Grow a Garden Mutations List (2026): All Multipliers

The Grow a Garden mutations list below covers more than 150 crop mutations, from Wet at 2x up to Astral at 365x, with the sell-value multiplier, the trigger, and the fusion recipe for each one. Short version: the best mutation you can realistically farm is a 240x fusion (Cosmic or Abyssal), the best single weather mutation is Celestial at 120x, and mutations stack additively inside a formula, not by multiplying everything together. That last point is where most guides go wrong, so it gets its own section.

Jump to what you need: the quick-reference table, the stacking math, then the full tables by category (weather, pets, fusions, events, admin).

Which Grow a Garden Mutations Matter Most? (Quick Reference)

If you only read one table, read this one. These are the mutations that decide most of your crop value in practice.

Mutation	Multiplier	How you get it	Realistic to farm?
Gold	20x	About 1% chance as a crop grows; Dragonfly pet, Gold fertilizer	Yes
Rainbow	50x	About 0.1% chance as a crop grows; Rainbow fertilizer	Rare luck
Sundried	85x	Heatwave or solar flare	Yes, when the weather rolls
Aurora	90x	Aurora borealis weather	Yes, when the weather rolls
Shocked	100x	Lightning strike in a thunderstorm	Yes, the staple
Celestial	120x	Meteor shower	Yes, the best single weather pick
Voidtouched	135x	Black hole event	Event-dependent
Dawnbound	150x	Sun God event	Event-dependent
Ascended Chakra	230x	Fusion of two Harmonised Chakra mutations	Long pet project
Cosmic	240x	Celestial + Aurora on one crop	Yes, with luck and timing
Abyssal	240x	Voidtouched + Eclipsed on one crop	Event-dependent
Astral	365x	Cosmic + Galactic	No, needs an admin event

How Do Mutations Stack? The Formula Most Guides Get Wrong

Plenty of calculator sites tell you to multiply every mutation together. The community wiki formula works differently, and it matters the moment a crop carries three or more mutations.

Total multiplier = Variant x (1 + sum of environmental multipliers – number of environmental mutations)

Here, the variant is the crop’s growth type (normal, Gold, or Rainbow). Environmental mutations are everything else: weather, pet effects, sprays, fusions. Each environmental mutation adds its multiplier minus one, so Wet contributes +1 and Shocked contributes +99. The variant then multiplies the whole bracket.

Crop setup	Math	Result
Rainbow + Shocked	50 x (1 + 100 – 1)	5,000x
Rainbow + Shocked + Celestial	50 x (1 + 220 – 2)	10,950x
Gold + Wet + Chilled (separate)	20 x (1 + 4 – 2)	60x
Gold + Frozen (Wet and Chilled fused)	20 x (1 + 10 – 1)	200x
What a “multiply everything” calculator claims for the Rainbow + Shocked + Celestial crop	50 x 100 x 120	600,000x (wrong)

With one environmental mutation, both methods agree, which is why the “Rainbow plus Shocked equals 5,000x” example shows up everywhere. The gap only appears with two or more. That’s the difference between a crop worth roughly 11,000x and one a bad calculator says is worth 600,000x.

The Wet and Chilled row shows why fused mutations are worth chasing. Two 2x mutations only add up to 3x on their own, but once they fuse into Frozen the crop jumps to 10x.

Stacking rules that catch people out:

• A crop holds one variant only. Gold and Rainbow cannot coexist.
• Fusions replace their ingredients. Frozen consumes Wet and Chilled; Paradisal consumes Verdant and Sundried.
• Some mutations push others out. Drenched replaces Wet, and Cooked removes Burnt.
• The Butterfly pet can roll Rainbow only on a crop with five or more mutations, and it wipes the existing ones. Run the numbers first. Five mutations such as Shocked, Celestial, Wet, Moonlit and Bloodlit give 1 + 229 – 5 = 225x, which beats a bare 50x Rainbow.
• Crop size is a separate multiplier. Calculator sites model weight as roughly squared, so a heavy crop with modest mutations can still out-earn a small crop with great ones.

