Great selection you always have bro, she is a real beauty.
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G
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Hiya True. Thanks man, but I have to say, lucky find on the genetics, I just got lucky with this pick!
beautiful nugs man!
Cartelero37
Member
Watz up British hempireBritish_Hempire said:Here are some pics of a dry bud from pheno #4, after 3 weeks curing in the jar:
Man those nugs look bangin'
Deep chunk x purple afghan soundskiller! can't go wrong with that. oh and the OG too! :jawdrop: will you be posting up on IC those crosses? stay safe and Peace!
G
Guest
Hi guys, thanks for the kind words. I'm just smoking the very last of the Purple Afghan buds. A couple of months cure has improved them a lot, the taste and potency have increased, the smoke is very smooth and hashy, slightly less sweet than before it was cured well, in fact it tastes exactly like black afghan hash.
The strange thing is, I don't think it's a drug cultivar, it's nothing like the broad-leafed, short, squat Afghanis you think of when you think of Afghan varieties (Maple Leaf Indica, Deaap Chunk, Afghani #1 etc), I think it is an indigenous landrace sativa. Vavilov and others since have written about how there were fields of cultivated drug varieties and around the margins of the cultivated land, especially higher up the mountains, where there was less farming and the natural vegetation remained, there were taller, thinner-leafed indigenous sativa types. It is said that all the broad-leafed drug varieties in Afghanistan are introduced from China along the silk road centuries ago.
I reckon the soldier who brought these seeds back probably picked hem from a wild plant rather than a plant growing in a farmer's field as part of a whole crop of drug plants. It is probably a variety from the highest elevations in the mountains, this will be why it is so intensely coloured, the pigment responsible for the purple colour is a sort of anti-freeze, preventing the plant's cells from freezing, ice crystals forming in the tissues of the plant would do a lot of damage, this pigment works to stop that. So this variety obviously produces lots and lopts ofthis pigment, which probably indicates it grows up near the treeline, higher up than the farmer's fields. To me, the purple indicates an adaptation to cold conditions.
The buds of the plant are nothing like what you would expect from an indica drug cultivar, they don't have lots of visible resin at all, nothing like Deep Chunk or another of the very resinous indicas from the same region, so I doubt anyone wuld grow this variety fopr hashish production. Also, the buds have an open, airy, foxtail structure like a sativa. The effect is a high, not an indica stone, it's a mellow, narcotic, red-eyed, smily high, no indica 'couchlock' stone in there at all.
The flower time is 70 days, which also indicates it is a landrace sativa type as the broad-leafed drug cultivares flower much faster than that, 45-55 days in my experience.
I have two Purple Afghan x Cheese females, one in flower that leans very much to the Skunk side, and one still in veg that has purple stems and petioles, and looks very much like the PA pheno.
You can follow their progress in this thread:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=74409&page=4
The strange thing is, I don't think it's a drug cultivar, it's nothing like the broad-leafed, short, squat Afghanis you think of when you think of Afghan varieties (Maple Leaf Indica, Deaap Chunk, Afghani #1 etc), I think it is an indigenous landrace sativa. Vavilov and others since have written about how there were fields of cultivated drug varieties and around the margins of the cultivated land, especially higher up the mountains, where there was less farming and the natural vegetation remained, there were taller, thinner-leafed indigenous sativa types. It is said that all the broad-leafed drug varieties in Afghanistan are introduced from China along the silk road centuries ago.
I reckon the soldier who brought these seeds back probably picked hem from a wild plant rather than a plant growing in a farmer's field as part of a whole crop of drug plants. It is probably a variety from the highest elevations in the mountains, this will be why it is so intensely coloured, the pigment responsible for the purple colour is a sort of anti-freeze, preventing the plant's cells from freezing, ice crystals forming in the tissues of the plant would do a lot of damage, this pigment works to stop that. So this variety obviously produces lots and lopts ofthis pigment, which probably indicates it grows up near the treeline, higher up than the farmer's fields. To me, the purple indicates an adaptation to cold conditions.
