Purple Dogbud (Chemdog 91 x Purple Urkle) brings Chem 91 together with Purple Urkle. The first is the SKVA cut - the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the family takes its name from; the second, the Emerald Triangle purple keeper that most of California's colour reputation rests on. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. CSI breed off held clones rather than off seed stock, which is why the parents named on the pack are the actual plants and not their descendants.

Chemdog carries a 91 because selections get numbered to stay distinguishable once they leave the room they were made in. It marks this exact mother, and it is the part of the name worth reading closely.

Order matters in a cross name. In Purple Dogbud (Chemdog 91 x Purple Urkle) the Chem 91 side supplied the seed and Purple Urkle the pollen, and the reciprocal - the same two plants the other way round - is a separate breeding decision with its own results.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Chem 91. The SKVA cut - the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the family takes its name from. It traces back to one of thirteen seeds from a bag bought at a Grateful Dead show in 1991. Skunk VA was given a cut in 1995 and has held it since, which is why the line survives.
• Father: Purple Urkle. The Emerald Triangle purple keeper that most of California's colour reputation rests on. Dense purple flower in a closed canopy is where mould starts.
• How to read it. Everything below splits into what one parent gives and what the other does. Plants that take from both are the ones to keep.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus sitting behind from the Chem 91 side, against grape and berry with a musky, skunky floor under it from the Purple Urkle side.
• The Taste. Greasy and mouth-coating - fuel, then earth and pine, sour at the finish up front, turning to dark fruit up front, musk and earth behind it through the exhale.

What each side brings

• Timing splits the pack. One parent wants sixty-three to seventy days, the other around eight weeks indoors, inside a seven to nine week window. Expect the fast plants down well before the slow ones are ready.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it; the other gives sweet grape and dark berry over earthy skunk, myrcene-dominant. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Two frames in one pack. Chem 91 is loose and open rather than compact, moderate to heavy stretch, branches that soften under weight late. Purple Urkle is compact and indica-built; deep purple colour hardest where night temperatures drop late. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• They pull differently. Growers put Chem 91 at alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy and Purple Urkle at settled and unhurried; the heavy, physical end. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Chem 91 is a loose, stretchy plant whose branches give way under late weight. Purple Urkle is a short, tight plant that colours hard once the nights cool off.
• Vegetative Phase and Stretch. Shape the plant before the flip. Correcting a frame in week six is harder work than setting it in week two.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Chem 91 runs sixty-three to seventy days, Purple Urkle around eight weeks indoors, inside a seven to nine week window. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Chem 91 as alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy.
• The Body. Purple Urkle is reported as settled and unhurried; the heavy, physical end, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

7 feminized seeds per pack. Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Their library is clones first and crosses second, which is why the names on their packs read like a list of plants rather than a list of products. Genuine Humboldt CSI stock.