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How to Get (Grow) Purple Hyacinths

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) - How to Get Purple Hyacinths

What's the sitch? In Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH), you can get Purple Hyacinths via crossbreeding. Learn how to breed and get some Purple Hyacinths here! Plant them on your island and decorate your town with them. The sky's the limit!

How to Breed Purple Hyacinths

Step Instruction
1. Get Red and Yellow Hyacinths.
2 Make some Orange Hybrid Hyacinths by cross pollinating Red and Yellow hyacinths.
3 Cross Pollinate two Orange Hybrid hyacinths to create Purple Hybrid hyacinth.

1. Get Red and Yellow Hyacinths

Red Hyacinth Yellow Hyacinth
ACNH - Red Hyacinth ACNH - Yellow Hyacinth

The first step in making Purple Hyacinths is to gather up a Red Hyacinth and a Yellow Hyacinth. Plant them together in such a way as to ensure hybrids.

Cross Pollination Guide

2. Make some Orange Hybrid Hyacinths.

ACNH - A resident looks up from a guide on how to make orange hyacinths

Water the plants everyday and wait for the Orange Hybrid Hyacinths to grow.

3. Cross Pollinate two Orange Hybrid hyacinths

Orange Hyacinth Orange Hyacinth
ACNH - Orange Hyacinth ACNH - Orange Hyacinth

Using two Orange Hyacinths, plant them together in such a way as to ensure cross-breeding. Keep watering them and eventually you'll get Purple Hyacinths!

How to Cross Breed Flowers

Get them from Mystery Tours

ACNH - Wilbur offers tools for sale during a Mystery Island Tour

There is a chance that Purple Hyacinths might grow on Mystery Islands. Note that Mystery Islands can only ever give you one other type of flower, so you're not guaranteed to find Purple Hyacinths on them.

Mystery Island Guide

Trade Online

If you're struggling to get a specific flower type or hybrid color, trading with others online might be the quickest way to get them!

Game8's ACNH Trading Board

How to Multiply Purple Hyacinths

Clone the Purple Hyacinths you have

ACNH - Another picture of flowers planted in such a way as to maximise cloning

The easiest way to get Purple Hyacinths is to clone the ones you have. To clone flowers, plant them somewhere where they aren't touching any other flowers of their type and water them every day.

Repeat the Breeding Process

ACNH - A resident waters flowers

Once you get Purple Hyacinths to grow, you can repeat the process to get more. These flowers are used to make other hybrid flowers as well, so why not grow a lot while you're at it?

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