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Granddaddy Purple (GDP)

Indica
Origins - Northern California (Apothecary)
Flowering - 60 days
Harvest - Mid October

Apothecary specializes in creating medical strains. They have been growing and refining this all-indica variety for five years. Her ancestors have grown in the hills of Northern California for over two decades, where her phenotypes have been known by many different names including Grape Ape, Purple Erkel, and Grandaddy Grape Ape.

As an indoor crop, Granddaddy Purple is equally happy in hydro or soil. With a pure indica heritage, this plant is predisposed to a short bushy stature. Granddaddy branches extensively, making her less than ideal for SOG style grows, but she can be trained to make an awesome super crop garden. When left to her natural tendencies, this strain will make a nice big shrub that reaches about 3 feet indoors or up to 8 feet outdoors. She is a hardy grower with tight internodes and dense dark green to purple leaves.

Granddaddy Purple is easy to work with throughout her growth cycle. She likes a cool temperature, between 70-80 F, and can be very forgiving so long as she is adequately watered. Due to her high resin output and dense structure, this plant can be alluring to mites.

Granddaddy Purple finishes her flowering cycle in 8-9 weeks. The buds are dense green nuggets that gain royal purple hues as they mature. Depending on the size she is allowed to reach, Granddaddy Purple can yield between 0.5 and 3.5 ounces apiece. outdoor plants will really deliver, with potential yields between 8 ounces and 5 pounds.

There is a potent, undeniable grape tinge to this plant' aroma, and a sweet grape taste that lingers subtly on the tongue. Granddaddy Purple's effects are enduring, with a smooth even feeling throughout. For an indica, her buzz is surprisingly alert and energetic rather than sedating. This is a good smoke for walking in the high meadows and swimming in the lake afterwards. Medicinally, this varity has given relief to cancer / chemotherapy patients. Granddaddy Purple has taken first prize in no less than four pot competitions: The Inglewood Medical Cannabis Cup in 2004, and the Green Cup in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Granddaddy is def one of the better purple strains. mellow sweet. 2nd in my book to the fruity and oh so sleepy grape ape.

Beautiful Bud, & I'm Sure It Smell's And Smoke's As Good As It Look's.

although i'm not a huge fan of purples, that looks AMAZING! i can almost smell and taste the purps

where can you find seeds to grow gdp?

I remember this strain from back in the day as Purple Erkel... It was the first strain I ran across that didn't have a regional name... ie - Colombian Brown, Acapulco Gold etc.. This was the beginning of the new strains making their way north. It was really good at the time (all we could get for awhile) but I am with Buddha on this one... not a big fan of the purple strain with the "sweet almost grape-ish" taste. It's good enough and some really like it... but it's not my bag... pun intended..


Keep On Smokin!

strain of the month - january 2010

Sure is pretty.

im growing kens gdp and im on the last 14 days but i dont have any purple on my plants im i being parionod or do the purple come last 2 weeks of the 9 wk cycle

GDP is nice, although I never ran into one which was Top Shelf. All GDPs I've tried were mids maybe cuz I'm in socal...