Grow a Garden mutations can be incredibly helpful, so if you're wondering how they come about and what you can do to ensure you get the possible version of your fruit and veg, then look no further, because we've got everything you need to know in this guide. Mutations can occur by a variety of different methods, so let's take a look at how they happen.
Keep in mind that this guide exclusively covers crop mutations. If you're curious about the different pet mutations, head over to our Grow a Garden pet guide. Alternatively, you can check out our list of all the new Grow a Garden codes if you're looking for some freebies.
Here's everything in our Grow a Garden mutations guide:
All Grow a Garden mutations
Grow a Garden mutations are unique transformations that increase the value of your crops. Each mutation has a unique appearance, though you can also see a crop's mutations by hovering over it in your garden or looking at it in your inventory.
Mutations can come from weather events, different pets, certain gears, or special Grow a Garden seeds. Some mutations are much more rare or difficult to get than others, but generally offer higher sheckles multipliers in return.
Below, we've listed all of the Grow a Garden mutations in three different categories - standard mutations, which you can obtain through the base game, limited mutations, which are generally tied to event-limited weather, pets, or items, and admin mutations, which you can only get during admin weather events.

Standard Grow a Garden mutations
There are a lot of different mutations available in the base game, either through standard weather events, specific pets, or specific Grow a Garden gear like mutation sprays and sprinklers.
The pool of mutations tends to expand with every Grow a Garden update, as new weather, pets, and items join the game, and each has its own appearance and multiplier that alters the value of your crops.
Here are all the standard Grow a Garden mutations in the game:
| Mutation | Sheckles multiplier | How to obtain | Appearance |
| Gold | x20 |
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The crop appears golden and shiny |
| Rainbow | x50 |
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The crop continuously changes colors, emitting yellow particles and a rainbow above it |
| Wet | x2 |
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The crop drips water particles |
| Windstruck | x2 |
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The crop has wind gusts swooping around it |
| Moonlit | x2 |
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The crop appears purple and emits a purple glow |
| Chilled | x2 |
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The crop appears slightly bluish with frost particles around it |
| Pollinated | x3 |
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The crop appears yellow and shiny and emits a yellow glow |
| Sandy | x3 |
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The crop appears a tan color and emits yellow, gas-like particles |
| Cracked | x4 |
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The crop has a cracked texture and emits small, earthy particles |
| Verdant | x5 |
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The crop appears green in color and emits green rectangular particles |
| Fall | x4 |
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The crop appears slightly orange and emits falling orange particles |
| Bloodlit | x5 |
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The crop appears red and shiny |
| Clay | x5 |
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The crop appears a tan color and emits yellow, gas-like particles |
| Twisted | x5 |
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The crop has tornado-like swirls surrounding it, similar to the windstruck mutation |
| Drenched | x5 |
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The crop appears to have large water drops falling from it |
| Honey glazed | x5 |
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The crop emits a yellow fog and drips yellow liquid |
| Cloud touched | x5 |
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The crop emits flashing red glints and a cloud-like aura |
| Frozen | x10 |
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The crop appears encased in an ice block |
| Tempestuous | x12 |
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The crop emits fast wind particles that fly around it |
| Acidic | x15 |
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The crop emits a yellow cloud of dust |
| Gnomed | x15 |
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Emits particles resembling the Sam Gnome |
| Eclipsed | x20 |
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Blue, glare-like particles form around the crop |
| Ceramic | x32 |
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The crop appears darker in color |
| Sun scorched | x32 |
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The crop appears to have a dark brown tint (darker than sundried) |
| Sun scorched | x32 |
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The crop has a dark, sunburn-like tint |
| Supernatural | x37 |
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The crop emits a glowing purple aura with small sparkles |
| Friendbound | x70 |
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The crop appears pink and emits pink hearts and stars |
| Riptide | x80 |
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The crop emits swirling waves and water particles |
| Sun dried | x85 |
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The crop appears to have a dark brown tint (lighter than sundried) |
| Aurora | x90 |
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The crop pulses between blue and purple and releases a faint smoke above it |
| Fractured | x92 |
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The crop takes on a cracked appearance similar to a broken crystal |
| Shocked | x100 |
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The crop appears neon and glows brightly |
| Paradisal | x100 |
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The crop appears lime green and emits sun ray-like particles |
| Celestial | x120 |
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The crop appears reflective and emits yellow and purple sparkles |
| Disco | x125 |
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The crop shines and flashes between red, pink, yellow, green, and blue |
| Voidtouched | x135 |
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The crop emits black hole particles |
| Dawnbound | x150 |
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The crop glows neon yellow |
| Cosmic | x240 |
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The glows between yellow, purple, and pink |
| Abyssal | x240 |
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Parts of the crop appear glowing purple or pink, and it releases purple swirl particles |
Limited Grow a Garden mutations
Beyond the standard mutations, there are also a bunch of limited mutations that are tied to Grow a Garden events. You generally get these mutations during event weathers or from event-exclusive pets and gear.
