Mendo Purps 54 x Bubba Kush 101 brings Mendo Purps together with Bubba Kush. The first is the Northern California indica that gave the purple lines their colour; the second, the West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. These are held cuts, not recreations. CSI's entire catalogue works that way, and it is the reason their crosses are worth chasing.

The number in Mendo Purps 54 is a specific plant, not a decoration. Humboldt CSI grow a population out, keep the individuals worth keeping and number them, so Mendo Purps 54 is one identified selection rather than Mendo Purps in general. A pack naming a different number is a different mother. The number in x Bubba Kush 101 is a specific plant, not a decoration. Humboldt CSI grow a population out, keep the individuals worth keeping and number them, so x Bubba Kush 101 is one identified selection rather than x Bubba Kush in general. A pack naming a different number is a different mother.

Mendo Purps sits on the seed side here, Bubba Kush 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: 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: Bubba Kush. The West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it. Dense colas need airflow; the Pre-98 cut is the shorter, broader-leafed, heavier expression.
• Why these two. They are not variations on the same idea. They pull in different directions, and that spread is what makes a pack worth hunting through rather than just growing.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two distinct smells, and a pack will give you both plus everything between.

• The Aroma. Grape and fruit, and it looks the part from the Mendo Purps side, against roasted coffee, dark cocoa and old-school hash with a woody edge from the Bubba Kush side.
• The Taste. Grape and dark berry up front, turning to spiced earth and coffee bean, finishing hashy and thick through the exhale.

What each side brings

• What to budget. The documented side, Mendo Purps, runs eight to nine weeks, with outdoor crops coming down in the middle of October. Set the room to that and let the plants correct you.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives fruity and grape-like with deep colouration; the other gives roasted coffee, dark cocoa and old-school hash with a woody edge. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Structure varies hard here. 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 from one parent; short to medium and stocky, broad deep-green leaves, tight internodes, modest 1.2 to 1.5 times stretch; golf-ball to cola-sized buds with thick calyces and heavy resin, forest green through to plum from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Mendo Purps is reported as settled rather than racy; Bubba Kush as gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward. 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. Bubba Kush is a stocky plant with barely any stretch - one and a half times at most - carrying dense, thick-calyxed flower that colours from deep green towards plum under a heavy resin load.
• Vegetative Phase. Top or train before you flip rather than chasing the canopy afterwards.
• 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. Bubba Kush is reported as gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward, 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. Genuine Humboldt CSI stock.