The wiki also tracks a theoretical ceiling. As of its last update, the maximum mutation multiplier was listed at 201,050x, built from dozens of different mutations on one Rainbow crop. Treat it as a curiosity: it changes every time a new mutation arrives.

Weather and Environment Mutations (Everyday Farming)

These come from the server-wide weather cycles that roll through every few minutes. They’re the backbone of mutation farming because nobody has to hold a rare pet or a limited item to get them.

Mutation	Multiplier	Trigger
Wet	2x	Rain and thunderstorms; also sprinklers and a Wet spray
Chilled	2x	Frost weather; Polar Bear pet
Windstruck	2x	Windy or gale weather; Pterodactyl pet
Moonlit	2x	Night, limited to roughly six plants every two minutes
Sandy	3x	Sandstorm
Moist	3x	Gentle drizzle
Cracked	4x	Earthquake; Badger pet
Fall	4x	Fall bloom weather; Grizzly Bear pet
Bloodlit	5x	Blood moon (older guides list 4x); Kappa pet on Wet crops
Twisted	5x	Tornado; Pterodactyl pet
Drenched	5x	Tropical rain, replacing Wet
Acidic	15x	Acid rain
Eclipsed	20x	Solar eclipse
Supernatural	37x	Rare cosmic occurrence; certain pets
Riptide	80x	Storm surge
Sundried	85x	Heatwave or solar flare; a Tanning Mirror redirects it onto chosen crops
Aurora	90x	Aurora borealis
Shocked	100x	Lightning strike in a thunderstorm; Shocked spray
Celestial	120x	Meteor shower
Meteoric	125x	Meteor strike; Lobster Thermidor pet
Voidtouched	135x	Black hole event; Space Squirrel pet
Dawnbound	150x	Sun God event, when four players hold sunflowers in front of it

The practical pattern: thunderstorms are frequent enough that Shocked is the mutation most farms are built around, and a Lightning Rod near your best crops is how players steer strikes onto them. Meteor showers are rarer but pay 20% more. Both are random, so preparation beats reaction. Have your best multi-harvest plants in the ground before the weather shows up, not after.

Growth Variants: Silver, Gold and Rainbow

Variants sit outside the additive bracket and multiply it, so they are the biggest lever on any crop.

Variant	Multiplier	How you get it
Silver	5x	Silver fertilizer; Cockatrice and silver Dragonfly pets (limited)
Gold	20x	About 1% natural chance; Dragonfly, Golden Bee and Cockatrice pets; Gold fertilizer; Super Seed
Rainbow	50x	About 0.1% natural chance; Rainbow fertilizer; Super Seed; rainbow weather; Butterfly pet (five or more mutations, wipes them)

Pet and Gear Mutations: What Applies What

Pets are the most reliable way to get mutations that weather rarely gives you. Pairing the right pets matters more than owning the most expensive one, and the pets tier list is a good place to see which of these abilities are worth building around.

