Pigletta's Purple Haze

Pigletta’s Purple Haze. It’s more than just a little bit of nice alliteration. For those who don’t know, Pigletta was our original farm friend, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who became our mascot. Sadly she wasn’t with us on this earth for too many years, but she was a sweetheart whose presence and memory we hold dearly. So with the naming of this farm-raised strain, we wanted to honour our little oinky friend who was there to brighten the sometimes dark days of the initial tough years at Mephisto HQ.



Pigletta’s Purple Haze was a previously archived project from amongst our last cycles of breeding rounds at the original farm. Those final breeding rounds included the now-released Walter White BX1 and a few currently unreleased photo-auto projects that still haven’t seen the light of day. We always make more project crosses than projects we release. Some get shelved for a rainy day or until we fancy dipping into the project seed stash again.



When we first emigrated to Spain, we’d already amassed a sizeable, stacked seed collection ready to sift through and sink our teeth into. Amongst this was a whole load of early Rare Dankness gear that we meticulously hunted through to find some of the most fire strains around at the time. After the exceptional results from the first Rare Dankness-based project, Fantasmo Express, we delved back in to look for nice candidates that would lend well to another newly developed Mephisto Genetics strain, Northern Cheese Haze.

Before we jump into our project to create Pigletta’s Purple Haze, let’s take a quick look at how Rare Dankess describe their now-retired Purple Haze:



This purple beauty is a great yielding strain, with a skunky smell and grape flavour. This is absolutely an amazing purple cross. Over 50% of flowers will exhibit purple colourisation.

Lineage: DHK Purple Haze X Nevil’s Wreck

55-70 Days flower time.

Some teenage nostalgia was definitely present when selecting Purple Haze to work into autoflowering form. Purple Haze was a classic, almost mythical strain from our youth that we had longed to sample, and it shares its name with one of Tim’s favourite songs of all time. 

The project began on June 5th 2017, with the Purple Haze #2 beans from Rare Dankess sowed. This began a long conversion project from photoperiod to autoflower, taking 7 years and various trials and tribulations to bring us up to today. At the time we were going down the line of thought to double down on an old-school classic/haze-influenced sativa to add to the catalogue. We had already created Fantasmo Express, a newer school strain, but we were after classic flavours, structures and effects reminiscent of our teenage years and first high-grade tokes, and Old School Mango Haze and Old School Blues were not in development until the following year.

Selections were made in line with our Spanish farm process, we made two selections at F0 Purple haze #2 x NCH, one was a slightly broader leaved indica, and one was much more sativa, at F1 we grew out around 50 from the more sativa dominant line. One intrinsic trait we saw and loved was that despite sexing early they flowered whilst putting on size rapidly. At F2 we started 100 plants to arrive at 25 males and females combined and found 5 females that represented exactly what we were after, the next generations were just to refine and lock in the-little-sativa-that-could phenotypes.

So crank the amp, rip out the 7#9s and get some Purple Haze all in your brain.