All Grow a Garden Mutations — Full List & How They Work
Mutations are the single biggest lever on a crop’s Sheckle value — a plant that sells for 40 base can turn into a six-figure trade once the right combination lands on it. Below is the complete list of mutations currently in Grow a Garden, along with an actual explanation of how the math behind them works, not just a table of numbers.
What Mutations Actually Do
Every plant you harvest has a base Sheckle value tied to its rarity, and mutations sit on top of that as a multiplier. Think of a mutation as a random visual and mechanical change your fruit can pick up while it’s growing — a Wet fruit looks slightly glossy, a Frozen one is coated in ice, a Rainbow one shifts color. Purely cosmetic on the surface, but each one carries a fixed multiplier that gets applied to the plant’s final sale price.
The multiplier isn’t random per-fruit — every mutation has a set value (shown in the list below), and that number stays consistent no matter which plant it lands on. A Gold mutation is always worth ×20, whether it’s sitting on a Carrot or a Watermelon. What changes is the base value it’s multiplying against, which is why the same mutation can be worth 40 Sheckles on one crop and 4 million on another.
How Mutation Stacking Works
This is the part most new players get wrong. When multiple mutations land on the same fruit, their multipliers don’t multiply against each other — they add together first, and that combined total is what multiplies the base value. A fruit with Gold (×20) and Rainbow (×50) stacked doesn’t become ×1000; it becomes roughly ×70 once you account for how the game combines them with weight.
This is exactly why a heavy fruit with two or three mid-tier mutations can often out-earn a small fruit with one massive mutation — weight and stacking both pull real weight (pun intended) in the final number.
Mutation Categories
Not all 167 mutations are obtained the same way. Roughly speaking, they fall into a few buckets:
Mutations like Wet, Chilled, Frozen, and Shocked appear naturally during in-game weather events (rain, cold snaps, thunderstorms). These are the most common mutations and the easiest starting point for stacking.
Higher-value mutations such as Disco, Celestial, and Voidtouched are tied to specific admin-triggered or seasonal events (Disco Event, Black Hole Event, and similar). You can’t farm these on demand — you have to be online when the event fires.
Certain pets can apply specific mutations passively while active in your garden — for example, pets that periodically mutate nearby fruit. This is the most reliable way to farm a specific mutation consistently.
Some of the highest multipliers in the list (Astral, Stormbound, Cosmic) only appear when several base conditions line up at once, which is part of why they sit at the top of the value table.
Full Mutation List (167 Mutations)
Search or sort the full list below — every mutation currently supported in the calculator, with its exact multiplier.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do mutations stack in Grow a Garden?
Mutation multipliers add together rather than multiply against each other, and that combined total multiplies the plant’s base value alongside its weight. Two mutations worth 20x and 50x combine into roughly a 70x boost, not 1000x.
What’s the highest-value mutation right now?
Astral currently sits at the top of the multiplier list at ×365, followed closely by Stormbound at ×270 and Cosmic/Abyssal at ×240. These are also among the hardest to obtain.
Can a plant have more than one mutation at once?
Yes — plants can carry several mutations simultaneously, and the calculator above automatically sums every mutation you select before applying it to the base value.
Do all mutations work on every plant?
Most mutations are universal, but a handful are tied to specific plant categories or events, so double-check in-game if a mutation isn’t landing on a particular crop.