Variants are the quiet multipliers behind huge Garden Horizons payouts. Ripening stages set your base value, color variants stack on top, and mutations scale everything again. Use this page together with the Harvest Calculator and the Mutations Wiki to decide when each crop is really worth selling.
Every plant in Garden Horizons passes through the same ripening ladder: Unripe → Ripened → Lush. These stages are simple multipliers on top of the plant's base sell value and any mutations you hit. Ripening only advances while you are online.
Base state right after a plant completes its grow time – 1× value.
First big step – 2× value. Requires staying online for roughly 2.4× the base grow time after maturity.
Peak ripeness – 3× value. This multiplier also scales all your mutations, so strong setups explode in value.
Color variants roll independently of ripening. They multiply whatever ripening stage you're on, so a Gold Lush plant is far stronger than a Gold Unripe one. You cannot force these – just recognize them quickly and protect them with the Favoriting Tool.
Rare color glow that multiplies your current ripening stage by 2× (Lush Silver ≈ 6× total variant multiplier).
Treat Silver as a lucky bonus: favorite the plant as soon as you spot it and try to ride it all the way to Lush.
Very rare color variant worth chasing – 5× on top of ripening, so Gold Lush behaves like a 15× variant multiplier.
Gold Lush on a good crop with strong mutations is true end‑game; never sell early, and plan full Lush + mutation weather before harvesting.
Mythic‑tier color variant seen in the game data. Exact numbers are still unconfirmed, but it should sit above Gold.
Until official multipliers are known, treat Rainbow as “your rarest plant”. Protect it and assume it will follow the same stacking rules as other color variants.
In the game math, ripening and color variants multiply together, then the result multiplies your total mutation sum. A simple way to think about it is:
Final value ≈ Base price × (Ripening × Color) × (1 + mutation sum)
To see real numbers for your crops, open the Calculator and try toggling ripening, color, and mutation buttons while comparing different plants from the Plants Wiki.
