Advice on Blue Rose breeding

[flabbergasted]

I love breeding the flowers in these games! Whenever I get the blue roses it feels like winning the game.

BUT, I am not finding any conclusive strategies for breeding blue roses. Every time I search, I get a different plan. So I was wondering if anyone has and good advice from personal experience. How did you get them? Thanks in advance!

 

[Vextro]

Try to use this chart and only go for the flowers you need to get it! What I'm doing is, breeding for the black rose (red+red) and then breeding it with the yellow rose to get the other hybrid orange and then doing white+white roses to then get the purple rose, then put the other hybrid orange and purple roses to get the red, then keep planting them. I recommend getting LOTS of the roses you need to create as many hybrids to get TONS of red hybrids and keep watering them until you finally get the blue!

 

[serudesu]

And for me, usually, once I get those two blue roses going, even if it's a small batch, I make them breed with each other and it's a lot easier to get blue roses that way. It just takes a lot of time and 5 different people watering your breeding bed each day. x'D

 

[Feferily]

I can gift you one or two if that’d help! Though I think from your post that you want to breed them yourself! So I suppose I can come over and water your flowers if it’ll help!

 

[tajikey]

This should help:

ACNH Guide On Hybrids

I highly recommend bookmarking this thread, as it gets lost very quickly! Also, if you have any questions, feel free to reply and tag me (@Khaelis) in your post, or send me a DM/Conversation. I'll respond as soon as I am able. Hello, and welcome to my guide on hybrids for Animal Crossing...

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[Marshmallows]

I used the BackwardsN method and it worked out well. Not sure I did it 100% right, but I got blue roses.

https://i.redd.it/816dsgrtfnt41.png

From other info I gathered, this graphic is wrong in that the purple roses you should test are the second batch, not the first. I tested all of them before breeding with orange. Otherwise, it's an easy to follow guide.

 

[Dufontee]

This is what I did - if followed correctly it guaratees getting the right red roses that can breed blue roses.

1. Breed white and red roses from seed to get first generation hybrid red roses. Make sure to arrange them in columns like this, with path on either side (represented by P)

PWP
PRP
PWP
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This arrangement will guarantee that any red roses are hybrid red and not clones of the red roses from seed. Trash any non-red roses that are produced.

2. Breed the first generation hybrid red roses with yellow roses from seed to get second generation hybrid red roses. Use this arrangement (again, with P for path):

PYP
PRP
PYP​

This arrangement will guarantee that any red roses are the new hybrid reds and not clones.

3. Breed those second generation hybrid red roses together. These red roses have a small chance to breed blue roses. Make sure you lay down dirt path under the roses you are breeding and leave empty spots with grass so that it's easy to identify the children roses.

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4. Any red roses that result from the aforementioned red roses breeding can be bred together for a better chance at blue roses. Trash any other roses.

The most important thing is to make sure you keep each generation of red roses separate so that you don't mix them up.

 

[flabbergasted]

Thank you all so much for your help, I am definitely going to try a few of these plans. You are all awesome

 

[tajikey]

My blue rose came from two blacks, which came from two hybrid reds, which were the spawns of orange and purple roses. Once I got the single blue, I turned to cloning as opposed to spawning. I've now got 30+ blue roses...all because two flowers fell in love.

 

[ThePhantom]

I know you already got a lot different help already but I just wanted to throw this guide in here if you have some knowledge on genetics and Mendelian inheritance: Advanced Flower Genetics Guide

I followed this guaranteed blue rose guide and it worked! It took me forever because I was the only one watering my flowers (this was before the discovery of visitor watering bonus ). It should be a lot faster now if you get 5 people to come water every day

 

[Red Cat]

There are two main paths to getting a blue rose and each of those paths have several variations depending on how much you value speed versus reliability. The method described by Dufontee above is shown in this video. It has the fewest steps, but it's a very hit-or-miss method, so you'll need a lot of space and seed bags to pull it off in a reasonable amount of time. Then there's the longer 4 step variation of this method shown here and here which is more consistent, but involves the extra step.

If you don't want to play the genetics lottery and prefer a method which takes up less space, then the BackwardsN and Paleh methods are better for you. They're both similar, but BackwardsN takes some shortcuts that reduce the number of steps and can yield a blue rose faster while the Paleh method guarantees each step has at least a 25% chance of producing a rose to advance to the next step and is more reliable.

A nerdy way to think about it is the Kyro method (I don't know if he actually thought of it first) is basically blindly throwing a ton of darts and hoping one hits the bullseye while the Paleh method is more like taking your time to carefully aim your dart throws and slowly getting closer to the center even though this means you'll throw fewer darts. Neither approach is necessarily better; it comes down to personal preference.