Pokopia Farming Guide: How to Grow All 5 Crops

A Pokopia crop is not a one-shot. The game's own Tips and Tricks screen says it plainly: harvest a vegetable once it is ripe, then water the plant and it grows back. Bulbapedia's crop pages put a number on each harvest, three beans, three tomatoes, three stalks of wheat or three potatoes per plant, so a field you keep watered is a standing supply for story requests, cooking and trade, not a pile of seeds you burn through.

That makes the hard part getting seeds in the first place, and it is where the guides disagree most. Below is how Rototiller works, where each crop's seeds and wild produce come from, the growth and regrow rules, and which Pokemon speed it all up. The watering rules themselves (the Sprinkler's coverage, and why mud, lava and submerged soil fail) are in our water guide; this post links there instead of repeating them.

Counts are as of Ver. 2.0.1, still the latest version on Nintendo's update page as of October 14, 2026.

Rototiller first, and it will not till dry dirt

Farming starts with Rototiller. Serebii's move list ties it to befriending Drilbur, and Bulbapedia's Rototiller page puts that Drilbur in the Withered Wasteland. Our Ditto transformations guide covers the rest of the move set.

The in-game tips, which Bulbapedia transcribes, give you three rules:

• It tills dirt or grass into a crop field, and vegetable seeds go into the field.
• It will not till dry dirt. Water the ground with Water Gun first, then till.
• It also lifts plants. Use Rototiller on plants and flowers and you pick them up, to give to a Pokemon as a present or keep in your bag. Serebii's vegetables page adds that a growing vegetable plant can be moved this way.

The result is farm soil. Serebii's Magnet Rise list carries four regional versions of it (Wastelands, Beach, Ridge and Skyland farm soil), each described as soil softened by Rototiller that you can plant vegetable seeds in.

Six vegetables, five you can plant

Serebii's Growing Vegetables page has growth-stage tables for five crops: beans, tomatoes, potatoes, wheat and watermelons. Watermelons need the Expansion Pass. Fresh carrots are a sixth vegetable you can eat and cook with, but as far as the wikis show, not plant: we found no carrot seed in Serebii's item list or on Bulbapedia's carrot page.

How to read it:

• Flavor is from Serebii's food flavors page, which says a Pokemon given food in a flavor it likes gains comfort and bond with you. Bulbapedia files each crop under the matching favorite category. Our friendship guide covers gifting.
• Flavor also sets the Mosslax buff. Serebii puts raw vegetables in the weakest of Mosslax's three boost tiers, so a raw potato is a small Bitter buff and a raw bean a small Sweet one. Our cooking guide covers what each flavor does.
• Trade values are Bulbapedia's, on the Trade specialty's scale. Seeds and ripe plants have their own values: Bulbapedia lists each base-crop seed at 50 and a plant at 10. Our trade guide explains the scale.
• Raw, they are PP. Serebii's item descriptions say each of these except the whole watermelon restores some PP when eaten; a watermelon slice does.

Where the seeds come from

The shop column is the part to treat with care. Bulbapedia prices a bag of five seeds at 50 Life Coins but does not say where the shop stocks them. Serebii lists the four base-crop seeds only as Cloud Island shop stock, and the game's own tip on Cloud Island shops says items you buy there cannot be brought back to your world, though any recipes you learn stay learned. VGC's tomato guide describes a different route: once you find tomatoes growing wild, tomato seeds unlock in the shop at the PC for 50 coins. We could not confirm which of those applies to your own town's shop for each crop, so the safe play is to pick up every wild crop you find and check the PC shop afterward.

Four other routes worth knowing:

• Your first bean seeds. Game8's walkthrough of the Withered Wasteland request Grow Some Beans says Hitmonchan hands you three bags of bean seeds to plant. RankedBoost instead says Drilbur gives you 5 bean seeds when it teaches Rototiller.
• Palette Town's ripples. Both wikis list tomato and potato seeds in its rippling water, and Serebii's crafting page says ripples reset each day. Serebii's Mosslax page also says a Bitter food raises ripple and whirlpool finds, so a raw potato fed to Mosslax means more ripples to check. Our map guide covers getting to Palette Town.
• Magnet Rise, after the credits. Serebii's Magnet Rise page says tapping Y on a plant breaks it into its seeds, and Bulbapedia lists breaking a ripe bean, tomato or potato plant with Magnet Rise as a seed source. Our Magnet Rise guide covers the unlock.
• The Daily Shop. Serebii's flowers page says the PC's Daily Shop sometimes offers plant variants your save does not grow. It does not say whether crop seeds turn up there.

