Best Strains For Indoor Growing: 1397 Genetics Chosen for Where You Grow
1397 cultivars that perform under lights, where the New Zealand climate stops mattering and the variables become yours: light intensity, pot volume, feeding, and how honestly you manage humidity in late flower. 372 are autoflowering, useful where headroom is limited. The split runs 817 indica-leaning, 580 balanced hybrid.
Also worth a look: autoflowers for the shortest indoor cycle, high-yield strains to get more from the same footprint, and feminised seeds so no tent space goes to a male.
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What this shelf holds
1397 varieties sit on this shelf right now, and the THC figures on their listings run from 1% up to 33%, with the middle of the group at 20%. Counted from the catalogue when this page was built, so it matches the grid below.
- Photoperiod, all female: 1024 of them (73%). You choose when they flower, and they carry the most weight per plant.
- Day-neutral: 372 (27%). These run on age, so the New Zealand daylight cycle is irrelevant to them.
- Indica-leaning: 817. Short and wide, quicker to finish, and usually myrcene-forward.
- Balanced crosses: 580. Somewhere between the two, and generally the easier grow for it.
- First three alphabetically: $100 OG, 13 Dawgs and 24k Gold. The grid below filters on finishing time, height and type.
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How These 1397 Varieties Break Down
Of the 1397 varieties here, 817 lean indica (58%), 580 sit as balanced hybrids (42%). 372 of the 1397 are autoflowering (27%), and the remaining 1025 flower on a light cycle. The mean listed THC across the group is about 20%, which is a genetic ceiling rather than a guarantee — the figure a plant actually reaches depends on light, feeding and harvest timing. These counts are read from the catalogue when the page is built, so they move when stock moves and cannot drift away from what is listed below.
Growing This Category Outdoors in New Zealand
New Zealand spans roughly 34 to 47 degrees south, and the outdoor season at one end of that range looks nothing like the other. Northland gives you the longest outdoor season in the country, paid for with subtropical humidity through the autumn finish. Auckland, by contrast, gives you mild winters and a long season, usually grown on small urban sections where plant height is the limit. Read the flowering window on any variety you plan to grow outside against your own first-frost date, not against a national average. The variable that ends most New Zealand outdoor grows is not cold and it is not light — it is botrytis in dense flower during a wet autumn, so airflow, spacing and an honest finishing date do more for a harvest than any nutrient decision.
Setting Up Indoors in a New Zealand Home
Indoors the New Zealand climate stops mattering and your build takes over. A 1.2 by 1.2 metre tent with a decent LED will run four to six plants comfortably; crowding it costs more yield than a smaller light would. Extraction matters more in a New Zealand winter than growers expect, because a sealed tent in a cold damp house swings from too humid to too dry within a day. Hold 21 to 27°C in growth, drop humidity toward 45% as flowers fill, and keep soil around pH 6.0 to 6.5. Power is the running cost worth costing out before you start. This applies to the 1025 photoperiod varieties in this category; the other 372 run on age instead.
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