Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Walkthrough and Guide

Crop Mutation Almanac

When planted under certain conditions, crops have the potential to mutate into a completely different crop, adding an
extra aspect into raising crops. If you want to grow 'em all, you'll have to be creative when planting and experiment with
different types of terrain, weather conditions, seasons, and even planting certain crops next to each other. Some crops
will mutate very easily; you may wake up one morning to find that they've mutated overnight - while others are a bit more
tricky to master. This almanac serves as your guide to discovering them all.

Terrain

There are four different types of terrain which you will need to familiarize yourself with if you want to master crop
mutations, as well as interpret this guide. For the purposes of this guide, we will refer to the terrain types as "Grassy",
"Patchy", "Swampy", and "Dry".

Grassy: A rich green terrain found on your farmland.

Patchy: A mix between grass and dirt found in the lower area of the mountains.
Swampy: Marshy wet terrain found at the beach.
Dry: Cracked and harsh, this terrain is found at the top of the mountain.

Great Crops

Great crops are high quality versions of crops that will grow when planted in the crop's preferred season and terrain.
Mutated crops also have a "great" version of themselves, which can be achieved by acquiring and planting the respective
mutated crop's seeds, although they can mutate on their own as well.They do not require fertilizer, but they will have a
higher chance of producing their "great" version if fertilized at least once. Since any crop can be "great" and the method to
get them are all the same, they will not be included in the tables below.

“Multi-Harvest” Mutated Crops

When a “multi-harvest” crop such as corn mutates into something like fodder corn, the crop will now regrow as the
mutated crop every time. In other words, once a crop mutates, it remains as its mutated version. This is useful since it
helps with acquiring enough crops to sell to unlock the mutated crop's seeds.

Going into the Next Season

Be careful when planting crops expected to mutate, since they must finish their growth cycle within the current season in
order to mutate. However, any regrowing crops that have mutated such as fodder corn will remain in their mutated form
when the season crosses over, provided they do not wither. Naturally, crops planted out of the season they mutate in will
not mutate.

Acquiring Seeds for Mutated Crops

You can unlock Mutation Seeds for purchase by simply selling at least 10 of a specific mutated crop. Most mutation seeds
will unlock after selling 10 of the mutation, but some require you to sell more of them. It does not matter if you sell the
mutation to Sam, Carol, or Bastian, or sell a "great" variation; the game will tally them all the same. Once unlocked, the
mutated crop seeds will be available for purchase from Sam, or from Carol in the case of mutated flowers.

