‘A Farmers Guide to Mutations’ Episode #1: Mystic Herb
Greetings and welcome to the first episode of ‘A Farmers Guide to Mutations’. A step-by-step guide complete with pictures to show best ways to obtaining the various corp mutations in Harvest Moon Light of Hope.
Today, we will be focusing on Celery, but more specifically: Mystic Herb.
The Mystic Herb is a mutation of celery that only occurs in the summer on grassy terrain, so without further ado, let’s get our hands dirty.
First you wanna make sure you have a bunch of celery seeds and that the season is summer.
You’ll want to plant anywhere from 50 to 100 units of celery on your farm. I will be doing far less for the sake of the guide. Your ultimate end goal here is to grow 20 mystic herbs to sell to Sam so that the seeds become available to purchase.
Once you have your seeds in the ground and have watered them, you’re going to need to sprinkle some celery blend fertilizer to promote mutation growth.
The recipe for celery blend is: 4x compost, 3x celery and 2x sardine per ten unites of compost. I recommend making enough fertilizer to cover your celery field in its entirety for the first two days of growth.
Once applied, you’ll get the little fertilizer packet icon within the bubble.
After the first two days of celery fertilizer, you can change things up and use normal fertilizer to keep the crops healthy, particularly if you happen to get a storm or heat wave, which can lower the health of the crop and potentially kill it.
After a few days, your celery will mature and you will wake up one morning to a field of beautiful, if not gross tasting, celery! And if you fertilized it properly, you’ll see some plants with different colors.
Those light green plants are your mystic herb, and as you step over it, your thought bubble will contain a question mark, signaling that it is a new crop that you have yet to record in your encyclopedia.
Congratulations! You grew a mystic herb. They have a 24% chance of mutating under the right conditions, and you need to sell 20 to Sam in order to unlock their seeds.
MYSTIC HERB Base Crop: Celery Fertilizer: Celery Blend Season: Summer # Sold to Unlock: 20 Mutation Chance: 24%