Pet	Mutations it applies
Dragonfly, Golden Bee	Gold (20x)
Butterfly	Rainbow (50x), under the five-mutation rule above
Cockatrice	Toxic (15x), Gold, Silver
Bee family (Bee, Honey Bee, Petal Bee, Queen Bee, Wasp, Tarantula Hawk)	Pollinated (3x)
Bear Bee	HoneyGlazed (5x)
Polar Bear, Sushi Bear	Chilled (2x), Frozen (10x)
Chicken Zombie	Zombified (25x)
Scarlet Macaw	Verdant (5x)
Hyacinth Macaw	Cloudtouched (5x)
Pterodactyl	Windstruck (2x), Twisted (5x), Tempestuous (12x)
Raiju	Static (8x)
Phoenix	Flaming (25x)
Griffin	Cyclonic (50x)
Kitsune	Chakra (15x), Foxfire Chakra (90x)
Corrupted Kitsune	Corrupt Chakra (15x), Corrupt Foxfire Chakra (90x)
Mandrake	Rot (8x)
Spriggan	Bloom (8x)
Dark Spriggan	Blight (8x)
Ghostly Dark Spriggan	Necrotic (8x)
Ghost Bear	Spooky (8x)
Hex Serpent	Pestilent (8x), Vamp (3x)
Trapdoor Spider	Webbed (8x)
Raptor	Amber (10x)
Cooked Owl	Cooked (10x), Burnt (4x)
Gnome	Gnomed (15x)
Cheetah	Wildfast (5x)
Sheckling	Coin (3x)
Spaghetti Sloth	Sauce, Meatball, Pasta (3x each)
Golden Goose	Fortune (50x)
Luminous Sprite	Luminous (50x)
Glimmering Sprite	Glimmering (2x)
Mizuchi	Azure (75x)
Apple Gazelle	Warped (75x)
Hydra	Terran (75x)
Swan	Graceful (77x)
Woody	Leeched (70x)
Glass Dog, Glass Cat	Glossy (30x)
Sapphire Marrow	Crystalized (25x)
Tanchozuru	Tranquil (20x)
Corrupted Kodama	Corrupt (20x)
Lobster Thermidor	Molten (25x), Meteoric (125x)
Lemon Lion	Brainrot (100x)
Rhino	Mirage (25x)
Hippo	Monsoon (50x)
Fortune Squirrel	Jackpot (15x)
Junkbot	Oil (15x)
Disco Bee	Disco (125x)
Peach Wasp	Plasma (5x)
Giraffe	Arid (6x)
Tanuki	Moonlit (2x), Chilled (2x), Choc (2x)

The Golden Goose deserves a mention because Fortune only triggers when you sell a golden egg crop it produced, which makes it more of a trading-value play than a daily farming tool. The weeping branch crop (not a pet) chains Wilted (10x), Withered (20x) and Desolate (50x).

Gear that applies mutations:

• Mutation sprays exist for Wet, Windstruck, Chilled, Pollinated, Verdant, Shocked, Disco, Burnt, Amber, Bloom, Cloudtouched, HoneyGlazed, Choc, Glimmering and Luminous.
• Sprinklers add their own: Honey (HoneyGlazed), Lush (Lush, 3x), Geode (Geode, 5x), Chocolate (Choc), and Flower Froster (Frozen).
• Friendship Pots can produce Friendbound (70x). More pots raise the chance, and the mutation can also appear when you have five connections in a server.
• Fertilizers and the Super Seed push Gold, Silver or Rainbow.

Fused Mutations and Their Recipes

A fusion happens when a crop collects the right ingredient mutations. These are where the highest non-admin multipliers live, so the recipe column is worth bookmarking.

Fusion	Multiplier	Recipe
Clay	5x	Wet or Drenched + Sandy
Frozen	10x	Wet or Drenched + Chilled
Tempestuous	12x	Windstruck + Twisted
Spaghetti	15x	Sauce + Meatball + Pasta
Sizzled	18x	Cooked + Fried
Old Amber	20x	Amber, after about a day unharvested
Gloom	30x	Bloom + Rot
Umbral	30x	Blight + Pestilent
Oilboil	30x	Oil + Boil
Ceramic	32x	Clay, then Burnt, Fried, Cooked, Molten, Sundried, Meteoric or Plasma
Sun Scorched	32x	Clay + Sundried, Fried, Burnt, Molten or Cooked
Harmonised Chakra	35x	Chakra + Corrupt Chakra
Gourmet	37x	Aromatic + Spaghetti + Sizzled
Corrosive	40x	Acidic + Toxic
Ancient Amber	50x	Old Amber, after about two more days
Blazing	52x	Molten + Flaming
Shadowbound	70x	Gloom + Umbral
Slashbound	95x	Sliced + Severed
Paradisal	100x	Verdant + Sundried (replaces both)
Maelstorm	100x	Tempestuous + Cyclonic
Plagued	102x	Infected + Zombified
Biohazard	157x	Radioactive + Plagued
Infernal	180x	Meteoric + Blazing
Stormcharged	180x	Static + Shocked + Tempestuous
Harmonised Foxfire Chakra	190x	Foxfire Chakra + Corrupt Foxfire Chakra
Contagion	205x	Corrosive + Biohazard
Ascended Chakra	230x	Harmonised Chakra + Harmonised Foxfire Chakra
Cosmic	240x	Celestial + Aurora
Abyssal	240x	Voidtouched + Eclipsed
Astral	365x	Cosmic + Galactic

