Purity dropping on crops

[Cerise]

Sorry,I know this was covered somewhere but I cannot find it. I saved my pennies and bought some higher purity seeds but the purity is dropping with each successive planting. What am I doing wrong?

[marduc]

plant multiple fields and keep the best for seeds/replanting. Which elements will be raised or lowered is random - the more fields you plant the higher the likelihood that you get one or more that raise the target element.

[staxjax]

You are probably just having bad luck. When you harvest, pick out the best seeds/ears/pumpkins/etc, and extract the seeds from them without mixing them. I wouldn't reccomend using seed bags unless you were just making mass amounts of seeds for composting or something.

[Cerise]

I am carefully watching the seeds but maybe I am crazy here.... they had a high sulfur content and were 91 percent pure when I bought them. I planted and harvested and they now have 87 percent purity. Does it matter what was planted on the field previously?

[Pjotr84]

It doesn't matter for purity what was planted before. Just plant the 87% ones back and they may well rise in purity again. Like Staxjax is saying, you have to have a bit of luck sometimes.

[staxjax]

I always plant 95%+ seeds, and I've seen them drop into the 70s before. Just ****** luck is all.

[Mereni]

Yeah, I don't like to plant less than 8 fields at a time of something to keep the purity from going down. And even then, it still happens now and then.