Purple Gas

Purple Gas is a hybrid cannabis strain crossing Sour Diesel with Pre-98 Bubba Kush. The name describes it fairly: fuel from the Sour Diesel side, a purple-tinged sweetness from the Bubba Kush side.

Genetics and History

The Sour Diesel and Pre-98 Bubba Kush cross is the lineage carried on the main consumer strain databases. Both parents are old and well documented. Sour Diesel is the East Coast fuel strain that defined the late nineties; Pre-98 Bubba Kush is the pre-1998 Bubba cut, an indica line known for density and a cocoa-coffee sweetness.

Potency: Sources Disagree Sharply

The consumer databases list Purple Gas at 15% THC, which is low by current market standards. Canadian retailers selling flower under this name, some of it as "Gazzurple (or Purple Gas)", advertise 27% to 33%.

Those two figures cannot both describe the same plant. The most likely explanation is that more than one cut circulates under the name, and that the retail product is a different, more recent cross than the Sour Diesel line the databases describe. This listing uses the database figure because it is the one attached to the documented lineage, but if you are buying flower labelled Purple Gas, the certificate of analysis is the only figure that tells you what is in the jar.

Sources also disagree on whether it leans sativa or sits balanced.

Aroma and Flavour

Diesel and fuel lead, with grape and a sweet earthiness underneath. Caryophyllene is listed as the dominant terpene: the peppery compound that is also the most common dominant terpene in the catalogue overall.

Reported Effects

Users commonly report feeling relaxed, happy and euphoric. These are reported impressions rather than guaranteed outcomes.