Jilly Bean Grape 10 seed pack (Purple Urkle x Jilly Bean) crosses Purple Urkle to Jilly Bean, a Mendocino Purps selection pulled out of the Emerald Triangle around 1990 against MzJill's flagship and a High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame plant. Neither is a filler parent, which is why this pairing is worth a pack rather than a look. Her programme survived a fire that destroyed everything else. What is still in it is what was worth carrying out.

10 identifies the Jilly Bean Grape used here. Numbered cuts come out of a population that was grown and sorted, and the number rides with the plant that was kept. Two crosses that both say Jilly Bean Grape are only the same cross if the number matches too.

Purple Urkle sits on the seed side here, Jilly Bean on the pollen side. If you have seen these two names paired the other way round, that is a different pack and not this one.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: 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.
• Father: Jilly Bean. MzJill's flagship and a High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame plant. Given as Orange Velvet x Space Queen. Named one of High Times' Top 10 Strains of 2007 and inducted into their Seed Bank Hall of Fame. It is the plant most of MzJill's catalogue is crossed back into..
• 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

Expect the profile to move plant to plant rather than settle.

• The Aroma. Sweet grape and dark berry over earthy skunk, myrcene-dominant from the Purple Urkle side, against orange and mango, sweet and bright from the Jilly Bean side.
• The Taste. Grape and berry turning earthy and musky up front, turning to citrus and tropical fruit with a creamy finish through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Two different harvest dates. Around eight weeks indoors, inside a seven to nine week window for Purple Urkle, eight to nine weeks for Jilly Bean. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives sweet grape and dark berry over earthy skunk, myrcene-dominant; the other gives orange and mango, sweet and bright. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Structure varies hard here. Compact and indica-built; deep purple colour hardest where night temperatures drop late from one parent; medium-height plants with orange pistils threaded through dense flower from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Purple Urkle is reported as settled and unhurried; the heavy, physical end; Jilly Bean as lifting and social, clear-headed. 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. Purple Urkle is a short, tight plant that colours hard once the nights cool off. Jilly Bean is medium-height plants with orange pistils threaded through dense flower.
• Training. Worth the effort early - it is the difference between an even canopy and three colas and a lot of leaf.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Purple Urkle runs around eight weeks indoors, inside a seven to nine week window, Jilly Bean eight to nine weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Purple Urkle as settled and unhurried; the heavy, physical end.
• The Body. Jilly Bean is reported as lifting and social, clear-headed, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Seeds from MzJill Genetics. Agent Orange, Ace of Spades, Orange Velvet and Brian Berry Cough all came out of the same programme this pack does. Real MzJill Genetics, not a copy.