TLDR: Always double-click a flower before purchasing. You will receive the flower shown at the top, not the complete hybrid!

Each flower ordinal represents a “raw ingredient” or “base element”. When you are viewing a marketplace, such as Magic Eden, some of the flowers will already be 🧬hybridized. Hybrids usually look more complicated, like this:

If you buy a single flower, you are only buying one of the raw ingredients! When it arrives in your wallet, the flower will ⚗️distill back to its base flower and may look something like this:

The original hybrid was actually made of the four base flowers shown below, and you need to own all four to recreate this hybrid. You can see the ingredients that make up each hybrid by double-clicking it:

Please ensure that you understand how the collection works before purchasing any flowers. You can read the “🧬 Breeding – Quick-Start Guide” section below to get started right away, or the “🛍️ Buying Intact Hybrids – How To Prevent Distillation/Remixing” section to find out how to buy all the flowers needed to recreate a hybrid that you really love!

Step 1. You need more than one flower to get started. Three would be a good number for experimenting. You can buy them from Magic Eden. If you buy flowers individually, they will arrive in their base/raw form, even if they looked like a fancy hybrid before purchase (please see the “⚠️ IMPORTANT” warning above):

If you buy more than one flower in a single purchase, they will breed together when they arrive, so they may end up looking more like these:

Step 2. The key to understanding hybridization is knowing which raw ingredients make up each flower. You can double-click any flower to see its “progenitors”, the pure flowers that were combined to create it. Double-clicking one of the flowers above displays this:

This shows that the hybrid is made of Flower #516 and #673. If this appeared in your wallet after your first purchase, then you must have bought #516 and #673 at the same time, so that they bred together. If you had bought an individual flower instead, the Progenitor View (after double-clicking) would look much simpler:

Only one progenitor means that this flower is already in its “distilled” base form.

Step 3. Once you have bought some flowers, you can experiment with breeding them in different combinations. Breeding is very simple. First, make sure your wallet is connected to Magic Eden in the top right of the page:

Step 4. Next, view the ordinals in your wallet by clicking the top right again:

And then clicking your address at the very top:

Step 5. Select some flowers by clicking the + to their upper-right:

Let’s breed the pink and the blue flowers together:

Step 6. In the bottom right of the screen there is the option to list your flowers for sale, but just next to it are three dots, click them to see the “Transfer” option:

Click “Transfer 2 items”, or however many flowers you have selected, to bring up a “Transfer Items” pop-up:

Step 7. Finally, you need to send the flowers back to your own wallet (or any other wallet that you own). Transferring them together in a single transaction is what causes them to breed. Find your wallet address near the top right of the page:

Click to copy it:

Then paste it into the Recipients Ordinals Address field in the Transfer Items pop-up in the bottom right. Check that the address and the flower combination are correct, and then click the pink button to initiate the transfer process:

Confirm that you want to proceed:

Step 8. Your wallet (Xverse, Unisat, etc) should then load up for you to confirm the transfer. You should be comfortable doing this part without screenshots. After authorizing the transfer, you can monitor the transaction using a block explorer such as mempool.space:

Step 9. After the transaction confirms, your flowers will hybridize. Compare these hybrids below with the original pink and blue flower above:

Step 10. Congratulations, you just performed your first ordinal hybridization! And not just with any ordinals, with the first breedable ordinals to ever hit the blockchain! Next up, you could try breeding some different combinations and learn what’s needed to create beautiful and complex hybrids. Or discover how flowers grow automatically and how to get your hands on the fastest growing flowers. When you’re ready for something more technical, look into how you can manually feed your flowers extra sats to make them grow!

Here are some beautiful hybrids that were created in the first week after the collection was minted:

TLDR: Double-click any flower TWICE to get to the inbuilt “Population View” browser (it looks like a spiral of flowers). Look for flowers with more than one whorl (ring/layer) of petals and then search for their #ID on ME to see if they are available. Flower #ID numbers are also important for growing new petals faster. Here is the ranking from fastest to slowest growing:

• #000: ~26 new whorls per year
• #001 & #002: ~5 new whorls per year
• #003 – #009: ~2 new whorls per year
• #010 – #029: ~1 new whorl per year
• #030 – #099: ~1 new whorl every 2 years
• #100 – #299: ~1 new whorl every 3 years
• #300 – #999: ~1 new whorl every 4 years

Introduction

There is a lot of complexity behind the F4F rarity tiers and the underlying 🌠Chaindrop system. You can read more about how chaindrops work in the “🌸 Whorls & 🌠 Chaindrops – How Flowers Grow” section further below. It’s important to note that the F4F rarity system was not arbitrarily created by Zed Zeroth, but rather it is inherently determined by the bitcoin mining process.

