Grow a Garden Pollinated mutation explained

The Pollinated mutation was added to Grow a Garden during the bee update.

Fruit with the Pollinated mutation have multiple uses in Grow a Garden; they can be sold, exchanged for Honey during the Queen Bee event or shown off to other players, especially if you have Divine Pollinated fruit.

First, however, you need to know how to get the Pollinated mutation in Grow a Garden!

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How to get the Pollinated mutation in Grow a Garden

To get the Pollinated mutation in Grow a Garden, you need to be playing the game during a Swarm event. This happens on the hour every hour during the Queen Bee, also known as Bizzy Bee, event. You can see how long it will be till the next Swarm event by looking at the counter above the little bee sitting next to the Queen Bee in the middle of the garden plots.

During a Swarm event, bees will fly out across all of the garden plots and give a randomly selected fruit the Pollinated mutation. The crop mutation turns the fruit yellow and they have a golden glow. It also increases the value of the fruit by a x3 multiplier.

You can actually follow the bees to your garden and watch them fly up to the fruit they've decided to pollinate. Shortly after the bees' arrival, this fruit will gain the Pollinated mutation alongside any others it might already have. A notification saying 'A fruit in your garden, mutated to Pollinated' will also appear on screen when a fruit gains the Pollinated mutation.

Pollinated fruit can either be sold (again, there's a x3 multiplier) or be exchanged for Honey as part of the Queen Bee event. We recommend planting quick-growing multiplier crops, like Strawberries or Tomatoes, with the aim of exchanging these for Honey. This means you're free to sell any of your Pollinated Divine or Legendary fruits!

Best of luck getting Pollinated fruit! If you'd like to learn more about Grow a Garden, check out our pages on pets, gear and seeds.