Granddaddy Purple x Cherry Pie sits between Granddaddy Purple and Cherry Pie: the other California purple benchmark on one side, Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica on the other. Every parent CSI use is a cut they keep alive themselves, so nothing in this pack is a reconstruction of a famous name.

Written this way, Granddaddy Purple is the mother and Cherry Pie the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Granddaddy Purple. The other California purple benchmark. That one comes from contested - its breeder gives Mendo Purps, Skunk and Afghan, while many sources give Purple Urkle x Big Bud. The lineage argument is the interesting part: the breeder's own account gives Mendo Purps, Skunk and Afghan, while most third-party listings give Purple Urkle crossed to Big Bud. Those are different plants and no source reconciles them.
• Father: Cherry Pie. Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica. Given as Granddaddy Purple x Durban Poison. Considered easy to grow.
• Why it is worth a pack rather than a look. The two sides are far enough apart that seedlings genuinely differ. That range is the product.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Grape and berry over earth from the Granddaddy Purple side, against cherry and dark berry with an earthy floor from the Cherry Pie side.
• The Taste. Berry sweetness over earth up front, turning to berry and cherry with earth underneath at the finish through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• They are not on the same clock. Granddaddy Purple runs around eight weeks; Cherry Pie runs eight to nine weeks. Across a pack that gap shows up as plants finishing days or weeks apart.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives sweet, fruity and floral over an earthy base; the other gives dark stone fruit and berry over earth. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Structure varies hard here. Indica-built, heavy colour from one parent; short and bushy at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres with wide lateral branching that suits low-stress training from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Granddaddy Purple is reported as settled and heavy; Cherry Pie as settling. The cross sits somewhere between and moves plant to plant.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Granddaddy Purple is dense and heavily coloured, indica in build. Cherry Pie is a wide, low plant - under about one hundred and twenty centimetres - whose lateral branching takes LST well.
• 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. Granddaddy Purple runs around eight weeks, Cherry Pie eight to nine weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Granddaddy Purple as settled and heavy.
• The Body. Cherry Pie is reported as settling, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. The point of their catalogue is access - cuts that otherwise only move between growers who already know each other, put into a form you can actually buy. Real Humboldt CSI stock, not a copy.