When buying flowers, there are two factors to keep an eye out for:

1. #ID number – This determines rarity and the frequency of future chaindrops, which in turn leads to more whorls and better hybrids.
2. Whorl number – This represents the number of chaindrops that the flower has already “won” in previous “rarehash lotteries”.

What are whorls?

Whorls are the “layers” of petals that each base flower has. Here are single (1-whorl), double (2-whorl), and triple (3-whorl) flowers:

Importantly, breeding can also create hybrid flowers with multiple whorls. Take a look at this flower, for example:

This flower may look like a triple (3-whorl) flower, but if we double-click it to see the Progenitor View…

We can see it’s actually a hybrid made of a single and a double (1+2 hybrid)! You might have bought this flower thinking you’d get this:

But it would “distill” upon purchase back to its “raw ingredient” flower (#654 at the top) and you’d actually just get this:

IMPORTANT RULE NUMBER ONE: Always double-click a flower to see what it’s made of! You are always buying the flower shown at the top of the Progenitor View!

Why are whorls important?

Breeding flowers is not as simple as just layering their whorls on top of each other, but that IS what happens when you only breed singles (base flowers each with 1 whorl) together. Notice that when I breed these four singles together, the hybrid is simply each of them layered up on top of each other:

Now let’s try breeding two doubles together. That’s still a total of four whorls, right? Above we had 4 x 1, but now we’re trying 2 x 2. But have a look at what happens:

The additional whorls multiply with each other, creating more complex “whorls of smaller whorls”

Note: The * above each progenitor #ID shows that I used a “postage power-up” to increase the number of whorls. See the “💌 Postage Power-Ups – Add More Whorls by Feeding Your Flower Sats” section for more details.

IMPORTANT RULE NUMBER TWO: Base flowers with more whorls are more valuable because they can create more beautiful hybrids.

Here’s a “1+2+2+3” (1 single, 2 doubles, 1 triple) hybrid:

Finding flowers with more whorls

We’ve already discussed double-clicking to get to the Progenitor View. But if you double-click again you get to the Population View:

This is an in-built flower browser that not only lets you see what every base flower looks like (including its whorls/chaindrops) but you can also click any flower to see whether it’s been hybridized by someone else!

You can use the Population View browser to search for doubles and triples, and then check their availability on Magic Eden.

It’s quite likely that doubles/triples will have already been taken, so here’s a really exciting tip. Head to mempool.space and check the “Difficulty Adjustment” countdown:

This tells you how long it is until the next set of chaindrops hits the flowers. When this happens, a random selection of flowers will be upgraded, from singles to doubles, doubles to triples etc. You can read the “🌸 Whorls & 🌠 Chaindrops – How Flowers Grow” for more details on exactly how this works, but in terms of getting hold of an upgraded flower, please see the “🌠 Chaindrops – Reading the Rarehash” section. Understanding this lets you find the upgraded flowers as soon as the rareblock confirms, and you can grab the best flowers before anyone else!

Finding flowers that grow faster!

Flowers grow an extra whorl of petals whenever their #ID number appears in the fortnightly rarehash. Rarehashes are partly random, but due to the nature of bitcoin mining, there are rules which increases the odds of some flowers “winning” more than others. Here’s an example of a rarehash (the first one to hit the collection):

00000000000000000001d2cbad2209f51143679b6797aef393a45e82eb88a9ae

Bitcoin miners currently “roll” tens of trillions of hashes every second in an attempt to get a hash below a certain threshold (to win some bitcoin!). This means that current blockhashes will always start with lots of 0s. As such, Flower #000, the 🌺Mythic Mandoshi flower, will always win EVERY rarehash, because the digits “000” will always appear. Now, at the end of all those 0s, you can get any hexadecimal digit between 0 and “f” (16). This means that flowers starting with “00” are very likely to appear. Furthermore, because of patterns in the threshold that the miners have to achieve, “001” and “002” are substantially more like to appear, making #001 and #002 more desirable than the other 🌹Legendary Mandoshi (#003-#009). Flowers starting with a single zero (#0XX) grow more slowly, but still faster than those without any leading zero at all. The “1 or 2 is better” logic also still applies, i.e. 🌷Epic Mandoshi (#010-#029) grow slower than 🌹Legendaries, but grow faster than 🌻Rares (#030-#099). 🌼Uncommons (#100-#299) grow slower than 🌻Rares, but faster than 🌱Commons (#300-#999).

