Hybrid Strains — 581 Balanced Crosses for New Zealand Growers
581 varieties that sit between the two extremes on every axis that matters — height, bloom length, and how much a mistake costs you. That is an unglamorous description and it is why this is usually the right group for a first or second grow: the plant forgives an uneven watering schedule and an imperfect feed in a way a specialist line does not. 164 run on age rather than daylight.
Also worth a look: feminised hybrids for female plants only, autoflowering hybrids for a quicker turnaround, exotic crosses for the newer dessert lineages, and best sellers if you would rather start with a proven name.
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What this shelf holds
581 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: 416 of them (72%). You choose when they flower, and they carry the most weight per plant.
- Day-neutral: 164 (28%). These run on age, so the New Zealand daylight cycle is irrelevant to them.
- Indica-leaning: 1. 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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What Is Actually in This Category
Of the 581 varieties here, 1 lean indica (<1%), 580 sit as balanced hybrids (99%). 164 of the 581 are autoflowering (28%), and the remaining 417 flower on a light cycle. The mean listed THC across the group is about 21%, 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.
Region Makes More Difference Than Strain Choice
Thirteen degrees of latitude separate the top of the country from the bottom, which is why a single national growing calendar is close to useless here. Auckland gives you mild winters and a long season, usually grown on small urban sections where plant height is the limit. the Waikato, by contrast, gives you heavy autumn dews and morning fog that sit in dense flower long after sunrise. Read the flowering window on any variety you plan to grow outside against your own first-frost date, not against a national average. What actually costs people a crop here is a damp March rather than a cold one: moisture sitting in packed flower is where rot starts, and spacing plants properly is a cheaper fix than anything you can spray on afterwards.
Why the Middle of the Range Is Usually the Easier Grow
Balanced hybrids inherit stretch from one parent and finishing speed from the other, and in practice that makes them more forgiving than either extreme. They rarely triple in height after the flip, and they rarely sulk if a feed is late. For a first grow that is worth more than any headline THC figure. Plan for roughly 60 to 80% stretch after the switch, feed on a standard bloom schedule, and pay attention to the flowering window on the individual listing rather than assuming the category average — a hybrid group covers a wide spread, and the fastest and slowest plants here can be three weeks apart. This applies to the 417 photoperiod varieties in this category; the other 164 run on age instead.
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