Northern Lights

Northern Lights is the strain your grandfather's hippie brother grew, and it is still here because it has never once been bad at its job. A foundational indica from the eighties — one of the plants modern cannabis is literally built on — it survived four decades of flashier competition by being reliable in a way flashy never is.

The job in question: sleep, and the calm on the way there. Earthy, faintly sweet, resinous, and quiet — this is the most discreet plant in the catalog, low-odor enough for thin walls and close quarters.

For growers it is the classic first plant: compact, fast, resilient, nearly impossible to insult. If you have killed a cactus and confessed it in our finder, this is very likely who the finder introduced you to.

Wants: a corner and a lamp. Forgives: everything. It has seen decades of us.