Please see “🏵️ Rarity – Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary & the Mythic Mandoshi” for a table summarising flower rarity.

Buying Identical Hybrids

If you see a hybrid for sale that you really like, the only way to perfectly recreate it is to buy its precise ingredients. Let’s say you saw this beautiful hybrid for sale:

Double-clicking to get to the Progenitor View, we can see that it is made of double flower #002 and triple flower #019 (a 2+3 hybrid):

You need to check that both #002 and #019 are for sale, and purchase them in a single transaction using the + toggles while viewing the collection on Magic Eden:

If these flowers aren’t for sale then you can’t recreate this exact hybrid. But all is not lost, please continue reading.

Creating Near Replicas of Existing Hybrids

F4F hybrids can exhibit fascinating complexity, and there are near infinite possible combinations. However, the algorithms governing their generation are fully deterministic. This means that if we create a “2+3” combination like the hybrid we wanted above, especially if petal shapes and colors are similar, then we can end up with very similar (or maybe better!) hybrids!

Assuming that #002 and #019 are not available, let’s try to find a triple flower ending in a “2” and a double flower ending in a “9”. The final digit determines the color so these will have identical base colors.

First I double-click a flower twice to enter the Population View, and then I start searching. Take a look at #059 and compare it to #019 above. Identical colors, slightly pointier petals! Let’s imagine that #059 is available to buy.

Now triples are a lot harder to find currently (they will become more common over time). The closest match I could find was double #801:

First I buy the two flowers together, they will hybridize when they arrive in my wallet:

The hybrid looks similar to what I wanted, but it’s not good enough as it’s a 2+2 instead of a 2+3. So now I’m going to apply a “💌 Postage Power-Up” to #801. There are more details on the exact process in the “💌 Postage Power-Ups” section:

Let’s compare the hybrid we wanted and the one we made:

The basic structure is the same but the pointy petals had a bigger impact than expected. Compare the wide large pink petals at the back. Also note that the original #002 had blue/purple/blue layers, whereas our powered-up #801 has purple/blue/purple layers. As such the blues and purples are reversed in our hybrid.

Hopefully that gives you some insight into how you could try to replicate hybrids from different ingredients. In conclusion, matching whorl numbers is essential for the same overall structure, and using similar colors and petal shapes (which usually means similar #ID numbers) will also help.

Step 1. By understanding how the fortnightly rarehash determines which flowers receive upgrades, you can get ahead of the crowd and purchase flowers as soon as they are upgraded. First, head over to mempool.space and see how much time is left until the next “difficulty adjustment”:

At the time of writing there is one happening in 18 hours! So, the first thing to do is set an alarm in advance of this time. Note that this is just a prediction and the rareblock could come sooner. So check back periodically to get a more accurate estimate.

Step 2. Next we need to figure out the block number of the upcoming “rareblock” that will generate the chaindrop. Unfortunately, mempool.space doesn’t tell us this! So we have two options:

(A) Do some math! There are 2016 blocks in each “rarecycle”. So, check the current block number (=854660 in this example). Divide it by 2016 (=423.938…). Round it up (=424). Multiply it by 2016 = 854784 <— This is the next rareblock!

(B) Let someone else do the math! Head over to the CoinWarz Bitcoin Difficulty Chart and note the “Block Height” on the far right (854784):

Step 3. We can use mempool.space to alert us as soon as the rareblock confirms. As it approaches, you can select the pending block:

Then click on a high-fee transaction waiting in that block:

Now when that block confirms, mempool.space will play a sparkly sound effect to alert you!

