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Bell Pepper
Grow a Garden · Crops · Rarity: Mythical
About Bell Pepper
The Bell Pepper is a multi-harvest, mythical crop added during the Summer Harvest Event . It is classified as a Vegetable and Summer crop
How Bell Pepper compares
Figures below are calculated from Bell Pepper's own stats and compared against the Mythical crops on this site. They update whenever the underlying data does.
- Return per harvest
- 0.10×
- Yield per minute of growth
- ¢190
- Sell-price rank
- #66 of 82 Mythical crops
- vs. cohort median
- 0.08× median
sells for ¢5.5K, seed costs ¢55K — below break-even
over a 29-minute grow time
median is ¢67.08K
Bell Pepper — In-Depth Analysis
The Bell Pepper is best understood as a multi-harvest staple rather than a one-shot cash crop. Its database row carries no fixed seed cost or sell price, which itself is a useful signal: this is a plant whose return comes from quantity over time instead of a single high-value pull. Once mature it keeps producing pods, so the seed pays itself back across many pickings rather than one big sale.
That changes how you judge its economics. A re-harvesting pepper bush is worth growing early because you sink the Sheckle cost once and farm it passively while you chase pricier crops elsewhere. The per-fruit value is modest, so the smart play is leaving it planted long-term and letting volume compound rather than uprooting and replanting.
For mutations, Bell Pepper benefits hugely from anything that multiplies a repeat harvester: stacking Wet or Chilled from weather, plus Pollinated from bees, turns a low base value into a steady stream of upgraded pods. It will never headline your highest single sale, but as a reliable mid-game income floor that you set and forget, it earns its plot. Pair it with passive collection tools to squeeze the most from each cycle.