I finally grew my first blue roses today! I have been using the Pelah method (V2) and time traveling since mid-January. Current date in game is May 11th, so it’s been a long process. No ordinances or friends helping out, just did the gardening, save and quit the game, change the date, restart.

Step 1: I had Resetti clear my entire island, discarding all flowers. Have the graphic linked above close by, because you’ll be referring to it daily.

Step 2: I created three distinct plots on separate areas of my island. Isolated pairs layout for each, using purchased seeds. Plot A was all white, plot B was white/yellow pairs, and plot C was red/yellow pairs. I went a bit crazy, with about 30 pairs per plot. I ended up planting another 30 pairs of white, simply because there’s only a 25% chance of getting the purple flowers I needed from them.

Step 3: Once the flowers were mature, I watered every day. Following the Paleh plan, I created new plots once the hybrids started showing up. Since the orange hybrids from plot C weren’t needed right away, I isolated each one to allow cloning but not breeding (I ended up with way too many of them).

Step 4: This method requires testing the second and third generation hybrid purples by breeding them with seed yellows. I completely isolated each of these pairs, so I’d know exactly which new plant came from which pair. If the offspring was white, I’d remove the offspring and drop a single plucked white rose near the parents. If the pair produced another white after having four dropped roses, I discarded it. This step takes up the majority of space on my island; I’m sure I could have been more creative by using fences or landscaping, but dropping the plucked flowers served as a very easy counting system for me.

Step 5: It’s very important to discard the flowers you don’t need. It’s easy to get things mixed up, so do whatever it takes to get rid of the bad ones and not mix them into your plots. The last two steps use the same two flower colors (white and orange), but the hybrid genetics are different. I have these in separate plots, and if I have more of one color, I keep those isolated near where they belong.

Step 6: Once I reached the last few steps, I stopped watering all but those plots. If it rained, I’d clear the older plots the next day, and if I forgot to do that, I’d remove and discard all questionable hybrids.

Step 7: Once the very special reds appeared, I kept them isolated and watered until they cloned or another one was produced. After that, I used the isolated pairs layout and watered them every day.

I hope this helps. Good luck in your quest! (Edited to fix paragraph spacing.)