Grow a Garden · Crops
Elephant Ears
Grow a Garden · Crops · Rarity: Prismatic
About Elephant Ears
The Elephant Ears is a limited , multi-harvest , and stalky prismatic crop that was introduced in Update 1.11.0 , also known as the Summer Harvest Event . Known for its vibrant colors and tall, leafy appearance, this plant stands out as both a decorative and productive crop. Each Elephant Ears plant is capable of producing 6 units of produce per harvest cycle, making it a valuable crop for players during the event. As of now, it holds the distinction of being the rarest obtainable seed from the Summer Seed Pack .
How Elephant Ears compares
Figures below are calculated from Elephant Ears's own stats and compared against the Prismatic crops on this site. They update whenever the underlying data does.
- Return per harvest
- 386.93×
- Yield per minute of growth
- ¢345
- Sell-price rank
- #29 of 38 Prismatic crops
- vs. cohort median
- 0.57× median
sells for ¢77K, seed costs ¢199
over a 223-minute grow time
median is ¢134.5K
Elephant Ears — In-Depth Analysis
The Elephant Ears is one of the trickier economic cases in Grow a Garden because it is a limited prismatic crop pulled from the Summer Seed Pack rather than bought for a fixed seed cost. That changes the entire profitability math: you are not weighing a coin price against sell value, you are weighing how many pack rolls it takes to obtain the rarest seed in that pack. When something is gated behind RNG, the only honest economic verdict is that it pays off if and only if you commit to keeping it as a long-term producer.
Fortunately the design rewards that commitment. Because it is multi-harvest and yields 6 units per cycle, a single mature plant becomes a recurring income stream rather than a one-and-done sale. Prismatic-tier crops also carry strong base value, so even modest mutations stack into large per-unit payouts. Growth-mutations like Gold and Rainbow multiply that six-unit yield, and weather effects such as Wet or Chilled add cheaply on top.
Grow it in the mid-to-late game, once your garden can protect a slow, decorative limited plant and you have mutation sources online to milk every harvest cycle.