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D<\/span>igital photo manipulation has blurred the lines between art and reality so completely that any truly remarkable image carries the weight of our collective skepticism; our minds no longer trust what our eyes can see. Such is the case with Sirius Black, a strain which boasts such a dazzlingly deep purple coloration it immediately inspires that nagging postmodern question: \u201cIs it real?\u201d<\/p>\n Thankfully, not only is the shockingly vibrant violet of Sirius Black real, it\u2019s a natural result of some very deliberate work by the Oregon Breeders Group \u2014\u00a0not a byproduct of the cold temperatures most strains require to produce purple.<\/p>\n Or as OBG co-founder Wade Preble explained, it\u2019s actually good. <\/i><\/p>\n \u201cMost purple weed isn\u2019t very good \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s not very good at all. And a lot of that is cold stress: you\u2019re killing the plant, it\u2019s unhealthy,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you cold stress Sirius Black, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll get any purpler, but it would be crappy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Thankfully, the strain\u2019s visually arresting aesthetics are a natural product of its unique genetics and no sacrifices to quality are required to obtain them.<\/p>\n \u201cSirius Black, when it\u2019s grown outdoors<\/a>, starts turning purple in August,\u00a0when the temps are in the 90s and the 100s,\u201d Preble said, adding that, while purple coloration was central to the breeding project, quality \u2014\u00a0not color \u2014\u00a0was the primary consideration.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that purple weed is a novelty, but it\u2019s gonna wear off if the terpene profile<\/a> and potency<\/a> are horrible like most cold-stressed purple plants are,\u201d he said. \u201cColor was secondary, but bottom line is, when you\u2019ve got an A1 plant and it\u2019s also beautiful, that doesn\u2019t hurt you at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Sirius Black as it exists today is a kind of homage to one of the original strains grown by the group, which Preble said is \u201clong gone\u201d by now.<\/p>\n \u201cBack in the late \u201970s, early \u201980s, we had what we believed was probably a pure indica: a short squatty plant that got as purple as Sirius Black and was some killer weed, but had some limitations with yield,\u201d he said. \u201cLife got in the way and we kind of took a break, but then when everything started going crazy up here in the last six or seven years, we got back together.\u201d<\/p>\n Sirius Black shares a first name with the \u201cDog Star\u201d Sirius, so it\u2019s right at home in the Phylos Bioscience \u201cGalaxy\u201d \u2014\u00a0a massive visual network of scientifically verified genetic information for cannabis that evokes a star map. The Phylos data for Sirius Black confirms its uniqueness: it has zero \u201cimmediate family\u201d connections.<\/p>\n And while the DNA profile shows strong connections to the \u201cSkunk\u201d and \u201cBerry\u201d subgroups, Preble said only the latter is expressed meaningfully in the plant\u2019s phenotype.<\/p>\n \u201cThe terpene profile is about as far away from the skunk smell as you can get\u2026 it is really berry, grape \u2014\u00a0when I cure this stuff it\u2019s fricking amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cMy wife, who hates the smell of skunky weed, just loves the smell. It smells like grapes, it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n Preble says people compliment the experience of smoking Sirius Black over and over again because the high walks the line between knocking you out and not being too weak.<\/p>\n And Sirius Black wasn\u2019t always spelled that way. Or as Preble puts it \u201cwe didn\u2019t spell it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBack then there was no Instagram or anything, weed didn\u2019t come with labels, so you didn\u2019t write strain names down,\u201d he said. \u201cStrains didn\u2019t really have names either, not like now \u2014\u00a0it was all based on where it came from or the color\u2026\u00a0we were just kind of like, \u2018That\u2019s some serious black,\u2019 and the name stuck.\u201d<\/p>\n Originally published in Issue 26<\/a> of Cannabis Now. <\/em>LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n TELL US, <\/strong>have you tried Sirius Black before?<\/p>\n The post Sirius Black is Purple Perfection<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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