Other Resources (Flowers)
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Flower breeding can be a surprisingly complicated mechanic to master. The resources on this page will hopefully help with that.
Organization Resources
These resources are up-to-date for Apple Arcarde version 2.4 unless otherwise noted.
The following can help with figuring out the possible results from different setups:
- HKIA Flower Generator: An interactive website that can be used to assist you with flower breeding, color/pattern transfers, and organizing flower plots with accurate calculations.
The following are the regional flower patches organized as basic tables to assist with recording flower plots:
Merry Meadow plot map
Seaside Resort plot map
Spooky Swamp plot map
Rainbow Reef plot map
Gemstone Mountain plot map
Mount Hothead plot map
Greenhouse plot map
Cloud Island plot map
Icy Peak plot map
Flower checklist: all flowers + pattern types
Flower checklist: all flowers
Hybrid checklist: color/pattern combinations
An Excel version of the above plots can be obtained on the official Discord here.
Other resources available (currently only through the official Discord) include (links go to the Discord posts):
- Frédéric's Numbers spreadsheet: A Numbers spreadsheet flower planner and checklist by Discord user fblanc (Frédéric).
- cookie-chan's Flower Checklist: A Google Sheets flower checklist by Discord user cookie.chan (cookie-chan).
- kawaki's Flower Checklist: An image checklist by Discord user ileidi (kawaki).
Video Guides
These are YouTube videos from Discord-verified content creators:
- Nikki Island Adventure
- SproutsieSprout
- Fluff'isle
Example Layouts
Recommending effective layouts for flower breeding can be difficult because of the irregular shapes of flower patches, but the following are basic setup suggestions for patches in general. Most are suitable for any sort of breeding: mixes and transfers work with the same basic setups.
The most important thing to remember is that any two flowers touching a flower plot can be selected as the possible parents, unless it is entirely impossible for them to breed. Here are some other facts that should be considered:
- Clones of the same flower (that is, same flower color and flower type) will try to breed with each other.
- Seeds and young sprouts cannot breed; a flower must be at least in the "grown" stage to reproduce.
- Patterned flowers can breed with a lot more than solid-colored flowers can, so it is possible that newly-patterned flowers (from fertilization) could interfere with planned breeding pairs.
- Always use
Fertilizer when you can, unless in the Greenhouse, or else very few new flowers will spawn.
- Only use Fertilizer in the Greenhouse if trying to give currently planted solid-colored flowers their default pattern.
- Only use
- The chances of getting certain results, particularly with pattern transfers and hybridization, are very low.
- A flower's default color(s) cannot be bred into it in any way.
Paired Chains
A side-by-side pair has the most spaces for possible crossbred seeds of any pair arrangement. If you want to keep breeding pairs separated, rows (or columns, if arranged vertically) should be two spaces apart, while the plant pairs in the row are one space apart from other pairs. The three spaces between two pairs can also produce crossbreeds. These can be used to form a repeating pattern of the same pair or to have varying pairs.
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| Flower Patch on Left Side of Meadow Fields
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Continuous Line
Rather than a spaced line, you may want to use a continuous line. Even if it results in possibly unwanted pairs, it may increase seed propagation and therefore still help with crossbreeding efforts. Anything unwanted can always go into the 
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If you have 3 or more colors that you want to crossbreed together in different combinations, this also works fine as a continuous line. Seeds could be clones of the parents or crossbreeds.
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If you are trying to get hybrids, multiple lines with patterned flowers of the same type are also an option. The lines should be arranged so that no flowers with the same primary color are touching.
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Merry-Go-Round
A "merry-go-round" can have multiple flowers in a perimeter set to interact with the central flower. The benefit is that having more fertilized flowers near the empty plots increases the chance of new spawns, which allows for more chances at crossbreeding. The downside is that more flowers means more alternative parents for the seeds, and an incorrect setup could make the perimeter flowers breed with each other instead of the central flower. However, the increase in crossbreeding opportunities can help produce useful results if the merry-go-round is arranged correctly.
Because the main benefit is the increased spawn rate, it is not recommended to use a merry-go-round in the Greenhouse. In the Greenhouse, it takes up too much valuable space and has no effect on breeding chances.
For the most effective setups, perimeter flowers should not be able to breed with each other if you want them to breed only with the central flower. Flowers need to be kept separate if they are any of the following:
- Are the same type and same color.
- Are the same type and mixable colors.
- Are the same type and both are patterned.
- Are different types and at least one is patterned.
If using only flowers that can spawn, you would need at least 5 different flowers that won't crossbreed with each other. The central flower would be a patterned flower of a different type.
- For pattern transfers, where all flowers have to be the same color, that means 5 different flower types.
- For color transfers, where flower color doesn't matter, that means that the 5 different flowers can be the same type as long as none of them can mix (like the "tint" colors that result from breeding the "bright" colors with white).
Out-of-season event flowers that are not patterned can work as "filler" in the perimeter, but they do still try to breed with flowers that would be compatible during the event. The spawn rates do get boosted, and the success rates can be slightly higher than if no flower was placed at all; however, using a variety of non-event flowers is more efficient.
A perimeter of matching-color "filler" event flowers can be used to encourage duplication of a patterned flower in the center, including hybrid patterns. (For example, breeding a red & cloud ombre bellbutton with a perimeter of red roses has a chance of duplicating the red & cloud ombre bellbutton but would mostly get red bellbuttons.)
A "reverse" merry-go-round, where patterned out-of-season event flowers in the perimeter target a central flower that can spawn, is also an option.
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Spaced Checkerboard
A spaced checkerboard is, at its core, an emptier version of a merry-go-round. For regular setups, this gives the perimeter flowers more of a chance to breed with the central flower instead of another perimeter flower. For hybrid setups, this allows for every space to have a possible hybrid pairing as long as the same patterned flower is not placed next to itself.
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Extremes
