This mostly indica hybrid (60% indica/40% sativa) produces lush, chunky buds covered in trichomes and purple shades. Purple Gorilla flowers smell of fresh earth and an array of berries, and its smoke tastes of sweet grapes picked right off the vine.
For an indica-dominant strain, Purple Gorilla provides a rather surprising shot of energy when smoked. It’ll lift away the day’s cares and bring a drowsy-headed cerebral effect that is both calming and soothing. It may work wonders on pain, inflammation, tight joints or muscle tension, insomnia, and nausea. Beginning users may want to stick with daytime use until they’re sure it won’t keep them up all night.
Common side effects from Purple Gorilla include dizziness, headaches, anxiety, and possibly cottonmouth.
Purple Gorilla likely originated in the Bay Area around San Francisco, California. Its genetics are somewhat of a mystery, but it may be an inbred cultivar of Mendocino Purps (aka The Purps).
What are hybrid strains?
Hybrid strains are bred from both indica- and sativa-descended plants. Due to the long history of crossbreeding cannabis strains—much of it was historically done underground to evade authorities—strains that have pure indica or pure sativa lineages are rare. Most strains referred to as “indica” or “sativa” are, in fact, hybrids, with genetics inherited from both subspecies.
Hybrid effects
Since hybrid weed strains derive genetics from indicas and sativas, their ensuing effects can also pull from both indica and sativa strains. Common effects include happy, euphoric, uplifting, energetic, relaxing—it all depends on which hybrid you consume and what effects its “parent” strains are known to produce.
Looking at a hybrid’s lineage (its parent strains) may give you a better sense of what kind of effects it will produce; for example, if it has more indica in its lineage, it might have effects more associated with those strains.
Adelleine K. –
I love this beautiful purple pearl, real rare strain! Tasty, making me really relaxed.. nice mellow buzz, very cool smoke