Hempstar Auto
Hempstar Auto for New Zealand growers. Sativa, listed 22% THC, euphoric, focused, relaxed. Free postage over $150, flat $14.99 below it, both islands.
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 2026-09-15, from a tray sample of 260.
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 Hempstar Auto
Will Hempstar finish outdoors in New Zealand? In most of the country, yes. The outdoor window runs October to April, and an autoflower started in that window runs on age rather than daylight, which takes the guesswork out of timing entirely. Sativa-leaning plants want the longer northern season, so the honest answer depends on where you are. The regional notes below are the short version.
Questions New Zealand Growers Ask About Hempstar
What medium suits it? Living soil rewards flavour, coco rewards control and speed. Neither is wrong. Choose the one you will actually maintain.
How much light? More in veg than growers expect, less in late flower than they think. Autoflowers do not need a light-cycle change, so 18 hours throughout is the simple default.
When is it ready? Trichome colour, not the calendar. The published window is 50-60 days, which is a reasonable figure to plan around, but the plant decides.
Is it beginner-friendly? It is rated easy. That means it tolerates the mistakes everyone makes in their first season.
Where do I put it? Indoors it is predictable; the indoor-friendly genetics list covers what performs in a tent. Outdoors, see the regional notes above — or the autoflowering indica range if the season is your constraint.
How does it arrive? Plain, unbranded packaging with tracking — the detail is on the shipping page.
Effect Profile
Euphoric, Focused, Relaxed is the consensus, and consensus is worth exactly what it sounds like — a starting point. 22% THC sets the scale; terpinolene 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.
The Terpenes
Terpinolene leads, limonene sits behind it, and ocimene runs underneath.
Aroma is not fixed at harvest — it develops. Fresh flower leads hard with terpinolene; three or four weeks in sealed glass at a stable 16 to 18 degrees lets limonene and ocimene come forward as the sharper volatiles clear. Jars opened at week one and week five smell like different plants.
Who It Suits
Hempstar is rated easy. That makes it a reasonable first grow — 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 50-60 days
- Under lights: up to 400 g/m2
- Grown out: up to 550 g/plant
- Height: 90-120 cm. Medium
- Difficulty: easy
Reported Effects
Descriptive, and ordered by how prominently each one appears in the sources we hold. Not a survey, and not a measurement.
Best For
Where It Sits
Sativa-dominant. We do not have an indica-to-sativa split for this one that we can stand behind, so it is left out rather than estimated.
The Numbers
How it arrives
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Where Hempstar Auto Comes From
We hold no documented parentage for this cultivar, so none is shown. A blank here is an admission rather than an oversight — we would rather leave it empty than publish a lineage we cannot stand behind.
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 — 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.