Definitive list of the best sativa strains in 2020. Ranked by the strongest sativa strains, most energetic, creative, productive, pure and landrace sativa strains. All for sale as marijuana seeds with shipping to the USA and worldwide.

Strongest Sativa Strains

Ghost Train Haze

Ghost Train Haze was named by High Times one of the Strongest Strains on Earth. This high-energy mostly sativa strain is bred from an original Ghost OG cut crossed with Neville’s Wreck. It produces nice frosty dense buds measured at 28% THC.

🌿 Ghost Train Haze #1 by Rare Dankness is the most popular version to grow from seed. The fast growing sativa plants are suitable for cultivation indoors and outdoors, showing a good resistance to mold, mildew and pests.

⚖️ During its lengthy flowering cycle the branches grow big dank colas that may need be supported to keep from falling over. Yields are high and so is trichome production. Lots of sugar leaf.

🍧 Sour and hazy flavors with a subtle good smell. Very powerful cannabis that gives amped-up effects.

👍 Ghost Train Haze is a top breed maximum potency sativa.

Bruce Banner

Bruce Banner is an award-winning sativa dominant OG Kush and Strawberry Diesel hybrid bred in Colorado at The Haven, a Strainwise dispensary. With its monster dank, dense and potent cannabis buds tested at 28.35% THC, Bruce Banner packs a real hard punch. One of the most popular marijuana strains in America.

🌿 While a number of Bruce Banner expressions exist, BB #3 is the prominent version seen today. An easy strain to grow both indoors and outdoors, the plants are sturdy, bushy and responsive.

⚖️ Big yields of dank heavy buds. A thick coating of huge trichomes covers the maturing bud colas, ready to harvest after 9-10 weeks of flowering. Pretty autumn colors.

🍧 Classic diesel aroma combined with berry and hashy flavors. The highly aromatic buds give powerful, heady sativa effects and a functioning body stone.

👍 An excellent strain for both novice and expert growers.

Sour Diesel

Sour Diesel is a famous East Coast weed strain born in the 90’s when a hermie DNL (Hawaiian X RFK Skunk/NL) pollinated a Chemdawg plant. The resulting seeds produced the sativa dominant hybrid praised around the world for its super pungent sour buds.

🌿 Amherst Sour Diesel by Humboldt Seed Organization is the best selling seed form of this strain. The seeds grow into hardy, long branching plants with a longer flowering time than the average hybrid. Tested at 27% THC, this strong sativa is a real connoisseur’s delight.

⚖️ Yields are especially high outdoors where the plants can grow up to multi-pound bushes. Sour Diesel forms big dense elongated colas, so indoor growers may want to compensate by topping or training.

🍧 A powerful gas stench with sour fruit flavors come from the dense, resinous light-green buds. Stimulating, energetic high.

👍 The finished product has great flavors, bag appeal and is always in demand.

Amnesia Haze

Amnesia Haze by Soma Seeds is the authentic first prize HTCC 2012 champion sativa strain best known for its high quality sativa buds that give powerful, mind-erasing effects. Bred from South East Asian, Jamaican Haze and Afghani/Hawaiian genetics.

🌿 Growing Amnesia Haze can be a challenge. The predominantly sativa plants get large in stature over a lengthy flowering cycle that can last up to 13 weeks. Indoors, SOG and SCROG techniques help to control stretch and maximize production. Outdoors, warm climates are best.

⚖️ Gigantic long colas stacked with buds all the way up. The frosty nuggets have a fine greasy resin and high bud-to-leaf ratio. Resistance to disease and mold is good.

🍧 Flavors of lemon, anise seed and tropical fruit. Amnesia Haze is a very smooth smoke with an hard-hitting buzz. A creeper high.

👍 Highly rewarding for anyone with the patience to grow a long flowering sativa.

Trainwreck

Trainwreck is a devastatingly potent sativa dominant strain with complex origins in Arcata, bred through the hybridization of Thai, Mexican and Afghani genetics.

🌿 It grows into a wide sativa that can get tall if allowed enough room. Trainwreck is a proven outdoor strain that’s easy to grow in most climates and appreciates generous lighting.

