Garden Horizons Mutations Multiplier & Weather Guide

Here’s the complete guide to Garden Horizons mutations and their multipliers, along with a weather guide. Find out which mutation offers the highest multiplier rate to hugely increase your gaming income.

Garden Horizons Mutations, Multipliers and Traits

Mutations and traits are the main way to increase the value of fruit in Garden Horizons. Mutations change appearance and add a bonus value, while traits represent growth stages. If you want to grow shillings efficiently, you need to understand how both systems stack up.

Most mutations are related to weather events, which rotate every time the seed shop replenishes (every 5 minutes). Each plant has its own chance of mutating, so filling your garden doesn’t increase the chances per plant; only increases total rolls.

Time-based mutations

• Soaked – 1.2×
  • Applied during rainy weather.
• Foggy – 1.2×
  • Applied during foggy weather.
• Refrigerated – 1.5×
  • Applied during snowy weather.
• Flooded: 1.75×
  • Applied during rainy weather.
• Snowy – 2.0×
  • Applied during snowy weather.
• Sand – 2.5×
  • Applied during sand storms.
• Freeze – 3.5×
  • Applied during snowy weather.
• Shocked – 4.5×
  • Applied during thunderstorms.
• Muddy – 5.0×
  • Applied during muddy weather.
• Bewitched – 6.5×
  • Applied during stellar time.
  • Currently the highest multiplier in the game.

Random special mutations

• Silver – 2.0×
• Gold – 5.0×
• Mossy – 3.5×
  • Source currently unclear (to be defined).

Garden Horizons Fruit Characteristics (Growth Stages)

Traits are separated by mutations and apply automatically as the fruit grows.

• Unripe – up to 1.9×
• Matured – up to 2.9×
• Lush – 3.0×

Traits only progress while you are in the game. Faster growing plants reach lush greenery faster. You can collect at any time, but waiting Lush gives maximum profit.

How does the multiplier stack work in Garden Horizons?

• Mutation stack additively
• The trait multiplier applies multiplicatively
  • Example:
    • Lush (3.0×)
    • Bewitched (6.5×)
    • Muddy (5.0×)
  • Formula:
    • 3.0 × (6.5 + 5.0) × base price
    • If a carrot has a base price of 30, then 3.0 × 11.5 × 30 = 1,035 shillings.

That’s why stacking high mutations with Lush is the best strategy.

Garden Horizons weather types and durations

The weather changes with each seed shop update.

• Foggy
  • Appearance: Thick fog covers the entire map.
  • Effects: Possibility to apply Misty Mutation (1.2×) to random fruits.
• Rain
  • Appearance: Dark clouds form, rain falls, the music stops, and the sound of rain is played.
  • Effects:
    • +25% growth speed
    • Possibility to apply Flooded (1.75×) AND Soaked (1.2×) mutations
• Storm
  • Appearance: Heavy rain with sounds of thunder.
  • Effects:
    • +50% growth speed
    • Possibility to apply Shocked Mutation (4.5×)
• Snow
  • Appearance: Light fog with falling snowflakes.
  • Effects:
    • Possibility to apply Snowy (2.0×) AND Refrigerated (1.5×) mutations
• Sandstorm
  • Appearance: A sandstorm takes over the map.
  • Effects:
    • +20% growth speed
    • Possibility to apply Sandy Mutation (2.5×)
• Stars at sunset
  • Appearance: Blue sky with shooting stars falling.
  • Effects:
    • Possibility to apply Starstruck Mutation (6.5×)

• Freeze – 4 min
• Aurora – 5 minutes
• Rain – 4 min
• Rain – 2 min
• Tornado – 6 minutes
• Thunderstorm – 5 min
• Snow (Christmas Event) – 3 min
• Heat wave – 4 min
• Fog – 3 min
• Mist – 3 minutes
• Cold – 4 min
• Mud – 2 min
• Mint – 2 minutes

Some weather conditions also affect the growth rate:

• Rain = +50% growth
• Drizzle = +20% growth
• Freezing = Growth only 10%.
• Tornado = Apply tornadonized mutation
• Thunderstorm = Apply the Shocked mutation
• Snow = Apply the Snowy or rare Freezy mutation
• Heat Wave = Apply Dry Mutation
• Mint = Apply the Mint mutation

Garden Horizons: The best mutations to target

For pure profit:

1. Bewitched (6.5×)
2. Gold (5.0×)
3. Muddy (5.0×)
4. Shocked (4.5×)

Always wait Lush (3×) before harvesting, if possible.

If you want maximum shillings, plant during high-value weather events and accumulate multiple mutations before harvest.

That’s all I have in this post about the Garden Horizons mutation multiplier and weather guide.

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