Watering can

A player misusing a watering can

The Watering can is an essential gardening tool, first introduced in Animal Crossing: Wild World and appearing in all subsequent games. It is used to water flowers in order to prevent them from wilting and dying, and can restore wilting plants to full bloom.

Usage

A watering can can be used to water the ground in the spot directly below the player. Watering flowers will prevent them from wilting or dying, and restore wilted plants the very next day. Watering the ground or any other item will simply have no effect. Watering flowers can promote the growth of new flowers through hybridization. In New Leaf, flowers that have been watered will show droplets of water falling to the ground, and will sparkle throughout the day to indicate that they do not need further watering.

The watering can is crucial to gaining and maintaining a perfect town environment, as it keeps flowers thriving. With the Beautiful Town ordinance in New Leaf, the Watering Can is made redundant as flowers will never wilt and have increased chances of producing hybrid flowers.

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More advanced versions of the watering can that have unique effects can be obtained, though their effects differ between the games. In City Folk, the Silver Watering Can is able to revive red turnips that are wilting, and can increase the chances of growing hybrid flowers and Money Trees. In all appearances, reviving wilting Black Roses with the Golden Watering Can will turn them into Golden Roses. In New Leaf both watering cans have increased range from the standard variant.

Obtaining

In Wild World

Item	Image	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Watering Can		500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook	Standard Watering Can
Golden Watering Can	File:Golden Watering Can WW Icon.png	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Received from Tortimer after maintaining Perfect Town environment status for 15 days	Watering a wilting Black Rose will turn it into a Golden Rose

In City Folk

City Folk introduces a Silver Watering Can with a unique effect in addition to the standard and golden variations.

Item	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Watering Can	500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook	Standard Watering Can
Silver Watering Can	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Received in a letter from Posy Farm after purchasing 50 packets of Flower seeds from Tom Nook	Can revive wilting Red Turnips Can increase chance of growing hybrid flowers or Money Trees
Golden Watering Can	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Received from Tortimer after maintaining Perfect Town environment status for 15 days	Watering a wilting Black Rose will turn it into a Golden Rose

In New Leaf

New Leaf changes the effects of the Silver Watering Can and Golden Watering Can, which are now more efficient as they can water multiple flowers at once.

Item	Image	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Watering Can	File:Acnl-wateringcan.png	500 Bells	125 Bells	Garden Center Isabelle will give the Mayor a free Watering Can for taking all her advice for living in the town	Standard Watering Can
Silver Watering Can	File:Acnl-silvercan.png	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Received from Leif after purchasing 50 packets of Flower seeds from the Garden Center	Waters 5 flowers at once
Golden Watering Can	File:Acnl-goldencan.png	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Received from Isabelle after maintaining Perfect Town environment status for 15 days	Waters 9 flowers at once Watering a wilting Black Rose will turn it into a Golden Rose

In New Horizons

Watering cans in New Horizons will break after a specific amount of uses. Each use of the watering can on dry flowers will reduce a watering can's durability, and watering ground with no flowers will reduce durability by ¹/20 of the usual rate. A watering can's durability is not reduced when watering flowers that have already been soaked.

Item	Image	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	DIY Materials	Durability
Flimsy Watering Can		800 Bells	200 Bells	Crafting Nook's Cranny	5× Softwood	Breaks after 20 uses
Watering Can		2,400 Bells	600 Bells	Crafting Nook's Cranny	1× Flimsy Watering Can 1× Iron Nugget	Breaks after 60 uses
Colorful Watering Can	70px	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Upgraded Nook's Cranny	-	Breaks after 60 uses
Elephant Watering Can	70px	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Upgraded Nook's Cranny	-	Breaks after 60 uses
Outdoorsy Watering Can	70px	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Upgraded Nook's Cranny	-	Breaks after 60 uses
Golden Watering Can		Not for sale	10,675 Bells	Crafting	1× Watering Can 1× Gold Nugget	Breaks after 180 uses