Read our hybrid flower breeding guide on Animal Crossing New Horizon Switch (ACNH). This includes how to get hybrid flowers, flower breeding charts, flower layout, and flower genetics!!!
Tips & Advice
- Flower Breeding Video Guide
- Preparation Before Breeding
- How To Make Hybrid Flowers
- When You Can Purchase Flowers
List Of Flowers
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 List Of Flowers | Flower Planting |
| Making A Flower Bed | - |
Flower Breeding Video Guide
Brief 1 Minute Guide
If you're more partial to guides in video format, check out the succinct compilation we've put together on our Youtube channel above!
Things To Do Before Starting To Breed Hybrid Flowers
Buy The Seeds You Need
Your first step will be to buy the seeds of flowers you want to breed! Purchase seeds at Nook's Cranny (↓ Check out when you can purchase flowers below). If the flower you want is not sold on your island, head to someone else's island and buy flowers there.
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Possible To Uproot Existing Flowers
If you want to use a flower that already exists on your island, it's possible to uproot it with a shovel & relocate it. However, note that some rare flowers only spawn from other previously bred flowers, so using a pre-existing flower might not work for all color variations.
Prepare A Breeding Space
Before starting, designate a specific space for your flower breeding. It is a good idea to do this to, so you can better keep track of which flowers you need to water. Also, when it rains, flowers you haven't watered will also spawn new ones, which can make cleanup quite a pain.
⬆ Try to avoid having a situation like this, where flowers grow out of control!!!
How To Breed Flowers & Hybrid Flowers
Grow New Flowers In 1 of 2 Ways
| Method | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pair Breeding | Two adjacent flowers will link together and become a pair. Only these two flowers will produce new flower offspring. |
| Multiplying | When a plant is alone with no other flower to pair with, it will reproduce itself. |
There are two main ways of growing a new flower (excluding planting a store bought one); pairing two flowers next to each other to pair and breed, or having one single flower reproduce itself. In the case of multiplying, note that the produced flower will not count as a "hybrid"!
Flower Breeding Summary
① Plant flower seeds in pairs
② Water those flowers
③ Check if new flowers have appeared on the next day
④ Repeat steps 2~3 until you get the color you want
① - Plant Flowers In Pairs
▲ By planting flowers like this, a pair will be formed between 1 (white) and 2 (red).
Two adjacent flowers will form a "pair" together and produce an offspring in an adjacent space. Once two flowers are paired, they will not pair with other nearby flowers! It's important to keep track of which flower is paired with which!
Breeding Happens During Rain and Snow As Well
On days when it rains or snows, flowers will behave as if they were watered. This is the reason that flowers on your island continue to propagate themselves even when you're not actively watering them.
Multiply If There Are No Nearby Flowers To Pair With
If there are no nearby flowers to form a pair with (or all nearby flowers have already formed a pair), a given flower will reproduce, producing an exact copy of itself. It's important to prevent this from happening if it could get in the way of your breeding.
Planting In Pairs Is Best
▲This set up ensures you'll be able to breed red and yellow without interference.
This setup is recommended when you're breeding two flowers of a different color (such as the red and yellow above). In particular, this method will help you prevent flowers from naturally multiplying if you're trying to breed for a flower of the same color as either of its two parents (in this case, either red or yellow).
Square Shape Is Best For Same Color Flowers
▲ A good setup if you want to make a lot of purples (which are white x white)
If you're breeding flowers of the same color, we recommend the above setup. Although it might take a bit of space, you can water 20 flowers with just 4 uses of the Watering Can! You can also plant a flower in the middle, but that's one more spot you'll have to water, so be careful.
Great At Mass Producing Flowers
If you want a whole bunch of one particular color of flowers, this is also a great setup that allows you to blanket an entire area with flowers!
Have Others Water Your Flowers!
Having another person water your flowers will make hybrids bloom faster than they would if you did it yourself. As you can see from the above picture, the more players we had water our flowers, the more flowers grew!
Test Conditions
※ Tested this with players not on our friends list!!!
- ①Watering done by ourselves
- ②Watering done by ourselves and 1 other player
- ③Watering done by 5 other players only
Any players who happen to be on your island will suffice - they don't need to be on your friends list for this to work! If you make a group of people who go around to each others' islands to help each other out with watering, you'll find the breeding process goes by much faster!
If you don't have anyone you can ask, why not find someone on our forums?