Mutations List

Spring

Mutation Base Crop Terrain Fertilizer/Req. # Sold/Unlock

Red Cabbage Cabbage Any - 30

Huge Cabbage Cabbage Any Cabbage Blend 20

Green Cabbage Red Cabbage Swampy - 20

Scallion Onion Any - 10

Petite Onion Scallion Dry - 20

Magical Berry Angel Lantern Swampy Berry Blend 50

Red Zeppelin San Marzano Grassy Tomato Blend 20

Magic Pepper Orange Pepper Patchy Pepper Blend 20

Purple Pepper Red Pepper Dry - 50

Jalapeno Hot Pepper Grassy - 20

Squash Pumpkin Grassy - 20

Savoy Spinach Spinach Grassy - 20

Dryad Romanesco Grassy Broccoli Blend 30

Gold Berry Cranberry Dry Berry Blend 50

Baby Asparagus Asparagus Any - 10

Purple Asparagus Asparagus Patchy Asparagus Blend 20

White Tulip Tulip Grassy - 10

Yellow Tulip Tulip Grassy - 30

Summer

Mutation Base Crop Terrain Fertilizer/Req. # Sold/Unlock

Mystic Herb Celery Grassy Celery Blend 20

Red Onion Scallion Any Onion Blend 30

Princess's Eye Angel Lantern Patchy Berry Blend 50

San Marzano Tomato Dry - 10

Fodder Corn Corn Any - 10

Sweet Corn Corn Any - 20

Red Pepper Green Pepper Any Pepper Blend 10

Orange Pepper Green Pepper Grassy - 20

Golden Pepper Magic Pepper Swampy Pepper Blend 50

Durum Wheat Wheat Patchy - 10

Devil Pepper Habanero Any Pepper Blend 50

Black Potato Purple Potato Swampy Potato Blend 20

Brown Carrot Carrot Swampy - 20

Zucchini Pumpkin Swampy - 10

Giant Squash Squash Any Pumpkin Blend 20

Evergreen Broccolini Dry - 30

Mellow Yellow Watermelon Dry - 10

Cannonball Watermelon Patchy - 20

White Dahlia Pink Dahlia Grassy - 10

Yellow Dahlia Pink Dahlia Grassy - 30

Fall

Mutation Base Crop Terrain Fertilizer/Req. # Sold/Unlock

Pearl Onion Petite Onion Grassy - 20

Angel Lantern White Berry Any - 20

Killer Tomato Crimson Dry Tomato Blend 50

Sunset Corn Fodder Corn Dry Corn Blend 50

Barley Wheat Any - 20

Habanero Hot Pepper Patchy - 10

Giant Potato Potato Any - 20

Mandrake Brown Carrot Dry Carrot Blend 30

Giant Pumpkin Giant Squash Dry Pumpkin Blend 50

Lilac Spinach Savoy Spinach Swampy - 30

Broccolini Broccoli Grassy - 10

Gooseberry Cranberry Any - 20

Kegling Cannonball Dry Melon Blend/Checkerboard Pattern 30

Phalanx Purple Asparagus Dry Asparagus Blend 30

Sunny Red Cosmos Dry - 30

Pink Carnation Carnation Patchy - 30

Winter

Mutation Base Crop Terrain Fertilizer/Req. # Sold/Unlock

Dome Cabbage Huge Cabbage Grassy Cabbage Blend 30

White Celery Celery Any - 10

Royal Herb White Celery Patchy Celery Blend 30

Teardrop Red Onion Swampy Onion Blend 30

White Berry Strawberry Any - 10

Crimson Tomato Any Tomato Blend 50

Yellow Corn Sweet Corn Grassy - 50

White Pepper Magic Pepper Grassy - 50

Rye Barley Dry Wheat Blend 30

Dragon Pepper Jalapeno Any Pepper Blend 50

Purple Potato Potato Patchy Potato Blend 10

Titan Potato Black Potato Dry Potato Blend 30

Baby Carrot Carrot Grassy - 10

White Carrot Baby Carrot Any Carrot Blend 30

Cream Pumpkin Squash Any - 50

Baby Spinach Spinach Any Spinach Blend 10

Pink Spinach Baby Spinach Any Spinach Blend 30

Romanesco Broccolini Any Broccoli Blend 20

Cranberry Blueberry Swampy Berry Blend 10

Blackcurrant Blueberry Grassy - 30

Snowman Mellow Yellow Swampy Melon Blend/Checkerboard Pattern 50

Yellow Pansy Pink Pansy Grassy - 10

Purple Pansy Pink Pansy Grassy - 30

Viola Purple Pansy Grassy - 50

Last edited on Oct 27, 18 1:58pm

Comments
 Saku
Nov 27, 17 05:14am

I removed a comment just now so I am gonna post this here as a heads up:

I appreciate any help guys, but please do not link external sources, especially ones involving downloads, on this guide! If you
would like to contribute just get in touch with me

Lindsey
Jun 19, 18 02:12am

When you say "special fertilizer" what do you mean exactly? I'm having trouble getting the red zepplin! Thanks for the guide
it has made this much easier, hahaha

Saku
Jun 19, 18 08:33am

Sorry! I need to update that. By special fertilizer I mean tomato blend. Bear in mind that red zeppelins are rare so you
may be growing a lot of San Marzanos. I got best results by using tomato blend at least twice when growing them. And
you’re welcome!

