Necroing a dead thread for someone named Necromancer...lol, love it.
what i was trying to figure out was What is the lineage of Mendocino purp and Purple Urkle... ive spoken to Subcool (Yea he's a dickhead at first but after continuing a conversation with him, he gets less defensive and you can see that he's a cool nice person who went through a lot of shit) He stated that Mendocino Purp and Purple Urkle are two totally different strains and that Purple Urkle is not just a phenotype but it's own strain. I informed him about the information from leafy and he reiterated and insisted that Mendocino Purp and Purple Urkle are not the same strain, So with two conflicting information, I said my best luck to get to the bottom of all of this was to come here talk to the growers and hopefully get some confirmation of what's true and not from Nspecta himself!
With a little Google work, you can find pics of Urkle and Mendo side by side, and they're very clearly not the same thing.
Leafly is legitimately the worst possible place you can go to get accurate strain information. seedfinder is certainly better, but still has some glaringly bad entries. Leafly is seriously absolute trash for anything but checking out menus.
Fuck Sub, but he's not wrong here. In the opinion of many, Nspecta is the ultimate knowledge on all things purple, but hasn't been here in a while. Here's a quote from Nspecta on another forum (from years ago), because it's the next best thing.
"@30years~ I woulda thought you, of all folks, woulda known where Urkle comes from...it's been in SoHum since at least the late 80's according to the cats closest to the source...reputed to be a Purple Pakistani/Skunk #1 hybrid. I didn't think the Bay had Urkle as early as '98...I don't think Ken even had his "GrandDaddy" that early...which he claims to have gotten out of Salmon Creek.
@TheRealHash~ Purple Indica, Purple Urkle, & Mendo Purple are all very different plants...PI & PU could share a very distant relationship but I see zero relation to PI with the MP. Purple Indica & Purple Urkle look like they could be Pakistani dom phenotypes whereas Mendo Purple looks more like an Afghani type.
And what's up with all the misinformation in this thread comparing &/or claiming Mendo Purple & Purple Urkle relations? Have any of these people ever even grown MP & PU? I feel bad for people just looking for legit information and having to wade through all the bull$#!t garbage just to get a tidbit of facts here and there...unfortunately, by the time you make it through all the nonsense who know's what really is the truth if you do find it"