⚖️ Good production of large compact buds that give a heavy narcotic effect not recommended for novice smokers. Outdoors, the bushes can yield over 6 pounds per plant. Indoors, training methods can help to maximize returns.

🍧 Sticky dense buds with sweet lemony pine aromas. Woody citrus flavor. The debilitating high is felt in both the head and body.

👍 This one will knock you to the ground.

Best Sativa Strains for Energy

Green Crack

Green Crack is a well-known American marijuana strain bred from a 1989 SSSC Skunk and an isolated Afghani cut. This high energy sativa dominant strain is a favorite of West Coast outdoor growers.

🌿 A very easy to grow plant that adapts well to nearly all climates. It grows into a large tree formation that can be controlled indoors with a short veg cycle and training techniques.

⚖️ Big colas that produce high yields exceeding 500 g/m2 indoors and over 3 kilos per plant outdoors. Finishes quick. High mold resistance.

🍧 Lime green fragrant rock hard buds with exotic fruit and skunky flavors. Green Crack gives an invigorating, energetic sativa high.

👍 A good strain for guerrilla growing.

NL#5 x Haze

NL#5 x Haze is an influential Northern Lights #5 and Haze hybrid developed in the late 80’s. It has a soaring, heady sativa high combined with the shorter flowering, heavier yielding qualities of an indica. This 1993 HTCC winner is still regarded as one of the best marijuana strains in the world.

🌿 The seedlings grow into strong, typically sativa plants that rapidly gain height. Indoors, the plants can be switched to bloom with little to no veg cycle to compensate for the stretchy growth that happens during flowering.

⚖️ Long, dense, arm-size colas caked in crystals. High yields of connoisseur quality bud. Indoors, flowering can last up to 10 weeks. Outdoors they go until November so cultivation is restricted to warm areas or in a greenhouse.

🍧 Fruity, pungent and spicy flavors. Electric, clear-headed high.

👍 A highly valued sativa hybrid from the past that gave rise to many modern day strains.

Euforia

Euforia is an energetic mostly sativa strain developed in 1996 as part of a Skunk breeding program that produced Skunk #1 and other fundamental breeding strains. 18-20% THC.

🌿 Easy to grow and clone. Medium size cannabis plants with good vigor and a relatively short flowering time. A good variety for indoor/greenhouse or outdoors in warm climates.

⚖️ Elongated colas that exude strong odors and yield heavy amounts of quality bud. Ready outdoors by early November at the latest. Extra large calyxes.

🍧 Rich skunky aroma and flavor. Dense buds with a high bud-to-leaf ratio and potent euphoric high.

👍 A stable variety that gives breeders consistent, predictable results.

Jack Herer

Named after the “Emperor of Hemp“, Jack Herer is an esteemed Sensi Seeds variety officially accepted in the Netherlands as one of the few medical cannabis strains.

🌿 Easy to grow indoors and outdoors in sunny areas. Jack Herer shows mixed sativa dominant and indica dominant expressions. The sativa dominant phenotypes can take up to 12 weeks to flower while the indica dominant phenos are finished in as soon as 7 weeks.

⚖️ Responsive plants that yield well. Clusters of compact buds form tightly on the plant, with the sativa phenos developing a more elongated bud type. A low odor plant with great resin production.

🍧 Creamy and nutty flavors blended with Skunk and Haze qualities make a tasty, energetic smoke that’s felt in both the mind and body.

👍 Jack Herer has won more High Life Cannabis Cup awards than any other strain.

Laughing Buddha

Laughing Buddha is a sativa strain by Barney’s Farm that combines the genetics of two tropical sativa strains – Jamaican and Thai. This heady sativa was named for the happy, serene effects that its buds produce. High 22% THC content.

🌿 Easy to grow and mold resistant, Laughing Buddha is a vigorous short growing sativa strain that takes a little long to mature at up to 11 weeks flowering. Outdoor growers can expect to harvest by late-October.

⚖️ Due to the weight of the giant colas that form, the branches will require support during the final three weeks of bloom. A healthy resin content covers the dense silvery buds. Weighs out nicely on a weed scale.