Luckily, a lot of these mutations end up re-entering the standard rotation through future pets or updated weather events. But, for now, they're only available through their respective events and items.
Here are all of the limited Grow a Garden mutations:
| Mutation | Sheckles multiplier | How to obtain | Appearance |
| Silver | x5 |
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The crop appears silver and shiny |
| Glimmering | x2 |
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The crop appears transparent with a pink and purple glow, and emits small shockwaves |
| Choc | x2 |
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The crop appears dark brown |
| Sauce | x3 |
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Red drops of sauce fall from the fruit |
| Meatball | x3 |
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The crop emits meatball particles from the top |
| Pasta | x3 |
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The crop emits a tan, squirming effect around the bottom |
| Aromatic | x3 |
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The crop emits a golden-yellow aura with steam-like particles coming off the top |
| Vamp | x3 |
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The crop emits a bright red fog |
| Lush | x3 |
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The crop appears different shades of green |
| Moist | x3 |
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The crop emits a light blueish silver pulsing mist |
| Coin | x3 |
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The crop emits a golden mist and small coin-like particles |
| Burnt | x4 |
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The crop appears black, with a sparkling effect before you harvest it, or a falling ash effect when you harvest it |
| Twilight | x4 |
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The crop appears light blue and emits a pale blue glow |
| Nocturnal | x4 |
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The crop appears dark blue and emits a blue glow |
| Plasma | x5 |
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The crop appears a neon pinkish purple and emits flashing red glints |
| Wildfast | x5 |
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The crop emits a yellow mist and bright yellow sparkling particles |
| Geode | x5 |
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The crop glows and appears crystal-like |
| Arid | x6 |
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The crop appears yellowish orange and emits yellow particles |
| Tempered | x6 |
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The grow emits a neon orange glow |
| Static | x8 |
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The crop emits yellow electricity particles |
| Fried | x8 |
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The crop emits small yellow particles |
| Bloom | x8 |
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The crop emits a flower-like aura around it and flashing green explosions |
| Rot | x8 |
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The crop emits small purple particles |
| Spooky | x8 |
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The crop emits a white, fading ring of clouds and ghost particles |
| Pestilent | x8 |
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The crop emits yellow sparkles and particles |
| Blight | x8 |
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The crop emits violet sparkles and particles |
| Necrotic | x8 |
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The crop emits white sparkles and particles |
| Webbed | x8 |
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The crop is covered with webs |
| Amber | x10 |
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The crop appears to be coated in a semi-transparent orange overlay and emits orange cloud particles |
| Cooked | x10 |
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The crop appears orange and emits white steam |
| Wilted | x10 |
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Parts of the crop wilt, turning a shade of periwinkle with a dripping effect |
| Oil | x15 |
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The crop emits black steam and drips black particles |
| Chakra | x15 |
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The crop appears to have red electric particles around it and a red star particle at the bottom |
| Corrupt chakra | x15 |
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The crop emits blue lightning sparks with blue stars at its middle |
| Jackpot | x15 |
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The crop emits falling Robux and shiny star particles |
| Spaghetti | x15 |
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Emits noodle and meatball particles and has red sauce dripping from the bottom |
| Toxic | x15 |
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Small green particles drip from the bottom of the crop |
| Sizzled | x18 |
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The crop emits a white gas and yellow-ish particles |
| Tranquil | x20 |
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The crop appears to have a white, rippling aura, and emits kanji words such as "信", "命", "夢", and "氣" |
| Old amber | x20 |
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The crop appears similar to the amber mutation but in a darker orange color |
