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Hindu Kushhybrid3 sources · disputed
Afghanihybrid1 source · disputed
Black Dominahybrid1 source · disputed
Purple Afghanihybrid2 sources · disputed
Chem Valley LSDhybrid1 source · disputed
Sweet Mendo Kushhybrid1 source · disputed
Mendo Purpshybrid1 source
Purple Kushhybrid1 source
North American Indicahybrid1 source · disputed

Parents

Sources name different parents — 2 versions recorded.

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Mendocino Purps

Purple/Grape
2 back10 forward

Ancestor of 1308 strains

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Disputed lineage

At least one parent for this strain is contested — sources disagree on its lineage.

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Children

Show all 15 children
Granddaddy Purplehybrid769 descendants
Grape Apehybrid713 descendants
Purple Urklehybrid814 descendants
Purple Candyhybrid0 descendants
Purple Trainwreckhybrid3 descendants
Blackwaterhybrid2 descendants
Banana Breathhybrid0 descendants
Kryptonitehybrid3 descendants
Purple Diamondhybrid0 descendants
Blurplehybrid0 descendants
Funky Monkeyhybrid0 descendants
Mendo Cookieshybrid1 descendant
Apples and Bananashybrid26 descendants
Zkittlezhybrid559 descendants
Purple Punchhybrid194 descendants
Cherry Piehybrid526 descendants
Candylandhybrid15 descendants
Nerdshybrid1 descendant
Black Mambahybrid1 descendant
Black Cherryhybrid2 descendants

1,288 more descendants

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Aroma profile

Aroma profile of Mendocino PurpsStrongest: Floral, Earth, Dark Fruit.typicalBright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.CitrusConfection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.CandySweetnessDeep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.Dark FruitBlossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.FloralGreen, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.HerbaceousSoil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.EarthSour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.FunkFuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.GasBakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.Dessert &Cream
What the axes mean
Citrus
Bright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.
Candy Sweetness
Confection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.
Dark Fruit
Deep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.
Floral
Blossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.
Herbaceous
Green, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.
Earth
Soil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.
Funk
Sour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.
Gas
Fuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.
Dessert & Cream
Bakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.

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12 sister strains

Cherry Bombhybridhalf sister4 descendantsWhite Rhinohybridhalf sister53 descendantsBlackberryhybridhalf sister120 descendantsPurple Trainwreckhybridhalf sister3 descendantsCherry Berryhybridhalf sisterGrape Kushhybridhalf sister3 descendantsBlackwaterhybridhalf sister2 descendantsTrinityhybridhalf sister17 descendantsThe Hoghybridhalf sister1 descendantPpphybridhalf sister1 descendantMendo Cookieshybridhalf sister1 descendantPurple Monkey Ballshybridhalf sister