🍧 Tropical fruit flavors with a sweet perfume. The effects provide a clearheaded rush of energy.

👍 Laughing Buddha is one of Barney’s most fragrant varieties.

Best Sativa Strains for Creativity

G13 Haze

G13 x Haze is a descendant of the legendary G13, a super strain believed to have originated from a government research facility in Mississippi during the 60’s or 70’s. A G13 clone was crossed with a Haze by Mr Nice seedbank and this line has been inbred ever since.

🌿 This strain presents a range of phenotypes, some very sativa dominant. Those plants require a lower feeding level and also lower EC level if grown in a hydroponic system.

⚖️ Yields can be very high indoors with flowering times taking 9-11 weeks average. Outdoors will not be ready until late-November or early-December.

🍧 Hazy flavors with a skunk undertone. A creeper high felt in the head.

👍 A highly valued end product from the past.

Maui Wowie

The name Maui Wowie (aka Maui Waui) is said to have originated in 1970 from Brotherhood of Eternal Love members living in Maui that smuggled a new Afghani x Mexican crossbreed back to California, calling it Maui Wowie. Over the years, the name has been used to describe any good pakalolo that comes out of Maui.

🌿 Nirvana Seeds’ Maui Waui strain is a bred from a selected Hawaiian sativa inbred line. The plants show predominantly sativa genetics, growing tall and lanky. Perfectly suited for warm subtropical climates, or indoors in a SCROG system. Very responsive.

⚖️ Huge sativa colas develop on its long stretchy branches, yielding a few pounds per plant outdoors. Indoors this variety can take up to 12 weeks to flower.

🍧 Sweet citrus and old school flavors. Maui Waui gives a motivating, creative sativa high.

👍 High resin production.

Purple Haze

Purple Haze is a legendary sativa strain with mysterious origins in the hills of the Emerald Triangle. The Jimi Hendrix song is probably not about this sativa, but this strain’s strong psychedelic high is world famous nonetheless.

🌿 A few seed companies make a Purple Haze strain, most prominent are ILGM and G13 Labs. ILGM’s Purple Haze is a 70% sativa strain that grows into a responsive branching plant shorter in height than the typical sativa. Recommended for both indoor and outdoor growing.

⚖️ The plants continue to stretch during their 9-10 week flowering cycle. They produce fat purple buds with bright orange hairs. Good yield potential indoors and outdoors this sativa strain can yield over a pound per plant.

🍧 Grape and blueberry and flavors. Fragrant purple weed. Psychedelic effect good for creativity.

👍 High energy, long lasting buzz.

Super Lemon Haze

Super Lemon Haze is a back-to-back first prize HTCC winning sativa hybrid bred by crossing Lemon Skunk and Super Silver Haze. One of Greenhouse Seed Co’s best selling varieties, Super Lemon Haze is a top shelf lemony sativa that hits hard in the head and the body.

🌿 The plant grows fairly tall with razor-sharp sativa leaves and wide branches, forming into the shape of a Christmas tree. SCROG or LST can yield the best results indoors while outdoors the branches will need support as the heavy buds mature.

⚖️ Very high yields come after a 10 week flowering cycle that can sometimes go longer. Outdoors, mid-October is when the earliest phenotypes are ready. Lots of long, shiny colas with a good resistance to mold.

🍧 Real lemon flavor. Dense, sugary buds oozing with trichomes. Balanced immediate physical high with cerebral, long-lasting effects.

👍 One of the most popular seed varieties sold at marijuana seed banks for over a decade now.

Grapefruit

Grapefruit is a 95% sativa strain created in 1998 by crossbreeding a Cinderella 99 clone with a Thai sativa. Over the years it has improved to become an early maturing and massive producing variety.

🌿 Grows fairly stretchy into a Christmas tree shape. Grapefruit is a vigorous sativa strain suitable for a short veg cycle indoors combined with training methods to control its naturally tall height.

⚖️ Good yields of rock hard nugs with extra heavy resin production. Beautiful autumn colors come in during late flowering. Near maturation, the buds are susceptible to Botrytis mold which makes outdoor growing difficult.

