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Hybrid Flower Breeding Guide
A guide for hybrid flower breeding in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Learn how to breed flowers as well as what flower breeding tips and layouts to use!
List of Contents
How to Breed Hybrid Flowers
| Flower Breeding Methods |
|---|
Breed New Flowers from Seeds
We recommend using flowers seeds bought from Nook's Cranny or from Leif's Garden Shop as you can control the outcome of the breeding process.
These flower seeds have fixed cross pollination patterns so you're guaranteed to get the hybrid flower color you want.
How to Unlock Leif's Hybrid Flowers in HHP
Breeding Native Flowers
You can also use the flowers growing on your island to make hybrid flowers. While this method is faster than using seeds, it's harder to control the outcome as they have random cross pollination patterns.
For example, cross pollinating a Red Rose and a White Rose from seeds will create a Pink Rose. Although, when you try cross pollinating the same flowers that were native to your island, it's possible to get Yellow Roses instead.
Breeding Two Hybrid Flowers
Sometimes the only way to get a specific color, like most of the Purple flowers, is to crossbreed two hybrid flowers.
The example above shows how to make Purple Tulips. This is done by cross pollinating Red and Yellow Tulips first and then using the Orange Tulips to make Purple Tulips.
Cross pollinating two hybrid flowers of the same color is also one way to make more of the same flower.
Breed Flowers through Cloning
| Layouts where Flowers will clone | |
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| Layouts where Flowers won't clone | |
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Another method of getting the flower you want is to clone it.
To clone a flower, plant it somewhere where it isn't touching any other flowers of the same species and just water them every day.
Eventually, the flower will clone itself in one of the empty spaces.
List of Hybrid Flower Breeding Charts
Flower Breeding Charts Overview
| Jump to a Section▼ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Roses |
 Tulips |
 Hyacinths |
 Mums |
|
 Pansies |
 Lilies |
 Windflowers |
 Cosmoses |
|
Hybrid Rose Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Pink Rose
(Best) |
Red Rose
|
 White Rose
|
|
Pink Rose
|
Red Rose
|
Red Rose
|
 Orange Rose
|
Red Rose
|
 Yellow Rose
|
 Purple Rose
|
White Rose
|
White Rose
|
|
Red Rose
(1) |
Purple Rose
|
Orange Rose
|
 Black Rose
(Best) |
Orange Rose
|
Orange Rose
|
|
Black Rose
|
Red Rose
|
Red Rose
|
 Blue Rose
(Best) |
Red Rose
(1) |
Red Rose
(1) |
|
Blue Rose
|
Black Rose
|
Black Rose
|
 Golden Rose
|
Black Rose
(2) |
Black Rose
(2) |
(1): This Red Rose needs to be a hybrid between a Purple Rose and an Orange Rose.
(2): You need to water the Black Roses with a Golden Watering Can.
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
Hybrid Tulip Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Orange Tulip
|
Red Tulip
|
 Yellow Tulip
|
 Pink Tulip
|
Red Tulip
|
 White Tulip
|
 Black Tulip
(Best) |
Red Tulip
|
Red Tulip
|
|
Black Tulip
|
Orange Tulip
|
Orange Tulip
|
 Purple Tulip
(Best) |
Orange Tulip
|
Orange Tulip
|
|
Purple Tulip
|
Black Tulip
|
Black Tulip
|
|
Purple Tulip
|
Yellow Tulip
|
Black Tulip
|
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Tulips
Hybrid Hyacinth Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Pink Hyacinth
|
Red Hyacinth
|
 White Hyacinth
|
 Orange Hyacinth
|
Red Hyacinth
|
 Yellow Hyacinth
|
 Blue Hyacinth
(Best) |
White Hyacinth
|
White Hyacinth
|
|
Blue Hyacinth
|
Orange Hyacinth
|
Orange Hyacinth
|
 Purple Hyacinth
(Best) |
Orange Hyacinth
|
Orange Hyacinth
|
|
Purple Hyacinth
|
Blue Hyacinth
|
Blue Hyacinth
|
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Hyacinths
Hybrid Mum Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Pink Mum
|
Red Mum
|
 White Mum
|
 Yellow Mum
(1) |
Yellow Mum
|
Red Mum
|
 Purple Mum
(Best) |
White Mum
|
White Mum
|
|
Purple Mum
|
Yellow Mum
(1) |
Yellow Mum
(1) |
|
Purple Mum
|
Red Mum
|
Yellow Mum
|
 Green Mum
(Best) |
Yellow Mum
(1) |
Yellow Mum
(1) |
|
Green Mum
|
Purple Mum
|
Purple Mum
|
(1): This Yellow Mum needs to be a hybrid between a Yellow Mum and a Red Mum.
