Maybe real Purple Haze just wasn't that great a strain so people stopped growing it. I think a lot of people must think its something great because of the Hendrix song but I think Hendrix was actually singing about a type of acid that was going around in the late '60's, not a strain of weed.

What seems logical is that years after Hendrix's death some grower came up with a purple strain and named it Purple Haze in honor of Hendrix's song. Thus a legend was born. It wasn't that great a strain though and soon went away. The name, however, was still famous and due to the fact that some purple strains are awesome, as is the actual Haze strain, a lot of people who don't know better started calling any good(or in some cases pretty crappy) purple strains Purple Haze. Thus the legend was reborn.

Just my hypothesis :smokin: