Alright. Blue Roses.

[Khaelis]

I've done hybrid breeding pretty much since the games come out, but there's always been one thing that has eluded me -- and that is the blue rose. Just HOW exactly do you get these to spawn consistently outside of two blue roses?! Seriously.

I know that you need two hybrid red roses, which are offspring of a purple and orange rose. But I've had many situations of grabbing flowers around town and getting those hybrid red roses in a matter of days of my town's creations, yet I can go MONTHS without even seeing a blue rose. I know they aren't THAT rare!

So this made me think a bit.. are there certain unique conditions that have to be met? And there are two things came to mind:

1. Do the orange and purple roses need to be bred by parents that were bought from Leif's Garden Shop? Many times where I've gone months without even seeing a blue rose are the times where I got the starting flowers from around town, or the island tours. Where on the other hand, I managed to get a blue rose after about 2 weeks when I bought the seeds.

2. Purple and Orange roses don't always produce hybrid red roses, and in fact, produce many 'dud' red roses. If this is the case, then it's actually super annoying as there's no tell between a potential dud red rose and a proper red rose.

These are just two things that came to mind. That or I am just completely delusional and just stupid unlucky to absurd amounts and I'm just going insane at this point. That's also a potential thing.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I'm no expert but I always thought the red* roses will only have blue offspring when paired.
Do you breed your flowers on the beach or somewhere around town?
I was never lucky with breeding flowers around town and mostly only got red offspring from the 'supposed' red*-roses (* = with genetics from orange and purple). Breeding flowers on the beachonly has given me results quite quickly. Sometimes I had red offspring from red*-roses but I cannot tell whether that's because they can produce red offspring or because I somehow got a normal red one mixed in.
Personally, I have never thought or heared that this process is in any way influenced by the origin of the parent-flowers (aside from some hacked flowers not producing offspring at all). It's an interesting theory but I feel that blue roses would be much more rare if that was the case, not to mention that I don't see why Nintendo would do this... This is Animal Crossing and not some obscure, extra-hard flower-breeding -simulation....
For me it worked to breed only in a secluded corner of the beach and I honestly have no way of telling if the parents of these purple and orange roses were from seeds I purchased or planted by villagers. Not to mention that almost everyone probably breeds with several purple and orange roses, of which most are offspring of each other. So if this mechanic actually existed, how would that be implemented? From which generation would an offspring not be from a store-bought flower anymore? I'm pretty sure I started with one-two orange and purple roses and the rest were offspring of those. I highly doubt that I randomly picked the flowers I had planted months ago out of all the others to breed my first purple and orange pair - not to mention that my red* roses probably didn't come from that first pair but it's 3-4th generation offspring....
Btw. I thought there are other combinations to get the red*-roses other than orange and purple? I don't know how reliable those are because I only ever tried with the two hybrids and no hybrid-normal pairing.
I also sometimes used fertilizer. I doubt that was what decided the outcome of my breeding as I rarely bought it and still got a blue rose fairly quickly.

 

[Khaelis]

*SNIP*

I've definitely seen my "hybrid" red roses produce white and black roses, but never blues. Also, I breed them in the grass because I find it really weird to plant the flowers in the sand on the beach. Just a mild pet peeve of mine.

Just out of ALL the hybrids, blue roses are the most odd. Purple pansies are essentially the same method as blue roses, yet are 100x easier to get! It makes no sense.

And for the pairs, purple and orange seems to be the most reliable out of all of them. I recall purple and black roses also producing hybrid red roses, but are waaay more rare than blue roses.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

That's strange, I have never seen my supposed red*-roses produce anything besides red or blue offspring.

Oh and I know how you feel. I dislike seeing flowers on the beach because it just seems weird. But even with no beautiful town ordinance, my villagers would plant flowers. There was just no way of knowing if they planted a red rose and I was using that to breed blue. I HIGHLY recommend that you breed blue roses on the beach (and their red parents) because it probably takes a lot longer if half of your "special"-red roses are in fact ordinary ones planted by villagers...

 

[Khaelis]

That's strange, I have never seen my supposed red*-roses produce anything besides red or blue offspring.

Oh and I know how you feel. I dislike seeing flowers on the beach because it just seems weird. But even with no beautiful town ordinance, my villagers would plant flowers. There was just no way of knowing if they planted a red rose and I was using that to breed blue. I HIGHLY recommend that you breed blue roses on the beach (and their red parents) because it probably takes a lot longer if half of your "special"-red roses are in fact ordinary ones planted by villagers...

I never really have issues with my villagers, since I often have my 'garden' decently far away from any villager's homes or just in front my mayor's house. I'm also able to remember which ones are the one's I've planted myself, so I always know what flowers are what. But I guess I can grow them on the beach, even if I don't want to because of my self-annoyances with it.

But yeah, I've definitely seen hybrid red roses rarely produce white roses. Rarely. It's mostly just black and red roses, though.

 

[Imbri]

It takes a long time. I have 4 hybrid reds on my beach for breeding. They are the only ones I water and use fertilizer on. It took a good 4 months to get a blue rose. I'm probably 6 weeks into waiting for my second.

