Simple Flower Guide

Learn the basics of flower mechanics and obtain all the flowers you want easily.

• Simple Farming Instructions
  • Farming Summary
  • Daily Farming Routine
• Simple Breeding Fields
• Simple Breeding Combinations
  • Lilies
  • Cosmos
  • Hyacinths
  • Tulips
  • Pansies
  • Windflowers
  • Mums
  • Roses
• Simple Cloning Fields
• Gold Roses
  • Secret of the Golden Watering Can
  • Secret of the Black Rose
  • Secret of the Gold Rose
  • Golden Watering Can Infinite Durability Trick

Simple Farming Instructions

Even though the flower mechanics are very deep, you can farm all the flowers you want easily and efficiently by following these very simple instructions.

Farming Summary

You have to start with flowers coming from seeds or mystery islands to ensure they have the right genes. Breed them together to get new colors, and once you get a new flower with a color you want, just clone it again and again.

Step	Instructions
1	Grow new flowers from seeds or bring wild flowers from mystery islands → Once the flower is grown enough, it will be able to reproduce → Visual tip : if the flower’s color is visible, it’s grown enough
2	Put your flowers in breeding fields to get new colors → Follow the breeding combinations and layouts shown in this guide
3	Once you get a flower with the color you want, put it in a cloning field → Follow the cloning layouts shown in this guide
4	Have your flowers hydrated once a day by watering can or rain → Once the flower is hydrated and will have a chance to reproduce → Visual tip : if the flower is making small sparkles, it’s hydrated
5	Have up to five visitors water your flowers to speed up the process → Visitor watering will increase the reproduction chance for this day → Visual tip : if the flower is making big sparkles, it’s watered by five visitors

Daily Farming Routine

Every day at 5:00 AM, the daily refresh takes place. Flowers will grow, and grown flowers which have been hydrated during the day will have a chance to reproduce. Follow this routine every day to farm your flowers efficiently.

Step	Instructions
1	After 5:00 AM : Check your farming fields
2	Dig the new children up and move them away → Move to a breeding field if you need them for a recipe → Move to a cloning field if you want more of them → Get rid of them if you have no use for them
3	Optional : Update your farming fields if needed → Make sure everything is in its right place before inviting watering visitors
4	Optional : Have up to five visitors water your farming fields → Visitor watering will increase the reproduction chance for this day → Don’t move your flowers after this or their bonus will be reset
5	Before 5:00 AM : Water the farming fields → Not needed if it has rained or you had watering visitors → Keep this task for the end of the day in case it rains or you have visitors

Simple Breeding Fields

Use breeding to get new colors. If you already have a flower of the color you want, it’s always better to clone it instead of breeding it.

When breeding, the two parent flowers will mix their genes and give birth to a new child flower, which may have different genes and colors from its parents.

The simplest way to breed two flowers is to put them next to each other as an isolated pair, not touching any other flower of their species. You can add another species in between pairs to make efficient use of the available space.

Single Species Breeding	Multiple Species Breeding

Simple Breeding Combinations

There are a lot of possible flower combinations, with each one having multiple possible outcomes. The recipes shown in this guide are balanced to be both simple and effective. Just make sure to follow these very important rules when breeding.

Rule	Instruction
1	Always use the proper parents → Parent from seeds or mystery islands → Parent from mystery islands, some can be obtained from breeding → Parent from breeding, must have the right numbers
2	Always dig the new children up and move them away
3	Never use the new children for breeding unless they appear in another recipe

Lilies

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
002	201	101	50%
020	201	110	50%
201	201	200 202	25% 25%

Cosmos

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
001	200	100 101	50% 50%
021	200	110 111	50% 50%
110 111	110 111	100 101 102 112 220 221	12.5% ~ 18.75% 4.69% ~ 6.25%
211	211	220 221	6.25% 12.5%

Hyacinths

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
001	001	002	25%
001	201	101	50%
020	201	110	50%
110	110	110 120 210 220	25% 12.5% 12.5% 6.25%
120 210	120 210	220	25%

Tulips

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
001	201	101	50%
020	201	110	50%
201	201	200	25%
110	110	110 120 200 210 220	25% 12.5% 6.25% 12.5% 6.25%
110	120	110 120 210 220	25% 25% 12.5% 12.5%
120 210	120 210	220	25%

Pansies

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
001	001	002	25%
020	200	110	100%
002	200	101	100%
101	101	202	6.25%
102 221	102 221	202 212 222	25%

Windflowers

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
001	001	002	25%
020	200	110	100%
200	002	101	100%
101	101	202	6.25%
102 221	102 221	202 212 222	25%

Mums

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
001	001	002	25%
001	200	100 101	50% 50%
002	200	101	100%
020	200	110	100%
110	110	120 210 220	12.5% 12.5% 6.25%
120 210	120 210	120 210 220	50% 25%
211	211	220 221	6.25% 12.5%

Roses

Parent	Parent	Child	Chance
0010	0010	0020	25%
0010	2001	1001 1011	25% 25%
0200	2001	1100	50%
2001	2001	2000 2002	25% 25%
0020	2001	1011	50%
1011	0200	1110	12.5%
1110	1110	2220	1.56%
2211	2211	2221 2220	12.5% 6.25%
2211	2221	2221 2220	12.5% 12.5%
2221	2221	2221 2220	50% 25%

Simple Cloning Fields

Use cloning to multiply the flowers you already have.

When cloning, the parent flower will replicate its genes and give birth to a new child flower, which will have the same genes and color as its parent.

The simplest way to clone a flower is to put it on its own, not touching any other flower of its species. You can add more species to make efficient use of the available space.

Single Species Cloning	Multiple Species Cloning

Gold Roses

Gold roses are special flowers which can only be obtained from breeding or cloning a black rose which has been watered by a golden watering can.

Parent	Child	Chance
Any Black Rose with Gold Flag	0000	50%

Secret of the Golden Watering Can

The golden watering can waters nine tiles at once in a three by three area, but only the black rose placed in the center tile of that area, just in front of the player, will obtain the gold flag. Because of this, you have to water every single black rose you want to give the gold flag to, one by one.

Secret of the Black Rose

A black rose with the gold flag will have 50% chance for its child to be a gold rose, either when breeding or cloning. The gold flag will stay on the black rose until it produces a gold rose.

Secret of the Gold Rose

Gold roses cannot reproduce by themselves by cloning nor breeding, but they can be chosen as a breeding partner by another adjacent rose. Since their genotype is 0000, this can create seemingly unsuspected offspring.

Golden Watering Can Infinite Durability Trick

Watering cans of any type will not lose their durability when watering only tiles which have already been watered that day. You can exploit this behavior by pre-watering all needed tiles with a regular can first, and then water your desired black roses with the golden watering can for no durability loss. Rain also pre-waters all tiles on your island for the whole day.