Purple strains drying/curing question (light, airy buds)

I have a question. Not sure how much purple strains you've done, but I've had issues with them. If you or anyone else could help I'd really appreciate it. On my first grow I did bagseed, and one turned out to be a purple strain. Very purple, and smelled great. Dried and even after a 3 week cure it smoke was just incredibly harsh, and pretty much unenjoyable. I thought it was my inexperience, and chalked it up to that as all the other bud that I grew (2 other plants) turned out quite well.

I currently have some Sweet Deep Grapefruit growing, and it's in about week 6 or 7 of flower. I'm out of bud so I got an 1/8 today and it was a purple strain. Same dealer I go to all the time, and he gets it from the same guy usually. This purple bud is very harsh. Smells good, and looks decent, but it's very harsh. I'm getting worried that maybe there's some sort of trick to getting the purple strains to cure right. Is there any secrets for them? What am I missing with purple buds? Do they need a really long cure? Possibly not drying them right or something? I'm a little stumped on this one and if I can avoid it I'd like my Grapefruit to be good smoke. Just wondering what I can do to prevent it from being harsh. This has only been with purple strains, the others seem perfectly fine. Do they take longer to cure before they're good?

EDIT: Not sure how relevant, but most of the purple bud I've seen the buds are light and airy instead of really dense like others. Are they maybe drying too quickly because they are airy and not as dense?

There is so much to type about this topic .... purple buds need to be flushed perfect to enjoy ....drop the temp in the room down to 16°... like I do for the last 2 weeks... but yes the purple strains are dying fast .... glad I still have 3 amazing strains ....

purple is genetics.. your harsh smoke is probably from improper curing and over drying.

I had several varieties go purple in a cool grow, they weren't harsh. Flushed well, dried in a good drying room on the rack, about 3 days.

I'd say bad drying conditions or improper flush which I'm sure someone will contradict and say you don't need to flush your plants. Which I believe to be true in organics but I personally use synthetics and believe u need to flush when using this type of food.

Just dry and cure the correct way ,oh and flush 3 weeks befor harvest. it has nothing to do with purple strains. sounds like they dried to fast.

Is the ash black when u smoke it in a j???? Dose it burn ok???

That's what's messing with me. So far I've done 2 grows. My first was in soil. I flushed for about 2 weeks, and I had 3 total plants harvested. 1 was purple and very airy buds, and the other two were dense buds. they were all bag seed, so unknown strains. So I was thinking maybe I overdried the purple, as it was the very first plant I chopped and they were all checked separately. They seemed alright, but the smell of the purple bud went away, and was very plain smelling, and even after a long cure it was still very harsh. It did seem to dry faster than the others obviously as they were airy buds, but I tried to get it right. I even hung them and then put them into paper bags after to try to slow it down (I left a couple buds for a few days to try different things.

Then a couple days ago, I got a bag from the guy I go to when I'm out. It just so happened to be a purple strain, and you could tell by the way the buds were that they were airy, and not really dense. The bud smelled good, but was very harsh smoking. Making me think it was not cured/dried right. Usually the guy I get it from has great stuff. It's has only been the purple strains though which is why I was thinking maybe there's a trick. It burned fine, smoke wasn't black, everything else seemed fine. It looked alright, smelled good, but just smoked like shit. VERY harsh.

I'm freaking now because I have Sweet Deep Grapefruit about 7 weeks into flower and getting ready to cut soon. Big buds, but much more airy buds, not very dense. Same as the purple strain I had in my first grow. Not sure what made them airy in the first place as all the other strains are dense. I'm growing 10 plants with 4 different strains in DWC for this grow. Lemon Skunk, Diesel, and White Rhino are looking great and nice, dense buds. For some reason the Sweet Deep Grapefruit is really light and airy buds. I've heard light is what causes that, but that's not the case, I have a 1000W with an upgraded XXXL hood. Plus they've been rotated periodically through the grow, so they all get plenty of light.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm planning on just trying to hang dry for maybe a day or 2 with that plant and then paper bags. Not sure though. It smells fantastic right now, but want to make sure it stays nice and most importantly I'd rather it have a great smoke than a nice smell. This stuffs only for me, so it's not being sold anyway, but I'm trying to figure out if I did something wrong with the first, or if there's a trick (which judging by the comments there isn't), or something.