With the summer season rapidly rounding the corner, cannabis enthusiasts and growing specialists everywhere are getting ready to break ground for their new crops. Before preparing to germinate seeds for your next round of cannabis cultivation, you should take a moment to discover some of the top 10 strains for cannabis enthusiasts to explore this summer.
Amnesia Haze
This sativa-dominant strain has a name as misleading as it is portentous. Amnesia Haze is an energizing sativa that comes from the Thai, Hawaiian, and Afghani landrace families. Originally developed by Soma Seeds and First Medical Seed in Amsterdam, Amnesia Haze has quickly grown in popularity while achieving prolific success at the Cannabis Cup.
Flavor & Effects
Known for its invigorating high, uplifting effects and strong flavor, Amnesia Haze presents smokers with notes of cedar, spice, and citrus-fueled flower. This Haze strain provides individuals with a lemon-fueled taste that eventually leaves them overwhelmed with pungency.
As far as the high goes, Amnesia Haze brings smokers straight to the top with a cerebral high that can lead to notes of euphoria. Mood improvement is said to quickly follow consumption of this strain, leaving individuals feeling relieved in both body and mind.
Yield & Growing Info
This Haze strain is popular in areas where it can be grown outdoors at consistently high temperatures. With indica genetics, Amnesia can take upwards of 12 weeks to properly mature and flower. This may lead to difficulty in commercial settings. Due to the extended flowering time, growers can look forward to more than two ounces per square-foot of plant.
Cinderella 99
Also known as C99, Cinderella 99 is a sativa-dominant strain that balances its energizing effects with a more mellow high. It’s great for daytime use because it alleviates mild aches and pains while relieving symptoms of depression.
Flavor & Effects
Created by the team at Brothers Grimm, C99 was a long-term development that spanned three generations of indoor growing including a bout in hydroponic systems.
Yield & Growing Info
Cinderella 99 does fantastically well in both hydroponic and outdoor growing environments. As a result, C99 features a relatively short body that performs well in aqua and hydroponic setups. Due to its advanced growing nature, this strain requires the steady hands of an experienced grower. When grown correctly under 1,000-watt lights, C99 can potentially produce up to two pounds per square-meter.
The Purps
Also known as Mendocino Purps, The Purps is a hybrid strain created by the team at BC Bud Depot. Developed for growth in both indoor and outdoor environments, this strain is revered for its giggle-inducing high and balanced indica effects.
Flavor & Effects
Frequent consumers of The Purps report the onset of munchies balanced by the calm and relaxing effects that this strain is so well-known for. With notes of grape and earth on the inhale, Mendocino Purps smokers will quickly taste why this strain has become popular throughout North America. It won a Top Ten slot in the High Times Strain of the Year Competition (2007).
Yield & Growing Info
The Purps is not afraid to take up space in your grow room. Mendo Purps can grow up to four feet tall when flowering indoors while doubling that size outside. Thick green leaves will shift to purple as the plant begins to ripen, leaving growers overwhelmed with notes of pine, wood, and caramel.
Jack Herer
Named after a lifelong advocate and activist, Jack Herer does its namesake proud by offering a unique sativa-dominant experience through the work of Sensei Seeds. Popular around the world, Jack Herer has its exact genetic roots under lock and key. However, we know it features elements of Northern Lights #5 and Shiva Skunk.
Flavor & Effects
With more than nine Cannabis Cup titles to its name, Jack Herer is certainly ready to help you meet the challenge of your day. This balanced sativa-driven hybrid leaves you mentally awake and physically relaxed, making for a great social-forward high.
Yield & Growing Info
While its flowers are far from impressive with pale green leaves, Jack Herer pops off the screen with soaring trichome counts and a deep bouquet of floral scents. Jack Herer thrives best in Mediterranean climates with average daily temps in the mid-70s.
White Widow
A legend in the cannabis world, White Widow has become the staple hybrid-sativa strain thanks to its energizing effects and powerful body high. Already a legendary strain due to its early success in the Cannabis Cup, White Widow averages more than 20 percent THC.
Flavor & Effects
With conical buds, White Widow is fairly hard to peg down at a glance. After smoking just a bit of it, consumers will come to understand the plant better. The smooth smoke leaves an earthy undertone while a general pungency exists below. Cerebral effects are quick and hard-hitting with mental clarity becoming something of a rarity. White Widow is ideal for boosting creativity or addressing ADHD.
