CANNALIB · STRAIN DOSSIER · NORTHERN LIGHT
Northern Light
5 independent sources put THC at 18%; 54 flower lab samples give a 10th to 90th percentile band of 10.9 to 18.1%; 5 recorded parents; 120 recorded descendants.
Northern Light is a indica cannabis strain bred by Sensi Seeds. Lab tests put its THC between 10.9 and 18.1% (the middle 80% of 54 flower samples). The terpenes most often reported are β-myrcene, β-caryophyllene, α-pinene. Recorded parents: Northern Lights × Northern Lights 2 × Northern Lights 5 × Northern Lights 9 × Skunk 1. Stated flowering time 42 to 49 days.
● frozen 2026-09-29 · API 0.7.1-stdlib
● evidence bar: thc 5 independent sources
● type: indica
18%
THC, most-agreed claim
5 independent sources
10.9–18.1%
Flower lab range
10th to 90th percentile of 54 samples
5
Recorded parents
with sources, never guessed
120
Recorded descendants
through stated parent links
0/0
Cup results, verified/total
placings found in published results
37
Pictures on record
shown with source and credit
CHEMISTRY, CLAIM BY CLAIM
Every THC claim, and who made it.
| THC | Independent sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| 18% | 5 | rqs, cannaconnection, seedcity_local, cannabis_intelligence, seedfinder, master |
| 10.9% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 11% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 11.2% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 8.8% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 10.1% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 10.4% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 10.5% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 10.7% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 11.3% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 11.6% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
| 12.2% | 1 | nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019 |
Lab range 10.9 to 18.1% THC is the 10th to 90th percentile of 54 flower lab samples, median 14.4%; CBD 0 to 0.1% over 52 samples.
top terpenes by stated value: β-myrcene, β-caryophyllene, α-pinene, linalool, α-humulene, limonene
92 chemistry rows on record. Flagged rows never used as potency: 3 non flower, 4 quality flagged, 0 percent outliers.
GROW CLAIMS
Height and flowering, as stated.
| Height | Independent sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| 100 to 160 cm | 6 | alchimia, rqs, truenorth, seedcity, seedcity_local, cannaconnection |
| 80 to 120 cm | 3 | seedcity, seedcity_local, seedfinder |
| 70 cm | 1 | seedfinder |
| 100 to 125 cm | 1 | seedfinder |
| 120 cm | 1 | seedfinder |
| 180 to 250 cm | 1 | seedfinder |
| 200 cm | 1 | seedfinder |
| 90 to 120 cm | 1 | cannabis_intelligence |
| 100 to 120 cm | 1 | cannaconnection |
| 180 to 220 cm | 1 | cannaconnection |
| Flowering | Independent sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| 56 to 63 days | 3 | seedcity, seedcity_local, seedfinder |
| 42 to 49 days | 3 | seedcity, seedcity_local, seedfinder |
| 56 days | 3 | cannaconnection, alchimia, master, seedfinder |
| 49 to 56 days | 2 | cannaconnection, seedfinder |
| 55 to 60 days | 1 | rqs |
| 42 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 42 to 56 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 46 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 49 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 49 to 63 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 53 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 55 to 65 days | 1 | seedfinder |
LINEAGE
Recorded parents, and how many sources agree.
| Parent | Sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Lights | 1 | cannaconnection |
| Northern Lights 2 | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
| Northern Lights 5 | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
| Northern Lights 9 | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
| Skunk 1 | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
120 descendants through recorded links, including Chronic Seeds, Dwarf Ryder Seeds, Ice Seeds Royal Queen Seeds, Jack Herer Seeds Kera Seeds, Kritikal K Seeds, Mikromachine Auto Seeds, Nlx Diamond Auto Seeds, Northern Light Automatic Seeds Rqs.
COMPETITIONS AND AWARD CLAIMS
Cup results with sources; claims with verdicts.
No cup results on record.
Award claims checked 0 confirmed · 5 unchecked. Only confirmed claims count as results.
| Claim | Year | Source | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannabis Cup | not stated | seedfinder | event_ambiguous |
| High Times | not stated | seedfinder | event_ambiguous |
| Cannabis Cup | not stated | seedfinder | event_ambiguous |
| three Cannabis Cup awards and a truck load of accolades to boot | not stated | seedfinder | event_ambiguous |
| Cannabis Cup in 1988 and 1990 | 1988 | seedfinder | not_in_results |
PICTURES, WITH CREDIT
37 pictures on record. Three shown, each with its source.
credit: seedfinder.eu · shown with credit, copyright unverified
credit: seedfinder.eu · shown with credit, copyright unverified
credit: seedfinder.eu · shown with credit, copyright unverified
How to read this page
Every value is a stated claim with its sources. Where sources disagree all claims are listed. The lab range is the 10th to 90th percentile of flower lab samples and is never blended with seed-bank claims. Parents are recorded links, never guessed. Pictures are shown with their source and credit; copyright is unverified. Nothing on this page was invented, averaged across sources or merged from another name.
Aliases on record: Northern Light, northern light feminized seeds royal queen seeds, female-seeds/northern-light, royal-queen-seeds/northern-light, nirvana-seeds/northern-light, victory-seeds/northern-light, kera-seeds/northern-light, the-bulldog-seeds/northern-light, abraxas-seeds/northern-light, amaranta-seeds/northern-light, bioqueen-seeds/northern-light, bulk-seed-bank/northern-light, bulk-seeds/northern-light, greenlabel-seeds/northern-light, growi-seeds-amsterdam/northern-light, hemcy-genetics/northern-light, homegrown-fantaseeds/northern-light, linda-seeds/northern-light, plantation-premium-seeds/northern-light, positronics/northern-light
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dossier northern-light · frozen 2026-09-29 · published by CannaLib, a Plausible Deniability project · Cite as: CannaLib (2026). Northern Light strain dossier. https://cannalib.org/strains/northern-light/