So Many Seeds to Choose From

Tap farm starts out with a few barren plots of land in which you are expected to plant crops.  And it turns out that crops are the best initial and basic producer of experience, and that's what you'll likely play with first.  Your first efforts were probably spent farming tomatoes every three hours until you could fill up your farm with 15x15 patches of crops.  Then you probably started wondering which of these crops yields the most experience. 

I'm guessing that if you've gotten onto Google and managed to find this page, then you've already probably started recording the various prices and experience given by various crops.  I've been doing that too, and I threw them in a spreadsheet so I could start to compare the various crop options. 

I've thrown up a snapshot of my spreadsheet below for your review.  Please be warned that it's for all of the crops currently in the game, and some folks might take that as a spoiler.  As you increase in experience it unlocks more and more crops (and the level required is shown in the seed menu).  You can scroll to the right as far or as little as you like if you don't want to peruse the later crops. 

If you've unlocked additional crops, I'd love to see what they offer, or if you can fill in other blanks in the spreadsheet, please let me know.  Also note that in the spreadsheet below that excel represents zeros with dashes, so the dashes indicate data is present, and the value is nil.

(Thanks John for updated numbers on crop and animal levels :-)

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Cost to Plow	15
XP to Plow	2
Level Required									Lvl X	Lvl X	Lvl 10	Lvl 10	Lvl 13	Lvl 14	Lvl 16	Lvl 19	Lvl 20	Lvl 21	Lvl 22	Lvl 24	Lvl 25	Lvl 29	Lvl 31	Lvl 32	Lvl 33	Lvl 34	Lvl 37	Lvl 40	Lvl 41
Seed Name	Tomato	Blueberry	Pumpkin	Corn	Strawberry	Wheat	Sunflower	Artichoke	Rice	Broccoli	Valentine Hearts	Grapes	Spinach	Eggplant	Bamboo	Cucumber	Alfalfa	Cotton	Dragon Fruit	Garlic	Bell Peppers	Basil	Mushroom	Parsley	Thyme	Tulips	Marigold	Rose	Orchids
Cost to Plant	15	25	20	45	35	35	30	50	75	40	30	100	35	90	120	80	150	140	135	95	110	70	175	250	130	100	100	140	200
Hours 'til Harvest	3	6	5	16	6	36	12	4	48	14	1	48	36	16	72	8	48	35	30	7	48	6	48	48	24	12	36	24	36
Harvest Price	35	60	50	100	80	120	85	95	200	120	40	300	115	390	400	275	525	1,000	470	250	400	180	650	1,000	420	200	390	500	1,000
Profit	5	20	15	40	30	70	40	30	110	65	(5)	185	65	285	265	180	360	845	320	140	275	95	460	735	275	85	275	345	785
Profit/Hour/Square	1.67	3.33	3.00	2.50	5.00	1.94	3.33	7.50	2.29	4.64	(5.00)	3.85	1.81	17.81	3.68	22.50	7.50	24.14	10.67	20.00	5.73	15.83	9.58	15.31	11.46	7.08	7.64	14.38	21.81
XP from Planting	2	3	3	4	5	4	4	5	5	4	4	6	6	7	5	7	8	11	6	9	8	8	9	10	10	15	9	11	11
XP from Reaping	2	2	2	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	5	5	6	4	6	7	6	3	6	5	4	6	9	5	10	4	6	10
XP Total per Crop	6	7	7	9	11	9	9	11	11	9	9	13	13	15	11	15	17	19	11	17	15	14	17	21	17	27	15	19	23
XP/Hour/Square	2.00	1.17	1.40	0.56	1.83	0.25	0.75	2.75	0.23	0.64	9.00	0.27	0.36	0.94	0.15	1.88	0.35	0.54	0.37	2.43	0.31	2.33	0.35	0.44	0.71	2.25	0.42	0.79	0.64
Convert profit cash to xp	1.33	2.67	2.40	2.00	4.00	1.56	2.67	6.00	1.83	3.71	(4.00)	3.08	1.44	14.25	2.94	18.00	6.00	19.31	8.53	16.00	4.58	12.67	7.67	12.25	9.17	5.67	6.11	11.50	17.44
Converted Total xp/hour/square	3.33	3.83	3.80	2.56	5.83	1.81	3.42	8.75	2.06	4.36	5.00	3.35	1.81	15.19	3.10	19.88	6.35	19.86	8.90	18.43	4.90	15.00	8.02	12.69	9.88	7.92	6.53	12.29	18.08
XP per coin planting	0.13	0.12	0.15	0.09	0.14	0.11	0.13	0.10	0.07	0.10	0.13	0.06	0.17	0.08	0.04	0.09	0.05	0.08	0.04	0.09	0.07	0.11	0.05	0.04	0.08	0.15	0.09	0.08	0.06
XP from Reaping Spoiled Crops	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	10	10	10	10				10			10	10		10	10
Coins from Removing	10	15	10	30	20	20	20	35	60	25	5	80	20	75	75	65	135	20	20	20	130	20	40	100	60	20	50	60	50
Coin Conversion Rate	15%	16%	16%	16%	18%	16%	18%	18%	18%	16%	13%	18%	20%	22%	11%	22%	24%	10%	7%	12%	80%	14%	8%	8%	13%	17%	15%	13%	8%

You'll notice a few things about this list.  First of all you need to calculate two important values:  which crop gives the most cash, and which gives the most experience.  Since they all take different times to grow I calculate this as "Profit/Hour/Square" and "XP/Hour/Square" which adds in the coins and experience from plowing, sowing the crops, and reaping the crops, and normalizes it over the hours it takes to grow. 

You'll notice that the best cash crop I've found so far is Cotton, followed closely by Cucumbers, with Garlic, and Eggplant being good options too.  You'll also notice that the best experience crop by a huge amount is clearly the seasonal Valentine Hearts.  If these are removed in the future, then Artichoke is the next best experience producer, with Garlic being a good third choice.  When the "visit neighbor" option was actually working, this is why you'd see most farms planting Artichoke, Cucumbers or Eggplant.  (There was no Garlic option then.)  Since Garlic is now both a good source of cash and simultaneously a good source of experience, I prefer it over most other crops.   Of course, while the Valentine hearts last, those are the ultimate producer of experience, and I preferentially farm them.  You should too if you have any coins at all to spend from your trees or animal income.  If you don't have any other source of coin income and nothing in the bank, you'll have to intersperse Valentine hearts with a coin producer like Garlic or Cucumber (which will mature while you sleep).