As you play Grow A Garden, you may have noticed that there are weather effects that happen on a semi-regular basis. These range from the more typical rain and snow to rarer phenomena such as solar eclipses or aurora borealis. Events also introduce their own unique weather effects, each one adding its own effects that can affect your garden.

The main advantage of experiencing certain weather effects in one of the best Roblox games is that they’re a key element to mutating plants. They’re not the only method available, as you can use the best Grow A Garden pets available to apply mutations to them instead, or mutate any at level 50 or above permanently with the dedicated machine next to the pet store. However, many mutations only occur during certain Grow A Garden weather conditions, so here we’ll explain how it all works, what all the weather effects are, and how Admin Abuse events smash this system wide open.

How Grow A Garden weather effects work

The longer you play the game, the more you’ll find plants you’ve grown will gain new Grow A Garden mutations. By keeping your plants in your garden and not harvesting them, you’ll find that they’ll change over time to adopt new properties. There’s no real way to manipulate when the weather effect occurs, but there are items like the Lightning Rod or Star Caller that can influence where some weather can strike and thus give your plants specific mutations.

Event weather works differently and is usually governed by its own countdown timers. For example, the Fall Market event has players deposit an assortment of plants to initiate a Full Bloom. This spreads the Fall mutation to your plants over the course of five minutes. Others didn’t need anything to start affecting your garden, but could be buffed via certain NPCs.

Weather effects do stack, and perhaps the best example of this is during the “Admin Abuse” events. These generally occur an hour before the next update goes live, with many weather effects not normally seen in-game happening. This is all at the whim of the admin who’s in charge of the event, whether it’s testing a brand-new weather effect for bugs or unleashing chaos by combining different ones at once. To give you a taste of what can happen, the admin Jandel used both the Spotlight and Under The Sea effects to create an underwater game of Red Light, Green Light.

All Grow A Garden weather effects

There are a total of 19 weather effects that will happen in the game at any time, including during an event or an Admin Abuse hour. Those weather conditions exclusive to seasonal events will be listed with the last time the effect occurred.

Acid Rain

Effects: Has a chance to apply the Acidic mutation in addition to the usual rain’s 50% chance for Wet mutation and increasing the plant growth rate by 50%.

Details: Introduced as standard weather going forward after the Cooking event.

Aurora Borealis

Effects: Has a chance to apply the Aurora mutation.

Details: Although it resembles nighttime weather, it can happen at any time of the day.

Birthday

Effects: A prompt will indicate an NPC’s birthday and decorate their stand. Feed them a cake to get one of the rarer items in their shop.

Details: An NPC can only be fed once during this weather condition. Applies for the whole in-game day if it’s an NPC’s birthday.

NPC Birthdays:

• Eloise (Gear shop) – March 4
• Sam (Seed shop) – July 2
• Isacc (Cosmetic shop) – December 1
• Raphael (Egg shop) – October 30
• Orson (Ascension shop) – Unknown

Blood Moon

Effects: Six crops will gain the Bloodlit mutation every night, once every 40 seconds during its 4-minute duration.

Details: Has a 33.3% chance to replace the Night cycle. Placing a Night Staff increases the Bloodlit crop yield by the number of charges the staff has. During the Lunar Glow event, the Blood Moon Shop appeared to sell blood-themed items. It’s unclear if this will return.

Crystal Beams

Effects: This spawns 8 crystals around the map. Interacting with one 5 times will fire a beam of light. Fire all 8 crystals to apply various mutations to your plants. These include Celestial, Aurora, and Shocked.

Details: Introduced as standard weather going forward after the Prehistoric event.

Earthquake

Effects: Has a chance to apply the Cracked mutation.

Details: This weather is more of an effect than typical weather. It cracks the ground and is accompanied by violent shaking when tremors form.

Frost

Effects: Increases growth speed by 50% and has a chance to apply Chilled or Frozen mutations to plants.

Details: The player will have a shivering animation and sound effect. This weather can be unavailable during the Summer months.

Gale

Effects: Has a higher chance to apply Windstruck mutation than Windy weather.

Details: The player is blown toward the gear shop area by the strong wind currents. The player’s camera will shake slowly.

Heatwave

Effects: Crops that are hit by sun rays will get the Sundried mutation.

Details: Placing a tanning mirror will redirect sun rays to crops 10 times before it is destroyed. Though you can’t see them, this weather effect is heralded by cicada buzzing.

Meteor Shower

Effects: Any crops hit by meteors will get the Celestial mutation.

Details: Appears during a Blood Moon or Night weather effect. Lasts 3 minutes. Placing a Star Caller will attract meteors to strike within its range up to three times. The Star Caller is then destroyed.

