Hybrid Crops are crops that can be obtained in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. By mixing two kinds of crops or fruits together, players can come up with hybrids that usually sell more than their basic variants. Read ahead as we talk about the mechanics of hybrid crops in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life and share all the possible combinations that can be obtained in the game.
How to get Hybrid Crops
In order to get Hybrid Crops, you will need to befriend Vinnie, the strange plant that is in Takakura’s house. Takakura will invite you to his house at the start of Year 2, where you finally meet Vinnie. You will then have to befriend the plant by talking to it until it asks you if you want to mix seeds. You can talk to it multiple times in a day, and if it asks if you want to proceed, simply say yes. Eventually, you’ll get to access the mixing mechanic.
Note: We refer to crops as those that are planted on the ground (including watermelon and melon), and we refer to fruits as those that are grown from trees.
Next, you can then select two crops or two fruits that you want to mix; they can either be the crop/fruit or the seeds. If successful, you will receive a seed bag of the corresponding hybrid. Be aware that you cannot mix a crop and a fruit, and not all mixes will succeed, regardless of whether the stuff you combine is a valid combination (unless it is a flower hybrid, which always succeeds). If a combination fails, you will get a seed bag of either one of the crops/fruits/seeds that you used.
As a quick guide, there are two tiers of hybrid crops that you can get from Vinnie. There are also hybrids that are made by mixing a crop or fruit with certain flowers that can give them special attributes:
- Crop x Crop or Fruit x Fruit yields a Tier 1 Hybrid Crop (HC1) or a Tier 1 Hybrid Fruit (HF1)
- HC1 x HC1 or HF1 x HF1 yields a Tier 2 Hybrid Crop (HC2) or a Tier 2 Hybrid Fruit (HF2)
- Crop/Fruit x Trick Blue Flower yields the “Blue” variant of that Crop or Fruit
- Crop/Fruit x Sagesoil Flower yields a variant that is strong enough to be planted in any type of soil.
- Crop/Fruit x Happy Lamp Flower yields a variant that can be planted in any season of the year.
- Crop x Upseed Flower yields an S Rank variant. *Fruits and seeds from a fruit tree cannot be mixed with an Upseed Flower.
Take note that the Upseed Flower can only be used on Crops and not on seeds and fruits from Fruit Trees. However, if you mix a B Rank Fruit Tree seed and an S Rank Crop seed, the resulting seed should be an S Rank Fruit Tree seed.
Tier 1 Hybrid Crops
Tier 1 Hybrid Crops can be obtained by combining basic crops and/or their seeds together. Their names are a combination of both parent crops. (Included are their S Rank sell price and planting seasons Sp/Su/Fa/Wi)
Carrot | Melon | Potato | Strawberry | Sweet Potato | Tomato | Turnip | Watermelon | |
Carrot | - | Camelo | Pocaro | Carberry | Swarrot | Tocarro | Caroturn | Carromel |
Melon | Camelo | - | Potamelo | Berrymelo | Sweetmel | Melotoma | Turnmelon | Melomelo |
Potato | Pocaro | Potamelo | - | Poberryto | Pototo | Pomato | Poturnip | Watato |
Strawberry | Carberry | Berrymelo | Poberryto | - | Strawsweet | Berrytoma | Turnberry | Strawmelo |
Sweet Potato | Swarrot | Sweetmel | Pototo | Strawsweet | - | Sweetoma | Sweeturn | Melosweet |
Tomato | Tocarro | Melotoma | Pomato | Berrytoma | Sweetoma | - | Turnmato | Greetoma |
Turnip | Caroturn | Turnmelon | Poturnip | Turnberry | Sweeturn | Turnmato | - | Waturnip |
Watermelon | Carromel | Melomelo | Watato | Strawmelo | Melosweet | Greetoma | Waturnip | - |
Tier 1 Hybrid Fruits
Tier 1 Hybrid Fruits can be obtained by combining basic fruits and/or their seeds together. Their names are a combination of both parent fruits. (Included are their flowering and fruiting seasons Sp/Su/Fa/Wi)
Apple | Banana | Grape | Orange | Peach | |
Apple | - | Banapple | Grapple | Orapple | Papple |
Banana | Banapple | - | Granana | Banorange | Panana |
Grape | Grapple | Granana | - | Grorange | Greach |
Orange | Orapple | Banorange | Grorange | - | Porange |
Peach | Papple | Panana | Greach | Porange | - |
Tier 2 Hybrid Crops
Tier 2 Hybrid Crops can be obtained by combining two Tier 1 Hybrid Crops together. They have no names (you can give them one after discovering them), so they will be designated with a # instead and a description on what they look like.