MM
Jun 25, 18 12:38pm

I cannot get Asparagus to grow in patchy soil in the spring, even after I fertilize it, it stays seeds. Such a waste of time and
money, the guide is clearly wrong.

Saku
Jun 25, 18 09:41pm

Bear in mind that Asparagus takes almost half a month to grow - 12 days. So they will remain as “seeds” for a while.
They are also a very fragile plant and do not grow well out of season. So they will require more care (more fertilizing)
than normal in the spring time to prevent wilting. I have verified their mutatations so if you have continued problems let
me know and I can try to assist you further.

Jennifer E
Jul 19, 18 01:30pm

So I discovered a hack, some may say it is a cheat instead, but tomato-tomatoe. Right before you sleep for the night
before a crop is due to appear, if you save and wake up to find only a few of your mutations have happened, you simply
load the game back to right before you slept. Once it’s loaded simply sleep (no need to save again) and wake up and check
to see if the output of mutations is better. It may take a few tries but I have more than doubled my mutation outputs given
simply by doing this. Definitely handy when it comes to time and resources!
 Kuroo33
Jul 19, 18 07:54pm

We appear to have the same way of thinking lol. I used this cheat especially for one-time harvest crops that need more
than 20 to unlock. XD

Kurnia
Jul 22, 18 07:48am

I plant plenty of brown carrot in dry soil with fertilizer and none of them turn into mandrake. Whats wrong can you help meh

Saku
Jul 22, 18 08:02am

You actually need to use carrot blend at least once for them to mutate. Apologies, I will correct the guide.

Kurnia
Jul 22, 18 04:20pm

Okay, thankyou. Is it the same for phalanx? I also use the asparagus blend?

Saku
Jul 23, 18 07:57pm

It should be Asparagus Blend. I went through and updated everything so it should all be correct now. Let me know if you
notice any other discrepancies!

Jennifer E
Jul 30, 18 07:29am

Magic peppers mutate from orange peppers in patchy land with pepper blend fertilizer.

mariknyawa
Aug 7, 18 09:04am

Gooseberry mutates on fall not on summer

I watered and blended 198 of them for nothjng sad

knechodom
Aug 31, 18 07:22am
To get purple peppers, plant red peppers in dry, during spring, no fertilizer

Gomene
Sep 5, 18 10:23pm

I'm not sure exactly how to get the patchy and dry land types. I'm still fairly new in the game (I just unlocked Soliel) and I'm
used to the games on portable devices where you can change the height of the land on your farm yourself, but I don't have
that option for LOH on the PC.

Any help would be great.

Saku
Sep 5, 18 10:30pm

Hi there! The land types are fixed in this version of HM. Dry is found at the top of the mountain, while patchy is found in
the two lower level fields on the mountain. Marshy is at the beach. Hope this helps!

Pi
Sep 15, 18 10:20am

Got red cabbage in spring using cabbage blend on grassy (as well as huge)

Tiffer1989
Sep 18, 18 07:33pm

Planted 40 tomatoes on dry in summer and got no San Marzanos at all, even with fertilizer...but when tried again but with
20 tomatoes on Dry and used tomato blend twice on all 20...I only got 2 San Marzanos.

Last edited by Tiffer1989 :: Sep 19, 18

Tiffer1989
Sep 20, 18 04:22pm

1

I just cheated and used the 10 San Marzano Seeds I got from a reward for completing a request...lol

Beth
Sep 21, 18 10:25am

Should you use the fertilizer once or more to get the mutation, even with the yellow guy's help?
 Saku
Sep 21, 18 10:33am

It varies by mutation. Most of the earlier mutations that you can achieve within the first year can be accomplished with
only fertilizing once. Other late game mutations, particularly once you had to chain to get (a mutation of a mutation) can
require multiple fertilizers. If the “farming friend” icon is also indicating that the crop is low health, it is generally a good
idea to fertilize more than once, or alternate between special blend and regular fertilizer. (Crops that require special
blend usually only require one instance of the special blend however). But it still varies, and you will get used to it and
develop intuition as you go. Also, Rowan does not help in this game

Tiffer1989
Sep 22, 18 12:02pm

Kay, been wondering this for awhile now...when I go to water crops I tend to notice the bubble that pops
up...sometimes blue with dizzy symbols, plain white or Gold....I know the Gold means higher chances for Great crops
or Mutated....but what does the blue with dizzy and plain white mean?