Night

Effects: Six crops will gain the Moonlit mutation every night, once every 40 seconds during its 4-minute duration.

Details: It also appears 30 minutes after every cosmetic restock, up to six times a day. Placing a Night Staff increases the Moonlit crop yield by the number of charges the staff has. During the Lunar Glow event, the Twilight Shop appeared to sell moon-themed items. It’s unclear if this will return.

Rain

Effects: Increases growth speed by 50% and has a 50% chance to apply Wet mutation to plants.

Details: This weather effect is the most frequent and has no unusual details, except that the skies darken and the sound of raindrops hitting the ground muffles the music.

Sandstorm

Effects: Has a chance for your plants to get the Sandy mutation.

Details: The player’s camera will shake slowly, and sand particles will fly around the map.

Solar Eclipse

Effects: Has a chance to apply the Eclipse mutation.

Details: The Skybox will turn dark, and the sun will be black in its center with sun rays coming from the sides.

Thunderstorm

Effects: Increases growth speed by 50%, a 50% chance to apply Wet mutation to plants, and any crops struck by lightning get the Shocked mutation.

Details: Placing a Lightning Rod will attract lightning strikes to within the rod’s range of effect three times. The rod is then permanently destroyed.

Tornado

Effects: Tornadoes will appear around the map. Any crops that a tornado passes over will get the Twisted mutation.

Details: There is a chance that multiple tornadoes will appear simultaneously.

Tropical Rain

Effects: Increases growth speed by 50% and has a chance to apply the Drenched mutation to plants.

Details: This torrential downpour lightly floods the ground, but this does not affect plants in your garden.

Windy

Effects: Has a chance to apply the Windstruck mutation.

Details: Nothing of note apart from it has wind particles flying around the map to show it’s windy.

Bee Swarm

Effects: A bee will visit the garden, applying the Pollinated mutation to random crops.

Details: This weather lasts 10 minutes and was available during the Bee event.

Corrupted Aura

Effects: An orb will fly to a plant once every 30 seconds to apply the Corrupt mutation to one of your plants.

Details: Available during the Zen event, this weather had a chance to replace a Zen Aura weather event with its distinctive red glow.

Fall Bloom

Effects: Has a chance of giving a plant the Fall mutation.

Details: Part of the Fall Market event, filling the Full Bloom meter by donating specified plants will trigger the Fall Bloom weather for 5 minutes.

Kitchen Storm

Effects: Doubles cooking time, has a chance to apply the Aromatic mutation, and increases the chances of food carrying over crop mutations.

Details: Pots, pans, and other kitchen utensils will fly across the screen, resembling the Gale weather in its intensity. It was available during the Cooking event.

Fairies

Effects: Fairies will visit the garden and apply the Glimmering mutation to random crops.

Details: Occurring frequently during the Fairies event, it initially lasts 10 minutes, but could last longer if players give Sheckles to the Fairy Godmother.

Mega Summer Harvest

Effects: Grants players 2x growth speed and 2x Harvest points, but otherwise allows the same functionality as the Summer Harvest event.

Details: Available during the Summer event, it lasts 10 minutes.

Summer Harvest

Effects: Placing Summer Fruits in the cart that appears during this weather event, and waiting a while will reward you with prizes.

Details: Available during the Summer event, it lasts 10 minutes.

Worker Bee Swarm

Effects: Multiple bees will visit the garden, applying the Pollinated mutation more frequently than the standard Bee Swarm. This weather also gives 10x craft speed.

Details: This weather lasts 10 minutes and was available during the Bee event.

Zen Aura

Effects: An orb will fly to a plant once every 30 seconds to apply the Tranquil mutation to one of your plants.

Details: Available during the Zen event, this weather occurred every hour with the countdown showing in the Zen Tree in the event space.

Admin Only weather

There are many other weather effects that you’ll only see if an Admin is in your game session. Some are experimental weather effects that do appear in future updates, while many more are based on Jandel and Flamingo, two developers behind Grow A Garden. Some rarer ones also appeared during Admin events. Here are all the relevant Admin weathers:

