Northern Lights
Northern Lights is listed by Leafly as an indica with reported Afghani and Thai ancestry. Its history section treats the Seattle origin story as a rumor and describes later distribution through the Netherlands. That uncertainty is part of the record, not a missing detail to fill by guesswork. Pine, earth and wood appear in its reader flavor tags. Numbered selections such as Northern Lights #5 require their own provenance rather than automatic equivalence with this broader entry.
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Reported effects
Subjective feelings described by readers.
These are subjective reports, not guaranteed effects or medical conclusions. The report total covers the whole profile; individual tag frequencies are unavailable.
How to read these reportsParents, origins & family
Reported parentage
Leafly lists Afghani × Thai. Northern Lights #5 is a specific selection and is not merged into this entry.
Reported parents
AfghaniOpen strain profileLeafly — northern lights ↗
ThaiOpen strain profileLeafly — northern lights ↗Children & later selections 4
Big BudOpen strain profileBig Bud's reported background combines Afghani, Northern Lights and Skunk #1. Leafly traces its history from the United States to the Netherlands; the three names are recorded as ancestry without inventing a crossing order.
Leafly — Big Bud identity and lineage ↗
Black DominaOpen strain profileFour reported contributors are modeled as ancestry; intermediate crosses and generations are not inferred.
Leafly — Black Domina identity and lineage ↗
Green GoblinOpen strain profileSource-reported relationship; retained as attributed catalog lineage rather than genetic authentication.
Leafly — Green Goblin identity and lineage ↗
Super Silver HazeOpen strain profileSuper Silver Haze is attributed to Green House Seeds and a background involving Skunk, Northern Lights and Haze. The source supplies those ancestry names but does not establish the exact sequence of crosses.
Leafly — Super Silver Haze identity and lineage ↗How to read these relationships
Parent links describe a reported cross. Ancestry components may be several generations back. A phenotype selection comes from a named line rather than a new two-parent cross. Disputed links retain the uncertainty of their source.
Names in this catalog open a strain profile. Other names open the reference describing the relationship. The family view shows the links currently documented here, not every known descendant.
Cannabinoid profile
Leafly catalog summary values, not laboratory results for a specific sample. A displayed 0% is a rounded source value, not proof of absence. Unlisted cannabinoids remain unknown.
Leafly source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-16Concentrations vary by sample. A cultivar name alone does not establish potency.
Terpenes & aroma
Catalog-listed terpenes. Dominance is shown only where the source states it; percentages are unavailable unless separately recorded.
Similar strains
Similarity uses catalog reference chemistry, reported attributes and lineage. Missing data is excluded; this is not an effects prediction.
Tahoe OG is described as a phenotype of OG Kush rather than a separately documented two-parent cross. Tahoe OG Kush is another name for the same catalog profile.
Phenotype selection ↗
OG Kush is a hybrid name central to several later catalog families, including GSC and Headband. Leafly describes a Florida-to-California history but qualifies the proposed early cross rather than documenting a settled pedigree. Its listed aroma descriptors include wood, pine and earth, while its chemistry section names myrcene, limonene and caryophyllene. The uncertain origin story is retained as an attributed account; a shared OG name does not establish identical ancestry or chemistry.
Disputed parentage ↗
GG4, also known as Original Glue, is attributed to GG Strains LLC. Its reported background includes Chem's Sister, Sour Dubb and Chocolate Diesel, which are listed as ancestry without assuming an undocumented crossing order.
Ancestry documented ↗Compare with related strains
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- Leafly — northern lights
Catalog identity and lineage reference. Leafly lists Afghani × Thai. Northern Lights #5 is a specific selection and is not merged into this entry.
Accessed 2026-09-14 - Leafly — northern lights catalog parameters
Leafly catalog summary values, not laboratory results for a specific sample. A displayed 0% is a rounded source value, not proof of absence. Unlisted cannabinoids remain unknown. Terpene names and documented order come from the catalog; concentrations are not supplied. Effects, flavors and negative effects are reader-reported tags. The report count covers the profile as a whole, not individual tags.
Accessed 2026-09-16 - Leafly — Northern Lights: identity recheck
Identity check: Leafly itself qualifies the Seattle story as rumor. Still needed: documented early provenance and a distinction between broad Northern Lights history and numbered selections. The source's traditional indica label does not resolve the historical uncertainty.
Accessed 2026-09-23
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