- Type
- Sativa
- Lineage
- Northern Lights #5 × Skunk × Haze
- THC
- 15–20%
- CBD
- 1–2%
- Flower time
- 10–11 wks
- Yield
- High
- Height
- Tall
- Grow difficulty
- Advanced
- Climate
- Indoor
Effects
upliftedcreativeenergetichappy
Flavors & aroma
MangoTropicalSweetHaze
Dominant terpenes
Myrcene
Earthy, musky, ripe fruitThe most common cannabis terpene; associated with relaxing, heavy 'couch' character.
Terpinolene
Herbal, floral, citrus, complexCommon in energetic sativa-leaning cultivars.
Pinene
Pine, rosemary, fresh forestAssociated with alertness and clear-headedness.
Grower's notes
Very tall — SCROG mandatory indoors. Long flower time (10–11 weeks) but the yield compensates. The 1:10 CBD:THC ratio makes it smoother than most sativas. Patient growers are rewarded.
Grow guides for Mango Haze
Matched to this strain's advanced difficulty, indoor climate, and tall structure.
- Setting Up the Space: Ventilation, Odor & Electrical SafetyHow to size your exhaust fan, kill the smell, seal light leaks, and wire a tent without starting a fire — the room build that makes everything else work.
- Grow Light Basics: Distance, Intensity, and Not Cooking Your PlantsPPFD without the physics degree — how high to hang your light at every stage, how to read plant feedback, and dimmer settings that actually make sense.
- Topping, FIM & Mainlining: Multiply Your ColasHigh-stress training that turns one main bud into many even tops — where to cut, when, and how to build a symmetrical manifold.
- SCROG: Screen of Green for Maximum CanopyThe flat-canopy training method that turns one plant into an even light-catching sheet — setup, weaving, and timing for the biggest yields per watt.
- Pest Control: Mites, Gnats & Powdery MildewIdentification, treatment, and prevention for the big three indoor invaders — including what's safe to spray in flower and what never is.
- Transplanting Cannabis — When, Why, and How to Pot UpPot up without transplant shock — timing signs, container sizing, and the exact technique for a stress-free move.
- Maximizing Bud Quality: Density, Frost, and Bag AppealThe controllable factors that separate dense, trichome-coated buds from airy popcorn — light intensity, temperature swings, nutrient timing, and the finishing tricks that competition growers use.
- Watering in Flower: Frequency, Runoff, and the Dry-Back CycleWatering changes when the plant starts flowering — bigger roots, more transpiration, different nutrient demand. How to read the plant, manage runoff, and avoid the overwatering trap that ruins late-flower buds.
- LED Grow Light Mastery: PPFD Maps, Spectrum Tuning, and DLI OptimizationBeyond the basics — how to read a PPFD map, tune spectrum for each stage, calculate DLI for your setup, and extract every photon of performance from modern LED panels.
- Late Flower and Ripening: Weeks 7–10 and the Finish LineThe final stretch of flower is where patience separates mediocre harvests from exceptional ones. What to feed, when to stop, how to read ripeness signals, and the last-week protocols that maximize potency and bag appeal.
- Making Hash: Bubble Hash, Dry Sift, and Ice Water ExtractionTurn trim and small buds into premium solventless concentrate. Full walkthrough of bubble hash and dry sift — equipment, technique, drying, grading, and what separates 6-star from cooking hash.
- Mainlining (Manifold Technique): Building a Symmetrical Plant from ScratchThe most structured training method in cannabis cultivation — how to top and train a plant into a perfectly symmetrical manifold with 8 or 16 equal colas. Slower than LST, but the canopy evenness is unmatched.
- Supercropping: The High-Stress Technique That Builds Bigger BranchesPinching and bending stems until they fold 90° — intentional high-stress training that triggers stronger regrowth, wider nutrient highways, and branch-level canopy control. When and how to use the most aggressive training tool.
- Feeding in Flower: The Week-by-Week Nutrient StrategyFlowering is when nutrient management matters most — the wrong ratio at the wrong time costs yield, potency, and bag appeal. A week-by-week feeding strategy from flip to flush for soil, coco, and hydro.
- Environmental Controllers: Automating Temperature, Humidity, and CO₂How to wire temperature, humidity, and CO₂ control into a single automated system — from basic timer combos to smart controllers that hold your environment within 2°F and 5% RH all day.
- Advanced Canopy Management: Even Light, Maximum YieldBeyond basic LST — how to build, maintain, and optimize a flat, even canopy where every bud site receives equal light. The techniques pro growers use to squeeze maximum yield from a fixed footprint.
- Maximizing Yield: Grams Per Watt and How to Increase ItYield isn't about luck or magic nutrients — it's the intersection of light, canopy management, nutrition, and environment. How to measure yield properly (grams per watt, not grams per plant), the factors that matter most, and practical changes that deliver the biggest improvements.
- Cal-Mag: When You Need It, When You Don't, and How Much to UseCalcium and magnesium deficiency is the most diagnosed problem in cannabis growing — and the most over-supplemented. When cal-mag is actually needed, when it's not, dosing by medium, and how to avoid creating problems by solving ones that don't exist.
- EC and PPM: Measuring Nutrient Strength the Right WayYour plants don't read labels — they taste the water. EC and PPM meters tell you exactly what they're tasting: how concentrated your nutrient solution is, whether you're overfeeding or underfeeding, and how the medium is building up salts over time.
- PK Boosters and Bloom Supplements: What Works, What Doesn'tEvery nutrient company sells a bloom booster — extra phosphorus and potassium to fatten buds. Some deliver real results. Others are expensive water. How PK boosters work, when to use them, which ones are worth buying, and how to avoid the common overdose that actually shrinks your yield.
- When to Harvest: Reading Trichomes Like a GrowerClear, milky, amber — what trichome color actually tells you, how to check it with a $15 loupe, and picking your harvest window on purpose.
- Drying & Curing: Where Good Grows Become GreatThe 60/60 dry, the burp schedule, jar humidity targets, and how to rescue an over-dried harvest — the complete post-harvest playbook.
Educational profile · data varies by phenotype & grow · not medical advice · all strains