Yield & Growing Info
This plant can be capably grown both indoors and outdoors. It works best when grown in hydroponics while utilizing a material such as Rockwool. With a flowering time of roughly seven to nine weeks, growers can expect a yield north of 180 grams per plant.
The Black
Introduced to the cannabis world by BC Bud Depot, The Black is a 90/10 hybrid strain that leans heavily on its indica genetics. Considered something of a “knock out” smoke, The Black brings you to the couch where it leaves you comfortable and content.
Flavor & Effects
While there is still much to learn about The Black, we know that this strain provides individuals with relaxation, sedation, and a deeply calming experience. The farthest thing in the industry from a creeping indica, The Black will set you on your back feet before laying you down to sleep.
Yield & Growing Info
The Black can be grown both indoors and outdoors, though it prefers the heavy roots available in outdoor gardens. This strain needs between eight and 10 weeks to finish its flowering schedule, providing a full harvest by mid-to-late October.
Dosi Cookies
Dosi is an indica-dominant hybrid that calls to mind the best qualities of its parent strains, OGKB and Face Off OG. Mint green flower gives way to orange pistils that give off deep notes of floral skunk.
Flavor & Effects
A popular choice for both indica and hybrid enthusiasts, Dosi Cookies is a strain that leans on its slightly sedative side to bring about a more body-melting experience. Consumers of Dosi Cookies will be provided with what is described as medical-grade bodily effects that spread quickly.
Dosi provides users with a stony high that features limonene as a dominant terpene.
Yield & Growing Info
Ideal for intermediate to advanced growing enthusiasts, Dosi Cookies provides a heavy yield that can lead to more than 900 grams in just 63 days. Dosi is ideal for growth in both soil and hydroponic setups.
Strawberry Cough
Strawberry Cough is a deeply invigorating sativa-dominant strain (80/20) with origins rooted in Erdbeer and OG Haze. Legend has it that this strain was cultivated in a strawberry field somewhere in Vermont before it was shared with the world.
Flavor & Effects
Strawberry Cough features a terpene profile dominated by Alpha Pinene, bringing about intense scents of pine and citrus. Easy to smoke, Strawberry Cough goes down smoothly before getting you up and at it with invigorating energy and a socially energetic tilt.
Yield & Growing Info
Due to its bushy pattern, Strawberry Cough requires a diligent hand when it comes time to bust out the pruning shears. Outdoor growers can let the plant run wild as their garden is overrun with skunk goodness. Strawberry Cough grows best in the sunshine with temps around the 70-degree mark. The average outdoor yield is roughly 14 ounces per plant.
Northern Lights
There are classic strains, and then there are THE classic strains. Northern Lights is an internationally renowned and award-winning indica strain that has become a go-to source of relief for medical users, recreational users, and growers alike.
Flavor & Effects
Described as a “hit twice and quit once” strain, Northern Lights rocks consumers with a body-numbing and mind-altering high that shifts them into couch-potato mode. Thanks to its advanced relaxing effects, Northern Lights has turned into the strain for individuals dealing with depression, insomnia, or a lack of appetite.
Yield & Growing Info
While its history remains relatively obscure, Northern Lights is said to have been a mixture of two landrace strains – Afghani and Thai. Eventually perfected in Holland, it will flower in six to eight weeks while yielding more than 125 grams per square-meter. An easy strain to cultivate, Northern Lights is a classic for first-timers and old-school growers alike.
BC God Bud
BC God Bud is an internationally revered indica-dominant strain sporting THC levels up to 27 percent. With mood-altering capabilities and medical benefits purported to deliver pain relief and stress reduction, BC God Bud has a lot to offer despite the size of its name and the reputation that it entails.
Flavor & Effects
When you add “God” to the name of a cannabis strain, you are setting expectations through the roof. The God Bud strain is also known as Purple God Bud. An indica-dominant hybrid, it brings about intense feelings of euphoria that can lead individuals to feel like they are, well, invincible.
While the high behind God Bud is intensely relaxing and euphoric, the strain itself provides individuals with a deeply calming sensation that starts in their toes and goes right up to their temples. Due to the tranquil nature that comes with high doses of this strain, consumers are warned to take their time.
Yield & Growing Info
Notes of skunk and earth fill any growing room that possesses the legendary God Bud. Short and compact, this strain is easy to grow for both indoor and outdoor enthusiasts with limited growing space. While the high maintenance level of this plant makes growing moderately difficult, learning to work with pruners can go a long way toward boosting your yield.
