Blackberry Pie is a Gage Green Genetics hybrid created from Jojorizo’s Blackberry Widow and Crystal Locomotive F1. The pairing carries a distinctive family structure because both branches return to ’98 Aloha White Widow. That combination separates the cultivar from similarly named fruit and bakery releases and gives it a stable place within Gage Green’s catalog.
Gage Green Genetics and the Original Cross
Gage Green Genetics released Blackberry Pie as regular seed. Regular releases can produce both male and female plants, giving growers a population from which to select rather than a single clone shared across every garden. Finished flower sold under the name therefore represents a grower’s chosen expression of the Gage Green cross. The breeder identity and the two direct parents remain the essential anchors.
Jojorizo’s Blackberry Widow combines ’98 Aloha White Widow with Nebu’s Blackberry. Crystal Locomotive F1 combines Trainwreck with the same ’98 Aloha White Widow line. That repeated White Widow ancestry connects both sides of the family tree, while Blackberry and Trainwreck enter through separate branches. The direct lineage remains the cleanest summary: Blackberry Widow crossed with Crystal Locomotive F1.
A Fruit Name With a Specific Family Tree
The name places Blackberry Pie beside other fruit-and-pastry cultivars, but naming alone does not establish kinship. Wedding Pie and Purple Pie carry their own direct parents, and neither is a Blackberry Pie variant.
Even Blueberry, one of the best-known fruit-named cultivars, comes from a separate DJ Short breeding project. A familiar word can make unrelated products look connected. Blackberry Pie is defined by the Gage Green attribution and its named cross, not by dark color, berry terminology, or menu styling.
Selection, Structure, and Finished Flower
Gage Green selected the line for vigorous growth, purple color, resin coverage, and an eight-to-nine-week flowering window. These traits describe the breeder’s population and goals rather than identical structure or color in every garden. Plant selection, temperature, root space, nutrition, harvest timing, drying, post-harvest finishing, and storage all influence how a finished batch appears.
Blackberry and fuel associations follow naturally from the family tree, but their actual balance belongs to the selected plant and finished batch. Later growers can emphasize different portions of the cross while retaining the same direct parents. That agricultural range is part of a regular-seed release rather than a weakness in its identity.
How Blackberry Pie Keeps Its Identity
Gage Green retains breeder credit for Blackberry Widow crossed with Crystal Locomotive F1, while the producer named on a package receives credit for growing and finishing that batch. Keeping those roles visible preserves the cultivar’s history without assigning every later harvest to the original breeder.
Blackberry Pie is notable for a traceable breeder, a two-parent cross, and a deeper family tree that explains why White Widow ancestry appears on both sides. The Blackberry and Trainwreck branches then give each side its own direction. Together, those facts provide a durable identity across different gardens and harvests. Its recurring Aloha White Widow branch makes the pedigree especially recognizable among Gage Green releases.