Two notes from comparing sources. Stormcharged is listed at 180x on the most recent list I could verify, but a few sites show 220x, so check the in-game crop tooltip. And Paradisal is 100x now; older guides still quote 18x from before it was reworked.

Event and Limited-Time Mutations

Event mutations come and go. Some return in later seasons with different multipliers, so anything tied to a closed event should be treated as a collectible, not a farming target.

Mutation	Multiplier	Source
Glimmering	2x	Fairy Event 2026: fairies arrive every hour and tag crops; also sprays and the Glimmering Sprite
Choc	2x	Chocolate sprinkler (Easter); Tanuki pet
Vamp	3x	Bat attack weather; Dracuvine plant in the Ghoul Garden mutates a nearby fruit every five minutes
Aromatic	3x	Cooking storm
Lush	3x	Lush sprinkler
Twilight	4x	Safari dusk
Nocturnal	4x	Safari night
Burnt	4x	Armageddon; Burnt spray; Cooked Owl
Tempered	6x	Smithing fever
Arid	6x	Safari drought; Giraffe pet
Fried	8x	Fried chicken event
Spooky	8x	Halloween; Ghost Bear pet
Ghostly	25x	Halloween; Great Pumpkin crop
Mirage	25x	Safari oasis; Rhino pet
Typhoon	30x	Safari storm
Stampede	50x	Safari stampede
Monsoon	50x	Safari typhoon; Hippo pet
Friendbound	70x	Friendship Pots
Leeched	70x	Vampire bat thirst; Woody pet
Warped	75x	Brainrot stampede; Apple Gazelle pet
Brainrot	100x	Brainrot portal; Lemon Lion pet

Admin Mutations

Admin mutations come from developer-triggered events. You can’t schedule them, and the only reliable plan is to be online when an admin session starts.

Mutation	Multiplier	Event
Wiltproof	4x	Drought
Heavenly	5x	Floating Jandel
Plasma	5x	Laser storm
Brewed	7x	Halloween cauldron fill
Boil	15x	Boil rain
Gilded	15x	Midas rain
Moonbled	25x	Marrow moon
Volcanic	25x	Eruption
Molten	25x	Volcano or Armageddon
Subzero	40x	Route runner / frozen ice king
Severed	40x	Offering event (needs a blueberry)
Junkshock	45x	Junkbot raid
Batty	45x	Fruit bat attack
Blitzshock	50x	Lightning storm
Lightcycle	50x	Stoplight
Sliced	50x	Chef Jandel
Enchanted	50x	Enchanting
Radioactive	55x	Radioactive carrot
Infected	75x	Zombie event
Glitched	85x	Dissonant event
Blackout	95x	Reaper scythe
Alienlike	100x	Alien invasion
Beanbound	100x	Bean aura
Touchdown	105x	Post dunk
Galactic	120x	Space travel
Disco	125x	Disco event, Disco Bee pet, or Disco spray

What Is the Best Mutation in Grow a Garden?

It depends on what “best” means to you, so here are the three honest answers.

Highest multiplier overall: Astral at 365x. It needs Galactic, which only appears during an admin space event, so most players will never farm it.

