Colouring my Chocobo...what am I doing wrong?

[Spetsnaz]

So I fed my Chocobo a Mamook pear, waited 6 hours, fed him another pear, waited 6 hours aaaaaand no change.

Is there something else I need to be doing? I don't feel like trowing away another 30K

[Lunami]

You have to feed them until you get a message like, "[Name] has started growing new feathers!" It's pretty RNG-based on how many fruit it will take.

[Spetsnaz]

So fruit doesn't always change feathers even though it keeps saying wait 6 hours? Wtf

[ElHeggunte]

You need to feed him fruit until you get the message that he's "beginning to growing new feathers", or something to that effect. A single fruit will make the game prompt you that their plumage will change in six hours, but there will be no physical change without the message explicitly stating the new feathers are growing in.

[Neri]

You have to feed it until you see the message "Your chocobo is beginning to grow a new Plume feather" I think(can't remember the exact message).

[Hik0]

you don't have to wait 6h between 2 feeds, fedd you chocobo till you get the "grow new feather" msg =>wait 6h=> enjoy your new color chocobo.

[Alukah]

You can also use multiple fruits, even different fruits within the 6 hours window, even if you already got the "is beginning to grow new feathers" message.

[Tupsi]

So fruit doesn't always change feathers even though it keeps saying wait 6 hours? Wtf

Takes 6 hours per change yeah - Also it can take quite a lot of fruit regardless if it says it begins growing new feathers etc. They made it pretty 'complex' to allow people to have multiple colors rather than the classic red/blue/yellow/green/dark blue/gold/white/black.

[Spetsnaz]

So when it says 6 hours I shouldn't feed it again but it only randomly actually changes? Because I've been through this twice now with the waiting

[Ashkendor]

So when it says 6 hours I shouldn't feed it again but it only randomly actually changes? Because I've been through this twice now with the waiting

Any time you feed the chocobo it starts a 6 hour timer till when any change would take place, regardless of whether or not you actually fed it enough to make it change. You need to keep feeding it the fruits to make it your desired color until you see "(Chocobo) is growing new feathers!" in the chat box after a feed. That's the indicator that you've fed it enough to kick it into a new color range. You can either try to keep feeding it for more intense color results (a single message will likely only result in a very slight change in color, like Desert Yellow > Millioncorn Yellow, etc) or you can wait the timer out and see where you stand before proceeding.