The Best Crops To Grow First In Luma Island

Key Takeaways

• Farming on Luma Island involves progressing through crops with increasing difficulty and unique requirements.
• Some crops, like chili peppers, require extra effort but are worth it for regrowth and recipe needs.
• Starting with low-maintenance crops like wheat can lead to quick profits and success in various professions.

One of the key things about farming in Luma Island is that you need to successfully harvest at least one item from the crop you are given access to before you can gain access to the next crop. This, in essence, makes farming in Luma Island a pretty straightforward process that you don’t have much say in.

Thankfully, with each crop growing quickly, you can get a say in which crops you put your effort into relatively early on in the game. Some of the later crops require special fertilizers or extra attention, though, which can be frustrating for some.

10 Tomato

The Eleventh Accessible Plant

Tomatoes take a lot of work to get through, realistically. You need to have had access to the forest for a while, but the tomato plants themselves don’t require any special fertilizer or anything of the sort. They’re not regrowing, which is unfortunate. Every time you want to grow more tomatoes, you’re going to have to buy more seeds.

Plus, in order to get the most profit out of them, you’ll have to be a decent way into the cooking profession, at minimum.

9 Sunflower

The Ninth Accessible Plant

The sunflower doesn’t require any special care (aside from occasionally chasing off beetles), but they are necessary if any of your recipes end up requiring plant oil. After you make a cherry pie within the cook profession, you will need at least two plant oils.

Even the plant oil, by itself, will sell for more than the sunflower by itself would, so it’s worth taking the time to watch it grow (however slow that may feel compared to something like the speed of wheat).

8 Chili Pepper

The Twelfth Accessible Plant

Chili Peppers take a while to grow, but they’re worth the time because they’re one of the few regrowing plants on Luma Island. You don’t need to repurchase the seeds, you can pass right through them, unlike the trees, and they’re needed to make the Spicy Corndog for the Skilled Chef quest.

However, they take a lot of effort to get to, and they’re going to be the second to last plant (with the last being sugarcane) you can get access to before you have to progress far enough in the game to gain access to the mountain biome.

7 Cherry

The Eighth Accessible Plant

Cherry is the crop that basically marks a transition into what materials you need. Once you have access to the cherry trees, you will need access to the forest – which means you’re going to have to repair the bridge to the right of the Town’s entrance and exist.

Cherry trees require Forest Fertilizer, and while they can attract beetles, it’s not nearly as bad as some other plants. The hardest part is really just getting your hands on the Forest Fertilizer. However, it’s worth it if you get far enough in cooking, at least, to start making Cherry Pie.

6 Orange

The Sixth Accessible Plant

While the orange tree is a good tree and grows fruit relatively quickly (albeit not as fast as the apple tree), it is a bit of a pain due to the fact that it attracts an absurd number of beetles. You will find yourself battling the freaky little things more often than you will weeding or watering the orange trees.

As such, if you’re going to get an orange tree, you’re going to need to get some chickens to keep your trees from having their growth stalled. Other than that, it does regrow its fruit and doesn’t require you to rebuy the plant, so the pros still mostly outweigh the cons.

5 Apple

The Fourth Accessible Plant

The apple tree is going to be one of the first trees that you can get your hands on in Luma Island. They are, by-in-large, the lowest maintenance tree that you can plant on your farm, which makes it worthwhile to have them.

They won’t attract beetles and all they require is farm fertilizer after you harvest them every time. They do regrow apples, so you don’t need to plant new trees every time, but you don’t get multiple apples with every harvest. Just make sure you pick a careful place to plant them because once fully grown, they will become obstacles in your path.

4 Corn

The Seventh Accessible Plant

Corn is alright, though they’re not fantastic and mind-blowing crops. The seeds don’t cost too much, and the vegetables that they put out make some pretty expensive dishes (like the fruit popcorn), even if you need to pair them with another crop. However, when you start planting corn, you will need to stay on top of them because they attract beetles.

Get yourself a chicken or two, and you should have a pretty easy time fending off the horrible little bugs that stall progress on your berry growth. Chickens are entirely necessary at this point, whether you have orange trees or not. They’re worth the investment and the effort to build their coop.

3 Blueberry

The Third Accessible Plant

It really does feel like you should get more than one blueberry every time you pick one of the plants, but alas, it’s not to be. Thankfully, they seem to give out everseeds relatively easily – especially if you opt to grow a bunch at once.

Blueberries take a minute to grow, but they’re worth the effort. They make some high-cost dishes and are some of the last low-maintenance crops you can get access to. Get a bunny or two for good measure, and you won’t ever have to worry about the weeds (just watering!).

2 Grapes

The Second Accessible Plant

Grapes are the second crop that you will gain access to in Luma Island. They’re slightly more maintenance than Wheat, given that they require Farm Fertilizer, and they grow slightly slower. However, that’s really the only attention that you need to pay to them – make sure that they’re weeded and fertilized, and you will constantly have grapes growing.

They just grow and regrow, which means that they will recoup their seed cost incredibly quickly. This set of crops is also necessary for some early moves within a few professions (Cooking and Brewing, notably), so making sure you have at least one or two is important.

1 Wheat

The First Accessible Plant

Wheat is one of the absolutely necessary crops that you should grow in Luma Island. It’s one of the foundational crops when you’re working on the Cooking Profession, it’s needed in the Brewing Profession, and it’s also the first crop that you can get access to.

It’s low maintenance and fast-growing, which makes it a high-reward, low-energy crop, especially if you’re trying to make money quickly. Though you shouldn’t sell your wheat as is – instead, you should take the time to use it in brews or to craft some home-cooked goods to sell for a hefty bit of coin.