Mendo Purp by PureBred Growers

PureBred Growers, USA

Indica-Dominant

Genetics: Purple Urkle x Grape Ape x Granddaddy Purps

www.purebredgrowers.com

PureBred Growers is a U.S.-based collective of breeding experts, and for this strain, the team has further developed a plant originally bred five years ago by the Rebel Lion Collective in California. A triple cross of Purple Urkle, Grape Ape and Granddaddy Purps, all members of the Blue family, Mendo Purp has been a favorite of growers and tokers alike since its release and has now been made into a Cali classic by PureBred Growers.

This plant isn’t fussy and enjoys being cultivated in both hydroponic and soil-based set ups. Your choice of medium dictates what exact colorings it produces; soilless grows giving a dark purple tinge and soil grows giving royal gold and purple hues with hardly any green. These gorgeous plants will grow between 2 and 3 feet and should finish fully in 9 to 10 weeks, and, unusually, don’t produce a higher yield if grown outdoors rather than indoors. Don’t use a bucket any larger than 5 gallons, as the root mass stays fairly small. The smell will be extremely strong in the last weeks of flowering, so be aware!

A secret breeder’s tip is to take a nice fat J of Mendo Purp to the top of a hill and finish the whole thing before you snowboard down. You’ll find yourself boarding on the fluffiest snow imaginable, and it doesn’t even hurt that much when you stack it – awesome!

COG by Kingdom Organic Seeds

Kingdom Organic Seeds by The Rev, USA

Indica-Dominant

Genetics: Cinderella 99 x OG Kush/White Widow

Potency: THC 19-21%

www.trichomekings.net

COG by Kingdom Organic Seeds is affectionately known by those who love her as COGzilla in reference to her insatiable appetite for root space, water, light and food, as well as her insane growth rates. COG is a cross between head breeder The Rev’s Cinderella 99 line and an old Santa Cruz outdoor favorite that is known as OG Kush but actually resembles an OG Kush / White Widow hybrid.

This plant is, as mentioned above, a super-hog for root space, light, water and food. She prefers to grow in the ground but can also be grown indoors if you build a hefty container mix and use larger containers than normal. This plant finishes in 8 to 9 weeks and grows very quickly, giving a decent yield. Her branches have been known to snap from the weight of her buds, so make sure you are ready to use stakes to give the plant extra support if necessary.

COG is a great plant that smells powerfully of grape Kool-Aid and hashish. Smokers love the hard hitting narcotic high because it is soothing and relaxing without making people too sleepy to do anything. COG is known to give users demonic red eyes and acts as a very effective appetite stimulant for medical users. 

Kalijah by Reggae Seeds

Reggae Seeds, Spain

Indica-Dominant

Genetics: Blue Heaven x Mexican x Afghani

Potency: THC 17%

www.reggaeseeds.com

Well-respected and much renowned in their native Spain, Reggae Seeds specializes in creating strains with great taste and a potency to match. Kalijah is the offspring of DJ Short’s Blue Heaven, which was also available from Dutch Passion and is no longer available in seed form. Reggae Seeds have preserved this fantastic strain, which is a true Blueberry child with Thai and Afghani heritage, by taking a Blue Heaven mother and breeding it with a male that incorporates Mexican and Afghani lines to create the indica-dominant Kalijah.

This plant can be grown indoors in relatively small containers, thanks to its short stature, and flourishes very well in a SOG garden. For optimum results the breeders advise leaving the plants in the vegetative stage for 5 weeks before forcing flowering. A Kalijah crop won’t need a lot of nutrients and is fairly impartial about the medium it grows in, making it a good choice if you don’t have much cultivation experience or money to spend on an expensive grow op. Out of doors the plants branch heavily but don’t grow too tall, and give beautifully-colored, compact buds. Expect harvest at the end of September in the northern hemisphere.

Kalijah’s Blue heritage comes through in the delicious smoke and the fantastic high. You’ll be scrabbling around for something creative to do before sliding into a gorgeously silky high once you’ve exhausted yourself, but before too long you’ll be reaching for the stash again!

