Purple Afghani x Forbidden Fruit is Purple Hindu Kush crossed to Forbidden Fruit. Purple Hindu Kush is a fast, deeply coloured indica out of the Hindu Kush line. Forbidden Fruit is the Cherry Pie and Tangie cross that is all about the fruit. Between them they cover ground neither reaches alone. CSI breed off held clones rather than off seed stock, which is why the parents named on the pack are the actual plants and not their descendants.

Written this way, Purple Hindu Kush is the mother and Forbidden Fruit 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: Purple Hindu Kush. A fast, deeply coloured indica out of the Hindu Kush line. Built from Hindu Kush x Purple Afghani.
• Father: Forbidden Fruit. The Cherry Pie and Tangie cross that is all about the fruit. Parentage: Cherry Pie x Tangie. Rated an easy grow that does not need constant attention.
• 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

The nose is where these two argue hardest.

• The Aroma. Earthy, piney and spicy with strong grape and berry over a pungent base from the Purple Hindu Kush side, against tropical citrus over dark cherry from the Forbidden Fruit side.
• The Taste. Grape and berry with earth and spice behind it up front, turning to passionfruit and cherry with a citrus lift through the exhale.

What each side brings

• They are not on the same clock. Purple Hindu Kush runs seven to eight weeks; Forbidden Fruit runs nine to ten weeks indoors. Across a pack that gap shows up as plants finishing days or weeks apart.
• The smell is a negotiation. Earthy, piney and spicy with strong grape and berry over a pungent base on one side against dark cherry and bright orange citrus on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Build. On the Purple Hindu Kush side: dense resinous buds in deep purple with bright orange pistils under a thick trichome coat; colour develops as temperatures drop in flower. On the Forbidden Fruit side: compact at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres indoors. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Purple Hindu Kush at indica and settling and Forbidden Fruit at indica-leaning and settling. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Purple Hindu Kush is dense resinous buds in deep purple with bright orange pistils under a thick trichome coat; colour develops as temperatures drop in flower. Forbidden Fruit is compact and dense, colouring the way its Cherry Pie side does.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Purple Hindu Kush runs seven to eight weeks, Forbidden Fruit nine to ten weeks indoors. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Purple Hindu Kush as indica and settling.
• The Body. Forbidden Fruit is reported as indica-leaning and settling, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

7 feminized seeds per 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. Authentic Humboldt CSI genetics.