Granddaddy Purple - the purple pheno

PlumberSoCal2 · Jul 11, 2025

It's been a bit

2025 #2

#1 is to the left.

Poor thing was top heavy and fell over twice day 1 flip, July 1 and all branches bent that way. I turned her around and now she's leaning against the house. I have a couple of 4 or 5 gallon clay pots I believe I'll put them in next few days. Should keep her upright and I'll trun her back to the morning sun

#3

5.5' tall and bigger around. Picked a moth larvae off her this morning. Neem for everyone tonight, on me

#4

Both #'s 3 & 4 were flipped June 1 and up potted to 4 gallon nursery pots 10 days ago. Killing it and I expect 4+ ounces from each of grapes and berries

#'s 5 & 6

Lot 'o larf but that dank #6 tasted like grape candy outta da Budda vape 5 days ago. I'm drying some out to smoke and vape today as you should've guessed

LOVE

this strain.

New Mom from top heavy momma

Up front in the black 1 gal pot. Behind her is a Cherry Wine hemp that I've had for several years and obviously will continue to keep it amongst my collection

5 more cuts of #1

awaiting bigger shoes. They won't be allowed to vegg for 6 months

but I promise they will provide my needed daily infusion of grapes and berries

Gonna keep this girl for a bit

PlumberSoCal2 · Jul 30, 2025

Clones of my #1

First time I've used the clear cups. Love this as you can see how the roots are doing.

They all got 1 gallon nursery pots. I'll keep one as a mom, give away 2 to a friend and flip the other 3 by the end of next month. Currently I've got 4 large ones in flower. 2 will be harvested within the next 2 weeks and 2 that need another 6 weeks. Gonna be flush with my favorite purple smoke

PlumberSoCal2 · Aug 3, 2025

#'s 1&2

I let them vegg far too long and have had falling over issues and their results of bent and broken branches. Fortunately I've got growing cuts of #1

#3

#4

These have been fairly easy. Once #3 went into the 3 gal she's been great and #4 is tied to part of a 2x4" stand. Hasn't moved since

I'm going to give #'s 3&4 a couple more weeks to beef up. Trichs are opaque but none amber.

PlumberSoCal2 · Aug 18, 2025

Took down #'s 3&4 on Thursday 8/14. Lot's of flower damage from Mothman

Clones

3 in 1 gal pots. Pushing past 3'

These 2 were

supposed to be in the next city over by now but someone is having second thoughts so these should be ready by Halloween

This girl

Was the quickest grower and was the first to get up potted. I'll be taking cuts soon.

#'s 1&2

Lot's of small flowers. They've fallen over a dozen times. Put some large wooden blocks on one.

PlumberSoCal2 · Aug 20, 2025

Look at those moth eggs

Far too much insect damage. They love the GDP

nylonneurton · Aug 21, 2025

PlumberSoCal2 said:
7 years ago I was gifted some GDP seeds. After growing, drying and curing that wonderful grape smell/taste reminded me of the first time I puffed this strain 20 years ago.

The one thing I noted is the 3 distinct phenos. Green, mix and full on purple.
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While all 3 show purple in the flowers, especially during colder weather the purple pheno is stunning, but what's more is the grape smell/taste is stronger in the purple plants.

I've been breeding this strain focusing on the purple pheno trying to set this purple line and I may finally have succeeded with the latest generation.
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I planted 10 and all 10 popped and all 10 have the distinctive purple stems.

Seeds were planted 4/17 and popped 5 days later 4/22. I'll be transplanting them into solo cups in the next couple days and updating often.

I'll be growing them out in 3 gal pots of coconut coir with MasterBlend nutrients in a greenhouse and breeding the best male and female outside.

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Just thinking about this strain makes me feel nostalgic.

PlumberSoCal2 · Aug 27, 2025

Flipped about 2 weeks ago

3 in vegg

And a mom

10 cuts taken yesterday

PlumberSoCal2 · Sep 12, 2025

1st rooted cut

Couple purple flowers getting close

PlumberSoCal2 · Sep 23, 2025

This is why I breed

From green flowers with hints of purple to flowers of purple. It's taken 7 generations to get to this point. Still working toward a total purple plant. The pheno is there I just have to find it, again.

PlumberSoCal2 · Sep 27, 2025

These 2 were Flipped 8-10

Harvested 9-27 @ 48 days

Fighting aphids and moth larvae I took them down instead of spraying again with neem oil. They smell unbelievably delicious

3 more flipped 8-29

These vegged 3 weeks longer and are much bigger then the 2 harvested today. 4 plus weeks, half way there

Mama

Cuts

I'm gonna keep her for a bit and try for purple plants this winter

PlumberSoCal2 · Oct 7, 2025

Greenhouse mama

Flipped today

and will be 8wks on my bday

She got big in there and I'm going to up pot her from her 1.5-2 gal pot to a 5 gal.

1 of 3 flipped 8-29

Looks like it’s Fall

Here comes the purple

I'll be running a fem seed making program this Fall/Winter and am adding these 3 girls

They'll get up potted and hopefully around Nov/Dec-ish 1 will be sprayed and the other 2 flipped.

Those 2 I clipped and hung 10 days ago got their lowers raided

and once I get most of that leaf off it's pretty amazing.

PlumberSoCal2 · Oct 16, 2025

6 GDP's from 2001

These are my S2's and as you can see very little red in the stems. There is some, difficult to see in this pic bit I remember these as starting to show their beautiful colors. The red milk jug lids have "GDP" written om them pointing out the three best ones which were used to make the S3 generation.

It sure doesn't seem I've been working this strain for 7+ years but here we are. I've come a long way to get here