How does flower cross-breeding really work?

[Tiglionabbit]

I know the flower colors combine like this:
gold+blue = “indigo” (but it looks like cyan)
gold+red = peach
indigo+red = pink
pink+peach = lunar tear

I've heard that the game decides what color the flower should grow the instant you plant it, and that this decision depends on its neighbors. So does that mean it matters which order you plant flowers in?

If you plant a blue flower, then a gold flower next to it, is there no chance the blue flower will become indigo? Is there a 20% chance the gold flower will become indigo? If you remove the blue flower, will the gold flower still have a 20% chance of becoming indigo? Given this, should you re-plant the blue flower immediately so it gains the possibility of becoming indigo?

If you plant two blue flowers and then plant a gold flower between them, does that gold flower have the same likelihood of becoming indigo as it would if it were just next to one blue flower? Also, do gold flowers and blue flowers have the same likelihood of becoming indigo?

If you plant a new blue flower next to a gold flower that is already fully grown, then harvest the gold flower, does the blue flower still have the same likelihood of becoming indigo?

Has anyone done science on this, or checked the game's code to find out?

I'm curious because I don't like how so many guides tell you to time-skip to do the gardening quest. I'd rather do it more casually and free-form with no time-skips by periodically checking on my garden and replacing the fully grown plants with new ones. Moonflowers act as healing items anyway, so it's nice to collect them. Anyway, I already have indigo flowers on my first iteration of this, so I must be doing something right. Once I can see that a flower has grown as indigo, can I immediately plant a red flower next to it and have a chance of getting pink?

[Tiglionabbit]

I wonder what happens if you plant a red plant between a gold and an indigo plant?

[𝓓𝓙 𝓞𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓴]

There are also other combinations. I had really interesting Crossbreeds as I was farming seeds. Indogo+Peach can for example also bring pink flowers.

I don't play that often so my strategy was starting the game on a daily basis and see what are the flowers doing.

Don't harvest everything and then seed. I harvestet at first Flower two and four on the field and then seeded this places to get the full bonus for neighbor flowers. after that havest flower one, three and five and seed this places to get the bonuses.

Remember your first seeded flower on the field can never crossbreed because of no neighbors.

And yeah you can experimant. One time I got an blue flower or indigo to become a lunar tear.

[13LACK ORDER]

The result was determined the moment you plant but if you take out the plant then the result for that particular flower will be resetted. so if the flowers you happen to take out was determined to be hybrids and plant new one then the result will get reset

the flowers take 24 hours to bloom but the floow will die within 48 hours. and once the result was determined when both flowers are still in seed state. so if you want to plant new flowers next to already blooming flower then it won't produce the hybrid flowers

this achievement is super tedious and pain the arse to go through. the time skip method will greatly saving your time. and trust me even with time skip method it took me almost two hours of constantly change the date until i get white moonflower. the normal method probably will take you weeks or even a month to go through but if you prefer normal method then the choice is yours but i don't really recommend it with how long it would take