why so much purple?

why does so much weed turn purple? i had it happen on a recent grow of what should have been pretty old school genetics. that way back, nothing much was purple.

around 2000 there was a lot of good bud available to me. almost none of it was purple. everything was green. around 2003 i found some midgrade brick that was purple, some with a little purple and some that was blue. grown out, i had a single red plant out of 100 + seeds.

anyway, most bud i have grown was not purple. however, with recent seed purchases, i have had a lot of bud or leaves on the plants turn purple. i am not messing with temperature either. this is not normal to me based on experience. i could chalk it up to new genetics and selection, but i am seeing this on traditional or older strains too. weed is supposed to be green for the most part.

do breeders just breed everything today selecting for color? if so, that means we are not selecting for other things that would be more important.

some time back purple was a bad thing to knowledgeable dudes....it wasn't as potent and gave you purple plateau. i always thought it was a pleasurable high, but too light to pay $20+ per g. every 10lbs or so of BC kind bud would have a lb vac of purple for a little while (2004ish)

Genetics

Similar to asking why do some kids hair turn red or blonde.

yup, color, flavor, sweet fruity smells and THC. In the process they're destroying the flower, all these breeders just making crosses and giving them crappy names, breeding the uniqueness right out of it... the 2000-2004 mindset is gone and its replacement is awful. I feel lucky there's still some companies keeping seeds from the old strains...

no, it's more like why are all the people in africa blond and blue eyed now while simultaneously many claiming they have a pure lineage to ancient sub saharan africans?

You people -

It's because many people are obsessed with purple weed despite it being inferior in almost every aspect to green weed. It looks cool in a bag? Name that tune.

There is nothing special about purple weed. It's not from anything some super dooper breeder did. Growing purple weed is as easy as growing some PCK which is where much of the latest purple offerings are originating.

I spent years working the purple out of PCK. Others use it for an instant infusion of color into whatever they're working on.

I'm not a grower, but in flowers often if you change ph, colors will change on blossoms, esp. noted in hydrangea . .
"The flowers of hydrangea act as natural pH indicators, sporting blue flowers when the soil is acidic and pink when
the soil is alkaline." So maybe it's influence of some kind of soil imbalance.

xtsho said:

It's because many people are obsessed with purple weed despite it being inferior in almost every aspect to green weed. It looks cool in a bag? Name that tune.

There is nothing special about purple weed. It's not from anything some super dooper breeder did. Growing purple weed is as easy as growing some PCK which is where much of the latest purple offerings are originating.

I spent years working the purple out of PCK. Others use it for an instant infusion of color into whatever they're working on.

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its so off putting to see sometimes. idk about new strains, but when i see some poor dude post his white widow grow and it's all purple...i'm like wtf. poor bastard. weed looks good, but he'll never have the true pleasure he paid for.

I've posted before that i'd read about cloning and hybridizing making heirloom plants die off.

xtsho said:

people are obsessed with purple weed

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PCK=Pakistani Chitral Kush or Purple Chitral. I hadda look it up. You guys know so much,
it never ceases to amaze me. And I've been around this for many decades. But never grew.

What about the old red bud, and acapulco gold, colombian gold, panama red (i think I scored some of that once back in the 60s)?
Are they inferior or what? Or is it only purple that's inferior? I dunno
if I ever had purple. It sure always looks like killer stuff to me, so this is informative. TY all.

doughper said:

I've posted before that i'd read about cloning and hybridizing making heirloom plants die off.
PCK=Pakistani Chitral Kush or Purple Chitral. I hadda look it up. You guys know so much,
it never ceases to amaze me. And I've been around this for many decades. But never grew.

What about the old red bud, and acapulco gold, colombian gold?
Are they inferior or what? Or is it only purple that's inferior? I dunno
if I ever had purple. It sure always looks like killer stuff to me, so this is informative. TY all.

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i grew red bud, the whole plant was red. it was not skunky, but was sativa dom. it was inferior in potency. highest yielded i had. came from bagseed of purple buds. older strains are not supposed to be potent. there are some good vids online of breeding projects with acapulco...it's not frosty. im running some guatemalan stuff and i don't expect it to be too potent.

Yeah, I haven't seen red bud since the late 70s early 80s. It was not a big deal, nope.
For years there, all you could get back then was Mexican dirt weed. That was it, period.
Then colombian appeared and around in there like, 75ish was some thai stick. Not much
else back then really. Yet, the stuff i'm getting at the store now seems not as good as even
the bags of Mex dirt weed that we paid, gosh, 30 an oz, maybe 25 or less. Seed it, stem it
roll it, smoke it, got ya high, more so than all this legal fancy shit at the stores now. I mean
it just seems that way to me, I can't say for sure, but my wife agrees.

The bud that I'm drying right now is pink/red like meat. It has gotten darker now that it has dried out, but it's still a light pink/purple. Most strains these days are decent regardless of the color. I get high off of two hits of everything I grow. I just have to tap out earlier if I'm smoking hard with certain strains. The color doesn't have much to do with that.

lusidghost said:

The bud that I'm drying right now is pink/red like meat. It has gotten darker now that it has dried out, but it's still a light pink/purple. Most strains these days are decent regardless of the color. I get high off of two hits of everything I grow. I just have to tap out earlier if I'm smoking hard with certain strains. The color doesn't have much to do with that.

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lusidghost said:

The bud that I'm drying right now is pink/red like meat. It has gotten darker now that it has dried out, but it's still a light pink/purple. Most strains these days are decent regardless of the color. I get high off of two hits of everything I grow. I just have to tap out earlier if I'm smoking hard with certain strains. The color doesn't have much to do with that.

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i had this plant that was almost entirely red. the leaves were like blood red. i sold the main top wet at 28g for 350. i was so poor then. i have some red hot cookies going but i am not sure the bud will be red. at nearly 3 weeks and no indication yet. i have this melonsicle that been in bad shape the entire grow, but it's turning red already (seems purple in the pic, but is more read IRL)...but just the bud.

Zkittlez, and Gorilla Zkittlez are the best purple buds I've grown.

That being said, purple buds as a large group suck. I do think week plants that show purple because of some type of weekness in their genetics are cultivated for the color. Hyped up and sold to us. Beware of purple, it definitely can be some adverage bud.

I was just saying this the other day. My favorite strain ever, I got from a buddy that grew it for decades before I even got it from him back in 2000ish he called it Pez but it was dark green and super earthy smelling and strong as hell! I miss that one. Lost the genetics somewhere along the way and he no longer grows.

Been there, done that, as far as purple goes. Not impressed. I do have some extremely purple genetics I created though. Nothing I'll be growing anytime soon.

not worth chasing. it's funny because I used to avoid it when making larger purchases as if it was not good bud. the frosty dense green stuff that had smells was always the chron.

Live and learn. Still fall for pretty pictures. I just recently copped these

ProPheT 216 said:

Live and learn. Still fall for pretty pictures. I just recently copped these
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That has Hindu Kush/Pakistan in it's history.

There is no secret to colorful weed. The genetics are easy.