Bri
Sep 24, 18 09:10am

it takes way more than ten red onions to unlock. Not sure of the exact number, but I'm at about twenty five and they still
haven't unlocked on Sam.

Effing stupid.

sherryyau
Oct 13, 18 11:57pm

I try ro plant blackcurrent that you show on the list, but it doesn’t work. Do I need to add the berry blend as well?

I also plant barley for rye. it needs more days to crop but it turns spring in 2 days. How could I make them cross the season
? Most of time they will die.

hikaru5220
Oct 17, 18 08:07am

i plant cranberry(45unit) in grassy at fall and use berry fertiliser once n normal fertiliser everyday but none of them turn
gooseberry. ='(

Sandra
Oct 26, 18 02:38am

Try swampy terrain instead (In fall + normal fertilizer). That one worked for me.
 Ishizu
Oct 20, 18 09:28am

1

I sold 50 purple peppers and unlocked the seeds

OrbitSuit
Oct 27, 18 02:00pm

Thanks for the info! I updated the page to say 50 for the unlock.

Zirconia
Dec 3, 18 08:13pm

How many times do you need to use the special fertilizers? Will it still work if you use them only once?

Saku
Dec 3, 18 08:39pm

It varies by crop. Typically the earlier mutations will only require once. And check the health status of the crop daily, if it is
unhealthy you may need to fertilize again. For these, I usually use one special blend (sometimes 2) and then supplement
with regular fertilizer for the rest of the growth. For most crops, you should only require once of the special blend. Using
more will just increase the chance for more seeds to mutate.

babybeachmouse
Dec 12, 18 01:48pm

Ty ever so much for sharing all of this information. It has helped me immensely

bobbyseptemmy
Jan 9, 19 08:39am

Help me Please !
I want the mutation of the snowman plant. why did the mellow yellow plant die on the third day? even though I have given
bland melon

Saku
Jan 9, 19 08:52am

Start by fertilizing with Melon Blend, then follow up each day with regular fertilizer. Mellow Yellow is very weak in winter
and will die easily. Pay attention to the icon that appears over the plants, if it is in a “bad mood” then you need to fertilize
to keep it alive - this applies to all plants.
 bobbyseptemmy
Jan 9, 19 05:49pm

i already have to do it.. but it still die. the first day, I gave melon fertilizer. and the second day, I gave regular fertilizer.
but all the plants still die. I planted 30 mellow yellow, and all died on the third day

Saku
Jan 9, 19 05:59pm

Are you planting in a checkerboard pattern?

bobbyseptemmy
Jan 9, 19 06:34pm

i dont know the meaning of a checkerboard pattern..i plant 3x10 plots. (I cant really speak english, but maybe you
know what i mean. i always use google translate).

Saku
Jan 9, 19 06:39pm

That's okay! Here's a picture if it helps:

This is not my image, (borrowed from steam). You have to plant in the pattern shown in the picture. Otherwise
they won't grow.

bobbyseptemmy
Jan 9, 19 06:45pm

okok. I will try it . Thanks before

Saku
Jan 9, 19 06:47pm

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Good luck, let me know how it goes!

Remember checkerboard pattern is needed when you try to grow Kegling in the fall too

Bobby
Jan 14, 19 04:06am
 For snowman plant is complete.. but i can't send image in here.. I have another question, How to get Great Apple ?
and another great fruits.

bobbyseptemmy
Jan 14, 19 04:13am

For snowman plant is complete.. but i can't send image in here.. I have another question, How to get Great Apple ?
and another great fruits.

