Breeding

Breeding is the process by which the player pollinates plants in order to produce seeds. When a plant is mature, it produces pollen which can be used to cause any mature plant to begin producing seeds. Select the plant and drag its pollen over either itself or another mature plant, then release. A plant can only be pollinated once and will produce a random number of seeds before becoming depleted.

Self-pollination will result in seeds that are clones of the original plant. Since plants can only breed once, this is crucial for keeping plants with useful traits for future breeding.

Breeding two plants with different flowers or foliage can produce new varieties of plants. The foliage that grows from the resulting seeds depends only upon the foliage of the parent plants, while the flowers of the seeds depends upon the flowers of the parents. The process is predictable, since a certain combination will always have the same result.


 * A table showing the results of breeding any combination of foliage types can be found here.
 * A table showing the results of breeding any combination of flower types can be found here.