purple haze ... a myth?

[Thehulkster321]

you have all heard it "this shits purple haze man"
and you all know the song by jimi hendrix

but what exactly makes purple haze different from any other bud?
is there any way of actualy telling wether or not its purple haze and not just bud with a tint of purple?

is purple haze even anactualy strain of weed?

i just read through a thread and there were some arguments about it and i kinda want to know to becuase almost all dealers just use it as a gimmick trying to convince people that all bud with a tint of purple in it is the infamous "purple haze"

[RastaKaze]

Purple haze is simply the strain HAZE grown out in a northern climate, this causes the buds to turn purple close to harvest... unfortunately there are many strains that react this way to colder climates so there is no real way to tell if what you've got is purple haze unless of course you grew it.

[Prozac fairy]

ooo it is not a myth my friend....it certainly is not

[Thehulkster321]

is it even a more potent form of haze? i dont see how the color of haze could make purple haze better then any other strain of haze

[RastaKaze]

It dosen't increase the potency, it just makes the weed look cooler...

So people can charge more for it

[Thehulkster321]

lol thanks alot hendrix, now i get to pay an extra 5$ an eight just becuase the bud looks cooler

[soldier1944]

hendrix was talking of acid in his song not weed..

[Thehulkster321]

wether he was talking bout acid or weed hendrix is def. responsible for making purple haze the most popular strain of weed

[Nochowderforyou]

hendrix was talking of acid in his song not weed..

That's right.

Purple Haze, as Rasta said, is a sativa haze phenotype that happened to be purple. From what I heard though, it wasn't that potent and died in the mid-80's.

There are several other strains of cannabis around that are purple, and much more potent than the classic strains. Blueberry for one has blueish/purple tints and is very potent and delicious.

Any grower can achieve purple leaves in their grow though. "Just keep temps. below 70degF and the purple should come flowing in. It is a sign of stress, but not so much where it effects the sex (eg.hermi or male)."<----A guy swore by that and everytime he grew, he would get purple leaves.

Nothing really special in my eyes as I have smoked purple weed before and it was downright awful.

[RastaKaze]

That's right.

Purple Haze, as Rasta said, is a sativa haze phenotype that happened to be purple. From what I heard though, it wasn't that potent and died in the mid-80's.

There are several other strains of cannabis around that are purple, and much more potent than the classic strains. Blueberry for one has blueish/purple tints and is very potent and delicious.

Any grower can achieve purple leaves in their grow though. "Just keep temps. below 70degF and the purple should come flowing in. It is a sign of stress, but not so much where it effects the sex (eg.hermi or male)."<----A guy swore by that and everytime he grew, he would get purple leaves.

Nothing really special in my eyes as I have smoked purple weed before and it was downright awful.

it's good to know your shit ;) :thumbsup:

[Thehulkster321]

i didnt feel like starting another thread for this but has anyone heard of bud that prouces a colored smoke?

my friend told me like 2 years ago that he smoked whith his sisters bf and they smoked bud that was caled "blueberry haze" and the smoke that they exhaled was actualy blue? i always just assumed he was talking out of his ass but is there any bud that could do that or any known way to artificualy make the smoke colored like that?

[Fengzi]

There are various chemicals that, when burned, will produce different colored smoke. I don't think any of these should be found in weed, however. If I ever exhaled blue smoke I'd stop smoking it, figuring I was getting something I shouldn't.

My guess is that if your friend saw blue smoke it was due to the lighting in the room and his frame of mind. Not the type of weed itself.

[CocaCola]

What's stronger Purple Haze or Electric Kool-Aid?

[Satan666]

Kool-Aid is good. OHHH YEEAH

[CocaCola]

Hahahaha, all this acid/weed/X sub-types with special names like Brown Supermen and shit, make me laugh.

[paperlunatic]

my dad always said that purple haze is a type of acid that he used to do.

[SmurfyBH]

Jemi soaked his head band with acid so that when he sweats on stage when his pours open the acid was ingested.

[CocaCola]

Not all the time... I think at woodstock he did that though.

[Nochowderforyou]

Jemi soaked his head band with acid so that when he sweats on stage when his pours open the acid was ingested.

