Cactus Feminised

Cactus is bought for what comes off it, and the sourced figures are up to 200 g/m2 under lights and up to 300 g/plant from a plant grown out. Those are ceilings, not promises — pot volume, light intensity and how honestly you feed decide where you land inside them. Run the numbers for your own tent with the yield calculator before committing to a pack size, and put it next to the rest of the high-yield strains if weight is the whole point.

What the sourced data gives for this cultivar: up to 200 g/m2 under lights, up to 300 g/plant from a plant grown outside. Reaching either is an environment problem before it is a genetics one.

Root volume sets the ceiling before a single flower forms. Under-pot a plant and no feeding schedule rescues it. Get the container right early and the plant does the rest.

Light is the second lever, and the one most growers get wrong in both directions — too little through veg, too much in late flower where it bleaches rather than builds. Steady beats aggressive.

The third is the fortnight around the flip. The stretch after the flip decides your final canopy shape, and it is the last moment training does anything useful.

Feed to the plant rather than the calendar. Our nutrient calculator gives a starting schedule; the plant will tell you where it is wrong. Worth a side-by-side comparison before you commit if weight is the deciding factor.

Creative, Happy, Relaxed is the consensus, and consensus is worth exactly what it sounds like — a starting point. 23% THC sets the scale; pinene and the terpenes alongside it shape the character rather than the strength.

Onset is quick by inhalation and slow by ingestion, which is where most bad experiences begin. Expect a mental lift first, with the body catching up later.

If potency is what you are shopping for, the high-THC seeds category is sorted for it.

Pinene leads, limonene sits behind it, and caryophyllene runs underneath.

Aroma is not fixed at harvest — it develops. Fresh flower leads hard with pinene; three or four weeks in sealed glass at a stable 16 to 18 degrees lets limonene and caryophyllene come forward as the sharper volatiles clear. Jars opened at week one and week five smell like different plants.

Who does well with Cactus? Growers who want to control plant size and harvest date, and have the vegetative space to use that control. First-timers included — the genetics are forgiving.

Still deciding? The indoor-friendly genetics list is the narrower place to start.

• Finishes in 55-65 days
• Under lights: up to 200 g/m2
• Grown out: up to 300 g/plant
• Height: Medium
• Difficulty: easy