The Best Way to Grow Blue Roses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Blue roses are the most difficult hybrid flowers to obtain in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, as they can only be consistently bred from special red roses with a particular genetic makeup. Of course, it is not possible to know the genetics of a special red rose in ACNH simply by looking it, and players that do not follow specific steps will find it quite challenging to breed blue roses with any reliability. However, fans that adhere to exactly what is outlined in this guide will be able to produce special red roses that have a 25% chance of spawning a blue rose when bred.

Before getting into the best method for growing blue roses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it is worth mentioning that this guide will not cover the basics of cross-breeding or go into any technical details about genetics. As such, new players are advised to reference an ACNH flower breeding guide before attempting to grow blue roses for themselves.

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Additionally, it is very important to note that players must immediately discard any flowers that spawn during this process if they will not be used in a latter step. For example, the first step to growing blue roses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is to breed white rose seeds to grow purple roses, and players should promptly discard any non-purple roses that spawn during this step.

With all of this said, here are the steps that Animal Crossing: New Horizons players must take in order to grow the special red roses that are best for breeding blue roses:

• Step 1: Breed white rose seeds to grow purple roses.
• Step 2: Breed the purple roses from Step 1 with yellow rose seeds to grow white roses.
• Step 3: Breed the purple roses from Step 1 with the white roses from Step 2 to grow new purple roses.
• Step 4: Breed the new purple roses from Step 3 with yellow rose seeds to test if they are good or bad. Bad purple roses will spawn white roses 100% of the time. Good purple roses will spawn both yellow roses and white roses.
• Step 5: Breed the good purple roses from Step 4 to grow special white roses.
• Step 6: Breed red rose seeds to grow black roses.
• Step 7: Breed the black roses from Step 6 with the special white roses from Step 5 to grow hybrid red roses.
• Step 8: Breed the hybrid red roses from Step 7 with the special white roses from Step 5 to grow orange roses.
• Step 9: Breed the orange roses from Step 8 with the special white roses from Step 5 to grow special red roses.
• Step 10: Breed the special red roses from Step 9 to grow blue roses. Blue roses will spawn 25% of the time.

Quite clearly, this is a very involved process, and players that want to grow blue roses in ACNH will need to work methodically and exercise a great deal of patience, especially if they will not be time travelling. However, this may still be preferable to the alternative, which is trying to breed blue roses from parent flowers that have a very low chance of ever spawning them.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.

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