Best you can realistically build: Cosmic and Abyssal, both 240x. Cosmic is a Celestial plus Aurora crop, so it needs two separate weather events to land on the same plant. Abyssal needs Voidtouched and Eclipsed.

Best single mutation from ordinary weather: Celestial at 120x for rarity, Shocked at 100x for consistency. If you’re choosing a mutation to build a farm around, Shocked wins on frequency, and Celestial is the one to be ready for.

For long-term pet projects, the limited chakra chain tops out at Ascended Chakra (230x), but it takes four pet-applied mutations to get there.

How to Get More Mutations Without Wasting Your Best Crops

Mutation farming is mostly about timing and placement.

1. Know which mutation each weather event gives. Thunderstorm means Shocked, meteor shower means Celestial, heatwave means Sundried, aurora means Aurora. If you can’t name the trigger, you can’t prepare for it.
2. Plant before the weather, not during. Mutations land on crops that are already growing. Multi-harvest plants give you repeated chances on the same plant.
3. Place gear deliberately. A Lightning Rod sits near the crops you want struck, and a Tanning Mirror can redirect Sundried onto a specific plant.

1. Use pets for the mutations weather rarely gives. Dragonfly for Gold, a Kitsune line for the chakra chain, Polar Bear for Frozen.
2. Don’t let a Butterfly overwrite a good crop. See the five-mutation rule above.
3. Check the tooltip before selling. Hover over a harvested crop to see exactly which mutations it carries. A fused crop can be worth far more than it looks.

If you’d rather work out what a mutated crop or pet is worth in trades, a value calculator takes the guesswork out.

Crop Mutations vs Pet Mutations: Don’t Mix Them Up

Both systems use the word “mutation,” and mixing them up is a common source of bad advice.

Crop mutations (everything in the tables above) are multipliers on a harvested fruit. They’re temporary to that crop and stack with the formula.

Pet mutations are permanent traits on the animal itself, and they do not stack. A new roll overwrites the old one. The standard Pet Mutation Machine needs an Age 50 pet, charges 500 million Sheckles, and takes 60 minutes. Its pool includes crop-affecting results like Frozen, Windy, Shocked, Aurora and the very rare Ascended. If you’re building around a particular pet effect, the Pet Mutation Machine guide has the odds and the cost in full, and an Ascended pet is worth rolling for only once you can afford a few failed attempts.

Why Do Mutation Lists Disagree? Numbers I Couldn’t Confirm

Mutation data changes with every update, and many sites copy each other. These are the discrepancies I ran into while cross-checking, and how this list handles them.

Mutation	Disagreement	What this list uses
Ghostly	25x on one major list, 28-30x on several calculator sites	25x
Paradisal	100x now, 18x on older posts	100x
Bloodlit	5x on the newest list, 4x on older ones	5x
Stormcharged	180x vs 220x	180x
Goldsparkle	500x on a few calculator sites, absent from the lists I trust	Left out
Gold	25x on one calculator, 20x everywhere else	20x

If a multiplier looks off, trust the number in your game over any website, this one included. The multipliers here come from a list updated in December 2025 that cites the community wiki, cross-checked against other trackers. New 2026 additions are included where I could confirm them, such as Glimmering from the Fairy Event.

What Is Live Right Now (October 2026)

The Ghoul Garden Halloween update went live on October 17 and is the current event. Its confirmed mutation hook is the Dracuvine, which mutates a nearby fruit with Vamp every five minutes. The Black Cat quest also asks for crops with a “Haunted” mutation, but its multiplier hasn’t been published. The 2025 Halloween set (Spooky, Ghostly, Vamp) may return, and 2026 values are not yet verified.

The Fairy Event and its Glimmering mutation were scheduled to end October 17, so treat Glimmering as unavailable unless it returns. And because another update is scheduled for October 24, check the in-game shop and patch notes for new mutation sources before you plan a farm around anything above.