It's "Jimi" by the way, and he actually put hits of acid in his sweatband. He didn't soak the whole band in acid. :p

[CocaCola]

No, but he should have!1

[opiuser]

there are actually natrually purple strains... they can be grown in any climate, and the leaves usually wont turn purple except the stems and a little of the center.

the buds grow pure purple tho. some strains like this are Holland's hope, Purple Pineberry, Purple Kush, and the real Purple Haze

[Capt. Carl]

once again

The title is sometimes confused as a drug reference, specifically to LSD. Hendrix in interviews said that the song comes from a dream Hendrix had, where he was walking under the ocean, surrounded by a Purple Haze.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Haze

[Fengzi]

I listed these in another post but figured I'd do it again.

I did some digging into the whole "Purple Haze is a myth" thing and this what I was able to piece together from reliable sources (such as the Cannabible, seed companies, a grower I know, a supplier of medical marijuana I know, Wikipedia, etc). Believe it or not, I'm not saying it's 100% correct but seems reasonable to me.

-Purple Haze is not a myth. It is an actual strain that does/did exist.

-Purple Haze was a type of acid going around in the late '60's. Most likley Jimi was singing about this. Hendrix did deny, however, that it was a reference to drugs at all. "Hendrix in interviews said that the song comes from a dream Hendrix had, where he was walking under the ocean, surrounded by a Purple Haze. A rumour credits the song to a Native American myth told to Jimi by his Cherokee grandmother. Some say the phrase "purple haze" came from a science fiction novel Hendrix was reading at the time, written by Philip Jose Farmer. Hendrix also explained at one point, that the song is just about love and not about drugs. He said that the line "what ever it is, that girl put a spell on me" is the key to the meaning of lyrics."


- Purple Haze is not a type of Haze at all. It was just named that after the Hendix song. It certainly isn't Haze that's gone purple.

- Purple Haze apparently wasn't that great a strain at all. This explains why it is no longer grown in large quantities

-Some strains, usually types of indicas, are naturally purple. Others will turn purple when exposed to cold temps.

- A few of the purple strains are extremely potent indicas. Probably in the top 10-20 of all strains in terms of potency. Many purple strains, however, aren't potent at all. In other words the color isn't an indication of quality.

-You can buy Purple Haze seeds if you look hard enough. Whether or not these are the original Purple Haze strain is up for debate.

-Purple Haze is not just Haze grown in Northern California. I live in Northern California and have smoked a lot of Haze grown here. None of it was purple.

-99.5% of whatever is sold on the streets as "Purple Haze" is either some other Purple strain or a strain that has been exposed to cold temps and gone purple. DON"T PAY HIGH PRICES FOR IT SIMPLY FOR THE NAME. It's like the guy with a armful of "genuine Rolex's".

[Nochowderforyou]

- Purple Haze is not a type of Haze at all. It was just named that after the Hendix song. It certainly isn't Haze that's gone purple.


Oh wow. I've been telling everyone that's what it was. That's what I thought it was. Interesting. :thumbsup:

[RastaKaze]

I listed these in another post but figured I'd do it again.

I did some digging into the whole "Purple Haze is a myth" thing and this what I was able to piece together from reliable sources (such as the Cannabible, seed companies, a grower I know, a supplier of medical marijuana I know, Wikipedia, etc). Believe it or not, I'm not saying it's 100% correct but seems reasonable to me.

-Purple Haze is not a myth. It is an actual strain that does/did exist.

-Purple Haze was a type of acid going around in the late '60's. Most likley Jimi was singing about this. Hendrix did deny, however, that it was a reference to drugs at all. "Hendrix in interviews said that the song comes from a dream Hendrix had, where he was walking under the ocean, surrounded by a Purple Haze. A rumour credits the song to a Native American myth told to Jimi by his Cherokee grandmother. Some say the phrase "purple haze" came from a science fiction novel Hendrix was reading at the time, written by Philip Jose Farmer. Hendrix also explained at one point, that the song is just about love and not about drugs. He said that the line "what ever it is, that girl put a spell on me" is the key to the meaning of lyrics."


- Purple Haze is not a type of Haze at all. It was just named that after the Hendix song. It certainly isn't Haze that's gone purple.

- Purple Haze apparently wasn't that great a strain at all. This explains why it is no longer grown in large quantities

-Some strains, usually types of indicas, are naturally purple. Others will turn purple when exposed to cold temps.

- A few of the purple strains are extremely potent indicas. Probably in the top 10-20 of all strains in terms of potency. Many purple strains, however, aren't potent at all. In other words the color isn't an indication of quality.

-You can buy Purple Haze seeds if you look hard enough. Whether or not these are the original Purple Haze strain is up for debate.

-Purple Haze is not just Haze grown in Northern California. I live in Northern California and have smoked a lot of Haze grown here. None of it was purple.