Step 4. As soon as the rareblock confirms, we need to view its blockhash. You can click a newly confirmed block and see the hash either in the URL (address bar at the top) or copy from the “Hash” field below:

For the block shown above (not a rareblock) the blockhash is:

00000000000000000000257f386cb4ed8e915b153cc7902ecb3c225eb6b4cd55

Step 5. Finally we need to use the blockhash to figure out which flowers have been upgraded so that we can buy them ASAP! Let’s take a look at the last chaindrop rarehash that occurred before this guide was written. 2016 x 423 = 852768:

The rarehash was:

00000000000000000000e844f31793fe4ae95832b43f1c366eb9326e3dcff0c5

Any 3-digit string of numbers (not letters) in the rarehash will upgrade that specific flower. So here we have:

000…844…31793…4…95832…43…1…366…9326…3…0…5

So Flowers #000 and #844 will be upgraded. Inside the “31793” we have #317, #179 and #793. Then there’s #958, #583 and #832. #366 on its own. And finally #932 and #326. So a total of 11 flowers were upgraded.

Note that flowers can receive a maximum of one chaindrop upgrade per rarehash. Repeats of the same number do not provide multiple upgrades. If that was the case then 🌺Mythic #000 would have exploded by now!

When the next rarehash hits the blockchain, you can head to Magic Eden and type these numbers into the search bar and if the price is right, grab yourself some upgraded flowers!

There are 1000 “pure” one-of-one (unique) Mandoshi flowers that can be owned. These can be bred together to create a near infinite number of possible hybrids. For now, let’s focus on the “raw ingredients”. There are 10 possible colors, 10 possible “upper petal widths”, and 10 possible “lower petal widths”. There is one flower for every possible combination, generating the full set of 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000 flowers.

Color variations

30 colors were selected from the Atari 2600 NTSC color palette as a tribute to Half Finney’s Atari game Adventures of Tron.

Of these 30 colors, the 10 in the middle column are assigned as a “base color” for each flower. For example, here is a full set of flowers with identical petal shapes, but each of the 10 color variants:

Note that when a flower grows a new whorl of petals (see the “Whorls” section below), the color can be the same as the base color, or any of it’s 4 neighbors directly to the left/right/above/below. Such as this set:

Shape variations

Petal shape varies in two “dimensions”. The petal can be one of 10 different widths (from narrow to wide) at its base, and it can be one of 10 different widths near the tip. These gives 100 leaf shape variations. Here are some examples of the most extreme shapes.

Wide at base and wide at tip:

Wide at base and narrow at tip:

Narrow at base and wide at tip:

Narrow at base and narrow at tip:

On 20th April 2024, the day of the 4th Bitcoin Halving, 1000 Mandoshi Flowers bloomed in the mind of Ordineer Zed Zeroth. Each flower began life as single “whorl” (a ring or layer) of petals, all of the same color. Here’s how Mandoshi #002, a Legendary Mandoshi, looked the day that it bloomed:

4 days later, the flowers experienced their first “Rare Day”. A Rare Sat was mined in Block 840672 with the blockhash 00000000000000000001d2cbad2209f51143679b6797aef393a45e82eb88a9ae. Mandoshi #002’s collection number “002” did not appear in this RareHash, and so the flower remained unchanged…

Around two weeks later, another Rare Sat was mined, and something very special happened! Take a look at the Rare Sat’s blockhash:

000000000000000000️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6b90d09b5e4fba615eadfc4ce2a19f6a68c9c18d4a2e

It contained the digits “002”, triggering Mandoshi #002 to grow a new whorl of purple petals. These decentralized upgrades, triggered directly by bitcoin blockchain activity, are known as 🌠 “Chaindrops”.

Two more Rare Days passed without “002” appearing in the blockhash. But then in Block 848736, “002” appeared again, and another chaindrop hit Mandoshi #002, causing a new whorl to grow. This time another blue whorl. The color of each whorl is determined by the last character of the rarehash. Effectively, each flower has a palette of five possible colors, and chaindropped petals are randomly chosen from these five colors.

Every Mandoshi can receive chaindrops, but some some are more likely to receive them more often (see the “Rarity” section below), and some just receive more by random luck! Mandoshi #797, for example, should only receive one chaindrop every four years, but, at the time of writing, it has already been chaindropped two new whorls in the last three months:

24th April 2024: 00000000000000000001d2cbad2209f51143679b67️⃣9️⃣7️⃣aef393a45e82eb88a9ae

20th June 2024: 000000000000000000023aadaaa291cac6c2eceb4942ba5d37️⃣9️⃣7️⃣dbc7e54abdab

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