Fall 16: the Squash deadline has passed, so change the question

What changed between yesterday and today?

For a Tromboncino Squash harvest inside Fall, the final ordinary start is day 15. Its thirteen-day initial growth gives 15 + 13 = 28. On Fall 16 the same addition reaches 29, so the current-season plan has no harvest. There is no smaller in-window result to settle for: the first date itself no longer fits.

This comparison uses the site's documented thirteen-day Squash value. The specific item page and the Summer and Fall tables support thirteen; the Plants summary gives seven. That source difference is retained in the crop note and reconciliation record. It matters directly here: substituting seven would make a late start look possible under a different input. The dates shown use the adopted source decision, not an in-game timing test.

Keep the goal, or keep the crop?

If the goal is specifically a Squash harvest by Fall 28, a Fall 16 start does not meet it under this model. A different crop cannot satisfy a Squash requirement. If instead you are choosing a planting with some harvest before Fall ends, you can reopen the crop choice. Sunflower is one timing alternative: it is listed for Fall, takes five days and has no regrowth. Starting on Fall 16 gives one date on Fall 21.

• Keep Squash as the requirement: read the Fall 16 row as outside the window.
• Keep an in-season first harvest as the requirement: compare shorter-growth candidates, including Sunflower.
• Need a date by Fall 20? Sunflower from this start also misses that earlier target, even though it fits the season.

A successful alternative still needs its own plan

Sunflower on Fall 21 finishes this planting's schedule. The seven days remaining before day 28 are not automatic Sunflower repeats; another sowing would be a separate decision with a new start. Its five-day growth period is the wait for a new plant, not a promise of visits every five days from one planting.

The comparison holds each scenario at twelve plants and assumes daily watering, ordinary fields, no fertilizer, buffs or Myco, and timely harvesting. It checks dates rather than access to seeds, crop yield or value. Open the linked plans to change the day, and leave the outside-window Squash row visible when weighing the options: it explains why the choice changed. No date after Fall 28 is forecast here.