Grace Under Fire: Facing Calamity

There’s a special kind of nightmare that lives in the heart of every grower — the moment you see your phone has alert, after alert, after alert. Somethings wrong at the grow, and your halfway across the state trying to collect a check. You drop what your doing, drive back like a bat out of hell, run up to your facility rushing to the door, keys in hand. You finally are able to get inside, and the air feels like the inside of a pizza oven. That’s exactly what happened to a local grow.

Purple Reign, located in Albuquerque, producing top tier strains, lived this nightmare. After an electrical error, the entire facility shut down for a split second, When the backup power kicked on, the lights fired right up, but the fans didn’t, temps quickly soaring to 140°F. Over 100 pounds of A-grade flower — air fried. Not in the fun way.

The result? Terpenes gone, THC degraded, color shifted to a dark greenish brown. The smell? Almost all but gone. But the structure held, and it’s still smokeable — just not the premium product Purple Reign is use to producing. It won’t win awards, but lets be honest you’ve smoked worsse. Perfect for budget buyers or our brothers and sisters down in Texas looking for cheap ounces. Purple Reign’s taking offers to recoup what they can.