The buds of the plant are nothing like what you would expect from an indica drug cultivar, they don't have lots of visible resin at all, nothing like Deep Chunk or another of the very resinous indicas from the same region, so I doubt anyone wuld grow this variety fopr hashish production. Also, the buds have an open, airy, foxtail structure like a sativa. The effect is a high, not an indica stone, it's a mellow, narcotic, red-eyed, smily high, no indica 'couchlock' stone in there at all.
The flower time is 70 days, which also indicates it is a landrace sativa type as the broad-leafed drug cultivares flower much faster than that, 45-55 days in my experience.
I have two Purple Afghan x Cheese females, one in flower that leans very much to the Skunk side, and one still in veg that has purple stems and petioles, and looks very much like the PA pheno.
You can follow their progress in this thread:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=74409&page=4
Mr.Tristate
Member
Great grow, nice explanation of the lineage as well. Very impressive genetics.
Herbatonist
Member
I'm very impressed BH :0) I wish to one day have as much knowledge as you; grow herb that I know as well as you do yours. I'm just starting some of The Purps from BCBUDDEPOT. This is my first time growing non-bag seed :0)
G
Guest
Cheers guys. I'm stoked that this thread is still garnering interest. I'm working on making a big batch of PA seeds so I can share with everyone, I think this is a strain that deserves to be shared as far and wide as possible. There are three aspects of this strain that I feel make it a keeper:
1. The colour, the purple phenos are PURPLE! lol
2. The yield, even in my hands it produces huge buds, I imagine in a good setup with lots of light and space she sould crank out some monster colas.
3. The high, it's a heady, mellow, dreamy high with very little body stone, nothing like the heavy indica stone you would expect from an Afghan.
I have to say, considering she takes 65-70 days of 12/12 to finish and has an open, foxtail bud structure and a sativa type high, that this seedline is probably an indigenous landrace wild sativa rather than a farmed drug cultivar, makes me think the soldier grabbed the seeds from wild plants rather than from a plant growing as part of a cultivated crop in a farmer's field. Vavilov and others have written that in Afghanistan, the indigenous landraces were quite tall, with quite thin leaves, Cannabis Sativa, and that these wild landraces were found at higher altitudes, the lower valleys where there were farmed lands contained the broad leafed indica Cannabis Afghanica drug cultivars we are familiar with through strains like Afghani #1 and Maple Leaf Indica. This purple Afghan is tall, has quite thin leaves, and the purple colouration indicates to me that they are adapted to very cold conditions, the purple pigment serves as 'anti-freeze' preventing the formation of ice crystals within the tissues of the plant, which would damage the plant cells, the more intense the purpling, the more ofthis pigment is present, and given how intense the purple is on the PA, it must be rammed full of that 'anti freeze' pigment, meaning it will handle cold conditions such as found at high altitude in the Afghani mountains. I'm at 53N and am really looking forward to growing some PA outdors this year, with their open bud structure and adaptation to the cold, they should grow fine her and not have issues with mould and frost in the cold, wet climate here in northern England.
1. The colour, the purple phenos are PURPLE! lol
2. The yield, even in my hands it produces huge buds, I imagine in a good setup with lots of light and space she sould crank out some monster colas.
3. The high, it's a heady, mellow, dreamy high with very little body stone, nothing like the heavy indica stone you would expect from an Afghan.
