A Lot Of People Seem To Say That About Purple Weed DPP, That It Either Has Gotten To Ripe(TURNING PURPLE), And Way Past It's Prime, Which Also Means That It It Is Over Ripe And Losing It's Strength,Taste,High,ETC. Or That It You Simply Got Burned By The Seed Company. Purple Strains That Ae Bed To Be Purple, Do NOT Have To Wait Until Late In Their Lives To Go Purple(USUALLY). I Am Growing A Homemade(NOT BY ME,MOM), Called Purple Dragon, It Is An Indica Dominant Plant With Some Kush Thrown In(HINDU) For Good Measure. When The PD Turns Peple, It Usually happens Srting Siometime In July, Then
It PurPles Up EVERYWHERE, From Stems,Branches, Right On To The Buds. Only Problem, As With All Cannabis That We All Satart From SEED, We Never Know Which Sibling Were Gonna Get, The Large Branchy One That Stays Green, And In My Opinion The Better Of The Two,In Taste High,ETC, Oh Yeah, And Yield. Or Are We Gonna Get Lucky, And Get The Purple Phenotype, That At One Time, Purple Was ALL THE RAGE Up Here, Not So Much Anymore, As The High Is MUCH WEAKER, More CBN In IT, And The Purple Plants Exhibit What I Believe To Be A Kush Trait, By Growing More Laterally Than Vertically, But The BUDS And PLANT LITERALLY TURN BLACK, From The Darkness Of The Purple, Even The Buds Get Purple And Lavender To Them, After AwhileThough, FOLKS UP HERE, PRETTY MUCH STOPPED GROWING PURPLE STRAINS. They Do Not Get You High Enough, Are A Novelty Item, For Those That Have NEVER Seen Purple Bud, The Purple Craze Went Through Here About Ten years Ago, And Died Out About 5 Years Ago(GROWERS WISE),
Of Course We Still Grow It, But It Is DICEY, As You NEVER KNOW Which SEEDS Will Be The PURPLE ONES!!!
We Are Growing Two Of Them, At Mom's Insistence(NOT MINE I ASSURE YOU), And So Far They Look Just Like Most Of The OTHER Plants In Our Garden(TOO EARLY TO TELL IF THEY WILL BE PURPLE OR NOT), But MOM Is Hoping They Will Be. I Tried To Explain To MOM, That The Purple Craze Is A Passing Fad, Since The Herb Is Not Terribly Strong, Yields Little, And Has Far More CBN In It Than THC. Which Of Course Means,It Will Not Get You That High We All So Crave!!!
Also, Late Purpling Strains Tend To Begin To Lose Much Of Their Potency If Allowed To Purple Up Due To Weather, Another Reason PURPS Have Slipped In Popularity, Who Wants To Smoke Herb That Has Begun The Long Climb Down From Potency, Just To Be Purple???IDK, I Guess It Is All In The Eye Of The Beholder, If You Want PURPS, By All Means GROW Them, But Be Prepared For It To Be A Novelty Item, As Most Folks Buy It Because Of LOOKS, Not Potency, I Suppose If Yo Can Find A PURPLE FAN CLUB, You'd Be In Like Flynn!!!
The Only True Purples I Have Ever Seen That Had The Potency To Match The Color, Would Be Colombian Black,Guerrero Black,Jamaican Black,Black Thai And Black Oaxacan. All Sativas, All Hard To Grow, Unless You Have A Good Greenhouse Or Live In A Desert State That Never Reaches Freezing. Indoors, The Process is Supposed To Be Much Easier, As Temps Can Be Controlled(IN A WELL RUN GROW ROOM THAT IS), But The Potency, Except For The Sativas I Just Named, Is Lacking As Well. And Where, I Ask You,Can You Still Find LANDRACE Sativa Genetics, Like The Ones I Just Named(WHAT I WOULD NOT GIVE FOR ANY OF THESE OLD LANDRACE SATIVAS,ESPECIALLY THE BLACK THAI'S And BLACK COLOMBIANS!!!) Hell I Would Take All Of The AFOREMENTIONED LANDRACE BLACK/PURPLE SATIVAS, If Only For Breeding Purposes, And To Add That Extra THC Kick To Strains Like The Purple Dragon, And Purple This Or That. You See Most Indicas,Afghanis And Kushes, Will Turn Purple,But WAY AFTER They Have Begun To Lose Their Potency, Because They Change Due To Climate,Temperature And Age. If I Could Add These Forgotten Genetics To Them,I Think We Might Have Nicely POTENT Purple Strains, That Turn Purple On Time, And Loses None Of It's Potency Due To Age. THAT WOULD BE SWELL, But Alas I Fear A Dream, As I Have Not Seen Any Of The Real Purple Strains Since The Mid To Late 80's. I Hope You Read This DPP,As It Was Meant For You, And All Else That Have This Interest In The Purples. Stick With The Green, You'll Be Happier!!! SINCERELY, JAMESTHEGREEN
!!!DPP,I WILL BE COMING OVER TO SEE WHAT IS UP SHORTLY,JTG.