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Mums
Hybrid Pansy Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Orange Pansy
|
Red Pansy
|
 Yellow Pansy
|
 Blue Pansy
|
 White Pansy
|
White Pansy
|
|
Red Pansy
(1) |
Red Pansy
|
Blue Pansy
|
 Purple Pansy
(Best) |
Red Pansy
(1) |
Red Pansy
(1) |
|
Purple Pansy
|
Blue Pansy
|
Blue Pansy
|
(1): This Red Pansy needs to be a hybrid between a Blue Pansy and a Red Pansy from a seed.
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Pansies
Hybrid Lily Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Pink Lily
|
Red Lily
|
 White Lily
|
 Orange Lily
|
Red Lily
|
 Yellow Lily
|
 Black Lily
(Best) |
Orange Lily
|
Orange Lily
|
|
Black Lily
|
Red Lily
|
Red Lily
|
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Lilies
Hybrid Windflower Flower Chart
(1): This Red Windflower needs to be a hybrid between a Blue Windflower and a Red Windflower from a seed.
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Windflowers
Hybrid Cosmos Flower Chart
| Hybrid Flower | Parent 1 | Parent 2 |
|---|---|---|
 Orange Cosmos
|
Red Cosmos
|
 Yellow Cosmos
|
 Pink Cosmos
|
Red Cosmos
|
 White Cosmos
|
 Black Cosmos
(Best) |
Orange Cosmos
|
Orange Cosmos
|
|
Black Cosmos
|
Pink Cosmos
|
Orange Cosmos
|
(Best): This combination yields the highest chance of getting this hybrid.
How to Get All Cosmoses
Hybrid Flower Breeding Layouts
Cross-Breed in a 2x1 Grid Layout
The easiest way to cross-breed two flowers is by placing them next to each other, within a 2x1 grid. The hybrid flowers will grow directly below the two flowers, like in the image above.
Cross-Breed in a 3x3 Grid Layout
Another method you can use is the 3x3 grid layout. By placing the flowers in a 3x3 grid, you can get a hybrid colored flower in the middle of the layout, like in the image above.
Hybrid flowers may not grow the next day
Even if you've fulfilled all the preconditions for Cross Pollination, hybrid flowers may not grow the very next day If there are no new hybrid flowers, you'll simply have to continue watering them.
Hybrid Flower Breeding Tips
Water Your Flowers to Cross Pollinate Them
Watering flowers with the Watering Can causes buds to grow into flowers and nearby flowers to bloom, making crossing pollination much easier.
Water the flowers at least once a day for them to grow.
Moving Watered Flowers Will Need to be Watered Again
Keep in mind that if you dig up and move a watered flower to a new spot for breeding, you'll need to water them again since the flower loses it's watered state after digging them up!
There are Hybrid Flowers that Require Specific Tools
You need a Gold Watering Can to make Golden Roses
A Golden Watering Can is required to make Golden Roses. Unlike most flowers, these roses can only be obtained through specific instructions.
For more information how to make Golden Roses, see the link below.
Related Guides
| Flowers Related Links | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid Flowers Breeding Guide | ||
| Windflowers |
Roses |
Hyacinths |
| Mums |
Lilies |
Tulips |
| Pansies |
Cosmoses |
 Bushes |
 Lily of the Valley |
||
Comment
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Anonymous over 5 years
Anonymous over 5 yearsHybrid flowers can contain recessive genes in their code (like irl flowers) that can result in some random flower colors. Seeds from Leif or the shop will always have two genes of the same color (like a red rose bag will have Rr gene.) This twitter post has a in-depth explanation that might help! :) https://twitter.com/GeneticJen/status/1259490563147075584
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No, it has to be with the same type of flower - ypu can’t breed lilies with windflowers. Maybe it was a cross-pollination possibility that wasn’t listed?