Petaya

Petaya is a type of Berry that can be planted in the Farm. It can be obtained by having at least one empty plot and at least 1 of every Gen 4 berry on the field.

Possible Planting Formations
You can fill your farm in the following way to obtain Petaya berries. Note that the Occa, Kebia and Colbur can overtake other plants, so they are placed around a Babiri to prevent this. Kebia and Payapa increase mutation chance and are placed to affect the highest amount of mutation plots. Babiri decreases mutation chance and Rindo expands to open plots, so they are not placed near mutation plots. Wacan, Yache and Haban all affect growth times and are placed in the corner with shorter growth time berries to limit their impact and make the timings easier. Using Surprise Mulch, a fully leveled up Squirtbottle, and following this layout, you have roughly an 90.2% chance (60.5% chance without Squirtbottle) of acquiring a Petaya before the first berry needs to be replanted. Purple squares indicate where mutations can occur.

Important notes
Before you start this process, you need to be prepared to spend around 11 hours or more close to your device with Pokéclicker or at least be able to pause your timers to take breaks.


 * Using the timings listed in the table to the right will cause all berries to ripen within 10 minutes of each other. Each time stamp indicates when you should plant the berry listed together with it.


 * The timings assume an equipped max level Sprayduck and the detailed amount of boost mulch on the specified plots. All boost mulch should be applied immediately on planting. In total, you need 180 boost mulch to complete the entire process; however, it is highly recommended to have at least 250 boost mulch in your inventory in case of something going wrong. Note that even though the Babiri will ripen about the same time as the Haban with only 35 boost mulch, this is a very tight window. More is added to guarantee that it completes first to avoid the chance of other berries being taken over by Occa, Colbur, or Kebia.


 * The free website timeanddate.com is an excellent resource for setting many simultaneous timers. Timing starts at planting of the first berry. At the exact same time as you plant Haban and Babiri, start all your timers.


 * Note that there are few breaks longer than one hour; Farm timers do not run while the game is not open so you can take breaks throughout this process.


 * It is very important that the Babiri finishes growing before the Occa, Colbur, and Kebia. As such, it is planted to finish very early since it also has a very long lifespan. When using the tables below, base your planting on the time left for Haban to finish. Don't use a different berry for timing.

Critical information for when all berries have ripened
After all 18 berries are ripe, the requirements for Petaya to spawn have been fully met. At this point, immediately switch out your Sprayduck for the Squirtbottle, if possible, otherwise another Oak Item if not. It is highly recommended that you make a save here so you don't have to go through the whole setup again in case nothing mutates. Petaya can spawn on any of the seven open plots in your farm. The seven empty plots should all be permanently applied with surprise mulch. Note that even though the Kebia has the ability to overtake other berries, it can only do so at the taller or later stages, so you will be able to let the mutation keep going if you want to mutate multiple petayas before the Wacan withers. Specifically, you have 6 hours from time of mutation to remove the Kebia before it threatens to take over your newly mutated petaya unless it mutates on one of the two edge plots.

Petaya with Freeze Mulch (easy mode)
Mutating a Petaya with Freeze Mulch makes the entire thing incredibly easy. What you need to do is plant all the berries simultaneously, as seen in the mutation formation, and then simply apply the appropriate amount of freeze mulch to the berry seeds, such that when the freeze mulch runs out the berry would start growing as if you had just planted it according to the timing table. Below is a table for how much freeze mulch each berry needs for the timings to be correct. Kasib and Kebia have such a short growth time (5 and 10 minutes without sprayduck) that it's probably worth just planting them when the rest of the berries are nearly ripe, hence the optional.

What to do if Petaya doesn't spawn before other berries start dying
The berry that will die first is Wacan — it will die around 1 hours 25 mins after it ripens. This should be enough for you to get a Petaya to spawn. If the Wacan dies before mutation, you will have to replant Chilan, Tanga, and Wacan. If you start within 38 minutes of Wacan dying (1 hour 15 minutes with boost mulch), you should be able to get one more full Wacan cycle before the Coba dies and you have to start over. The ability to do this increases overall chance of mutation to 99% or 84.4% without Squirtbottle.

Timing Table
If Wacan dies, harvest and replant Chilan, Tanga, and Wacan following this table to get the setup again. Note that you will want to make sure Coba and Shuca have at least about 2 hours 46 mins left on their timers (3 hours 26 mins without boost mulch) for another full Wacan cycle. You may want to replant Kasib as well to avoid Shuca dying before Coba, but this is not very important at this time.

Mutations
Petaya berries can be used to mutate the following berries.

Using Petaya
Farm setups using Petaya can be found here:
 * Maximizing Egg step gain for Breeding Pokemon faster
 * Maximizing Shiny Chance to turn all Pokemon Shiny
 * Various useful Farming Setups