Welcome to The Bell Tree's Sakura Week, the latest edition of our annual hybrid growing event, running from March 24th to 31st! During this event, you can find special limited time opportunities to purchase flowers, grow hybrids, collect historic scenery, and earn bells.
As the name implies, the highlight of this year's event are three brand new Sakura flower collectibles to buy and grow!
Sakura Week's Flowers To Buy & Grow
For this event, the Shop will sell common Sakura, Rose, and Hyacinth flowers. These same types of flowers can then be grown into special hybrids as well. Find an overview of all the flowers involved in this event below, and keep reading for full details on how hybrid growing works.
Sakura
Pink Sakura and White Sakura are available for 59 Bells in Shop.
Purple Sakura and Blue Sakura can be grown as hybrids.
Red, Yellow, and White Roses are available for 39 Bells in Shop.
Gold, Black, Orange, Purple, Pink, and Blue Roses can be grown as hybrids.
Red, Yellow, and White Hyacinths are available for 39 Bells in Shop.
Orange, Pink, Blue, and Purple Hyacinths can be grown as hybrids.
Hybrid Flower Growing Guide
During Sakura Week, you can enjoy a fun unique forum feature we call hybrid flower growing! You will be able to grow hybrid flower collectibles in your line-up from your regular flower collectibles, just like in the real Animal Crossing games.
Each night, the flowers in your collectible line-up have a small chance to produce a new hybrid collectible from the list of eligible hybrid flowers. This will begin on the evening of Tuesday, March 25th and take place for 7 nights through Monday, March 31st.
How To Grow Hybrid Flowers
- Flower collectibles must be visible in your line-up and can be paired horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to breed.
- To increase your chances of growing a hybrid, you can fit as many pairs into your line-up as possible.
- Each hybrid combination has a base 1% chance of growing a hybrid.
- Placing a Watering Can item in your line-up increases the chance of growing a hybrid from any pair in your lineup.
- Other users watering your new posts with a Watering Can increases the chance of growing hybrids further with an additional bonus.
- If a hybrid combination has multiple possible results, equal random chance between all possibilities will determine the final result when a hybrid is grown.
- If you successfully grow a hybrid, it will not decrease your chances of growing another one in the subsequent days.
- However, you cannot grow more than one of each hybrid per day.
- You can only grow a hybrid if you have logged into the forum since the last round of growth, or the event's start for the first round.
- Each round of growth will take place in the late evening EDT beginning Tuesday, March 25th.
- Golden Watering Can must be displayed in your line-up to grow Gold Roses.
- All bonuses, including watering can bonus and water reaction bonus, do not apply to growing Gold Roses.
The following hybrid flower combinations can be grown during Sakura Week...
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Improve Flower Growing with Watering Cans
Want to increase the odds of growing a hybrid flower collectible in your line-up? Leif is selling Watering Can items in the Shop during Sakura Week to help you out! Watering Cans give multiple perks to help both yourself and others increase the odds of growing hybrid flower collectibles.
You can buy two different types of Watering Cans in the Shop:
- Flimsy Watering Can costs 149 Bells and...
- Increases the chance of you producing hybrids by 2.5%, when placed in your line-up.
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Water reaction, which Increases the chance of another user producing hybrids by 0.075%, when watering their new posts. - Expires as a temporary collectible after Sakura Week ends.
- Golden Watering Can costs 499 Bells and...
- Increases the chance of you producing hybrids by 5%, when placed in your line-up.
- Unlocks Sparkle Water reaction, which Increases the chance of another user producing hybrids by 0.15% when watering their new posts.
- Enables the exclusive ability to breed two Black Roses into a Gold Rose, when placed in your line-up.
- Keep as a permanent decorative collectible after Sakura Week ends, but a refill may be needed in future events to use flower benefits.
When watering other user's posts with either Watering Can, the following applies:
- Water other users by using the special Water or Sparkle Water reactions on their posts.
- The watering bonus only applies when water is reacted on new posts made since the last round of growth, or the event's start for the first round.
- You can only receive a maximum total of 7% bonus increased chance through other users watering your posts.
- The bonus chance resets each night after the latest hybrid growth time.
Look Out For Weeds & ???
Introduced for this edition of flower growing, look out for three new possible suspects to find their way into your line-up throughout the event!
- Weeds: Sometimes when growing flowers, a pesky weed or two may appear and disrupt your line-up! These can be sold back to the Shop for 3 Bells before discarding after two weeks.
- ??? ?????: To be unlocked and discovered in the Community Goals...
