How to Get the Secret Eclipse Bloom Seed in Grow A Garden 2

Eclipse Bloom is the first Secret-tier crop in Grow a Garden 2, and there is no seed packet for it anywhere in the shop. It only exists as the result of a merge, which is why so many players buy the new Sun Bloom seed, stare at it, and never work out what the “correct knowledge” hint is actually pointing at.

The answer is the plant you already own: Moon Bloom. Grow one of each, stand them side by side, and the game hands you a Merge option that turns the pair into a single glowing purple Eclipse Bloom.

What you need before the merge

Eclipse Bloom is made, not bought. Nothing in the shop sells it, no NPC hands it over, and it isn’t a chest or event drop — its only listed source is a plant merge, and its only “price” is the two plants you feed into it. That makes the setup simple to describe and expensive to actually assemble, since the Sun Bloom seed runs 110 million Sheckles.

The one rule that catches everyone out is maturity. Both plants have to be fully grown in the ground before Merge will do anything — seeds sitting in your inventory and half-grown sprouts are both dead ends. And the merge is permanent: it eats the Sun Bloom and the Moon Bloom, so anything still hanging on those plants goes with them.

How to get Eclipse Bloom in Grow a Garden 2

Buy the Sun Bloom seed

Pick up the Sun Bloom seed from the shop; it costs 110 million Sheckles and it is the half of the recipe most players are missing.

Plant the Sun Bloom

Drop it on an open plot square with space beside it, because the Moon Bloom needs to sit next to it later.

Grow it all the way

A super watering can speeds things up, but the Sun Bloom still needs its full two-hour cycle — a partially grown plant will not merge.

Bring a fully grown Moon Bloom over

Move a mature Moon Bloom next to the Sun Bloom; if you don’t own one, plant a Moon Bloom seed and grow it out first.

Place the two plants together

With Sun Bloom and Moon Bloom side by side, a new Merge option appears, listing Eclipse Bloom as the result.

Harvest any fruit first

Merging destroys both plants, so collect whatever is hanging on them now and clear inventory space if you’re full.

Press Merge

Hit M on the merge prompt to start the combination.

Confirm the Moon Bloom and Sun Bloom merge

The game asks whether you want to merge the Moon Bloom and the Sun Bloom into a new Eclipse Bloom — confirm it and a short cutscene plays.

Collect your Eclipse Bloom

The purple Eclipse Bloom lands in the plot the two plants occupied, and Eclipse Bloom becomes replantable afterward, though the exact moment it shows up in your seed list can vary.

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Eclipse Bloom stats and why it’s worth farming

Eclipse Bloom is a Secret-tier, repeat-harvest crop, which is the part that makes the 110-million-Sheckle Sun Bloom sting less. You aren’t trading two plants for one payout — you’re trading them for a plant that keeps producing, and one that pulls better numbers than running Sun Bloom and Moon Bloom side by side ever would.

Its fruit averages around 12,000 Sheckles, on an average weight of 9.00kg, and it’s currently the only Secret seed in the game. It doesn’t come with a movement perk the way Moon Bloom’s low-gravity jump boost does, so its whole case is money. If a freshly merged Eclipse Bloom seems to ignore super watering cans entirely, that’s a bug rather than a very long grow timer — rejoining the server is the usual fix.

Mistakes that stop the Eclipse Bloom merge

The most common failure is trying to merge seeds. Merging is a plant interaction, not an inventory one — two Sun Bloom and Moon Bloom seeds sitting in your bag will never produce anything, and neither will two sprouts you planted an hour ago. Both plants have to be fully grown in the ground before the option even shows up.

The second is harvesting at the wrong time. You want to pull fruit off both plants before you merge, not after, because the merge removes the plants themselves. Get that order backwards and you’ve thrown away a harvest cycle on plants that cost a fortune.

The rest is people looking for a source that doesn’t exist. There’s no Eclipse Bloom shop listing, no NPC that trades one, no map location to visit. And Eclipse Bloom is not Eclipse Mutation — that’s the Solar Eclipse weather multiplier from the original Grow a Garden, a completely separate mechanic in a completely separate game.

Sun Bloom, Star Fruit and the Firefly pet

Eclipse Bloom arrived alongside two other headline additions. Star Fruit costs 300 million Sheckles and is the more expensive of the new seeds; it glows at night, periodically strikes nearby fruit with beams of starlight, and applies the Glow mutation — a 100x multiplier, which is the strongest in the game and matters enormously since mutations don’t stack here.

The other addition is the Firefly pet at 3 million Sheckles, with a 0.6% spawn chance around the map. Each equipped Firefly adds +2% plant size, capped at 50% total, and it has to stay equipped to do anything. If you’re chasing heavy Eclipse Bloom fruit, that size bonus is the multiplier you want stacked behind it.