Re: Still Growing - SoCal Hybrids & Mexican & Colombian Sativas Under Sun Natural Sys
The purple thing is one of the fads on the scene, a nice one by the way
It really hit in the early 2000s I think, and although they tried to do some stable purple strains in Holland they never really pulled it off as good as in Cali where the famous Mendocino Purps became the biggest thing going for a while, and Grape Ape of course. Actually my buddy created Aurora Ultra on the wave of purple craze
There is a common opinion that purple strains lack potency, but it's more like there is a lot that do and some really potent shit on the top. Usually they're indica dominant strains with purple Afghan or Northern Lights #5 genes, although there's a famously known Purple Thai landrace pheno which became dominant in famous The Original Purple Haze which got recreated by Ace with pretty good results
The name is usually tributed to Jimi Hendrix's song
Yeah there's some cool thing about purple indeed
Sometimes it's triggered by temps and sometimes these plants purple even in high 100s, it depends. But it's not really something that cuts down the flowering time, at least I never saw any claim like that.
As I'm thinking about it now old school classification goes like white, purple, red, golden and black strains
There is often this color of the bud that tells you what strain it is with white being very resinous, and red having a lot of red hairs, but purple is mostly due to leaves and calyxes color. I think it's just a cool color to have around
I'm more worried about my Aurora Ultras growing on the mountain, they do not get water at all, and I hope they're rocking it being desert plants and all 
2nd run High Brix soil, this time really brixey 
They were just reading that much higher on mine during the heat.