| Corrupt | x20 |
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The crop emits falling black and red particles and red lightning |
| Withered | x20 |
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The crops appears black and purple and emits ashes |
| Zombified | x25 |
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The crop emits a green fog and drips green liquid |
| Molten | x25 |
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The crop glows orange, yellow, and red |
| Flaming | x25 |
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The crop appears orange and red and emits small fire particles |
| Ghostly | x25 |
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The crop glows with a pale blue light and emits white clouds |
| Mirage | x25 |
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The crop appears translucent and tinted blue |
| Crystalized | x25 |
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TBC |
| Gloom | x30 |
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The crop emits both yellow and purple particles |
| Umbral | x30 |
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The crop emits yellowish green and purple particles |
| Glossy | x30 |
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TBC |
| Typhoon | x30 |
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The crop attracts white particles and emits white stars and circles |
| Harmonised chakra | x35 |
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The crop emits magenta rays and lighting streaks with stars and a magenta halo around it |
| Gourmet | x37 |
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The crop emits a tan mist and stormy spaghetti particles |
| Corrosive | x40 |
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Part of the crop turns green. It also emits a yellow gassy glow as green particles drip from the bottom |
| Ancient amber | x50 |
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The crop appears similar to oldamber but lighter |
| Fortune | x50 |
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The crop appears to be sparkling with a golden metallic shine |
| Cyclonic | x50 |
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The crop emits blue particles, blue stars, and grey circles |
| Luminous | x50 |
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The crop appears similar to the glimmering mutation and emits small explosions with rainbow and aurora colors |
| Desolate | x50 |
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TBC |
| Stampede | x50 |
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The crop is covered with animal footprints |
| Monsoon | x50 |
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The crop emits qhite and blue swirling raindrop particles |
| Blazing | x52 |
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The crop emits particles similar to the flaming mutation |
| Shadowbound | x70 |
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TBC |
| Leeched | x70 |
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TBC |
| Warped | x75 |
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The crop has purple particles swirling around it |
| Azure | x75 |
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The crop becomes translucent and emits blue shining particles |
| Terran | x75 |
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TBC |
| Graceful | x77 |
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The crop glows white, emitting a bright white light |
| Foxfire chakra | x90 |
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The crop emits intense red electric particles and flames |
| Corrupt foxfire chakra | x90 |
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The crop emits blue lightning with blue stars and flames |
| Brainrot | x100 |
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The crop emits colorful confetti, Man Face PNGs, and rainbow aura circles |
| Maelstorm | x100 |
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Parts of the crop appear neon blue and it emits blue particles, blue stars, and grey circles |
| Meteoric | x125 |
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The crop emits golden-yellow particles |
| Infernal | x180 |
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The crop appears light green and emits light green flames |
| Stormcharged | x180 |
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The crop turns blue and white and emits rapid wind particles, white raindrop particles, and light blue sparkles |
| Harmonised foxfire chakra | x190 |
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The crop emits a mix of red and blue lightning effects and stars, while also pulsing between warm and cold colors |
| Ascended chakra | x230 |
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The crop appears a glowing yellowing white, pulsing and emitting white and yellow light and star particles |
Admin Grow a Garden mutations
On top of standard and event-limited mutations, there are also a lot of different admin mutations. You get these by playing the game when Jandel and other special guests host 'admin abuse' events, where they trigger unique weather events that apply exclusive mutations to your crops.
Sometimes, the admin mutations from previous admin events come back as event or standard mutations, though sometimes the mutation's appearance and sheckles multiplier may change in the process.
