Strain family

Purple family cannabis strains

The Purple family is built on Northern California genetics that express anthocyanin pigments under cool night temperatures, producing the deep violet, magenta, and black-purple bud coloration that defines the line. Purple Urkle, a Mendocino County clone-only cut from the 1980s, sits at the root of the modern family and was crossed with Big Bud by Ken Estes around 2003 to produce Granddaddy Purple — the strain that took grape-flavored cannabis mainstream. Purple Punch, Grape Ape, and most modern grape-and-berry strains descend from this branch, often through Granddaddy Purple as the second parent. Plants in the family finish in roughly eight to nine weeks, stay short and stocky, and produce dense colas that color up dramatically when night temps drop below sixty degrees Fahrenheit in late flower. The signature effect is a heavy, sedating body load driven by myrcene-dominant terpene profiles, which is why Purple-family strains in the Lockbox library are clustered on the evening and sleep end of the recommendation grid.