Purple Strains and How to Bring Out Colours in Your Cannabis

[0:08] What's up you amazing listeners. I'm your host Chronic, and I am from the Cannabis Chronicles on Instagram and YouTube. And I'm back with an all-new episode of the Homegrown Podcast that is brought to us by Homegrown Cannabis Co. If you haven't already, definitely check out www.homegrowncannabisco.com for all your top-notch cannabis seed needs. There are dozens of strains to
 

[0:30] browse through and pick from. In today's episode, we're going to be going over purple strains, an overview on anthocyanin, and how to bring out the colors or characteristics much more brightly for purple plants. Pack that nice fat bowl of purple bud or take a big glob of some purple resin as we pursue some information on that purple
 

[0:49] sticky icky. Let's begin. In this first segment, we're going to talk about purple strains and exactly what anthocyanin is. First and foremost, for those unfamiliar with colors in plants, green or chlorophyll is generally what everyone knows already. However, when chlorophyll breaks down due to cold temperature, seasonal changes, or just genetic traits, there are other compounds that come through such as
 

[1:13] carotenoids or anthocyanin. Now these are basically botany or plant science terms to label or indicate certain colors being pronounced through biological processes. Purples through magentas and pinks are compounds like chlorophyll, only they're known as anthocyanin because they are not the color green. Now anthocyanin and carotenoids, which carotenoids are your oranges and yellows, whereas the reds, magentas, pinks, and purples and even blue
 

[1:39] hues are all going to be your anthocyanin, are the colors that come through when chlorophyll breaks down naturally on a plant, and they act the exact same as chlorophyll. We know this in nature as the fall fade most of the time, and it's how all those beautiful natural colors in nature come through in plants. As chlorophyll breaks down at colder temperatures, generally your fall times of the
 

[1:58] year will start to bring out your multicolor fields of trees. Now anthocyanin doesn't mean anything special. Actually chlorophyll, anthocyanin, and carotenoid are just terms representing pigments found in plants. I believe the proper pigment is the flavonoid pigment as well. Now aside from looking gorgeous, do purple plants, blue plants, red plants, or pink plants make any difference medically
 

[2:19] speaking? Well, in terms of cannabis plants actually, absolutely. Purple plants or plants that produce higher amounts of anthocyanin, whether they be off-colors of purple or reds, pinks, or blues, exhibit a lot more medical compounds than their carotenoid or chlorophyll counterparts. Now since cannabis is such a newly studied medicine as far as lab research goes, there aren't that many lab-tested or hard-backed evidence or massive studies
 

[2:44] done, but the small-scale lab results or various studies or dispensaries or forums, blogs, or diaries documenting growth has showcased a medical benefit being higher among anthocyanin in plants. So growing purple weed after all might really be better. Not only will it potentially be higher in medical benefits than the plants you have growing that aren't purple, but it will also look super pretty in your garden.
 

[3:07] Along with that, if you enjoy processing plants after they are harvested, a lot of purple fun can be had creating purple-colored rosin, hash, or other fun concentrates. Now the benefits of purple plants or plants with anthocyanin aren't drastic to the point where every purple strain will outweigh the rest, as each strain really has its own unique properties to bring to
 

[3:26] the table. It's just more so that the plants with high amounts of anthocyanin can offer a wider range or more volume of a range of a specific medical compound or compounds. Now if you want to grow your own purple bud, check out the various colorful strains that Homegrown Cannabis Co. actually has to offer and various seed packs at
 

[3:45] www.homegrowncannabisco.com. My fiancée and I grew the Big Devil Autoflower, and it was one of the most beautifully purple strains that we've had, and delicious. Now there isn't too much else to discuss with purple plants in this first segment, so sit back and take another fat bowl of some purple goodness or drop a fat purple dab and chill
 

[4:04] out as we take a short break with @natehammer420 from Instagram. Be sure to stay tuned. When Isaac Newton coined the phrase, "Standing on the shoulders of giants," he was talking about the amazing minds that came before him. It's a phrase that embodies the Homegrown collaboration with Steve DeAngelo, Kyle Kushman, Nikki Lastreto, and Swami Chaitanya. They are your giants. These legends are sharing more than just their vast
 

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[4:55] Head over to homegrowncannabisco.com for more details. And we're back from that amazing break with @natehammer420 from Instagram. Be sure to check out his page where he posts behind-the-scenes content that he works on with Homegrown Cannabis Co. In this segment, we're going to be discussing how to bring out those anthocyanins much brighter and to showcase the characteristics of those bright colors much
 

[5:18] better. To start off, the best way to bring out those purples or anthocyanins is to begin with a quality purple genetic or a genetic trait that offers the colors you're seeking. You can't bring out anthocyanin if it doesn't want to come out. So really having a good solid dark purple or bright purple phenotype or even a pink or red phenotype or blue phenotype will be great to start with.
 

