would plant 10 on each area. So 10 on the farm, 10 in the mountain area, 10 on the mountain top, and 10 in the swamp. Keep 10 until one set is ready so you can plant 10 more.

You need 20 giant potatoes for the new seed.

On your farm, be sure to plant wheat so you can get 20 barley and be sure to plant broccoli so you can get 10 broccolini.

For the mountain area, you are going to want to plant hot peppers. You need 10 habanero in order to unlock the new seed.

Then for the mountain top, you want to plant fodder corn and only if you unlocked the seed and only if you unlocked fertilizer set 1. You can buy fertilizer types from Carol who is the flower shop lady. She gets new types each time Dean says you unlocked a fertilizer set. Dean's quests can unlock fertilizer sets.

For winter year 1, you are planting lots. You need to plant celery to unlock white celery. You can plant this anywhere and ship 10. Next, you should plant strawberries. You need 10 white berries, but good luck in getting a harvest. You might need berry fertilizer for this. Then you want to plant tomatoes anywhere and save 50 of these because it is unknown how many you actually need, but you will not need anymore than 50. It is the crimsons that you want to ship 50 of. If you have unlocked broccolini, then you should be able to plant these and you have to use the broccoli fertilizer in order to get romanesco. You need 20 of these in order to unlock the seed, which will carry over into year 2.

Below, as you complete each season, tell me your farmer name and what seeds you unlocked. This is for year 1 only.  

[Terrance_Nicolas_Bogard]

Ochru has unlocked red cabbage seeds and then he unlocked scallion seeds. He is working on getting petite onion seeds, but I doubt he will unlock these in time.  

[empress dee]

To unlock petite onions, ship 20 of them in the spring by planting scallions on the mountain top.

For the summer, to plant anywhere you need the following:

10 fodder corn by planting corn seeds
20 sweet corn by planting corn seeds

On the farm you need:

20 orange peppers by planting green peppers

On the mountain meadows (2 spots available here) you need:

10 durum wheat by planting wheat

On the mountain top you need:

10 San Marzano by planting tomatoes.

When you unlock the swamp, which its possible to do in the summer, then you need:

20 brown carrots by planting carrots
10 zucchini by planting pumpkins

To unlock the swamp area, you need 3 gold and some hardwood. To get hardwood, you need to upgrade the axe. To upgrade the axe, you need silver, bronze, and 10 cosmos.  

[Terrance_Nicolas_Bogard]

For the summer, Ochru has unlocked Fodder corn, durum wheat, sweet corn, san marzano, and orange pepper so far.

He needs 13 brown carrots and 9 zucchini.  

[empress dee]

Flower seed mutation guide

Spring

White tulip - ship 10
Yellow tulip - ship 30

Summer

White Dahlia - ship 10
Yellow Dahlia - ship 30

Fall

Sunny red (mutated cosmos on the mountain top) - ship 30
Pink carnation (mutated carnation on the mountain meadows) - ship 50

Winter

Yellow pansy - ship 10
Purple pansy - ship 30
Viola (mutation of purple pansy) - ship 50  

[empress dee]

To summarize fall crops for year 1 based on having no crop type fertilizer

Any soil

Giant potato - ship 20

Farm

Barley - ship 20
Broccolini - ship 10

Mountain meadows (the blacksmith shop/livestock breeder plantable areas)

Habanero - ship 10

Mountain top - behind the lab and where Edmond lives

Nothing unless you have fertilizer. The fertilizer you need for this area are:

Corn - to produce sunset corn, in which you plant fodder corn. You need 50 Sunset corn to ship.

Carrot - so you can plant brown carrot to get mandrakes and you must ship 30 of these.

Swamp

Nothing here because you would not have unlocked any of the seeds in year 1.  

[empress dee]

Here is the winter list for year 1 with no fertilizer:

Any place

White celery - plant celery - ship 10
White berry - plant strawberry - ship 10

Farm

Yellow corn - plant sweet corn - ship 50
Baby carrot - plant carrot - ship 10
Black currant - plant blueberry - ship 30

Mountain meadows

Nothing unless you have fertilizer

Mountain top

Nothing unless you have fertilizer

Swamp

Nothing unless you have fertilizer  

[Terrance_Nicolas_Bogard]

Ochru has now unlocked all the summer seeds available for year 1 without having to use fertilizer. He now has watermelons, asparagus, blueberries, and spinach available to him.  

[empress dee]

For now, for Ochru, focus on getting the habanero seeds by planting hot pepper in the mountain meadow area and try to plant lots to get 10 of them. And then for the farm, plant wheat and broccoli. Everywhere else, plant potatoes.

The wheat will unlock barley, the broccoli will unlock broccolini, and the potatoes unlocks giant potatoes.

Ship 10 Habanero
Ship 20 barley
Ship 10 broccolini
Ship 20 giant potatoes.

Let me know when you have unlocked fertilizer.  

[Terrance_Nicolas_Bogard]

ochru unlocked the broccolini seeds.  

[empress dee]

Farmer Link has unlocked:

Scallion seeds
San Marzano seeds
Fodder corn seeds
Sweet corn seeds
Durum wheat seeds
Barley seeds
Habanero seeds
Broccolini seeds

So far and its still early autumn. He has planted potatoes, so he is working on Giant Potato seeds. He needs to plant fodder corn on the Mountain top to get Sunset corn.

The amount to ship on sunset corn is 50.
The amount to ship on Giant potatoes is 20.

When winter shows up, then I will write the list of what Link needs to plant and where.