Anyone ever wondered if the strain they bought is actually what it claims to be? I'm on leafy here looking at purple kush , all the pictures look kinda different, how do you know if you have the real thing?

MamaSmokes wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 5:28 am Anyone ever wondered if the strain they bought is actually what it claims to be? I'm on leafy here looking at purple kush , all the pictures look kinda different, how do you know if you have the real thing?

That's a complex subject. First off when growing from seeds, every plant that pops can be a different phenotype and be very different from it's brothers and sisters in appearance, taste, smell, potency, etc. Only way to get stable results when growing is through cloning, but even then, one needs to have a proper "pure bred" clone in order to obtain a true representative of that strain. Even then, how it is grown can make the end result bud very different. The purple color for example is a genetic factor most of the time, but it can also be provoked by reducing temperatures in the grow room near the end.

This means a pair of clones of a strain that naturally has a bit of purple (Purple Kush is a good example of this) can end up almost green vs almost completely purple depending on how it's grown... Imagine how wildly they can vary when it's grown from strain.

At the end of the day.... Each grower will have it's own version of this or that strain. Sometimes they'll cheat a bit (they might present a cross of a strain as a pure, or vise-versa).. sometimes they don't even know what it is and they'll just pick a strain name they feel is similar. A lot of MOMs also use their own names because they want to look like they have rare/exclusive strains or want to hide the fact they share the same growers/providers as others, etc.

In my experience, reputable MOMs usually have it right, or very close... but I've seen a few cases of getting the same strain from 2 MOMs that were absolutely different in very aspect... also seen cases of different names altogether that were definitely the same, or extremely close.