Purple Urkle 103 x Northern Lites 5 sits between Purple Urkle and Northern Lights #5: a select phenotype of Mendocino Purps out of the Emerald Triangle around the turn of the 1990s on one side, one of the plants the whole indoor era was built on on the other. Every parent CSI use is a cut they keep alive themselves, so nothing in this pack is a reconstruction of a famous name.

103 identifies the Purple Urkle used here. Numbered cuts come out of a population that was grown and sorted, and the number rides with the plant that was kept. Two crosses that both say Purple Urkle are only the same cross if the number matches too. The number in x Northern Lites 5 is a specific plant, not a decoration. Humboldt CSI grow a population out, keep the individuals worth keeping and number them, so x Northern Lites 5 is one identified selection rather than x Northern Lites in general. A pack naming a different number is a different mother.

Written this way, Purple Urkle is the mother and Northern Lights #5 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 Urkle. A select phenotype of Mendocino Purps out of the Emerald Triangle around the turn of the 1990s. Dense purple flower in a closed canopy is where mould starts.
• Father: Northern Lights #5. One of the plants the whole indoor era was built on. Also listed as CI #5 F1; density this high is what mould looks for.
• The point of the pairing. Neither parent needed rescuing. Putting them together is about what sits between them, not about fixing either one.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

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

• The Aroma. Sweet grape and dark berry over earthy skunk, myrcene-dominant from the Purple Urkle side, against old-fashioned sweet resin and earth, nothing fruity or chemical about it from the Northern Lights #5 side.
• The Taste. Dark fruit up front, musk and earth behind it up front, turning to sweet earth with resin behind it and a clean finish through the exhale.

The two halves, side by side

• Timing splits the pack. One parent wants around eight weeks indoors, inside a seven to nine week window, the other seven to eight weeks indoors. Expect the fast plants down well before the slow ones are ready.
• The smell is a negotiation. Sweet grape and dark berry over earthy skunk, myrcene-dominant on one side against sweet, earthy and resinous rather than fruity or chemical on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Build. On the Purple Urkle side: compact and indica-built; deep purple colour hardest where night temperatures drop late. On the Northern Lights #5 side: dense buds running golf-ball to soda-can size with calyxes stacking so tightly the nugs feel heavy for their size; minimal leaf to flower; heavily encrusted with milky trichomes by weeks six to eight. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Purple Urkle at settled and unhurried; the heavy, physical end and Northern Lights #5 at settled and unhurried; heavy and physical. 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 Urkle is compact and indica-built; deep purple colour hardest where night temperatures drop late. Northern Lights #5 is compact, heavy flower that frosts up by week six and trims fast because there is so little leaf on it.
• 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. Purple Urkle runs around eight weeks indoors, inside a seven to nine week window, Northern Lights #5 seven to eight weeks indoors. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Purple Urkle as settled and unhurried; the heavy, physical end.
• The Body. Northern Lights #5 is reported as settled and unhurried; heavy and physical, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. CSI work from clone stock they have kept for years and reverse it into seed, so what arrives in a pack is the real cut's genetics rather than a seed-line approximation of it. Authentic Humboldt CSI genetics.