🍧 Tropical citrus and pineapple flavors with a hint of Haze spicyness. The effect is a long lasting, soaring creative head high like old school sativas.

👍 A fruity tasting fast sativa best grown indoors.

Best Sativa Strains for Productivity

Thai Chi

Thai Chi is a new sativa strain by Ace Seeds created with mostly landrace genetics. It was bred by crossing a pure sativa Thai strain from Chiang Mai with their own Kali China variety. The result is a vigorous F1 sativa hybrid with improved flower density, resin production and a refined terpene profile.

🌿 The plants produce broad, indica type leaves before gaining height and branching out into a typical Thai sativa structure. Very resistant to temperature fluctuations and mold.

⚖️ Yields are moderate when grown indoors in small area but outdoors with more space and a longer growing time it produces much larger crops, ready by the end of October.

🍧 Natural incense and cured wood aromas are found in the Thai dominant phenos while the Kali China phenos are more fruity. Active, clean, sociable sativa high without any edgy paranoia.

👍 Very aesthetically pleasing with red colors throughout the plant.

Blue Dream

Blue Dream is a world-renowned Californian sativa hybrid created by crossing Blueberry and Haze. It is a productive 70% sativa that makes top shelf rock hard nuggets appreciated by connoisseurs and commercial growers alike.

🌿 Blue Dream grows quickly in the veg stage with great vigor, easily reaching a height in excess of 13 feet. Considerable stretch happens during flowering which can make indoors tricky. Outdoors the plants are able to grow into trees.

⚖️ With a 50-100% greater yield than most varieties, Blue Dream is a real cash crop high yield strain to grow. A beautiful mass of colas brings in the extra heavy harvests, ready outdoors by mid-October.

🍧 Fruity blueberry and lemon flavors with the aroma of piney haze. Shiny, dense buds. Long lasting cerebral high good for productivity.

👍 Blue Dream is a rewarding best seller that’s always in high demand.

Strawberry Cough

Strawberry Cough (aka Kyle Kushman‘s Strawberry Cough) is a fruity sativa/indica hybrid bred between a Vermont Strawberry Fields indica female and a pure Haze male. Dutch Passion’s seed version was created from a clone of this strain.

🌿 The medium size marijuana plants are straightforward to grow and do best indoors, in a greenhouse or warmer climates. They respond well to topping and SCROG. Thick stems.

⚖️ Yields are only average. In 9 weeks the aromatic fruity colas turn vibrant colors. With colder temperatures, it is truly purple weed. Outdoors the plants are finished in October.

🍧 Delicious strawberry flavor that lives up to its name. Fruity aroma. Uplifting high.

👍 Great trichome production, up to 20% THC.

Casey Jones

Casey Jones is a potent 2/3 sativa cannabis strain originally developed by the breeder Grateful Head crossing Trainwreck and Oriental Express (Sour Diesel x Thai) strains together. The resulting plants make gigantic top buds covered in crystal with up to 20% THC.

🌿 A robust grower that takes on an indica-leaning appearance, Casey Jones is not shy to take over the room and may need ample spacing between plants. With a solid structure and stable genetics, this sativa strain is one of the most effortless strains to grow indoors and outdoors.

⚖️ Dense, resinous flowers develop on Casey Jones with the central cola growing as big as a forearm. High bud-to-leaf ratio, high yields and good mold resistance.

🍧 Earthy, spicy flavors with hints of lemon, gas and Kush. Overpowering sour smell. Instant, energetic effects.

👍 Top shelf quality frosted sativa that also produces excellent bubble hash.

Red Dragon

Red Dragon is a colorful sativa dominant hybrid by Barney’s Farm that consists of Brazilian Utopia Haze and Pakistani indica genetics. Up to 22% THC.

🌿 Red Dragon seeds grow into compact, medium size cannabis plants with a rapid growth rate that can develop into massive bushes planted in the ground. A fast flowering strain.

⚖️ The pretty red and green colored flowers stack on tight to the plant. Its large colas produce a high yield indoors within 8 weeks of flowering. Outdoor harvest is by the the end of September.

🍧 Exotic tropical flavors. Long lasting high with thought-provoking effects. Red Dragon is a good sativa for productivity.

