How to Use the Pet Incubator in Grow a Garden
TL;DR
The Pet Incubator gives one pet 3x EXP while it has fuel. You unlock it for free by reaching Friendship Level 2 with Raphael, the pet egg seller, by feeding him cooked food. Place it in your garden, put a pet inside, fuel it with crops, and it keeps working even while you are offline.
Leveling pets in Grow a Garden gets slower the higher you go, and strong pets matter for mutations and passive abilities. Most players end up spending a lot of time feeding crops to pets just to move them up a few levels.
The Pet Incubator removes most of that grind. It is a free Prismatic gear item added in the second part of the Fairy Event, and it levels a pet while you farm or even while you are away. Some guides list the wrong unlock method, so everything here follows the Grow a Garden Wiki and cross-checked sources.
In this article, we'll explore what the Pet Incubator does, how to unlock it, how to fuel it properly, and how it differs from the Egg Incubator.
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What Does the Pet Incubator Do in GAG?
The Pet Incubator multiplies the EXP gain of the pet inside it by 3x. Only one pet fits at a time, and the machine must be powered with crops. It keeps running while you are offline, and if another player walks up to your incubator, they can boost it for an extra x2 EXP. XP boosting pets you have equipped do not affect the pet inside the incubator.
How to Get the Pet Incubator in GAG?
Reach Friendship Level 2 with Raphael, the NPC who sells pet eggs. You raise his friendship by feeding him cooked food, and the rarer the meal, the faster his friendship grows. Once you hit Level 2, the incubator is given to you for free.
Some guides say you need to finish all Core Pet Achievements. That requirement belongs to the Egg Incubator, not the Pet Incubator.
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How to Use the Pet Incubator in GAG?
Using it only takes a few steps, but the fuel system is where most players waste crops.
Place It and Add Your Pet
Equip the Pet Incubator from your inventory and place it in your garden like any other gear item. Tap it, then choose the pet you want to level from your pet inventory.
Fuel It With Crops
The incubator runs on a fuel bar that fills when you submit fruit. Fuel depends only on rarity, not weight or mutations. Common fruit gives 0.35%, Uncommon 0.7%, Rare 1.39%, Legendary 3.13%, Mythical 4.17%, Prismatic 14.59%, and Transcendent 20.84%.
The game gives no warning when you submit a fruit, so check what you are holding first. Favorited fruit cannot be submitted.
Get the Most Out of It
Since weight and mutations do not change the fuel value, keep your heavy or mutated crops for selling and use plain ones of the same rarity as fuel. Take the pet out once it reaches your target level and swap in the next one. Level 50 is the goal for most players, since that is the level needed to use the Mutation Machine on a pet.
Pet Incubator vs Egg Incubator in GAG
The two machines look similar but do different jobs. The Pet Incubator boosts pet EXP by 3x and unlocks through Raphael's friendship. The Egg Incubator cuts egg hatch time by 67% and unlocks by completing the Core Pet Achievements in the Garden Guide. Both are Prismatic gear and both run on crops, so you can use them side by side.
Conclusion
The Pet Incubator is one of the easiest ways to level pets in Grow a Garden, and it costs nothing but some cooked food for Raphael. Fuel it with plain high rarity crops, keep your best mutated ones for selling, and rotate pets as they reach the level you need.
