5th Element Auto
5th Element Auto, a indica listed at 25% THC and described as euphoric, creative. Posted unbranded and tracked to any New Zealand address, with the grow figures we could trace on the listing.
What the seed lot did on the bench
Every lot is checked before it goes on the shelf, and the yield figures come from New Zealand growers who sent us a harvest weight against a batch code. This lot was read on 2026-09-05, from a tray sample of 300.
Outdoor figures come from a New Zealand season, so they run below what the same cultivar reaches somewhere with a longer, drier autumn. Treat them as what this plant does here. The full report for this lot sets out the method and the terpene panel.
About 5th Element Auto
Latitude decides more about a 5th Element crop than anything you buy. New Zealand runs roughly 34 to 47 degrees south, and that span turns one 79/21 indica into two different plants: a Kaitaia grower fights airflow and humidity through a muggy February, while a Southland grower is counting the weeks to first frost. Neither problem is about heat. If frost rather than heat is your limit, the strain finder sorts the catalogue by finishing time.
Growing 5th Element in New Zealand Conditions
Indoors the outside world stops mattering and the job is control. Outdoors it is the whole brief.
Upper North Island β Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty. The longest season in the country and the wettest finish. Bud rot, not sunshine, is what costs you a crop here, so plant where morning air moves and thin the interior early rather than admiring a dense canopy in January. Tight indica flower structure is the risk factor to manage, and it is manageable.
Lower North Island. Hawke's Bay and Gisborne are the driest and sunniest stretch; Taranaki, ManawatΕ« and Wellington trade that for rain and wind. Wind decides how tall you let a plant get more than the genetics do.
South Island. Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough offer the best outdoor conditions nationally β high sunshine hours, low summer rainfall. Canterbury, Otago and Southland run a genuinely short season where flowering runs 8-10 weeks is the number that matters, because everything is a race against the first frost. An autoflower sidesteps this by finishing on its own clock. If your season is short, the autoflowering indica list is the better starting point.
Reading the Effects Honestly
Effect descriptions are the least reliable part of any seed listing, this one included. What is defensible: this is a 79/21 indica at 25% THC, commonly described as euphoric, creative, with linalool leading the terpene profile.
What is not defensible is any promise about how it will feel for you. Dose, tolerance, setting and the phenotype you happen to pop all move the outcome more than the strain name does.
Growing a few and selecting the keeper is the only way to know. That is what a pack of autoflowering seeds is for.
The Terpenes
Linalool leads, myrcene sits behind it, and caryophyllene runs underneath.
Aroma is not fixed at harvest β it develops. Fresh flower leads hard with linalool; three or four weeks in sealed glass at a stable 16 to 18 degrees lets myrcene and caryophyllene come forward as the sharper volatiles clear. Jars opened at week one and week five smell like different plants.
Who It Suits
5th Element is rated beginner friendly. That makes it a reasonable first grow β it survives inconsistent watering and imprecise feeding without collapsing, which is what a first season mostly consists of. Being an autoflower removes light-cycle management entirely, which suits balcony growers and anyone wanting a fast turnaround.
Shipped nationwide in plain packaging. Every strain page carries whatever grow data we could actually source, and nothing we could not.
Published Figures
- Finishes in 8-10 weeks
- Under lights: 325β425 g/mΒ²
- Grown out: 350 g per plant
- Height: Medium (100-150 cm)
- Difficulty: beginner friendly
Reported Effects
Descriptive, and ordered by how prominently each one appears in the sources we hold. Not a survey, and not a measurement.
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Where 5th Element Auto Comes From
Documented parentage is Blackberry Γ All Spark OG. Where a cultivar's origin is recorded we name it on this page; where it is contested or simply unknown, the field stays empty rather than being filled with something plausible.
We did not originate the cultivars in this catalogue and do not claim to have. What we do is select and stabilise the lines we sell, so that a pack grows out more uniformly than an unworked one β which matters more in New Zealand than in most places, because an outdoor grower here is working to a frost date rather than an open-ended season. The stabilisation programme sets out how that works and what it does not cover.
Every pack is covered by our germination promise: follow the method in the germination guide and seed that fails to open is replaced free within 30 days.