animal crossing: deluxe flower guide
overview
this guide will go over every combination, including new ones exclusive to dx.
for the most part, flower breeding is the same as ww/cf. this means no orange tulips, instead red x yellow makes purple. there’s a few exceptions, like white x white cosmos making black cosmos, in addition to red x red like later games. gold roses are also gotten slightly differently from later games, since flowers in gc don’t wilt and aren’t planned to be made to wilt in dx. this guide covers everything in acdx, including new flowers exclusive to it.
how to plant
ever since ww ive sworn by the cross-shape planting method i always saw on various guides. i start with a large patch of basics (red/yellow/white) planted like this
it's not technically necessary to do so, it'll work as long as they're touching in some way, but that's how i learned it. i also try to guarantee a large amount of color variety when first starting out. in the above screencap, i have good odds for black (red x red), orange (red x yellow), pink (red x white), and purple (white x white).
if something grows in, hybrid or not, i relocate it so the spots stay free for other flowers to grow in, and also so im not stuck cleaning a bunch of excess from this spot later on. when i feel like i have enough, i just switch out my breeding patches for maximizing hybrids (for example, pink x orange cosmos to try for more of each, or blue).
new flower growth (hybrid or not) happens at 6AM once watered and if it's touching another flower of the same species. if you, for example, have a patch of white cosmos and it's watered, it can either duplicate with another white cosmos, or grow a black one. i should also note that it's not a guarantee anything will grow at all, it's RNG-based. also, rain can water flowers and counts for hybrid breeding, but snow does not.
list of hybrids
pansies
- red x red = purple
- white x white = blue
- red x yellow = orange
tulips
- red x yellow = purple
- red x red = black
- yellow x yellow = black
- purple x purple = blue
- red x white = pink
cosmos
- white x white = black
- red x red = black
- red x yellow = orange
- red x white = pink
- pink x orange = blue
roses
- red x yellow = orange
- red x red = black
- red x white = pink
- white x white = purple
- purple x black = blue
- black x black (golden watering can) = gold
- blue x white = cyan
sold by nook
- red, white, yellow variants of roses, tulips, pansies, cosmos
no wonder sold by nook, gotten through hybrids
- pink cosmos
- blue cosmos
- purple pansies
new flowers to dx
- red cosmos
- instead of a “white cosmos” thats yellowish, theres now a white cosmos and a yellow cosmos
- black cosmos
- all roses
- red pansies
- blue pansies
- orange pansies (had their design tweaked, appears differently from later games)
- black tulips
- purple tulips
- blue tulips
- jacob's ladder (introduced in e+)
how to get golden watering can
instead of the golden axe, farley gives you the golden watering can in acdx, with the axe gotten through a different method. same rules that would apply to obtaining the golden axe in vanilla apply to the watering can, where you obtain it through maintaining perfect town for fifteen days. as of now, the methods for reaching perfect town are unchanged from acgc, so i wont be covering it. if you need help with that, check out this https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Environment_rating. if it’s changed later on, i’ll cover it
sale prices
all
- red/yellow/white = 50 bells
pansies
- orange = 200 bells
- purple = 200 bells
- blue = 250 bells
tulips
- pink = 150 bells
- purple = 200 bells
- black = 250 bells
- blue = 1000 bells
cosmos
- pink = 200 bells
- orange = 200 bells
- black = 250 bells
- blue = 250 bells
roses
- pink = 100 bells
- black = 250 bells
- gold = 2500 bells
- blue = 2500 bells
- cyan = 2500 bells
jacob's ladder
- jacob’s ladder - 100 bells
credits
- animal crossing - nintendo
- acdx - cuyler
- acdx flower breeding guide - finalhaunt (me)
if you spot any mistakes, contact @finalhaunt