Deimos by Buddha Seeds

Buddha Seeds, Spain

Indica-Dominant

Genetics: Northern Lights x Ruderalis

Potency: THC 17%

www.buddhaseedbank.com

Deimos is a hybrid from Spain’s celebrated Buddha Seeds. This indica-dominant plant represents the culmination of years of breeding over seven generations of Northern Lights and Ruderalis plants in order to obtain an auto-flowering plant with the classic Northern Lights features that you know and love. Expect a great indoor or outdoor plant with a hardy, resilient nature and good lateral branching with a respectable yield.

Deimos grows vigorously upwards and outwards creating a bushy and dense, yet compact plant. Careful breeding has led to a high yielding auto-flowering plant with lots of lateral branches that can yield buds as large as the central cola.. Growers love this plant because of its discreet size – it ranges from 2.5 to 3 feet in height, making it suitable for secret indoor and outdoor grows.

Growers who enjoy continuous harvest set ups will love Deimos as it is a fast growing plant that can go from seed to bud in two months and supply smokers with a constant supply of ganja. To get the fastest results from your Deimos plant, you should grow in less than eighteen hours of light per day from start to finish. Try planting two and then waiting a few weeks and planting two more, and then repeating this process as the plants mature. This way you’ll have a continuous harvest period, meaning you’ll always have good pot waiting for you at home!

An important aspect to be aware of when growing Deimos is that, because it is such a vigorous plant, it likes to have a light nutrient feed after it has been growing for two weeks, but keep it very light as you don’t want to burn the young plant. Once flowering begins put the plants on a flowering nutrient regime for weeks four through six. Remember that you should flush your plant for two weeks prior to harvest to remove the taste of fertilizers from your bud, so just be careful to schedule your feeding and flushing to accommodate the fast finishing time of an auto-flowering strain. Auto-flowering strains tend to like root-stimulating nutrients like Phosphorus, but again, be sure to flush before harvest as it makes the bud taste cleaner, and only buy fertilizers that are “food safe” and suitable for tomatoes or another vegetable-type plant.

Deimos is a great plant to smoke because of its devastating potency and its classic sweet and tangy taste. Many people enjoy this plant to help them relax and think things over slowly, and others like to smoke Deimos and watch a movie with friends. 

Blue North Special by North of Seeds

North of Seeds, Spain

Indica-Dominant

Genetics: Blue x Beast

Potency: THC 14-18%

www.northofseeds.com

North of Seeds is quickly gaining a very solid reputation in the competitive Spanish seed market. Operating out of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, this company was the first medical seed bank established in that area, and the team goes to great lengths with the care of their seeds. Typical to all ‘Blue’ strains, Blue North Special is a mostly-indica plant that shares the parentage of eminent breeder DJ Short’s Afghani Blueberry, but also has in its heritage Beast, a strain which is popular throughout Spain.

Blue North Special can be grown both indoors and outdoors, and thanks to its mildew-resistant properties, it can flourish happily in either environment without too much trouble. If you choose to grow indoors and use a 12 on/12 off light cycle, you can expect flowering to occur at around the 50 to 60 day mark with about 400 grams per square yard being harvested. If a bigger yield is your main concern, then growing this strain outdoors may be a good option, as the yield can be boosted by up to 100 grams when grown outside. However, if growing outside, pests can sometimes be a problem, from the usual aphids and ladybug visitors to any animals native to your area, including nosy neighbors and dope thieves. If you can keep all these at bay, perhaps with an arsenal of organic or chemical pesticides and strange behavior that makes people voluntarily stay away from your property, expect to harvest around mid-October. This plant displays its Blue family traits in its density and stout shape and in its red, purple and, of course, blue hues that not only make it a beautiful plant to grow, but also beautiful to behold! As always, because of the Blue family’s Afghani roots, this plant likes dry conditions and is great for hash-making. It is a true blue, meaning that it is blue-colored no matter what the weather, but, again as with many cannabis plants, it changes color in colder temperatures. This means that if you like to manipulate your plant colors to make your garden more beautiful and to give your dope more bag appeal, give it a shot and lower grow room temperature during the last few weeks of flowering!

Once harvested, the bud has a very strong smell of berries and when you roll up your first joint, you’ll notice that the sweetness of the smoke lingers pleasantly on your palate. Much like parent strain Blueberry, this strain packs a long-lasting high with a very positive spin, great for socializing and watching a movie that would otherwise suck. A delicious smoke for sure, and the accompanying euphoria makes for an inspirational experience.