Willy Wonka and the Purple Factory
There are several types of cannabis with genes that express the color purple in many different ways, but it must deliver something more than just looks.
Good purple, regardless of what strain it may come from, must deliver the taste and high expected from what it is presenting visually. Otherwise it would just be another bud with purple hues that can’t really compete with any high quality green, gold, or brown.
The bud pictured above had a sweet sugary type of smell. Covered in T.H.C. crystals, it lived up to its name of being called Purple Sugar because it delivered a solid high, great taste, and an overall pleasant smoking experience. The color was an added treat due to its difference in comparison with most of the non purple buds for sale.
Some people prefer green flowers, others don’t have a preference for any particular color, they only care about the taste and results that come from the mental state it creates. These types of preferences bring us back to what really matters.
How can you smoke something that is unpalatable?
What if the weed looks great and even smells amazing but doesn’t burn well?
I remember having a great looking lime green weed with red hairs that was covered in crystals but didn’t burn. You have to hold the flame to the bud and inhale to get a hit of smoke. It was torture trying to smoke this beautiful looking bud.
I gave some buds to a friend of mine and he said as a joke, “I used 3 lighters and a book of matches to smoke one joint.” Some people call it pipe weed because of its inability to burn well in a joint, but others, especially those who grow, seem to know that it it’s usually a problem with too much fertilizer being retained in the plant causing not to ignite. This is why so many experienced growers place strict emphasis on flushing plants days or even weeks prior to harvest.
So in retrospect of thinking about our experiences, and learning from those of others, we see how the colors and looks of cannabis is actually the least important attribute that somehow still appeals to even the veterans of cannabis. But the difference with veterans of cannabis is that many of them know looks must be accompanied by those other important factors such as taste, high, burn-ability, and other desired traits.
The color of cannabis being only a trivial trait is rebutted with the truth of how perception of how something looking good can somehow subconsciously be associated with it actually being good, which could lead someone into thinking a product is actually better than it is because of its cosmetics. And we see this effect when people think a weed is good just because it’s purple.
But now we know better.
Purple is great, as long it delivers in the other areas as well.
Sid Prince
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