Seed to ripe: one stage per watered day

Serebii's rule is simple: a vegetable advances one growth stage per day, but only if its soil is hydrated. Its stage tables show four states from planting to harvest: seeds, sprout, blooming plant (a small plant, for wheat) and ripe. By that arithmetic a fresh planting needs three watered days to ripen without help. The in-game tip says the same thing more bluntly: water your crops often, with Water Gun or other methods, to make sure they grow.

Hydration means water next to the soil or a Sprinkler, and our water guide has the Sprinkler's 60-block reach and the three things that break hydration. Two details it does not cover:

• Put the Sprinkler by water. Its in-game description reads "Try putting one near the waterside!", and Bulbapedia says it keeps watering the plants around it when it is placed near a body of water. It costs 1 iron ore to craft, and Serebii's crafting table lists the recipe as a Daily Shop special or a sparkling-water find.
• Keep Smooth Rocks away from your fields. Serebii's Collect page quotes the Smooth Rock as lowering the humidity around it, and Nintendo's Ver. 1.1.0 notes fixed a bug where drying out blocks with one could make the seeds planted in them disappear. The bug is fixed; keeping the rock clear of crops is our own caution, not a published rule.

If you water by hand, Serebii's move page says a Soup-powered Water Gun lets you hold the button to unleash more water, on its own PP meter for a short period.

Harvest, then water: you plant once

Each ripe bean, tomato, wheat or potato plant gives three of its crop, per Bulbapedia, harvested by hand or with Cut. What happens next is the part to plan around.

The in-game tip says that after you harvest, you water the plant with Water Gun or another method to regrow it. Bulbapedia's crop pages list a fifth state, the dry plant ("a dried-up, wilted bean plant"), and say Water Gun on a dry plant gives back a produce-bearing one. Serebii says that each hydrated day, a plant either advances a stage or refreshes its yield. Put together: the seed is a one-time cost per plot, and the daily job is harvest, then water.

Two limits:

• The planting cap. Serebii says each area holds a combined 1,024 flower seeds, tree seeds and vegetable plants at once. Fully grown flowers, bushes and trees do not count toward it, and neither do dry plants.
• Harvesting with Cut. Serebii's move page says a Bread-powered Cut lets you hold the button to widen the cut. Our read, untested: a wider cut should harvest more plants per press.

Grow Pokemon: one push per plant per day

The Grow specialty is the speed-up. Serebii's vegetables page says a Grow Pokemon can, once a day, push a plant forward a stage or regenerate one vegetable, and each plant sparkles once it has had its turn. The in-game tips add that Grow Pokemon help nearby plants in their free time, and that bringing one to a plant gets it grown for you.

The same tips carry the catch: plants such as tomatoes will not grow unwatered, even with a Grow Pokemon beside them. Water first, then grow.

Serebii's three dexes list 31 Pokemon with Grow, and Bulbapedia's Grow page has the same 31:

Bulbasaur is one you will already know: Serebii's move list names it as the Pokemon that teaches Leafage. Our specialties guide covers how followers and specialties work.

The watering can be automated too. The in-game tips say Pokemon with the Water specialty use filled water basins nearby to water the plants around them; our water guide has the basin recipe.

What to plant first

Two story requests that ask for crops in bulk, per Serebii:

That is 25 beans, 25 wheat and 10 tomatoes. At three per plant, 9 bean plants, 9 wheat plants and 4 tomato plants cover both in a single harvest, and fewer plots do it if you are willing to harvest twice. Our Team Initiation Challenge guide has the rest of that challenge's material bill.

