Sugarcane Seed

What is Sugarcane?

Sugarcane is a rare, active-cadence permanent seed in the field family. One owned copy supports one simultaneous planting. Harvesting returns that copy to availability; it does not consume the seed.

Property	Value
Rarity	Rare
Acquisition	35,000 Farm Coins
Base growing time	30m
Base HP per produce	182
Base HP/hour per plot	364
Weather affinity	Heat Wave (+20%)
Generation	1
Seed level cap	10
Mastery cap	20
Season	Not restricted to a named Harvest Pass

Planting and harvesting explains available seed copies, timers and freshness. Seed upgrades and Crop Mastery are separate systems.

Where to get it

Buy additional copies in the Farm Coin Shop. Find Sugarcane in the seed list (use its name or rarity filter), then choose Buy copy and confirm. One permanent copy costs 35,000 Farm Coins. Buying a copy is different from paying to upgrade its level.

Once acquired, look for this seed on Seeds or in an empty plot’s planting menu. If all copies are planted, wait for a harvest or obtain another copy; produce in the Barn is not a seed copy. All item sources explains the different shops and reward routes.

Seed levels and exact upgrade prices

“Cost to reach” is the one-step purchase from the preceding level; Level 1 is the starting state. Cumulative cost excludes buying the seed. HP/hour assumes instant replanting, one produce per harvest, no mastery, no matching weather, and no building or companion effects. The farm-level requirement applies to purchasing that level.

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All ten Sugarcane seed levels
Level	Cost to reach (coins)	Cumulative coins	HP each	Growing time	HP/hour	Farm level required
1	0	0	182	30m	364	1
2	2,000	2,000	192	29m 24s	391.8367	1
3	2,800	4,800	203	28m 48s	422.9167	2
4	3,920	8,720	214	28m 12s	455.3191	3
5	5,490	14,210	225	27m 36s	489.1304	4
6	7,690	21,900	236	27m	524.4444	5
7	10,760	32,660	247	26m 24s	561.3636	6
8	15,060	47,720	258	25m 48s	600	7
9	21,090	68,810	269	25m 12s	640.4762	8
10	29,520	98,330	280	24m 36s	682.9268	9

Mastery requirements and points

These are raw harvest-equivalent requirements without Greenhouse, Supplier or companion progress. Mastery adds points from the seed’s original base HP, not from the upgraded level value. The percentage column describes that original base; integer rounding can make the exact points slightly higher.

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Mastery thresholds for Sugarcane
Mastery level	Additional progress	Total progress	Added HP each	Base-point bonus
0	0	0	0	0%
1	15	15	4	2%
2	23	38	8	4%
3	34	72	11	6%
4	51	123	15	8%
5	76	199	19	10%
6	114	313	22	12%
7	171	484	26	14%
8	256	740	30	16%
9	384	1,124	33	18%
10	577	1,701	37	20%
11	865	2,566	41	22%
12	1,297	3,863	44	24%
13	1,946	5,809	48	26%
14	2,919	8,728	51	28%
15	4,379	13,107	55	30%
16	6,568	19,675	59	32%
17	9,853	29,528	62	34%
18	14,779	44,307	66	36%
19	22,168	66,475	70	38%
20	33,253	99,728	73	40%

A clearly defined maximum-seed example

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Scenario	HP each	Time	HP/hour
Level 10, Mastery 20, matching weather; no buildings/companions, Level 1 plot	423	24m 36s	1,031.7073

This is not the maximum possible farm output. Plot yield, pond reductions, Windmill strength, active companions, late harvesting, fertilizer and downtime change actual results. Harvest Point calculations explains the rounding and order of operations.

Common questions

Why is inventory worth less than the seed card? An older crop retains its planting-time stats and can lose value if harvested after its Perfect Harvest window. Inventory shows its recorded HP per item. A new seed upgrade does not retroactively alter an already growing crop.

Does a higher-yield plot give extra seed copies? No. It gives extra produce. One crop harvest still advances base mastery once, regardless of how many produce items it yields.