Just keep plugging and you'll get there.

 

[Christy.lee1989]

since i started playing again not long ago, i have been trying to breed and have only gotten ORANGE EVERYTHING. its soo annoying. i mean glad im getting hybrids, but its annoying im getting only those. i breed on the grass, i think i will move some to the beach and only water those. i need to go back and see which ones to put together, but yeah, orange everything on my page. i got some pink at first then nothing. thanks for reminding me of the beach!

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also how do u use fertilizer properly for flowers? i have one that was given to me in the mail but not sure how to use it, never have used it honestly.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

since i started playing again not long ago, i have been trying to breed and have only gotten ORANGE EVERYTHING. its soo annoying. i mean glad im getting hybrids, but its annoying im getting only those. i breed on the grass, i think i will move some to the beach and only water those. i need to go back and see which ones to put together, but yeah, orange everything on my page. i got some pink at first then nothing. thanks for reminding me of the beach!

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also how do u use fertilizer properly for flowers? i have one that was given to me in the mail but not sure how to use it, never have used it honestly.

I haven?t used it much either but still got the hybrids. Some advice I have is that you only water the flowers you want to produce hybrids if you have the beautiful town ordinance, that way you wont get all the random flowers that you don?t need.
I think the only thing fertilizer does is increase the amount of new flowers tha spawn from parents. No one seems to be sure about that. The only thing I DO know is that you are suposed to plant the flowers in a diamond-shape around the fertilizer to get the most out of one bag. So try to plant flowers diagonally around the fertilizer after you buried it, but leave spaces around that so new flowers can spawn.^^

 

[Lanstar]

Ah, yes... The infamous blue rose. They are very, very rare, and I had the same problems as you. That said, I have some tips:

1. Use only Orange roses that were bred from other orange roses. The same goes for purple roses as well. The more stable these roses are at producing more of themselves, the better the chance you'll get Hybrid reds instead of normal ones.

2. Quantity of Hybrid reds are just as important. The more you get and water, the higher the chances of getting one.

3.The golden shovel and fertilizer up the chances even more. Bury fertilizer with a golden shovel in the center of a large patch of hybrid reds - like over 18 or so, and only water those.

It may take some time, but that's how you can get blue roses.

 

[Khaelis]

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Ah, yes... The infamous blue rose. They are very, very rare, and I had the same problems as you. That said, I have some tips:

1. Use only Orange roses that were bred from other orange roses. The same goes for purple roses as well. The more stable these roses are at producing more of themselves, the better the chance you'll get Hybrid reds instead of normal ones.

2. Quantity of Hybrid reds are just as important. The more you get and water, the higher the chances of getting one.

3.The golden shovel and fertilizer up the chances even more. Bury fertilizer with a golden shovel in the center of a large patch of hybrid reds - like over 18 or so, and only water those.

It may take some time, but that's how you can get blue roses.

I see.. thanks! I'll give this a shot. Although, town's literally only a few days old so no fertilizer and golden shovel for me for a while, haha.

 

[Bcat]

blue roses are a myth. Don't believe the conspiratorist propaganda

 

[Khaelis]

blue roses are a myth. Don't believe the conspiratorist propaganda

B-But.. I've definitely had them before! THEY'RE REAL, I SWEAR!

 

[Lanstar]

It's okay - in that case, just focus on getting plenty of stable oranges and purples to use first, as opposed to going for hybrid reds right away.

 

[Bcat]

B-But.. I've definitely had them before! THEY'RE REAL, I SWEAR!

Go back to the bin ya looney

 

[Khaelis]

Go back to the bin ya looney

I never left it. It's where I store all my blue roses. IF I HAD SOME!!

 

[PugLovex]

A good tip is to plant 3 hybrid red roses into the shape of a mini V, and then plant fertilizer in the middle, and then place a Jacob's Ladder above it, so it looks like a diamond, but one of the flowers being a jacobs ladder and fertilizer in the middle. Apparently its supposed to increase your chances?....idk XD

 

[JackABee]

I think you have everything set, just buy a bunch of fertilizer and it should work (it took me over 2 months to breed a black lillie without any sort of fertilizer.

 

[Khaelis]

A good tip is to plant 3 hybrid red roses into the shape of a mini V, and then plant fertilizer in the middle, and then place a Jacob's Ladder above it, so it looks like a diamond, but one of the flowers being a jacobs ladder and fertilizer in the middle. Apparently its supposed to increase your chances?....idk XD

I think this is a complete myth; I've done extensive testing and I saw zero difference between regular breeding and breeding with a Jacob's Ladder.

 

[Flare]

I usually plant flowers I want to breed like this

...X...
X....X
...X...

Or this

...X
.X


I've found these two methods the best to work for me so far.
Even then however, one must be patient for a flower to spawn.

 

[Khaelis]

I usually plant flowers I want to breed like this

...X...
X....X
...X...

Or this

...X
.X


I've found these two methods the best to work for me so far.
Even then however, one must be patient for a flower to spawn.

This is how I do it, too, it's just blue roses always elude me for months upon months on end.