Past the story, beans and wheat are the backbone. Serebii's cooking table has 7 hamburger steaks and 7 breads, and every steak takes a bean and every bread takes wheat. In that table, tomatoes and potatoes appear only in steaks, on top of a bean. Our read: get beans and wheat into the ground first, plant tomatoes for the challenge, and add potatoes once you find seeds.

Watermelons and carrots

Watermelons are the Expansion Pass crop. Serebii lists the seeds in Bubbly Basin's Poke Balls and whirlpools and in its shop from Bubbly Basin Lv. 3. A whole watermelon goes to a Pokemon with the Chop specialty to become slices, and Serebii's cooking table puts a slice in all 6 smoothies. Smoothies are what power up Surf, and Serebii's move page says that lets you Surf underwater. If you own the pass, a watermelon patch is the smoothie supply. Our Bubbly Basin walkthrough covers getting in.

Fresh carrots grow wild in the Withered Wasteland, Palette Town and Bubbly Basin, per Serebii's item list. With no seed listed by either wiki, picking wild ones is the route for carrot bread or a Red-hot smoothie.

Moving, undoing and farming underwater

• Move a plant with Rototiller or a charged Magnet Rise, per Serebii. Magnet Rise also lifts farm soil whole.
• Undo a plot. Since Ver. 2.0.0, Nintendo's notes say, Leafage turns farm soil back into a normal soil block.
• Plant in a pot. Serebii's Planter is described as a place to plant flower or vegetable seeds and raise them until they are fully grown. It is crafted from a brick and a stone, with the recipe from the Daily Shop or sparkling water.
• Underwater crops need bubbles. The in-game tips say crops do not normally grow underwater, but a Water-specialty Pokemon or a bubble machine can cover them in bubbles so they do.

Where the sources disagree

We checked this against the in-game tips (via Bulbapedia), Serebii, Bulbapedia's crop pages, VGC, Nintendo Life, Game8 and Nintendo's update notes. Nothing we read contradicts the Rototiller rules, the three-per-plant harvest (Bulbapedia; RankedBoost also says three tomatoes a vine), the daily stage rule or the Grow list. The sources split on where seeds and wild crops come from, and on one watering claim:

• The shop. Serebii lists base-crop seeds only in Cloud Island shops; VGC says finding wild tomatoes unlocks tomato seeds in the PC shop, and RankedBoost says bean seeds sell at the Withered Wasteland Pokemon Center; Bulbapedia gives a price but no location.
• Who gives you your first bean seeds. Game8 says Hitmonchan, for the Grow Some Beans request; RankedBoost says Drilbur, along with Rototiller.
• Bean seeds in ripples. Bulbapedia lists them in Withered Wasteland and Palette Town rippling water. Serebii's Withered Wasteland ripple list has no crop seeds, and its Palette Town list shows beans and wheat as produce, not seeds.
• Wild beans and tomatoes. Nintendo Life and Game8 put wild beans in the Withered Wasteland, and they and VGC put wild tomatoes in Bleak Beach. Serebii's item table and Bulbapedia list neither: their wild beans are in Rocky Ridges and the Sparkling Skylands, their wild tomatoes in the Sparkling Skylands, and Serebii has Bleak Beach tomatoes only in its ripples. Independent outlets describing the same spots suggests the wiki lists are incomplete here.
• Do beans need water? RankedBoost's farming guide says beans grow without watering. The in-game tips and Serebii both say crops need water to grow. Go with the game.
• Wheat seeds from the harvest. Of the sources we read, only Bulbapedia lists harvesting ripe wheat as a wheat-seed source.

Quick Action Checklist

• Befriend Drilbur in the Withered Wasteland for Rototiller.
• Water dry dirt first, then till it into a crop field.
• Pick up every wild crop you find, then check your PC shop for its seeds.
• Check Palette Town's ripples daily for tomato and potato seeds.
• Plant 9 bean, 9 wheat and 4 tomato plants to cover the Team Initiation Challenge and Time To Party in one harvest.
• Keep fields hydrated: water beside the soil or a Sprinkler placed near water.
• Harvest, then water the plant so it regrows; do not replant.
• Bring a Grow Pokemon to push each watered plant a stage a day.
• Expansion Pass owners: grow watermelons for smoothies and underwater Surf.