Well from what I gather at this point, I think purple punch in a cross can be great. Couple of well respected members here have commented that purple punch and oreoz have incredible bag appeal but lack terps and/or potency, however when crossed with other strains can be fire. For instance Ocean Fruit (Brisker OG x Purple Punch) is supposed to be absolute fire, and it is on my list to swoop as soon it becomes available. But I would pick up Brisker OG on it's own too.
I definitely have enough wedding cake and runtz crosses, so I too am leaning towards the BBC and La Kush for this next drop, maybe the GG4 if I don't have it crossed with purple punch already.
It's tough, I just don't know enough about the specific cuts from Square1/Robin Hood that they use in their respective crosses. If I were to skip out on one of their drops, this would be the one. There's so much out there right now that I can't justify anything but proven top notch genetics. And when I say proven I mean in capable hands, not mine. I'm still an absolute novice, but I do want the piece of mind that if things go wrong or don't live up to expectations it's on me, not the beans.
I'm actually looking at Banana Runtz from Solfire to compare results with that of BBC x Runtz. Rather pick up a pack of that before BBC x PP, but if half packs are available on this next Robin Hood drop I won't hestitate to swoop the Iced Wildberry.
Also if you're like me and lack experience it makes matters even worse; I have never pheno hunted, but it sounds like a lot of fun, and apparently Square1 beans are pretty congruent but Robin Hood are more of testers?... So maybe better to pop entire pack of Robin Hood to hunt for a keeper versus 2-3 beans from a Square1 pack. And if that is the case, it could be worth it to consider all the crosses from Robin Hood just for pheno hunting. I'm not there yet, so I will be extra picky, for now.
Bottom line for me is after it's all said and done, I agree with some of the more experienced members on here that nothing is worth more than $150 a pack. I feel like Square1 and Robin Hood sit well within that range, for now, so I'm swooping while they remain there. I mean I just picked up 6 pack fem of Bahama Berry off of GLO for $75, and that's pretty much guaranteed strawberry fire. Whereas I have no clue with these purple punch crosses coming this next Saturday; I don't have access to pics or info of any kind other than my faith that they wouldn't drop anything bad, but how good remains the question?