The Fall Market update brings a seasonal Pet Shop to the center of the lobby in Grow a Garden. You’ll find it in front of the tree-like Harvest Spirit NPC. The shop doesn’t work like normal vendors: stock unlocks and restocks are tied to the Fall event’s contribution loop, not a timer. Below is a concise rundown of every pet, how to unlock them, what each passive actually does, and which purchases offer the strongest returns.

How the Fall Pet Shop unlocks and restocks

  • Contribute specific plant types to the Harvest Spirit to fill a shared progress meter and trigger a Fall Bloom.
  • Plant requests rotate periodically (commonly every 30 minutes). When the meter hits 500 points, a Fall Bloom begins for five minutes.
  • Fall Bloom both restocks the Fall Market shops and increments your contribution count. Items unlock at set contribution milestones.
  • There’s no standard refresh timer and no Sheckle-based refresh; triggering Fall Bloom is the only way to restock and progress unlocks.

Point values per plant rarity commonly track past events:

  • Common: 1 | Uncommon: 2 | Rare: 3 | Legendary: 4 | Mythical: 5 | Divine: 6 | Prismatic: 7 | Transcendent: 8
Tip: The game often asks for broad types like Woody, Tropical, Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower. Keep those ready to feed quickly when the request rotates. After a Bloom, expect a short cooldown before you can feed again.

Every item in the Fall Pet Shop

  • Fall Egg — 90,000,000 Sheckles, unlocked by default.
  • Chipmunk — 150,000,000 Sheckles, unlocks after 4 Fall Bloom contributions.
  • Red Squirrel — 400,000,000 Sheckles, unlocks after 7 contributions.
  • Marmot — 700,000,000 Sheckles, unlocks after 10 contributions.
  • Sugar Glider — 900,000,000 Sheckles, unlocks after 13 contributions.
  • Space Squirrel — typically 1,250,000,000 Sheckles, unlocks after 17 contributions.
Note: Some listings show Space Squirrel at 1.2 billion and, less commonly, an earlier unlock threshold in specific builds. Expect small variance as tuning rolls out; the most consistent values are 17 contributions and 1.25 billion.

Fall Egg pets (contents and passives)

Buying and hatching the Fall Egg gives you one of five pets:

  • Robin (Common): Reduces your avatar’s size by roughly 10–20% for easier navigation and tighter pathing.
  • Badger (Rare): About every five minutes, burrows for ~10 seconds; nearby fruits have a chance per second to gain the Cracked mutation (4x value multiplier).
  • Grizzly Bear (Legendary): Roughly every 3–4 minutes, has a chance to apply the Fall mutation (4x) to a nearby fruit; also increases player size by around 8%.
  • Barn Owl (Mythical): Shop-bought pets gain a small base weight bonus (~0.1–0.24 kg, up to 3 kg). Fall-type pets in your garden gain passive XP per second.
  • Swan (Divine): Periodically visits another player’s pet to mimic its ability (about every 24–25 minutes) and regularly blesses a fruit with the Graceful mutation (commonly referenced at 77x).

Event market pets (shop exclusives) and their passives

  • Chipmunk: While you use a Harvest Tool, there’s about a 6–12% chance not to consume a charge. Simple, steady savings over long sessions.
  • Red Squirrel: When a Fall-type pet finishes its ability, that pet’s cooldown starts ~14–15 seconds shorter. Strong force multiplier if you run several Fall-type pets.
  • Marmot: Roughly every nine minutes, burrows and hides in one of several mounds. Find it for a Fall-themed reward; it has a ~15–30% chance to immediately burrow again.
  • Sugar Glider: About every 19–20 minutes, glides over three fruits, copies one mutation from each, and applies it to the next fruit, effectively layering extra mutations into your flow.
  • Space Squirrel: About every 17–18 minutes, ~15% chance to apply the Voidtouched mutation (often cited at 135x) to a random plant.

What to buy first

  • Fall Egg: Low barrier to entry and a shot at high-impact utility (Swan) or garden-wide benefits (Barn Owl, Grizzly Bear). It also lets new players plug into Fall mechanics quickly.
  • Red Squirrel: The cooldown shave on Fall-type pets compounds as you add more Fall pets. It’s a quiet engine that accelerates everything else in the background.
  • Space Squirrel: A long-cycle, high-upside roll on Voidtouched. Even with a modest activation chance, 135x spikes matter for late-game Sheckle generation.

Honorable mentions: Sugar Glider is excellent for mutation stacking in orchards with consistent fruit throughput. Marmot adds a light mini-game with tangible rewards. Chipmunk is a quality-of-life pick that makes sense if you harvest constantly.

Practical tips to trigger more Fall Blooms

  • Play on active servers. Shared progress fills faster when many players feed the Harvest Spirit at once.
  • Bank the “broad five” (Woody, Tropical, Fruit, Vegetable, Flower) since they’re frequently requested.
  • Watch the request bubble and feed in bursts when it matches what you’ve stockpiled, then return to farming or mutation setups between cycles.
  • If you’re chasing shop restocks, coordinate with friends to hit the 500-point threshold back-to-back as cooldowns expire.

Frequently asked clarifications

  • Do shop items restock on a timer? No. Only via Fall Bloom.
  • Do unlocks carry across restocks? Yes. Once you reach a contribution milestone, that item stays unlocked; you still need Blooms for restocking inventory.
  • Why do some numbers differ between players? Minor balance updates and server timing can lead to small discrepancies (e.g., Space Squirrel cost at 1.2B vs. 1.25B, or slight timing drift on passive triggers). Treat the values above as typical ranges.

Bottom line: push contribution milestones early to open the shop, grab the Fall Egg for breadth, slot in Red Squirrel to accelerate your Fall ecosystem, then aim for Space Squirrel as your late-game inflection point. From there, mutation-focused pets (Sugar Glider, Grizzly Bear, Swan) can turn a steady harvest into outsized spikes when their timers line up.