Sativa Strains: 238 Tall, Late-Finishing Genetics
The tall, slow end of the catalogue: 238 varieties that stretch hard after the flip and take ten weeks or more to bloom. Indoors that is a training problem with a known answer — flip early, run a screen, keep the canopy flat. Outdoors in New Zealand it is a geography problem, and the honest answer is that these belong north of Taranaki or under cover. The group averages about 20% THC.
Also worth a look: feminised sativas if you want female plants guaranteed, energising strains for daytime-leaning effects, autoflowering indicas if a 10-11 week sativa will not finish where you are, and indicas if you need a shorter plant.
238 strains available
What this shelf holds
238 varieties sit on this shelf right now, and the THC figures on their listings run from 9% 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: 188 of them (79%). You choose when they flower, and they carry the most weight per plant.
- Day-neutral: 50 (21%). These run on age, so the New Zealand daylight cycle is irrelevant to them.
- Sativa-leaning: 235. Taller, later, and worth the season length only where you have it.
- Balanced crosses: 3. Somewhere between the two, and generally the easier grow for it.
- First three alphabetically: 3 Kings, 3 Kings and 5 Alive. The grid below filters on finishing time, height and type.
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A Numerical Look at the Sativa Strains
Of the 238 varieties here, 235 lean sativa (99%), 3 sit as balanced hybrids (1%). 50 of the 238 are autoflowering (21%), and the remaining 188 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.
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. That gap matters here more than in any other category: a ten-week bloom is comfortable in the first and a gamble in the second. 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.
Managing Height and a Long Bloom
Sativa-leaning plants stretch, often doubling or tripling after the light flips, and they take longer to ripen. Indoors that means flipping earlier than instinct suggests and committing to training — a screen or repeated low-stress tying keeps the canopy flat instead of letting three colas race the ceiling. Outdoors in New Zealand the constraint is the calendar: a ten to eleven week bloom starting late January finishes in April, which is comfortable north of Taupō and marginal further south. The upside is the airier flower structure, which handles a humid finish considerably better than a dense indica does. This applies to the 188 photoperiod varieties in this category; the other 50 run on age instead.
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