Are Flowers Worth It?

[Mystical Junimo]

I've herd that flowers don't make that much money
But do people think that flowers are worth the time, watering and money if you have a beehive?
You can also do the poll I made on this forum if you want

 

[imnvs]

Several flowers are used as ingredients for things (sunflower, fairy rose, blue jazz and poppy). Just for that they are worth growing some.

 

[One More Day]

Just as flowers on their own, flowers are pretty useless as money makers, there are always other crops that will outperform them financially, so without beehives, they are basically for cosmetic or gifting purposes.

However, if you do have beehives, you don't need lots of flowers, or even lots of effort, to help them add value to the honey produced. Plant a single flower, and place a sprinkler and a scarecrow next to it, and with no further effort, that single flower can affect several dozen beehives. In that sense, they are definitely worth the effort.

In Fall is where they really pay off - if you have the Artisan profession, a single Fairy Rose will increase the value of every jar of honey within its range from 140g to 952g, almost seven times the value. With a good number of hives, a single flower could deliver an extra 125,000g or more over the course of the season. If you're doing this as a money maker, it's definitely worth planting your flowers using the fastest working Speed-Gro you have available at the time, to get the most benefit from the flower.

 

[Mystical Junimo]

Okay thanks

 

[BringsTheSnow]

As was stated before, gifts and better honey. Except Sunflowers which generate seeds when harvested to replant and continue making money from. I have some Sunflowers year-round in one of my greenhouses.

I grow them for gifts to specific people so I can increase friendship quickly. Certain people, like Jas who love Fairy Rose, I always struggle with friendship and just save up on their favorite things as gifts.

 

[ISSsloth]

If you have to pick one flower to grow, blue Jazz seems to be the best if you are doing any of the mines. (Lucky lunch!)

 

[Magically Clueless]

a single Fairy Rose will increase the value of every jar of honey within its range from 140g to 952g

jesus okay time to plant some flowers, i didn't know it helped the honey THAT much

 

[rippytrippy]

i only use them for honey :P but for decorations maybe too

 

[DesertBoots]

I've herd that flowers don't make that much money
But do people think that flowers are worth the time, watering and money if you have a beehive?
You can also do the poll I made on this forum if you want

Here's where flowers are worth it... if you do a crop of honey. I have 46 bee homes making honey off a crop of 8 flowers that I plant once and don't harvest all season. They are smooshed way over on my farm to avoid the junimos. They are super reliable income every 4 days after the flowers bloom on day 7 or 8. Don't harvest the honey between the 3rd and the day the flowers bloom. It turns from wild honey to flower honey. That poppy honey is worth 532g with no kegs to make mead! Almost 25,000 gold each honey crop. Off of 8 flowers and the one time investment on bee homes. I could probably up the number of bee homes to make more but haven't bothered yet to figure it out. So if you get 4-5 harvests per season, you get 350,000g per year and your ongoing cost is about 6000 per year. I'm rounding numbers , but you get the gist.

Other than that they make good gifts. I only buy 20 flowers each season, except sunflowers, which if you make batches of food using oil, you can make your own oil. So I run that once every couple of years now.

 

[Lew Zealand]

One tangential thought about using Flowers and Bee Houses. In mid game I'm perpetually short of Coal, which is used for both the Bee House and the Preserves Jar (as well as other things, hence the shortage). If you have the Greenhouse with Ancient Fruit growing, the return on that Coal investment is about 4.6X with a Preserves Jar (~45,000g/yr) vs. a Bee House (9,632g/yr).

I'll be(e) staying with the Preserves Jar for now but once I have enough Coal and Preserves Jars, I'll move to setting up a Bee House system.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

They are worth it just for gifting. About 25-30 gold star tulips and/or fairy rose will make Evelyn love you forever. Spangles for Caroline, fairy rose for Jas, and of course, poppy for Penny.

 

[Boo1972]

I don’t really play for money making so I always plant flowers, and a pretty decent number per bee house. I like the way they look on the farm and bees need lots of flowers to produce honey IRL. I will say, there does come a point in the game where money is just not an issue at all (even for a player like me) and that may be a good time to experiment with bee houses. People have made some really pretty layout with them!