Steve's Dream Queen Feminised

Steve's Dream Queen is bought for what comes off it, and the sourced figures are 400-500 g/m2 under lights and 550-800 g/plant from a plant grown out. Those are ceilings, not promises — pot volume, light intensity and how honestly you feed decide where you land inside them. Run the numbers for your own tent with the yield calculator before committing to a pack size, and put it next to the rest of the high-yield strains if weight is the whole point.

What the sourced data gives for this cultivar: 400-500 g/m2 under lights, 550-800 g/plant from a plant grown outside. Reaching either is an environment problem before it is a genetics one.

Root volume sets the ceiling before a single flower forms. Under-pot a plant and no feeding schedule rescues it. Get the container right early and the plant does the rest.

Light is the second lever, and the one most growers get wrong in both directions — too little through veg, too much in late flower where it bleaches rather than builds. Steady beats aggressive.

The third is the fortnight around the flip. The stretch after the flip decides your final canopy shape, and it is the last moment training does anything useful.

Feed to the plant rather than the calendar. Our nutrient calculator gives a starting schedule; the plant will tell you where it is wrong. Worth a side-by-side comparison before you commit if weight is the deciding factor.

Effect descriptions are the least reliable part of any seed listing, this one included. What is defensible: this is a 20/80 sativa at 20% THC, commonly described as euphoric, creative, calm, with limonene leading the terpene profile.

What is not defensible is any promise about how it will feel for you. Dose, tolerance, setting and the phenotype you happen to pop all move the outcome more than the strain name does.

Growing a few and selecting the keeper is the only way to know. That is what a pack of feminised seeds is for.

Limonene leads, pinene sits behind it, and terpinolene runs underneath.

Temperature changes what you get. Vaporised low, around 180 to 188 degrees, pinene and terpinolene come through cleanly while limonene stays in the background. Combusted, limonene dominates and the finer detail is largely lost. Same flower, two different experiences.

Who does well with Steve's Dream Queen? Growers who want to control plant size and harvest date, and have the vegetative space to use that control. First-timers included — the genetics are forgiving.

Still deciding? The indoor-friendly genetics list is the narrower place to start.

• Finishes in 8-10 weeks
• Under lights: 400-500 g/m2
• Grown out: 550-800 g/plant
• Height: 1.5 m
• Difficulty: beginner