Grower's Choice Collection — 481 Varieties Shipped Across New Zealand
481 varieties that come up repeatedly in grower feedback — the ones people run a second and third time. That is a different signal from sales volume: it reflects how the plant behaved through a full cycle rather than how appealing it looked in a listing. Forgiving plants are over-represented here, which is exactly why the list is useful if you are still learning your space. The group runs 224 indica-leaning, 61 sativa-leaning, 195 balanced hybrid.
Also worth a look: premium seeds the wider selection this sits inside, high-yield strains if output is the goal, and best sellers for the most-ordered names.
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What this shelf holds
481 varieties sit on this shelf right now, and the THC figures on their listings run from 22% up to 33%, with the middle of the group at 24%. Counted from the catalogue when this page was built, so it matches the grid below.
- Photoperiod, all female: 379 of them (79%). You choose when they flower, and they carry the most weight per plant.
- Day-neutral: 102 (21%). These run on age, so the New Zealand daylight cycle is irrelevant to them.
- Indica-leaning: 224. Short and wide, quicker to finish, and usually myrcene-forward.
- Sativa-leaning: 61. Taller, later, and worth the season length only where you have it.
- Balanced crosses: 195. Somewhere between the two, and generally the easier grow for it.
- CBD-forward: 1. Bred for a different cannabinoid balance, with THC correspondingly lower.
- First three alphabetically: $100 OG, 24k Gold and 24k Gold. The grid below filters on finishing time, height and type.
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How These 481 Varieties Break Down
Of the 481 varieties here, 224 lean indica (47%), 61 lean sativa (13%), 195 sit as balanced hybrids (41%), 1 are CBD-forward. 102 of the 481 are autoflowering (21%), and the remaining 379 flower on a light cycle. The mean listed THC across the group is about 24%, 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.
Where in New Zealand This Works
Where you are growing in New Zealand changes the answer more than which variety you choose does. Taranaki gives you high rainfall year-round, so airflow and open structure matter more than raw yield. Manawatū and Whanganui, by contrast, gives you persistent wind, which means staking early rather than after the first storm. Read the flowering window on any variety you plan to grow outside against your own first-frost date, not against a national average. Cold is rarely the thing that ends a season in this country. Humidity in late flower is, which makes open structure and a finishing date you can defend worth more than a few extra grams of potential yield.
Choosing From a Wide Group
A category this broad rewards narrowing before browsing. Decide the environment first — tent, greenhouse, or open ground — because that eliminates more of the list than any other single question. Then set your finishing deadline: if you are south of Christchurch and growing outside, anything with an eleven-week bloom is already ruled out. Only then look at type and potency, which is the order most people reverse. Each listing shows whatever cultivation data we were able to trace and shows nothing where we were not, so a blank flowering window is an admission rather than an oversight. This applies to the 379 photoperiod varieties in this category; the other 102 run on age instead.
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