Grow a Garden mutations – best...

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What are the best Grow a Garden mutations? Whether you want to build a garden that’s perfect to show off to friends, or one that’s designed to just make money, there are Grow a Garden mutations you’ll want, others you’ll want to avoid, and you’ll need to know the effects one mutation might have when paired with another.

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Grow a Garden mutations: Gold Coconuts growing on a tree.

The best Grow a Garden mutations

In terms of a single value increase, Celestial is the best Grow a Garden mutation. This increases the afflicted crop’s sale price 120x.

As you can see from the table below, there are three mutations that grant an even bigger bonus. Disco, Dawnbound, and Voidtouched are dev/mod-triggered events, so you are unlikely to ever reap those rewards.

All Grow a Garden Mutations

Here is every possible Grow a Garden mutation, how they happen, and how much they multiply the base price of an afflicted crop:

Mutation Value Multiplier Source
Overgrown N/A (higher average weight) Completely random
Wet 2x Chance while in Thunderstorm or Rain weather
Chilled 2x Chance while growing in Frost weather or via Polar Bear pet effect
Chocolate 2x Easter Event
Moonlit 2x Random while growing at night
Pollinated 3x Swarm event
Bloodlit 4x Random while growing during Blood Moon weather
Burnt 4x Triggered by owning the Cooked Owl
Cooked 25x Triggered by owning the Cooked Owl
Honey Glazed 5x Honey Sprinkler
Plasma 5x Lazer event
Frozen 10x Wet + Chill weather effects
Golden 20x 1% chance while growing or via Dragonfly pet effect
Zombified 25x Chicken Zombie pet effect
Heavenly 5x Floating Jandel event
Molten 25x Volcano event
Rainbow 50x 0.1% chance while growing
Ripe 1x Applied to Sugar Apples
Shocked 100x Lightning strike
Celestial 120x Meteor strike
Disco 125x Mod/Developer event trigger
Voidtouched 135x Mod/Developer event trigger
Dawnbound 150x Sungod event
Sundried 85x Heat Wave weather
Windstruck 2x Gale or Windy weather
Twisted 5x Tornado weather
Verdant 4x Scarlet Macaw pet
Pardisal 18x Sundried + Verdant
Aurora 90x Aurora Borealis event
Drenched 5x Tropical Rain event
Sandy 3x Sandstorm weather
Amber TBD Raptor pet
Windstruck TBD Pterodactyl pet
Twisted TBD Pterodactyl pet

What are mutations in Grow a Garden?

Grow a Garden mutations alter the look and value of a crop. This rare event then increases the sell value of the affected crop.

Grow a Garden functions with a simple gameplay loop: buy seeds, grow plants, sell their fruits and crops, and use the cash to buy more expensive seeds.

You repeat this process until you’re able to buy and afford seeds that produce taller plants to create a self-sustaining jungle that keeps growing while you’re offline, giving you more to sell whenever you come back to buy new seeds.

An image showing how the weight of a Grow a Garden crop can affect its sale price without a mutation.

Part of that process can be sped up by focusing on Grow a Garden mutations. Each crop has a base price. This is the price the shopkeeper will give you for each crop. Though size matters, as in a heavier tomato will fetch a little more cash than a small tomato, the best way to inflate the price of a crop is to mutate it.

Crop mutations can happen randomly, as in the case of Rainbow or Golden mutations, but you can have a little more control over the better mutations by simply being cautious with the seeds you plant.

While most seeds will produce fruits endlessly until you dig them up, others are single-use, requiring you to buy new seeds after each harvest. This can get needlessly expensive if you don’t time things well.

By only planting these types of seeds during a powerful mutation weather event, like the Blood Moon or Thunderstorm, you’ll boost your chances of getting Blood Lit or Shocked crops worth 25-100x more money. Suddenly, that expensive Cacao seed makes sense.

What are Grow a Garden pet mutations?

Pet mutations, added in Pet Mutation update on July 12, 2025, work in a similar fashion to crop mutations. Rather than boosting the value of your pet, they can buff or change that pet’s passive effect. This is on top of giving it a cool new visual flair.

Here are the pet mutations available in Grow a Garden:

Mutation Effect Chance
Golden Boosts the pet’s passive ability 6.43%
Shocked Pet acts like a lightning rod during Thunderstorms 3.22%
Rainbow Boosts the pet’s passive ability more than Golden 3.22%
Shiny Affected pet gets 15% more XP per second 32.15%
Frozen Can apply Frozen mutation to nearby fruits 9.65%
Inverted Affected pet gets 30% more XP per second 16.08%
Mega Increases in size, gaining more XP per second at the cost of higher hunger 6.43%
Tiny Decreases in size. Pet gains slightly more XP per second but is less hungry 6.43%
Iron Skin Has a good chance of recoving stolen fruit 3.22%
Radiant Speeds up a nearby plant’s growth by 24 hours every 20-30 minutes 3.22%
Ascended Great chance of applying Dawnbound mutation to a nearby plant every 5-6 hours. 0.32%

A mutated Grow a Garden crop with a visible rainbow effect.

How do I know if my Grow a Garden crop is mutated?

There are several ways to know whether or not a Grow a Garden crop is mutated. With event-specific mutations, you’ll often see a server notification appear at the top of the screen, as is the case with the Bloodlit mutation.

You can also see whether or not a Grow a Garden plant is mutated by hovering your mouse or reticle over the specific crop. This can be hard to do with smaller ones, but it’s an option.

Most mutation effects are visual, too. In the case of Bloodlit, you’ll notice a red mist at the base of the crop (in the case of something like bamboo), or a more consuming red mist in the case of an individual fruit or small vegetable.

Once picked, you should also note a crop’s mutation via its name in your inventory.

If you’re looking to make money from your crops, check out our Grow a Garden value list for all the details.

Can Grow a Garden mutations stack?

Yes, crops can become afflicted by multiple Grow a Garden mutations at once, combining the rewards. Some, like Wet and Chilled, fuse to become Frosted, but others, like Blootlit and Frosted, can theoretically happen at the same time, multiplying the value of a crop even further.

Can you reroll or add a Grow a Garden mutation?

Unlike a game like Fisch, which lets you pay a small in-game fee to reroll a mutation on an item in your inventory, there’s no way to mutate your own crops in Grow a Garden just yet.

Are there any bad Grow a Garden mutations?

Nope. No mutation in Grow a Garden will decrease the value of a crop. They can’t rot, wilt, wither, or fail, so there’s no way to make less than the base price on a crop, fruit, vegetable, or flower.

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For more Grow a Garden help, check out our detailed Grow a Garden seeds tiers list and Grow a Garden pet tier list. They’ll help you make more money than ever in the game. We also have a recommendation for the best Grow a Garden stock tracker discord if you’re looking to stay on top of all the available crops.