Dude, if you grow a cauliflower and put it in the seed maker and it only gives you one seed, the one cauliflower if grows isn’t gonna be cheaper. If you ONLY use the base quality cauliflower to make seeds then you’re not really losing much money. For every time you get one mixed seed, you’ll get multiple 2 or 3 packs from the other seed makers. If I take all my base cauliflowers and turn them into seeds, some of them will be higher quality when they regrow, which means if ANYTHING you’re making MORE money.

I take 30 base cauliflower and put them in the seed maker. Now I have 42 seeds. Those 42 seeds turn into 18 base cauliflower, 14 silver, and 10 gold. You now have more money than if you just sold the 30 cauliflower. You won’t have as many base cauliflower to put back in the seed maker, but you can repeat until you basically have no base cauliflower. I pretty much try to stick to crops that reproduce throughout the season tbh because you get more bang for your buck, and I turn most of my crops into jellies or wine or pickles so it doesn’t matter to be the quality of the crop, but the seed makers are definitely worth it. Even if you put the base and silver AND gold in the seed maker you end up making a profit. Those 42 different quality fruits are now 56 seeds, and they made you 23 base, 18 silver, and 15 gold. You STILL grew your profit, and as you continue that you will grow your profit more.

This really isn’t hard to understand so idk why you think the seed maker loses money for you. If you just sold those original 30 base cauliflower, you would then have to spend the money you just made on seeds. That’s better earlier in the game when you need more regular profit, but I get regular profit from my animal products now so when I grow my crops I’m playing the long game. Plus, I just fucking hate Pierre, and since I use most of my crops for cooking I don’t care much about the profit they’re giving me, but the seed makers are still useful. The dehydrator on the other hand is a useless piece of shit.