Mendo purple S1 is the Mendo Purps cut selfed onto itself, so both halves of every seed come from that one plant. Mendo Purps is the Mendocino purple that the whole Northern California purple catalogue leans on, and a self is the only way a clone-only cut like it has ever reached a seed packet. It carries fruity and grape-like with deep colouration. What you are buying is a look inside one plant rather than a blend of two.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother and Father: Mendo Purps, selfed. The Mendocino County purple that came out of Northern California in the late nineties. The purple lines people can name mostly run back through it. Its own origin is a story rather than a pedigree - the usual account has it grown from the bagseed of a purple Afghani kept since 1977 and not planted until 1998, and no source gives a clean lineage for it. It circulated clone-only at first; BC Bud Depot later stabilised seed of it, and it took High Times Strain of the Year in 2007. It is not a heavy yielder and was never grown for that.
• What a reversal is for. It puts a clone-only plant into seed without introducing anything foreign. That is preservation work rather than breeding, and it is most of what Humboldt CSI actually do.
• Reading a pack of a self. There is no second parent introducing anything new. Selfing surfaces traits the clone carries quietly, so expect range rather than uniformity, and that spread is the point.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

• The Aroma. Dark grape with the colour to match.
• The Taste. Grape first, then a deeper berry note.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. Slightly indica-dominant and not a big plant - three to four feet indoors, six to eight outdoors. It is not a beginner's plant: it wants training and trimming to yield properly.
• 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. Mendo Purps runs eight to nine weeks, with outdoor crops coming down in the middle of October. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Mendo Purps as settled rather than racy.
• The Body. Reported in line with that. This is not a plant described as pulling in two directions.

In the pack

7 feminized seeds per pack. Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Nearly everything CSI put out is built from cuts they hold themselves rather than from other people's seed lines, which is why their catalogue reads like a list of clones instead of a list of brands. Sold as authentic Humboldt CSI.