Beginner goal

Just a beginner? Welcome! This game is very easy to play! In any given season only plant half of your seeds, this protects the remainder of the seeds if you have a bad growing season. Treat the seeds like you would standard seeds for your area. Once your plants are growing and fruiting they will show different colors, shapes, and sizes. Select your favorite fruit and save the seeds from just that one plant. label the saved seeds with a description of the fruit, date, and year. The next season more plants will resemble the one you selected and saved seeds from. Repeat the process of only saving the seeds from the one plant you like most. Repeat this process every season until all seeds from the one fruit grow the same exact plant. That's it! You did it! Time to name your own Heirloom variety! Can't decide which is your favorite from multiple plants? No problem! Save seeds from multiple plants, carefully making sure they are labeled with descriptions and keep them separate! You just created "multiple lines"! Repeat until all lines are stable, then name! Congratulations, you are now a plant breeder!

Family Heirloom goal

Interested in leaving something for your family to enjoy for centuries to come? You've found the right place! In this game you will only want to plant half of the seeds in a given season. This keeps the diversity alive if a bad growing season deals its hand. It also allows you to "travel back in time" if you want to reintroduce more diversity. Just like the beginner game you will select your families favorite fruit. You can have a family vote during a BBQ, or a summertime family get together. Once your favorite fruit is selected save ONLY those seeds. Clearly label the saved seeds package with a description of the fruit, date, and year. The next season those seeds will produce plants that are not as diverse. Select, and save your favorite seeds again. Repeat this process until every seed from one plant produce identical plants. Congratulations! It is time to name your very own Family Heirloom! Your family will enjoy growing these for generations to come!

Community goal

Want to be the coolest kid on the block? Or interested in seeing what kind of crazy genetics rear their heads here? Maybe you want to breed a fruit and name it after your neighborhood, for all that lives there to enjoy. FULL DISCLAIMER, this game may make you a lot of new friends and famous in the neighborhood! There are many ways to play this game, and if you couldn't tell, we at ColorChaosSeedsCo love letting everyone make their own decisions! Some would start a tray of seeds and give free plants to the people of the neighborhood, for all to vote on the community social media page. Others would create a cul-de-sac breed. You could start a competition to see who creates the coolest "line" of tomatoes. Whichever you decide to do, the concept is the same. Make sure to save some seeds back incase of a poor growing year. Select the favorite plant, save the seeds and write a description of the tomato with the date and year. Each season the seeds will grow plants with less diversity until every seed grows true to the plant. Congratulations, you stabilized your very own variety of tomatoes! You can pass them around the neighborhood for all to enjoy! P.S Your neighbor may have better lines in their lawn, but you will surely have them beat in the garden!

Landrace goal

Let's play the Landrace game! The term Landrace refers to plants that survive in any given environment. We at ColorChaosSeedsCo encourage all to give inputs to your plants or you risk them dying. We see landrace as plants that will live in the Southwest, to the Northeast. The genes in this package of seeds has enough diversity to be able to show you what will survive where, no matter how difficult the growing season. The Landrace game is strictly life, or death breeding. Unlike the other games, we recommend saving seeds from multiple fruits that survive the climates to create multiple "lines". We also recommend that you tend to "neglect" these breeds during the season. Still water, still add fertilizer, but the goal is to breed what will survive in the harsh climates with the less amount of inputs. Some will fail from heat or cold, and others will get pest pressure, or disease. That is exactly what we want to see in this game. After saving seeds, and labeling what they look like with the years, you will start to notice specific types of tomatoes that will survive/ thrive better than others. Each year the gene pool will get tighter and tighter until you see no more variations. You have now stabilized your very own Landrace Heirloom lines. Congratulations, you are a plant breeder!