Chocobo Color issue

[Penthea]

You seem to forget how costly these various food items cost. Someone who wants a color change but has limited funds 'resetting and starting anew' can be impossible.

I know it took me FIVE tries to go from Rolanberry Red to Soot Black and I followed the calculator feeding order for each color... thankfully the number of food items decreased the darker the chocobo turned out... still, when Marketplace sellers sell stacks of 99 instead of smaller stacks, it can become quite costly just to get the handful of food items that you need.

You can grow the food yourself and you can buy the seeds with allied seals (if I recall correctly) and they're very cheap. I think they take two days to grow.

[Vahlnir]

There's a bit of RNG involved. When I was trying to get mine to soot black it took me some time, even though I knew I was doing it right. Think I went between green and brown a few times before finally landing on soot black.

[Dustytome]

When going from the original color to the desired color I'll just directly follow the amount/feeding order from that site and cross my fingers. If it doesn't get the desired result, I recalculate using the same site from the current color to the desired color. After recalculating I'll write down the new feeding order and feed the chocobo until the message pops up that the feathers are changing, at which point I wait out the color change. If the result isn't what was desired, I continue down the feeding list, waiting out each color change as the message pops up that new feathers are growing in.

I just used this method again on an alt that didn't reach the desired color the first time, the new calculation had about 8 fruits to go through, but I got the feathers message with the first fruit and stopped at that. That one fruit managed to get to the correct color. If I had just thrown the entire second batch of fruit, I would have overshot the desired result. Whatever method you use, good luck!