Purple Afghani x Wedding Cake puts Purple Hindu Kush over Wedding Cake. One is a purple Hindu Kush selection, indica to the core; 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. Both parents here are cuts CSI keep in their own room. That is the whole difference between this and a seed line named after the same strains.

Purple Hindu Kush sits on the seed side here, Wedding Cake 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 Hindu Kush. A purple Hindu Kush selection, indica to the core. Parentage: Hindu Kush x Purple Afghani.
• Father: Wedding Cake. Triangle Kush over Animal Mints, with real Florida OG stock hiding under the frosting. It traces back to Triangle Kush x Animal Mints. Rated an easy plant for beginners and experienced growers alike.
• What to expect across a pack. Two distinct parents means real variation in frame, finish and nose. Select early and take cuttings off anything you would want again.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The two halves stack rather than blend, which is the whole reason to run it.

• The Aroma. Earthy, piney and spicy with strong grape and berry over a pungent base from the Purple Hindu Kush side, against sweet vanilla cake over creamy earth with pepper and spice from the Wedding Cake side.
• The Taste. Earthy grape closing hashy up front, turning to vanilla and cream turning distinctly tangier on the exhale through the exhale.

What each side brings

• They are not on the same clock. Purple Hindu Kush runs seven to eight weeks; Wedding Cake runs seven to nine weeks indoors. Across a pack that gap shows up as plants finishing days or weeks apart.
• Two noses, one pack. Purple Hindu Kush contributes earthy, piney and spicy with strong grape and berry over a pungent base. Wedding Cake contributes sweet vanilla cake over creamy earth with pepper and spice. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• 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 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.
• They pull differently. Growers put Purple Hindu Kush at indica and settling and Wedding Cake at indica-leaning and even; relaxed. 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 short and broad in the mountain-indica shape, colouring hard. 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 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, 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 Purple Hindu Kush as indica and settling.
• The Body. Wedding Cake is reported as indica-leaning and even; relaxed, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Humboldt CSI are preservationists before they are breeders - most of what they release is a clone somebody has kept alive by hand for years, put into seed so it stops depending on one grower staying in the game. That is what you are buying into here. Real Humboldt CSI stock, not a copy.