Perm Lee is a Preferred Gardens cultivar crossing Ztan Lee with Permanent Marker, released as a collaboration with the breeder behind Sexual Chocolate Factory. It launched as concentrate before it ever reached a flower shelf, which tells you who the brand built it for.
Where It Comes From
Perm Lee is a current-market cultivar, not a heritage one, and its record is short but unusually specific. Preferred Gardens documents its arrival in Florida on July 3, 2025, launching as concentrate first, with flower and vape formats already in the pipeline behind it.
That release order is the real detail. Most cultivars reach a new market as eighths and work their way into extract later. This one went the other direction, which positions it for dab consumers rather than jar shoppers, and it is a fair signal about where the brand thinks the plant performs.
Preferred Gardens also notes the cultivar had already moved in other markets before the Florida launch, describing it as something that rarely stays on shelves long. Beyond that there is no published breeding timeline: no documented hunt size, no selection year, no seed release. Anyone offering those details is filling in blanks.
The Cross
Preferred Gardens brings Perm Lee to market and states the cross as Permanent Marker crossed with Ztan Lee, crediting a collaboration with the Sexual Chocolate Factory breeder, whose work the brand ties to 710 Labs selections. That last connection is Preferred Gardens' own claim and is carried here as such.
Permanent Marker is the better-documented half. Seed Junky Genetics bred it from Biscotti, Jealousy and Sherb Bx, selected in collaboration with Doja Pak. It is the parent that gives this cross its spine, and the reason the name leads with Perm rather than Lee.
Ztan Lee is the thinner side of the record. It sits in the Z lane and travels under a name growers recognize, but a published, breeder-confirmed lineage for it is not available. Treat it as a named parent, not a mapped one.
Flower is dense and dark-hued under heavy trichome coverage. Purple expression is common across this family but depends on finishing conditions as much as on genetics, so the color in a menu photo describes that room and that harvest rather than the cultivar.
What It Left Behind
No competition placement is documented, and awards do not transfer down a family tree. Perm Lee's footprint is commercial and recent: a Permanent Marker descendant carried by an established brand into a new state market, during a stretch when nearly every Permanent Marker cross was competing for the same shelf space.
It stands as its own cultivar despite the shared parent, and the concentrate-first launch is the part that separates it from the pack rather than the pedigree it shares with a dozen others.
The High Rise Take
Perm Lee is a Preferred Gardens collaboration built on Permanent Marker, released concentrate-first and aimed squarely at the dab side of the counter. Judge it on the batch in front of you, not on the parent's reputation.