Tier 2 | Crossbreed | Planting Season |
#1 (Green Pear) | Strawmelo + Waturnip | Spring |
#2 | Strawmelo + Melotoma | Spring |
#3 | Greetoma + Melotoma | Summer |
#4 | Greetoma + Melomelo | Summer |
#5 | Turmelon + Camelo | Fall |
#6 | Tocarro + Pocaro | Spring |
#7 | Sweeturn + Swarrot | Summer |
#8 | Swarrot + Tocarro | Fall |
#9 | Pototo + Watato | Fall |
#10 | - | - |
#11 | Berrymelo + Turnberry | Spring |
#12 | Turnmelon + Turnberry | Summer |
#13 | Turnmelon + Carberry | Fall |
#14 | Carromel + Camelo | Winter |
#15 | Sweeturn + Pocaro | Summer |
#16 | Sweetmel + Potamelo | Spring |
#17 | Melosweet + Sweetmel | Fall |
#18 | Sweeturn + Caroturn | Winter |
#19 | Melotoma + Turnberry | Spring |
#20 | Melomelo + Turnberry | Summer |
#21 | Berrymelo + Carberry | Fall |
#22 | Berrymelo + Turnmelo | Winter |
#23 | Poturnip + Sweeturn | Spring |
#24 | Turnmelon + Melosweet | Summer |
#25 | Turnmelon + Melosweet | Summer |
#26 | Berrytoma + Caroturn | Fall |
#27 | Pomato + Swarrot | Winter |
#28 | Poberryto + Poturnip | Winter |
#29 | Sweetoma + Sweeturn | Winter |
#30 | Sweetmel + Pototo | Winter |
#31 | Turnmato + Swarrot | Winter |
#32 | Berrytoma + Strawsweet | Winter |
#33 | Turnberry + Potamelo | Spring to Summer |
#34 | Melosweet + Poturnip | Fall to Winter |
#35 | Tocarro + Turnberry | Spring to Summer |
#36 | Turnberry + Swarrot | Summer to Fall |
#37 | Strawsweet + Potamelo | Fall to Winter |
#38 | Watato + Turnmelon | Winter to Spring |
#39 | Camelo + Sweetmel | Summer to Fall |
Tier 2 Hybrid Fruits
Tier 2 Hybrid Crops can be obtained by combining two Tier 1 Hybrid Fruits together. They have no names (you can give them one after discovering them), so they will be designated with a # instead and the real-life fruit that they look closest to.
Tier 2 Fruits | Combo |
#1 | Greach + Grapple |
#2 | Granana + Porange |
#3 | Banapple + Banorange Banorange + Orapple |
#4 | Porange + Banorange |
#5 | Banapple + Porange |
#6 | Banapple + Grorange |
#7 | Banapple + Greach |
#8 | Granana + Greach |
#9 | Greach + Orapple |
Trick Blue Flower Hybrids
Trick Blue Flowers can be crossbred with the basic crops in order to come up with their blue variants that sell at a higher price.
Base Crop/Fruit | Planting Season | Sell Price | |
Bluemato | Tomato | SpSuFa | 465G |
Bluetato | Potato | SpWi | 495G |
Carroblue | Carrot | FaWi | 445G |
Meloblue | Melon | SuFa | 540G |
Strawbluey | Strawberry | SpFaWi | 410G |
Sweeblue | Sweet Potato | Fa | 510G |
Turnblue | Turnip | SuFaWi | 420G |
Waterblue | Watermelon | SpSu | 540G |
Abblu | Apple | Su-Fa | 340G |
Blorange | Orange | Sp-Su | 340G |
Blunana | Banana | Sp-Su | 345G |
Grablue | Grape | Su-Fa | 355G |
Peablu | Peach | Sp-Su | 375G |