Kurnia
Aug 28, 19 08:28am

Can you please help. I plant black potato in winter and give them potato blend but it never turn to be titan potato. What is
wrong here?

Jaska
Sep 9, 19 01:03pm

It has to be a dry terrain.

Sini
Nov 29, 19 10:17am

How to get blue rose? Help me! 😭

Saku
Nov 29, 19 10:40am

Hi there! It is sold at Carol’s Flowers after restoring the fourth lighthouse light. In general you unlock flower seeds there
by raising affection with Carol and progressing the story.

CatsNoGoMeow
Dec 6, 19 06:30am

PSA: DO NOT USE GROWTH PROMOTERS TO TRY TO MUTATE ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES THE CROP TO NOT BE IN
SEASON! i am speaking from experience, as I was stupid and tried this on Hot Peppers to get Jalapenos easier... also, sorry
if this is common knowledge...

Nikkie
Jan 12, 20 11:40am
I cant get savory spinach to turn into lilac spinach...it says to plant in swampy in fall...but ive planted 200 and it hasnt
worked. I even did 1 batch with fertilizer to see if itd help and still no luck.

member295
Apr 3, 20 07:37am

Cream pumpkin only mutates from Squash on Dry or Patchy land

Player Unknown
Apr 18, 20 09:55am

I planted strawberry and sweet corn in grassy terrain during winter, I also used berry blend and corn blend for each, but I
never got white berry and yellow corn, is there something wrong? Or do I miss something?

Katie
Apr 19, 20 04:41pm

Some of ur thumbnail art things rnt working....the patchy,dry,grassy little pics r only showing as hyperlinks

shaunasmith82
May 7, 20 09:32am

I'm having trouble getting the Pearl onions? Is there supposed to be a special fertilizer used? I'm in fall planting petite onions
in the grassy area and use regular fertilizer. I've grown 120 and no mutation at all. Any help I'd appreciate. Thanks

ArcadiaEclipse
May 24, 20 10:41pm

To get pearl onions I’m pretty sure you need to plant them in individual rows with an empty row between them or they don’t
mutate.

karenmcfadden241
Jun 2, 20 11:40am

Which crops need the checkerboard or single row planting to mutate? I planted over 200 purple pansy but no viola.

Ogy
Jun 6, 20 01:20pm

@Karen, you can plant it in basic form, but Viola is quite rare though. In my case, I got only 1-2 violas mutated from 30
purple pansies. I planted it in grassy during winter.
 Cat
Jun 11, 20 10:27am

How do I get/make Cabbage Blend?

Lisa
Jun 18, 20 01:00pm

I just want to know two thing for patchy land is that by Sofia’s house or the one that’s up further by gus’s house? Also do
you have to fertilize them more then once if your using ex berry blend would you keep having to use it until the harvest of the
plant or just once or twice ??!? Please and thank you

Supacandiii
Jun 26, 20 01:46am

H O W do you get cabbage blend? I got it from doing a request a long time ago and used it but I see there’s no way to buy it,

🥺
and I don’t have an option to make it anywhere. I know what I’d need to make it if possible tho but I really need it for another
request

MTC
Aug 30, 20 05:24am

Keep fulfilling requests--I can't remember if it's Dean's requests or Carol's, but one of them will give you fertilizer recipes,
and I believe the other allows you to buy fertilizer blends.

Nazrilah Abdul Rahman

Aug 20, 20 09:45am

how to get killer tomato. i plant crimson and using tomato blend but none turn to killer tomato

Katie Alger
Aug 21, 20 12:09pm

I dont think u can do the checkerboard pattern and have other plants in the not-watermellon spaces...I tried getting kegling
and figured I'd use the empty spaces for my killer tomato plants but I didnt get a single kegling

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