Here are all of the admin Grow a Garden mutations:
| Mutation | Sheckles multiplier | How to obtain | Appearance |
| Wiltproof | x4 |
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The crop has highly saturated colors |
| Heavenly | x5 |
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The crop emits golden, shining stars of light |
| Brewed | x7 |
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The crop emits green smoke, floating square particles, and droplets |
| Boil | x15 |
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The crop emits a white steam effect and drips white particles |
| Gilded | x15 |
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The crop has a yellow outline and emits yellow star particles |
| Moonbled | x25 |
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The crop appears pale gray and emits a gray mist |
| Volcanic | x25 |
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The crop glows neon red |
| Oilboil | x30 |
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The crop emits smoke and gray droplets |
| Subzero | x40 |
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The crop appears light blue and emits snowflakes and a blue haze |
| Severed | x40 |
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Similar to the sliced mutation, the crop appears to have parts that are separated |
| Junkshock | x45 |
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The crop has lime and yellow bolts circling around it, glowing and emitting smoke effects |
| Batty | x45 |
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The crop emits black, bat-shaped particles |
| Blitzshock | x50 |
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The crop has a blue tint with a neon shine, emitting yellow and blue electric particles and a blue cloud puff |
| Lightcycle | x50 |
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The crop alternates between green, yellow, and red |
| Sliced | x50 |
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The crop appears to have different parts sliced up and shifted around |
| Enchanted | x50 |
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TBC |
| Radioactive | x55 |
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The crop appears neon green in color |
| Infected | x75 |
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The crop appears completely green and emits small green particles |
| Glitched | x85 |
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The crop appears semi-transparent and emits glitch particles |
| Slashbound | x95 |
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The crop appears to have different parts sliced up and shifted around, similar to the sliced mutation |
| Blackout | x95 |
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The crop appears fully black and emits gray particles |
| Alienlike | x100 |
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The crop appears cyan and emits cyan particles. Additionally, parts of the crop can be partially or fully transparent |
| Beanbound | x100 |
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The crop appears a bright shad of neon green |
| Plagued | x102 |
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The crop emits a green mist and contagious particles |
| Touchdown | x105 |
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Red and orange sparkles spray from the bottom of the crop |
| Galactic | x120 |
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The crop appears light purple or pink in color with some neon parts, and it emits pink sparkles |
| Biohazard | x157 |
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TBC |
| Contagion | x205 |
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TBC |
| Astral | x365 |
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The crop appears yellow and emits pink stars |
| Glacial | TBC |
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TBC |
What's the best Grow a Garden mutation?
Currently, the best standard Grow a Garden mutation are cosmic and abyssal, which both offer a massive x240 sheckles modifier. In order to get the cosmic mutation, a crop needs to have both the aurora and celestial mutations. In order to get the abyssal mutation, the crop needs to get both the voidtouched and eclipsed mutations.
The best limited Grow a Garden mutation is ascended chakra, offering a x230 sheckles multiplier. In order to get this mutation you need to combine the harmonised chakra and harmonised foxfire chakra mutations.
The best admin Grow a Garden mutation is astral, which offers an incredibly x365 sheckles multiplier. You get it by combining both the cosmic and galactic mutations.
What's Grow a Garden's max mutation multiplier?
As mentioned above, you can have more than one mutation on a crop, which pushes its value even higher. However, some mutations can't exist together (for example, a crop can't be both golden and rainbow, paradisial removes verdant and sundried, cooked removes burnt, etc). The price of a crop is decided by its total crop value multiplied by its mutation multiplier.
According to the wiki, the current max mutation multiplier in Grow a Garden is x201,050, achieved through the following combination of the 60 most valuable mutations:
- Rainbow + Desolate + Choc + Bloodlit + Blackout + Chakra + Luminous + Ghostly + Umbral + Azure + Flamming + Glimmering + Lightcycle + Subzero + Gilded + Touchdown + Junkshock + AncientAmber + Contagion + Ascended Chakra + Alienlike + FoxfireChakra + Slashbound + Moonbled + Jackpot + Beanbound + Graceful + Abyssal + Astral + Ceramic + Maelstorm + Necrotic + Shadowbound + Celestial + Warped + Twisted + Gloom + Fortune + Gourmet + OilBoil + Enchanted + Infernal + Friendbound + Spooky + Paradisal + Cloudtouched + Brainrot + HoneyGlazed + Frozen + Corrupt + Tranquil + Enlightened + Sandy + Sauce + Moonlit + Gnomed + Fall + Stormcharged + Pollinated + Heavenly + Pasta + Disco + Plasma + Dawnbound + Cracked +Wiltproof + Glitched + Blitzshock
Keep in mind that the max mutation multiplier can change at any time as new weather events and mutations arrive in the game.
