Deadly Sativas Mixpack

Days 1 to 14. Deadly Sativas Mixpack cracks on damp paper towel inside about two days and is through the medium by day three, given warmth and patience rather than intervention. Seedlings want humidity near 70% and no nutrients at all — the seed carries everything for the first week. By the end of the fortnight you are looking for even node spacing rather than height; a stretched seedling is a light problem, not a vigour signal. New to this? The free seeds on offer are a low-stakes way to practise the germination step.

This is three different cultivars in one pack, not three packs of the same seed. They divide evenly by pack size: a 3-seed pack is one of each, a 6-seed pack is two of each, a 15-seed pack is five of each. Each is its own plant with its own habit, which is worth knowing before you plan a tent around them.

• Alice In Wonderland — a sativa with a clear head to it — stimulation without the fog, which is what makes it a working strain.
• Amnesia Haze — a Dutch classic carrying citrus, incense and a sweet spice. The autoflowering version finishes sooner.
• Panama Red — a pure landrace sativa off the Panamanian highlands, and one of the varieties that defined the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s.

Because they are three distinct plants, they will not finish together. Give the tallest of them the headroom and expect to harvest in stages rather than all at once. In a New Zealand outdoor season that is an advantage: staggered ripening spreads the risk across the damp weeks of March and April instead of putting every plant at the mercy of one bad fortnight.

Weeks 3 to 6. Growth stops being tentative. This is when training earns its keep: bend rather than cut if you are unsure, because a bent branch recovers in a day and a topped one costs a week. Expect vertical enthusiasm and plan the ceiling now.

The transition. After the flip the plant may double. Whatever shape the canopy is at that point is roughly the shape you harvest.

Mid-flower. Bud sites fill and the aroma arrives — usually the point where extraction stops being optional. Feed heavier now, but watch the leaf rather than the schedule.

The last fortnight. Ease off nitrogen, drop the night temperature a little, and stop feeding before you think you should. Final height for this cultivar is published at 120–160 cm.

Harvest. Published window: 8–10 weeks. Trichomes decide. Cut in sections if ripening is uneven — most plants ripen top-down and there is no prize for taking it all at once.

Effect descriptions are the least reliable part of any seed listing, this one included. What is defensible: this is a 15/85 sativa at 22% THC, commonly described as energizing, creative, euphoric, uplifted, with limonene 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 feminised seeds is for.

Limonene leads, pinene sits behind it, and terpinolene runs underneath.

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

Who does well with Deadly Sativas Mixpack? Growers who want to control plant size and harvest date, and have the vegetative space to use that control. Anyone past their first grow.

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

• Finishes in 8–10 weeks
• Under lights: 300–500 g/m²
• Grown out: 400–600 g/plant
• Height: 120–160 cm
• Difficulty: intermediate