Starfruit versus Ancient Fruit, late game (1.5 spoilers)

[Narjx]

ancient fruit actually produce more money per day than star fruit. This is because ancient fruit wine sells for 2310 gold (with artisan) and since it happens every 7 days, you get 330 gold per day (2310/7). With starfruit, you can get it to grow in minimum 9 days, and each seed costs 400g. We can then see how much gold it makes per day by doing this: (3150(starfruit wine price)-400(seed price))/9(days it takes to grow) is 305.5555555 (you get the point) so ancient fruit is actually more profitable than starfruit
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[FilthyGorilla]

ancient fruit actually produce more money per day than star fruit. This is because ancient fruit wine sells for 2310 gold (with artisan) and since it happens every 7 days, you get 330 gold per day (2310/7). With starfruit, you can get it to grow in minimum 9 days, and each seed costs 400g. We can then see how much gold it makes per day by doing this: (3150(starfruit wine price)-400(seed price))/9(days it takes to grow) is 305.5555555 (you get the point) so ancient fruit is actually more profitable than starfruit
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This is factually incorrect, you can get starfruit down to an 8 day growth cycle but even beyond that, there's a flaw in the thinking. While a single harvest crop may have a single cycle of say 9 days, due to the overlap of the grown harvest day and the planting day, that cycle is effectively 8 days when considering more than a single harvest.

Therefore, starfruit can be brought down to a 8 day cycle (single growth of 9 days) (using hyper speed gro or deluxe speed gro and agriculturist), or a weekly 7 day cycle (single growth of 8 days) (with hyper speed gro and agriculturist) to match ancient fruit

For starfruit, in the case of the former it's 2750/8 or 343.75g per day or in the case of the latter it's 2750/7 or 392.86g per day versus ancient fruits 2310/7 or 330g per day, worse than both (at least so long as you aren't profession swapping for a single plant for example as the cycle to swap agriculturist->artisan->agriculturist is 20k, though that's a meaningless amount once you have any considerable amount of either crop up).