Cannabis · Selection · THC-dominant
Northern Lights
Also known as NL
Widely repeated
Lineage
Seed parent, then pollen parent. A backcross is a third parent, and it does not replace either of them.
Selected from
Afghani
This record
Northern Lights
Selected from Afghani
Offspring
Afghan indica stock that moved through the Pacific Northwest into Dutch breeding. Drawn as a selection of Afghani, not as a new cross.
Market report
Read from the Leafly public index on 2026-10-11. One source. Not a pedigree, and not confirmed by a second catalog. Parent names inside Leafly’s paragraph were not copied into the diagram.
- Leafly reviews
- 4.4 average across 3,834 reviews
- Lab producer count
- 0
Leafly’s producer count on this row is 0. Any median below is what Leafly published. Phylo does not treat it as a lab panel.
- CBD median 0% · Leafly published 0% and 0% beside the median
- CBG median 1%
- THC median 18% · Leafly published 15% and 21% beside the median
Terpene scores
Relative scores on Leafly, not a percent of the flower.
- myrcene · 0.54
- caryophyllene · 0.34
- limonene · 0.19
- humulene · 0.12
- pinene · 0.11
- linalool · 0.08
Reported effects
Leafly review votes, not a clinical finding.
- relaxed · 2,104 votes
- happy · 1,550 votes
- euphoric · 1,483 votes
- sleepy · 1,387 votes
- uplifted · 940 votes
Northern Lights, also known as "NL," is an indica marijuana strain made by crossing Afghani with Thai. Northern Lights produces euphoric effects that settle in firmly throughout the body, relaxing muscles and easing the…
- Region
- United States / Netherlands
- Origin
- Afghan stock, Seattle-era selection
- Breeder
- Unrecorded
- Era
- 1970s–1980s
Claims
Three clean supports corroborate a claim. Five enter it. The studio can adopt sooner. A dispute keeps it out.
No open claims on this record.
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