Mendo Purple x Wedding Cake puts Mendo Purps over Wedding Cake. One is the Mendocino purple that the whole Northern California purple catalogue leans on; the other is Triangle Kush crossed to Animal Mints, with Florida OG stock under all the frosting. Two very different plants, and the point of the cross is what sits between them. Every parent CSI use is a cut they keep alive themselves, so nothing in this pack is a reconstruction of a famous name.

Order matters in a cross name. In Mendo Purple x Wedding Cake the Mendo Purps side supplied the seed and Wedding Cake 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: Mendo Purps. 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.
• Father: Wedding Cake. Triangle Kush over Animal Mints, with real Florida OG stock hiding under the frosting. Built from Triangle Kush x Animal Mints. Rated an easy plant for beginners and experienced growers alike.
• What the cross is reaching for. One side brings the structure and the other brings the nose. The plants worth keeping out of a pack are the ones that hold both rather than picking a side.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The nose is where these two argue hardest.

• The Aroma. Fruity and grape-like with deep colouration from the Mendo Purps side, against vanilla cake over creamy earth with pepper and spice cutting through from the Wedding Cake side.
• The Taste. Grape first, then a deeper berry note up front, turning to vanilla and cream turning distinctly tangier on the exhale through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Two different harvest dates. Eight to nine weeks, with outdoor crops coming down in the middle of october for Mendo Purps, seven to nine weeks indoors for Wedding Cake. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.
• Two noses, one pack. Mendo Purps contributes fruity and grape-like with deep colouration. Wedding Cake contributes sweet vanilla cake over creamy earth with pepper and spice. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Build. On the Mendo Purps side: 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. On the Wedding Cake side: short and bushy with minimal stretch and heavy lateral branching that needs support once flowers fill; dense chunky buds, dark to light green with occasional purple. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• Opposite ends. Mendo Purps is reported as settled rather than racy; Wedding Cake as indica-leaning and even; relaxed. 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. Mendo Purps is 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. Wedding Cake is short and bushy with minimal stretch and heavy lateral branching that needs support once flowers fill; dense chunky buds, dark to light green with occasional purple.
• 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. Mendo Purps runs eight to nine weeks, with outdoor crops coming down in the middle of October, Wedding Cake seven to nine weeks indoors. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Mendo Purps as settled rather than racy.
• The Body. Wedding Cake is reported as indica-leaning and even; relaxed, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

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. Original Humboldt CSI stock.