Weather is Grow a Garden 2's slot machine in the sky. Every server shares the same forecast, and each event weather carries a mutation it can stamp onto random crops, from Electric strikes to Frozen snaps. The rarest rolls are the moons: two-minute night events that scatter special seeds, gild plants, and occasionally hand someone a Midas touch.
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Time of Day
The base cycle every server runs. Night is short but is both the stealing window and the gate to every moon event.
Day
The default state of the sky, running seven and a half minutes per cycle. Nothing special happens, which is exactly when you plant and water.
- Duration
- 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Sunset
A thirty-second yellow-tinted bridge between day and night. Blink and you miss it.
- Duration
- 30 seconds
Night
Two minutes of darkness when plants can be stolen from plots, and the moon roll happens: most nights are normal, but Gold, Rainbow, Blood, and Mega moons each have a shot at replacing the plain sky.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
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Weather Events
Randomly rolled weathers, most carrying a crop mutation they can apply. Chances shown are per roll, and durations set how long you have to benefit.
Rain
Doubles growth speed for every plant and revives wilted ones. The most common event weather and the one you build harvest timing around.
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Chance
- 28.6%
Lightning
Strikes can hit the map and gift random crops the Electric mutation. Worth keeping valuable crops planted through it.
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Chance
- 21.4%
Rainbow
Boosts the odds of the rainbow mutation and hands you a temporary Rainbow Carpet while the saturated sky lasts.
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Chance
- 14.3%
Snowfall
A short cold snap that can freeze random crops with the Frozen mutation under a white baseplate.
- Duration
- 2 minutes 30 seconds
- Chance
- 7.1%
Starfall
Star meteors rain for two minutes with a chance to leave the Starstruck mutation on random crops.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 7.1%
Aurora
Cyan clouds and a soft glow, with a chance to apply the Aurora mutation to random crops.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 7.1%
Sunburst
A giant sun takes over the map and can leave the Ignited mutation on random crops.
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Chance
- 7.1%
Eclipse
The only weather you trigger yourself: harvesting an Eclipse Bloom summons it, and its beams can apply the Eclipsed mutation.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- Player-triggered
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Moon Events
Night-only takeovers. They scatter special seeds, strike plants gold or rainbow, and include the Fall Harvest exclusive Harvest Moon.
Blood Moon
The rarest natural moon at 2 percent, bathing the map red and applying the Bloodlit mutation.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 2%
Gold Moon
Spawns golden seeds around the map, can grant the Midas touch (your first steal turns gold), and can strike plants gold. Seeds need at least two players in the server to spawn.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 13%
Rainbow Moon
Drops rainbow seeds, can make your first steal turn rainbow, can strike plants rainbow, and even has a 2 percent chance to spawn a rainbow pet on the map.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 6%
Mega Moon
Scatters mega seeds and inflates your avatar while the growing moon shakes the ground.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 2%
Harvest Moon
A Fall Harvest world exclusive that speeds up plant and fruit growth under an amber sky.
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Chance
- 4%
The cycle
Days run seven and a half minutes, then a thirty-second sunset hands over to a two-minute night. Night is when plots become stealable and when the moon roll happens: most nights stay plain, but Gold (13 percent), Rainbow (6), Blood (2), and Mega (2) moons can take over the sky.
Playing the weather
- Rain is the workhorse: double growth speed and revived plants. Time big plantings so they ride a rain window.
- Mutation weathers (Lightning, Snowfall, Starfall, Aurora, Sunburst) can strike random crops with their mutation. The play is having valuable crops planted and unharvested when they roll, since a mutation multiplies value.
- A crop holds one weather mutation at a time, so a second strike replaces rather than stacks.
- Eclipse is the exception to randomness: harvesting an Eclipse Bloom summons it on demand, making it the one mutation weather you can schedule.
Moon economics
Gold and Rainbow moons drop their special seeds only with at least two players in the server, and seed spawn odds scale with server population. Fuller servers literally get better moons, which is a real argument against farming in an empty private server during night cycles.
FAQ
What does Rain do in Grow a Garden 2?
Rain doubles growth speed for every plant and revives wilted ones for five minutes. It is the most common event weather, so planning plantings around rain windows is the easiest weather value there is.
How do weather mutations work?
Mutation weathers like Lightning or Snowfall can strike random planted crops and apply their mutation, which raises the crop's value. A crop can hold only one weather mutation at a time, and crops must be unharvested to be hit.
How do you trigger an Eclipse?
Harvest an Eclipse Bloom. It is the only weather players can summon; everything else rolls randomly on the server's shared forecast.
What are the moon chances at night?
Each night rolls Normal at 77 percent, Gold Moon at 13, Rainbow Moon at 6, and Blood Moon and Mega Moon at 2 each. The Harvest Moon exists separately in the Fall Harvest world.
Why are no gold or rainbow seeds spawning for me?
Those seeds need at least two players in the server, and spawn odds rise with player count. A solo private server during a Gold or Rainbow Moon produces nothing.
