The Stalk Market (White Turnips)

Buying and selling White Turnip is the best way to make Bells in Animal Crossing - but it also carries the risk of losing great amounts of Bells…

On Sundays, Joan visits town selling White Turnip for 90 - 110 bells. You can buy as many as you can afford. Turnips can be carried or stored on the floor in your house for up to a week, after which they rot and become worthless (except for catching flies and ants). From Monday to Saturday, Nook will offer morning and afternoon turnip prices. Prices are usually below 90 bells, except for a few days where prices fluctuate to much higher values, reportedly up to 700 bells!

The place to find other players with high turnip prices is in the Trading Forum.

Add your prices here so that we can better understand the stalk market.

Tom Nook's Turnip prices follow 4 patterns:

1. The constantly-decreasing pattern
2. The large-spike pattern
3. The small-spike pattern
4. The random-price pattern

The constantly-decreasing turnip price pattern starts with a price between 70 and 87 on Monday morning with each successive price during the week decreasing by a few bells.

Note: Changing in the in-game clock will trigger this pattern

Research: The Feb 1st Hyrule prices are probably constantly-decreasing.

The large-spike turnip price pattern starts off looking like a constantly-decreasing pattern but is interrupted with five prices: a jump to a higher price followed by two increasing prices, then two decreasing prices which may still be high prices. A constantly-decreasing pattern resumes after the interruption.

If you have a large-spike pattern, sell your turnips on the third high price, because this is the peak of the spike.

Research: The Jan 25th and May 4th Belltown prices are a large-spike pattern. The Feb 1st Jonas pattern may also have been large-spike but it is hard to tell without all the prices.

The small-spike turnip price pattern also involves 5 prices interrupting a constantly-decreasing pattern, but the prices may fluctuate until the fourth price after the interruption, which is the maximum price (as oppposed to the third price with the large-spike pattern).

If you have a good price and the next price is slightly lower, you have a small-spike pattern and should sell on the fourth high price as this is the maximum.

Research: The Feb 8th, Feb 15th and May 10th Belltown prices and May 4th Nayton prices are all small-spike patterns.

The random price pattern is exactly that: Random prices. Often in a random price week, the Monday morning price is above 87 bells.

Research: The Feb 1st and Feb 22nd Belltown prices are random.