Thank you @sunshower, that does help :-)

If you mutate, then choose an ordinary flower so you at least stand some chance of getting something rarer. I once mutated a rarer flower only to get a lemon maranta.

A lemon maranta? That stinks!

I was playing around with the plant mutation liquid and it made me wonder if there are rare plants that you cannot get by using the plant mutation on them. Like a plant that only exists because of two plants combining while being close together?

Or can they all be made by mutation?

They can all be made with the mutation liquid-I have four games going, and I used it to finish the plant collection in all four.

All plants can be made by mutation - you can tell from the map.

OK, thank you, just wanted to be sure. I wish my plants would self spawn (?) Seems like they don't do much without help. I even used the pollination liquid on five or six about a week ago and still nothing.

If you're trying to create more of a particular plant, plant them in a tight group and wait a few days. I have gardens with each of the rare plants in groups and I have twice as many of each kind now. The ones with spaces between them didn't do much of anything. Each house has a rare plant garden that's replicating steadily.

That's my technique with the ultra-rare plants, too. I'm not sure I would use the word "steadily", but I am building a stockpile slowly but surely.

I like your idea and will do that but what I thought was supposed to happen was that a 'new' plant would eventually grow between two 'different type' plants. Instead of having to always use the mutation liquid.

So, I was hoping that if I first used the liquid to get some new plants, then placed them in a checkerboard pattern that I would get even more new types. After about 3 days of nothing happening at all, I sprayed each with the pollination spray.

Been over a week since I did that and still absolutely nothing.