• Disco – chance to apply Disco and forces players to dance.
• Jandel Storm – lightning strikes 4 times a second with the Jandel Sun God behind the Gear Shop.
• Shekel Rain – money falls from the sky for 1-3 minutes that can be collected.
• Chocolate Rain – chance to apply Choc mutation.
• Laser Storm – Jandel NPC spawns and shoots laser beams at random. Any crops hit by laser beams get the Plasma mutation.
• Monster Mash – forces players to dance the Monster Mash, while rewarding them with the Monster Mash Potion trophy.
• DJ Sam – chance to apply the Disco mutation.
• Black Hole – chance to apply the Void Touched mutation.
• Beenado – chance to apply the Pollinated mutation. Happens if Tornado is activated during a Bee Swarm.
• Luck – has no effect.
• Floating Jandel – chance to apply the Heavenly mutation.
• Volcano – chance to apply Molten mutation. Comes with a warning before it happens. Crops struck by lava blocks also get the Molten mutation.
• Lightning Storm – chance to apply the Blitzshock mutation. Occurred during a Celebrity Guest event.
• Post Dunk – chance to apply the Touchdown mutation. Occurred during a Celebrity Guest event.
• Route Runner – chance to apply Subzero mutation. Occurred during a Celebrity Guest event.
• Money Rain – chance to apply the Jackpot mutation.
• Space Travel – chance to apply Galactic mutation, lowers gravity, and increases growth speed by 75%. Four or more players need to stand on the highest asteroid to get it to crash down. Doing so gives all crops a 0.4% chance of getting the Starized mutation.
• Alien Invasion – chance to apply the Alienlike mutation.
• Under The Sea – a chance to apply the Wet mutation, while also giving the player underwater physics.
• Solar Flare – chance to apply Sundried and Verdant mutations.
• Fried Chicken – chance to apply Fried mutation.
• Pool Party – all affected players get a free Duck Float cosmetic.
• Brains.. – chance to apply the infected mutation. Players can infect others by walking into them.
• Text Collect – once all letters have been collected, all crops have a chance to get the Disco mutation.
• Obby – players who complete the Obby that appears will receive a special jump pad cosmetic that gives them a jump boost when walked upon.
• Radioactive Carrot – launching the huge carrot that spawns on the map by giving it carrots gives crops the chance to obtain the Radioactive mutation.
• Armageddon – chance to apply both Molten and Burnt mutations.
• Jandel Katana – a giant Jandel appears behind the Gear Shop and slices the map in half. This gives some crops the Sliced mutation.
• Stock Hammer – a giant Jandel appears behind the Gear Shop with a hammer. Every time he strikes it, the Seed or Gear Shop will restock a single item.
• Junkbot Raid – chance to apply the Junkshock mutation as Junkbots spawn in the sky to unleash green lightning bolts.
• Boil Rain – chance to apply the Boil mutation.
• Oil Rain – chance to apply the Oil mutation.
• Floating Flamingo – causes Flamingo’s Roblox avatar to float in the air, giving the Heavenly mutation. This appeared during the Celebrity Host Admin Abuse event.
• Falling Flamingo – was used to restock items and appeared during the Celebrity Host Admin Abuse event.
• Stoplight – introduces a minigame of Red Light, Green Light against a Blood Owl. The winner gets the Stoplight cosmetic item. Also has a chance to apply the Lightcycle mutation. It also restocks Prismatic items at the Gear Shop, which you can only buy by winning.
• Beanaura – if four people are holding a Beanstalk, they will get the Beanbound mutation, and some of their crops also have a chance to get it. This occurred during the Admin Abuse War event, requiring players to do a task to get the special seed they needed to participate.
• Drought – chance to apply the Wiltproof mutation.
• Boombox Party – a chance to apply the Disco mutation, and Boomboxes appear on the map.
• Dissonant – chance to apply the Glitched mutation, which is a placeholder name.
• Find The Pet – many pets will appear around the map, and finding the pet shown on the missing pet sign rewards the player with a random egg.
• Water Your Gardens – players can give plants the Wet mutation by watering their plants, or have a small chance of giving them Drenched instead.
• Rain Dance – Higher Drenched and Wet mutation chance. Using a dance emote while holding a fruit will give it the Disco mutation.
• Rainbow – has a very small chance of applying the Rainbow mutation, but doesn’t say anything. Has a beautiful rainbow in the corner.
• Sunset – has a high chance of applying the Verdant mutation.
• Ice King – fruit has a high chance of getting the Subzero mutation. Place 5 fruits of Divine or higher rarity on all the pedestals to awaken the Ice King. If he awakens in time, everyone gets the Frostspike seed.
• Sword – a sword will embed itself into the ground somewhere on the map. Players need to find it and mash the use button until it’s free. It will then dart across the sky, applying the Sliced mutation to several fruits.
• Offering – a pedestal will appear in front of your garden. Place a fruit (Blueberry during the last Admin Abuse, but it could be other fruit types) on the pedestal to activate the blades to give your fruits a high chance of getting the Severed mutation.
• Midas Rain – gives fruits a higher chance of getting the Gilded mutation.
• Strobe Party – push the four buttons to match the colors on the signs to activate a higher Disco fruit chance.