I have to say, considering she takes 65-70 days of 12/12 to finish and has an open, foxtail bud structure and a sativa type high, that this seedline is probably an indigenous landrace wild sativa rather than a farmed drug cultivar, makes me think the soldier grabbed the seeds from wild plants rather than from a plant growing as part of a cultivated crop in a farmer's field. Vavilov and others have written that in Afghanistan, the indigenous landraces were quite tall, with quite thin leaves, Cannabis Sativa, and that these wild landraces were found at higher altitudes, the lower valleys where there were farmed lands contained the broad leafed indica Cannabis Afghanica drug cultivars we are familiar with through strains like Afghani #1 and Maple Leaf Indica. This purple Afghan is tall, has quite thin leaves, and the purple colouration indicates to me that they are adapted to very cold conditions, the purple pigment serves as 'anti-freeze' preventing the formation of ice crystals within the tissues of the plant, which would damage the plant cells, the more intense the purpling, the more ofthis pigment is present, and given how intense the purple is on the PA, it must be rammed full of that 'anti freeze' pigment, meaning it will handle cold conditions such as found at high altitude in the Afghani mountains. I'm at 53N and am really looking forward to growing some PA outdors this year, with their open bud structure and adaptation to the cold, they should grow fine her and not have issues with mould and frost in the cold, wet climate here in northern England.
Holy Crap!
Holy Crap!
Now this is what I'm talking about. I started a thread about "Dependable Indoor Purple Strains" awhile ago and got some good feedback about other threads here.....HOWEVER yours was not included. Now that I see what you got under the hood I'm deeply impressed. Now I'm on a quest to find a Purple Afghani that measures up.
Those juicy ass purple buds are making me twitch! We just don't see that stuff around the states much (must be in the private stashes of the growers!).
Can anyone suggest a particular seed vendor or place in Amsterdam where I could potentially acquire something with this sort of genetics?
I was equally impressed that you've got those under a 250. That's the same setup I have right now, and I can't have strains that stretch out too much or take up too much room. BUT I DEFINITELY NEED THE PURPLE!
Holy Crap!
Now this is what I'm talking about. I started a thread about "Dependable Indoor Purple Strains" awhile ago and got some good feedback about other threads here.....HOWEVER yours was not included. Now that I see what you got under the hood I'm deeply impressed. Now I'm on a quest to find a Purple Afghani that measures up.
Those juicy ass purple buds are making me twitch! We just don't see that stuff around the states much (must be in the private stashes of the growers!).
Can anyone suggest a particular seed vendor or place in Amsterdam where I could potentially acquire something with this sort of genetics?
I was equally impressed that you've got those under a 250. That's the same setup I have right now, and I can't have strains that stretch out too much or take up too much room. BUT I DEFINITELY NEED THE PURPLE!
BH congrats on your Febuary POTM nomination for that purple nug...nice...DD
G
Guest
Cheers doobs, I'm well chuffed!
GroovySituation
Member
i alway thought PA would be able to win POTM ...i never nominated it cause i thought it was already done (and cause i'm a lazy stoner...)...but when you said it never has been , i knew i has to 
keep up the good work with this strain..and with landraces generaly...and please excuse my english (we froggies are known to be bad at english
keep up the good work with this strain..and with landraces generaly...and please excuse my english (we froggies are known to be bad at english
G
Guest
Many thanks groovy, I really appreciate the kind sentiment!
horror business
Member
Your plants never cease to amaze me BH. Keep up the good work!
G
Guest
Cheers man, always good to hear from a fellow Misfits fan!
The next generation of purple Afghan seedlings are 3 days old now, the undersides of the cotyledons of all three and the stems are deep purple, they were mothered by the pheno that was nominated for POTM as I'm aiming to stabilise the huge yield and intense colour. I'm going to make a much larger batch this time round as I didn't anticipate so many folks wanting to try her out for themselves and only made a small number.#Rest assured I will let everyone know when the next gen of beans is ready for testing!
The next generation of purple Afghan seedlings are 3 days old now, the undersides of the cotyledons of all three and the stems are deep purple, they were mothered by the pheno that was nominated for POTM as I'm aiming to stabilise the huge yield and intense colour. I'm going to make a much larger batch this time round as I didn't anticipate so many folks wanting to try her out for themselves and only made a small number.#Rest assured I will let everyone know when the next gen of beans is ready for testing!
Alfred-cannaria
Member
Heyyy folks!!!
Some pics of my Afhgan Purple mum pregnant with other afghan purple to reproduce the genetic...
Some pics of my Afhgan Purple mum pregnant with other afghan purple to reproduce the genetic...