-99.5% of whatever is sold on the streets as "Purple Haze" is either some other Purple strain or a strain that has been exposed to cold temps and gone purple. DON"T PAY HIGH PRICES FOR IT SIMPLY FOR THE NAME. It's like the guy with a armful of "genuine Rolex's".

couldn't have said it better myself :thumbsup:

[RastaKaze]

oh, i was just giving northern cali as an example because of the chilly climate, but it is tru that haze that is budded in 70 farenheit or below goes purple and there for is very much so "purple haze"

[Thehulkster321]

i didnt even know there were different kinds of acid, then agian ive never done it nor do i know much at all about acid

[Fengzi]

I think there's just one kind of acid. At least chemically speaking. But made by different people. Maybe "brand" would be a better term. I've had strawberry microdots, gold star, etc.

[beachguy in thongs]

Hendrix didn't like to play "Purple Haze" and he made a parody of it called "Purple Trash". I don't think he sang it, just wrote it.

[Irv]

the hendrix tune is about acid...http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=purple+haze&defid=1054696
we used to get purple microdots, some folks called it "purple haze", doesn't matter, was consistently pretty good :D :stoned:

[chisme]

you have all heard it "this shits purple haze man"
and you all know the song by jimi hendrix

but what exactly makes purple haze different from any other bud?
is there any way of actualy telling wether or not its purple haze and not just bud with a tint of purple?

is purple haze even anactualy strain of weed?

i just read through a thread and there were some arguments about it and i kinda want to know to becuase almost all dealers just use it as a gimmick trying to convince people that all bud with a tint of purple in it is the infamous "purple haze"



from wht i know mate rasta kaze is right its just haze thats got a touch of purple its not an acutal strain......when sumone says i got your purple haze you say ''fucking dont like to me, there no such thing!'' lol

[beachguy in thongs]

In reality, the phrase "purple haze" came from a science fiction novel Hendrix was reading at the time, written by Philip Jose Farmer.

[Nochowderforyou]

We use to get acid called "triple dipped", I saw Heaven that night, for $5 a hit.

Then the blue microdot. We'd snort that and everything would have an echoe. Even in the smallest of rooms...like hotboxing a car. :)

Then I have had stuff that had one of those punk rock stars on it, one with an Anarchy sign, and one with an Omega sign on it. I took all 3 at once it sucked balls. :p

[beachguy in thongs]

In reality, the phrase "purple haze" came from a science fiction novel Hendrix was reading at the time, written by Philip Jose Farmer.
Damn, I feel like a plagiarist. I, only, copied that off of Wikipedia.

[2toker]

IT WAS ACID, JUST LIKE ORANGE SUNSHINE, WHITE LIGHTNING, MICRODOT, WINDOWPANE, MR NATURAL, ORANGE BARREL. THEY WERE ALL BRANDS OF ACID PUT OUT BY CHEMISTS LIKE OWSLEY IN THE 60'S AND 70'S. OH! AND LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS DOES MEAN LSD.
I LIVED THROUGH THOSE TIMES IN OYSTER BAY LI. DID ALL THAT ACID TOO AND MORE.

[Ganj]

Purple Haze is no myth--I've smoked some. Jimi Hendrix has never taken LSD, infact, he's never did a drug in his life.

[CocaCola]

That's not entirely true... he was afraid of harder drugs and shit... and didn't really do too many drugs at all. But c'mon... he has done Acid. Everyone knows that. Prolly not as often as people would think but still...

[duppy man]

[QUOTE=Thehulkster321]you have all heard it "this shits purple haze man"
and you all know the song by jimi hendrix

there is a strain of weed called purple haze but not when JH wrote the song he was making reff. to LSD which may I add was very good could trip you out for weeks on end :smokin: No only kiddin but 10hrs plus was not uncommon:thumbsup:

[duppy man]

Purple Haze is no myth--I've smoked some. Jimi Hendrix has never taken LSD, infact, he's never did a drug in his life.

Was,nt that Frank Zappa:rasta:

[beachguy in thongs]

That was the guy who was into Hard Music with the long, curly hair, from the 80's, I think.

The guy from Damn Yankees.

[Pipe Dreams]

Firstly, the song "purple haze" was about tripping on acid. Also, if anyone has REAL purple haze now days, that shit would be extremely EXTREMELY expensive. Purple haze has been mixed with so many diffrent strains that a real strain of it is pretty much non existant.

[mcozzy1]

I knew the weed and acid was named after the song was written. Glad someone put a stop to this rumor.