[5:38] Some great options from Homegrown Cannabis Co. could be your Blueberry, Big Devil Autoflower, Panama Feminized, or Purple Kush. There are so many various purple strains that they offer that are gorgeous on their site. So once you check out www.homegrowncannabisco.com and snag your seeds, you'll then need to grow the plants up from there. And now once it's flower time, you'll be ready Purple plants don't
 

[6:01] generally become purple until those female flower hormones really kick off. So if you're trying to make them brighter, you have to grow the plant out. Once ethylene or the female flower hormone is in production, you'll see chlorophyll begin to break down, and the real genetics are going to start to take over for that phenotype. This is where creating cold temperatures at night
 

[6:20] around 65 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit will be ideal for creating a nice cold night that mimics fall in nature. This will help cold shock the roots, which tells the chlorophyll to begin breaking down much more rapidly. Now, plants with anthocyanin generally come from mountainous regions where it gets extremely cold at night, but extremely hot during the day. So most plants that develop that genetic
 

[6:43] trait at some point, well, the plants that are naturally purple land races, or blue hues, or those reds or pinks, well, they use those dark color tones on the leaves to keep the leaves warm at night as they store the warmth for the nighttime, where those night cold temperatures can be freezing. So your black plants, which are just extremely dark purple tones, are generally
 

[7:03] places where early frost or snow comes, and the leaves are dark to help heat up much quicker during the day and absorb all that sunlight. And also during the summer, it's extremely hot, and the light is almost 18 hours or more during the day. So that anthocyanin does serve a biological function for heating the plant and storing heat, as well as basically defending
 

[7:25] itself against the intense heat. Now, there are countless medical properties as well, but just looking badass in a garden, who wouldn't want to grow a purple plant? So you can use cold temperatures to really pump those anthocyanin traits out at night, and that will be one way to really get those colors truly coming through for any variety of anthocyanin.
 

[7:45] Another great addition to use to brighten those colors is to place ice cubes on your plant soil about two to three hours prior to lights out, so that the ice can begin to melt slowly, and when the lights go off, it won't be too freezing, but it will be cold enough to where instead of changing your entire
 

[8:00] atmosphere and doing a whole cold temp, you can just cold shock the roots, which prompts the same response as giving your plant a cold tent or room at night. This is a little more effective and efficient for growers who only have one or two purple plants in their room, and they don't want to run a super cold temp at night to be more efficient with their electricity bill.
 

[8:19] Ice cubes are a great way to go about chilling the grow medium. For hydroponics, you can just use a water chiller and chill the reservoir down to 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and you'll get a very nice response. Now, one amendment I will recommend always using for bringing out colors extremely bright and helping that chlorophyll break down much easier is
 

[8:43] Perpinator. It's a great amendment that was developed by a group of organic gardeners that are working to get it organic certified, but that does take time. So as of now, with all my tests, I get white ash, no headaches, no chemical taste, and no issues with running all the way through flower. Clean and clear flush every time with solid, bright colors, more
 

[9:02] vibrant than I've ever had. And if you add their other product called Terpinator with it, I've mentioned it before in several episodes, but it will help create a lot cleaner, clearer, and all-around better terpene profiles. So that plus nice bright colors is always a win. So Perpinator for anthocyanin and Terpinator for terpenes. Now, the real last way to bring out some colors in your
 

[9:24] bud is heat stress. Now, some plants in nature will naturally turn purple off heat stress, as I mentioned. However, I prefer to use all the other methods, as heat-stressing a flowering plant has a much higher chance to form a nanner in response, as heat is usually a lot more of a stressor to a plant than slight cold shifts. Most cannabis plants can
 

[9:47] handle root temperatures as low as 62 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it's not recommended. But cannabis is very resilient, whereas certain strains do not like it hot whatsoever and will hermie quickly off heat stress. However, for your Afghani or Pakistani lines, or those strains that grow in the extremely hot climates that can usually handle heat for stressing dark colors, those will work for heat stress.
 

[10:13] This way doesn't work as effective in my opinion. It can be done with certain strains, but cold shocking works almost every time with all the anthocyanin strains. So I find it to be the most effective way I've seen for bringing out really bright or vibrant characteristics of that phenotype. Well, I do hope you enjoyed today's episode of the "Homegrown" podcast, brought to
 

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