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| Mutation Details | |
|---|---|
| Crop Appearance | Pollinated fruits turn yellow and have a golden glow or aura around them, making them easy to distinguish. They also emit yellow gas-like particles and shine. |
| Effect on Crop Value | Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation increases the selling value of your crops by a x3 multiplier. |
The Pollinated mutation in Grow a Garden is a valuable addition that allows you to earn sweet Honey and increase the selling value of your crops. Introduced with the June 2025 “Working Bees” update, also known as the “bee update” or “Bizzy Bees update,” it makes use of bees to transform your fruits.
Pollinated fruits turn yellow and have a golden glow or aura around them, making them easy to distinguish. They also emit yellow gas-like particles and shine. If you’re unsure, you can get closer to the plant to check its tag.
How to Get the Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation
Bee Swarm Event
Bee Swarm Event happens every hour on the hour and are tied to the Queen Bee, who resides in the center of the main garden plot. The event restarts 60 minutes after it ends.
During a Swarm event, bees fly to all gardens. The bees roam around player gardens, dusting plants with pollen for about 10 minutes. You can see how long it will be until the next Swarm event by looking at the timer above the large hive or next to the Queen Bee in the middle of the garden plots.
When a Swarm event occurs, bees will fly out and give a randomly selected fruit the Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation. You can even follow the bees to your garden and watch them pollinate your fruit. If one of your crops receives the mutation, a message will appear on your screen saying: “A fruit in your garden mutated to Pollinated!”.
Pets
Some pets can pollinate your crops once per cooldown period. Their abilities can stack, allowing for better performance and more Pollinated crops over time, especially if you have multiple pets and sufficient pet slots.
Pets that Give Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation
| Pet | Passive Ability | |
|---|---|---|
| Bee | | Every 25 mins, flies to a nearby fruit and applies the Pollinated Mutation. |
| Honey Bee |  | Every 20 mins, flies to a nearby fruit and applies the Pollinated Mutation. |
| Petal Bee |  | Every 25 mins, flies to a nearby fruit and applies the Pollinated Mutation. |
| Queen Bee |  | Every 20 mins, a nearby fruit becomes magically pollinated. |
| Wasp |  | Every 30 mins, the Wasp flies to a nearby fruit and applies the Pollinated Mutation. |
| Tarantula Hawk |  | Every 25 mins, flies to a nearby fruit and applies the Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation. |
These pets can be hatched from a Bee Egg and Anti Bee Egg. A Bee Egg is purchasable from the Queen Bee by trading her 18 Honey or 129 Robux. A Bee Egg takes approximately 4 hours and 10 minutes to hatch. It might be easier to simply wait for Swarm events to occur naturally, as acquiring a Bee Egg and waiting for it to hatch can be a significant amount of work.
Mutation Spray Pollinated
The Pollinated Mutation Spray is crafted at the Bizzy Bear crafting station using a Cleaning Spray, Bee Balm, and Honey. This spray then allows players to give the Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation to any fruit.
Pollinated Mutation Value and Effects
The Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation offers a decent value boost to your fruits, it increases the selling value of your crops by a x3 multiplier. This makes it a better option compared to mutations like Wet, Chilled, Chocolate, or Moonlit variants, which typically offer a x2 multiplier.
Pollinated fruits have multiple uses in Grow a Garden, they can be sold for a profit due to their increased value. Pollinated fruits can be exchanged for Honey as part of the Queen Bee event. This Honey is essential for completing the Bee Swarm event and acquiring items from the Honey Shop, including new Honey Eggs, Honey Cosmetics, and Bee Crates.
Tips to Maximize Your Chances
Plant Multi-Harvest Crops
Plant as many multi-harvest crops as possible to ensure you don’t need to constantly replant. Heavy-weight multi-harvest plants like Star Fruit, Moon Melon, Beanstalk, and Moon Blossom are recommended.
Harvest Before Swarm Events
Collect all fully grown fruits right before a Swarm event is about to begin. New fruits that grow during an event have a higher chance of mutating than those already ripe.
Utilize Bee Pets
Place Bee pets in your garden to actively pollinate your crops.
While Grow a Garden is an idle game, and waiting is often part of the experience, understanding these methods can help you efficiently acquire the Pollinated mutation and reap its rewards.
For more guides like this Grow a Garden Pollinated Mutation, visit Theria Games (Grow a Garden).
