Mutation
Gold Mutation
Gold is a variant mutation with a ×10 (community-sourced, pending in-game verification) value multiplier.
The Gold mutation in Grow a Garden 2 applies a ×10 sell multiplier. From pets, weather, gear, or golden seeds (Golden Dragonfly pet doubles the chance). Confidence: community-reported.
- Type
- Variant (mutually exclusive)
- Multiplier
- ×10Site A: ×10Site C: ×15
- Trigger
- From pets, weather, gear, or golden seeds (Golden Dragonfly pet doubles the chance)
Gold rolls from pets, weather, gear, and golden seeds, with the Golden Dragonfly pet doubling the chance — so unlike most weather mutations, Gold has multiple farmable paths. The practical approach is to stack several triggers at once: run a Golden Dragonfly during weather windows that favor Gold and plant golden seeds on high-value crops.
Because Gold is mutually exclusive with Rainbow, the same plant can only carry one variant. If you are running a Unicorn for Rainbow chance, you are explicitly trading Gold rolls for Rainbow rolls — a strong expected-value bet on expensive crops but a net loss on cheap ones where the variant multiplier rarely matters.
- Site A calculator: ×10
- Eurogamer (2026-06): ×10
- Site C: ×15
A bundle and Eurogamer (2026-06) both report 10×. The deprecated C site reported 15×. Adopted 10× as majority consensus.
Gold is a variant mutation — only one variant can be active at a time. It is mutually exclusive with: rainbow.
When a variant and weather mutations are both active, the total multiplier is: variant_mult × (1 + Σ weather_mults − count).
Apply Gold to any crop in the value calculator to see its effect on sell value. The calculator uses the adopted ×10 value (per cross-source arbitration; see sources above).