Fall: keep the crop requirement or keep the deadline?

With a week remaining, a thirteen-day wait cannot fit

A Fall 21 start leaves seven elapsed growth days before day 28. Tromboncino Squash needs thirteen, so it is already beyond its latest start of Fall 15. Reducing the number of plants does not change that wait. If the requirement is a Squash harvest this Fall, the current-season calculation has no suitable new start on day 21.

Reopen the crop choice only if the goal allows it

If the goal is instead to choose something that reaches a first harvest before Fall ends, Sunflower offers a shorter calendar: five days from Fall 21 gives Fall 26. Its final ordinary start is Fall 23, which reaches 28. That makes it a candidate for a general in-season harvest goal; it does not make it a substitute for a specific Squash need.

• A required crop: keep its identity fixed and test the date.
• A required date: inspect the shorter initial waits among Fall-compatible crops.
• A desired repeat schedule: check that time remains after the first date, rather than stopping at a positive candidate count.

Read the timing source behind the deadline

The Squash deadline uses the adopted thirteen-day value from the specific item page and corroborating Summer/Fall tables. The Plants summary lists seven; that disagreement remains visible in the crop note and provenance. A last-start date is derived from the chosen growth input, so the source decision belongs beside the arithmetic rather than being hidden as an unexplained exception.

Sunflower's five-day, no-regrowth fields were checked against its item revision. Other rows can still be based on the pinned Plants table. A source link identifies that basis; it is not a claim that every crop was separately tested in the game.

Finish the planting before planning another

A Sunflower date on Fall 26 is one completed single-harvest planting. The planner does not turn the remaining days into another round or fill the bed automatically. Open a separate plan for any proposed replacement and check its full initial wait again. All Fall results below assume daily watering, normal fields, no growth modifiers and harvest on maturity, with no forecast after day 28.