👍 A unique and easy to grow sativa strain.

Best Pure and Landrace Sativa Strains

Destroyer

Destroyer is a pure sativa strain bred by Cannabiogen from Thai and Mexican/Colombian genetics. This potent sativa is stabilized for breeding.

🌿 A vigorous growing strain, the plants develop large banana finger leaves that soak up the light. If grown indoors, enough space should be provided for the ample stretch that happens during the long, up to 12 week flowering cycle.

⚖️ Densely-packed trichomes cover the fluffy buds, bringing in good yields when grown outdoors. Indoors can be more of a challenge.

🍧 Lavender and ripe fruit flavors. The buds appear predominantly Thai and give strong sativa psychedelic effects.

👍 Destroyer is an faster alternative to the pure breed, extra long flowering Thai sativas.

Kwazulu

Kwazulu is a landrace cannabis sativa strain found growing wild on the north-facing slopes of the Drakensberg ridge in South Africa. This pure sativa variety is an commercial-quality producer of big hard buds on par with the best indicas of today. 15-20% THC.

🌿 Super easy to grow, Kwazulu is a hungry plant that will outgrow most hybrid strains and may need to be kept in an area of its own.

⚖️ Gigantic colas grow on Kwazulu that get insanely wide. It handles rain and rough winds well. Very heavy dense buds compared to other pure sativa strains.

🍧 While not aromatic weed out there, the subtle smell and sweet flavor profiles improve once it’s cured. An ideal daytime smoke providing a great source of energy.

👍 The buds look huge in a bag, a real eye-catcher.

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro is a pure sativa landrace cannabis strain collected on the hillsides of Kenya’s and Africa’s highest mountain. The strain has been further stabilized by growers in Europe for increased resin production and bud quality. Up to 20% THC.

🌿 Easy to cultivate outdoors and in a greenhouse, this 100% sativa strain is a very branchy and vigorous plant that gets up to 8 feet tall. Produces solid buds, even in adverse conditions. It is a suitable strain for growing in rainy, wet climates and high latitude areas too.

⚖️ Thick, sticky buds form on the fast flowering sativa plants in an almost indica nature. In 9-10 weeks indoors the hard, dense colas are ready to cut. Outdoors, harvest time is in early-October. High yields.

🍧 Tastes of citrus fruit and spices with a pleasant aroma. Kilimanjaro’s pure sativa high gives an uplifting, stimulating, energetic effect.

👍 This landrace cannabis strain is called Elephant Killer for its extreme potency.

Thai

Thai sativas are some of the strongest psychedelic cannabis strains on the planet. These full-blooded tropical sativas contain a high amount of THCV and well over 20% THC.

🌿 Wild Thailand by World of Seeds is an inbred local Thai sativa variety with a shorter flowering cycle than the typical 18 weeks plus. The fast growing plants still outstretch anything around it, which makes cultivation indoors a challenge. Outdoors in a warm climate is where this strain can really perform.

⚖️ Very big colas packed with slightly fluffy sativa buds. It produces a high yield ready to harvest outdoors in late November. Indoors, this can be up to 13 weeks of bloom. Good resistance to mold.

🍧 Colorful frosty buds with a caramel Thai stick flavor. Powerful citrus odor. Psychedelic old school sativa high.

👍 Wild Thailand is a stable breeding, easy to grow sativa that makes top shelf quality bud.

Malawi Gold

Malawi Gold from Seeds of Africa originates from the Northern region of Malawi, exclusively harvested on a plateau at 4000 feet elevation. Malawi Gold is best known in conjunction with the Malawi cob curing method.

🌿 Developed in a hot and humid subtropical location, Malawi Gold seeds produce hardy supersize sativa bushes with long branches. It takes an extra long time to finish flowering, at up to 16 weeks.

⚖️ Big yields outdoors. The plants turn a golden color during the end of their life cycle which shows in the highly resinous golden-amber tinted buds. A very mold resistant strain.

🍧 Exotic pineapple, lemon and spicy incense flavors. Potent smoke, Malawi Gold gives a soaring psychedelic high.

👍 Great for growing outdoors in tropical/subtropical climates.

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