Flower Seed Shop Schedule
Shop Seasonality For All Flowers
| Northern Hem | Southern Hem | |
|---|---|---|
| Rose | May - July, Oct - Dec | Jan, Apr - Jun, Nov - Dec |
| Pansy | Jan - Apr, Nov - Dec | May - Oct |
| Hyacinth | Feb - Apr | Aug - Oct |
| Mum | Jan, Aug - Dec | Feb - Jul |
| Windflower | Jan - May, Dec | Jun - Nov |
| Cosmos | Jul - Nov | Jan - May |
| Lily | Jun - Sept | Jan - Mar, Dec |
| Tulip | Mar - Jun | Sept - Dec |
Keep in mind that your shop will always sell 2 specific types of flowers (this is different for every player), so you won't get all 3 available seeds that particular month - there will be some randomness involved. These flowers will be sold at Nook's Cranny, and the one random seasonal flower will change every Monday!
Hybrid Flowers (Flower Hybrids) List
(※) Flowers marked "Hybrid" must be the product of breeding! Regular store-bought flowers will not work.
All Hybrid Flowers Chart
| Flower | Purple | Orange | Blue | Pink | Green | Black | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mum | | | | ||||
| Rose | | | | | | | |
| Tulip | | | | | |||
| Cosmos | | | | ||||
| Lily | | | | ||||
| Hyacinth | | | | | |||
| Pansy | | | | ||||
| Windflower | | | | |
A Note On Breeding
Flower breeding is a lot more complicated than one might expect, as it seems that flowers have their own individual DNA, which only gets more complicated the more you breed them. There can also be various different ways of getting the same color flower. This means that there is indeed an element of chance involved in the process.
If you use our combinations before and don't get the result you want, try the following:
- Remove the unwanted flower and try again
- Buy new flowers with "fresh" DNA
- Make sure flowers aren't multiplying naturally
Flower Hybrids - Roses
| Result | Color 1 | Color 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | Red | White |
| White | Red | Red |
| Pink | Red (Hybrid) | Red (Hybrid) |
| Orange | Red | Yellow |
| Black | Red | Red |
| Black | Pink | Pink |
| Purple | White | White |
| Gold*1 | Black | Black |
| Red (Hybrid) | Purple | Orange |
| Black | Red (Hybrid) | Red (Hybrid) |
| Blue | Red (Hybrid) | Red (Hybrid) |
| Blue | Black | Black |
*1 Golden Watering Can Required!!!
Check Out How To Get Roses From HereBlue Roses Are Very Complicated
The process of making blue roses is rather convoluted, requiring you to breed several times over. Make sure you have a lot of space prepared if you're trying to produce these.
Check Out The Detailed Blue Roses Breeding Guide HereFlower Hybrids - Lilies
Check Out How To Get Lilies From HereFlower Hybrids - Pansies
| Result | Color 1 | Color 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Orange | Red | Yellow |
| Blue | White | White |
| Red (Hybrid) | Red | Blue |
| Purple | Blue | Blue |
| Purple | Red (Hybrid) | Red (Hybrid) |
Flower Hybrids - Cosmos
Check Out How To Get Cosmos Flowers!Flower Hybrids - Tulips
| Result | Color 1 | Color 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | Red | White |
| Orange | Red | Yellow |
| Purple | Orange | Orange |
| Purple | Black | Black |
| Purple | Black | Yellow |
| Black | Red | Red |
| Black | Red(Hybrid) | Red(Hybrid) |
| Black | Orange | Orange |
Flower Hybrids - Hyacinths
| Result | Color 1 | Color 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | Red | White |
| Blue | White | White |
| Blue | Orange | Orange |
| Orange | Red | Yellow |
| Orange | Blue | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| Purple | Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| Purple | Blue | Blue |
| Purple | Orange | Orange |
Flower Hybrids - Windflowers
| Result | Color 1 | Color 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Blue | White | White |
| Pink | Red | Orange |
| Pink | Blue | Pink |
| Purple | Pink | Pink |
| Purple | Blue | Blue |
| Purple | Blue | Pink |
Flower Hybrids - Mums
| Result | Color 1 | Color 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | Red | White |
| Purple | White | White |
| Purple | Red | Yellow |
| Purple | Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| Green | Purple | Purple |
| Green | Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow | Red |
| Pink | Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| White | Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| Red (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) | Yellow (Hybrid) |
| Red (Hybrid) | Purple | Purple |
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