Animal Crossing | Flower Breeding Guide - How To Get Hybrid Flowers | ACNH

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!!!

Related Articles
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.

Related Articles

• Nook's Cranny Guide
• Friend (Dodo) Code Exchange Forum

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

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 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!!!

Blue 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.

Flower Hybrids - Lilies

Result	Color 1	Color 2
Orange	Red	Yellow
Pink	Red	White
Black	Red	Red

Flower 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

Result	Color 1	Color 2
Pink	Red	White
Orange	Red	Yellow
Black	Orange	Orange

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

Animal Crossing New Horizons Switch - Recommended Articles

April Updates

April Update Related Articles
1.10 Update
May Day	Museum Day	Wedding Season

Essential Guides

All Fish List	All Bug List
Sea Creatures List	Villager Tier List
All Villagers List	Mystery Island List
DIY Recipes List	DIY Materials List

Must Reads For Beginners

Beginner Guide & Tips
Points of No Return	Beginning Questions
Best Island Layout	Best Tent Location