- ???? ?? ??? ??????: To be unlocked and discovered in the Community Goals...
Leif's Community Goals
New for this year's flower growing event, you can unlock Community Goals from Leif together as a team! All of the goals in the table below are unlocked based on the total number of new hybrids grown throughout Sakura Week. Good luck everyone -- let's see if you can unlock them all!
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125 | New possible appearance in line-ups after hybrid growth! |
250 | Another new possible appearance in line-ups after hybrid growth! |
375 |  Leif Bell Bonus extended by one week! |
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Collect Historic Scenery
Historic Scenery -- a special kind of scenery collectible that features datestamps into the past -- is now available again for a limited time during Sakura Week helping to make new line-ups possible!
How Historic Scenery Works
Here's what you need to know about how Historic Scenery works during Sakura Week:
- Historic versions of all Scenery styles released to date are available.
- Each Historic Scenery item costs 50 Bells each, regardless of style.
- You can choose datestamps from October 1st, 2012 to March 1st, 2025.
- A maximum limit of 5 Historic Scenery may be purchased during Sakura Week. This will be enforced at the end of the event by automatically discarding excess purchases and is not limited by the Shop's cart.
- Transformations of Historic Scenery into your desired date and style will be processed after Sakura Week ends.
How To Buy & Use Historic Scenery
For the time being, the process to buy Historic Scenery is a bit clunky and complicated, so please be patent with us following these instructions carefully in the spoiler below:
Step 1: Purchase up to 5 Historic Scenery items from the Shop, regardless of the style you wish to have.
Step 2: Find the Historic Scenery items in your inventory and click Configure.
Step 3: To select the historic date and time, you must enter a unix timestamp into the matching Unix Timestamp field.
To complete this field, go to this website and input your desired date and time. Ensure the time zone matches your forum time zone setting for consistency with your existing collectibles. Copy the very number in the list that is in a pure number format and paste it into the Unix Timestamp field. It'll look something like this: 1713660180
Step 4: To select the style of scenery, you must enter one of the following keywords into the Scenery Style field that matches the styles seen in the Shop here:
Please be sure to enter the keywords exactly as seen above or your Historic Scenery will not transform.
Step 5: As an example, the screenshot below is what I would input if I wanted a Night Sky Scenery to appear in my line-up on September 19th, 2020 at 9:44PM. Be sure to hit Save!
Step 2: Find the Historic Scenery items in your inventory and click Configure.
Step 3: To select the historic date and time, you must enter a unix timestamp into the matching Unix Timestamp field.
To complete this field, go to this website and input your desired date and time. Ensure the time zone matches your forum time zone setting for consistency with your existing collectibles. Copy the very number in the list that is in a pure number format and paste it into the Unix Timestamp field. It'll look something like this: 1713660180
Step 4: To select the style of scenery, you must enter one of the following keywords into the Scenery Style field that matches the styles seen in the Shop here:
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lightbrown, lightgreen, skyclouds, skygrass, golden, snowstorm, playful, nightsky, arcade, enchantedforestPlease be sure to enter the keywords exactly as seen above or your Historic Scenery will not transform.
Step 5: As an example, the screenshot below is what I would input if I wanted a Night Sky Scenery to appear in my line-up on September 19th, 2020 at 9:44PM. Be sure to hit Save!
Get Bonus Bells From Leif
Looking for some extra bells in your wallet during Sakura Week? There are two ways Leif can help you out right now!
Daily Leif Bell Bonus
Until the end of March, earn an extra 15 Bells bonus for every day that you create a post in an eligible board. This is an additional bonus on top of whatever amount of Bells you may already receive from posting. Happy earning!
Eligible boards include Animal Crossing discussion boards, Nintendo Treehouse, Gamer's Lounge, The Museum, and bell-eligible Brewster's Cafe threads. The daily bonus resets and can be earned again after 22 hours have passed.
Pick Weeds In Leif's Mini-game
Leif needs your help cleaning up his garden from a weed infestation! Play his mini-game here to earn some Bells for your assistance, and look out for an extra clean up shift or two to pick up later this week.
Credits
- Jeremy: Hybrid flower growing feature development.
- Justin: Event planning, organizing, writing, weed picking mini-game.
- Chris: Sakura collectible recolouring.
- Laudine: Original Sakura collectible creation.
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Love the little weeding game 
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And I'm glad we're breeding roses and hyacinths this time around since I was hoping to get a purple hyacinth and a gold rose (if I'm lucky) before learning of that.
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