Kush Seeds

Kush seeds grow indica-dominant plants descended from landrace cannabis in the Hindu Kush mountains, the range that runs along the Afghanistan and Pakistan border. Short, bushy plants. Fat buds packed with resin. A smell that sits somewhere between wet earth, pine sap, and pressed hash. Most Kush strains finish flowering in 7-9 weeks, which is why they have been an indoor grower's default for thirty years. Search kush seeds or kushseeds and you end up in the same family. We stock 36 of them, feminized, autoflowering, and the odd regular.

From a mountain range to your grow tent

The family name is geography, not marketing. Cannabis grew wild across Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and northern India for centuries, and locals rubbed and pressed it into hash rather than smoking the flower. Travellers on the hippie trail carried seeds west in the 1960s and 70s, and that mountain stock ended up in Dutch and Californian breeding rooms. Almost every modern indica owes it something. Kandahar from Afghan Seed Connection is 100% indica landrace genetics and about as close to the original as anything we sell.

What makes a Kush strain a Kush

Tight internodes, chunky colas, and a lot of resin. Myrcene and caryophyllene do most of the talking in the terpene profile, which is where the earthy, peppery, pine-and-diesel smell comes from. The effect is physical rather than heady: a slow body relaxation that settles into the sofa. Indica dominance is the through line, from 100% indica plants like Afghan Kush to 70/30 hybrids.

Two honest warnings. Those dense buds hold moisture, so a humid tent in late flower is an open invitation to bud rot, and you want air moving through the canopy. And a proper Kush is an evening smoke. If you need to get anything done afterwards, pick a sativa instead.

Popular Kush varieties

Specs below come straight off our product pages, so you can compare before you commit.

Tight on space or patience? Critical Kush is the one we would pick over OG Kush. It finishes a full week earlier, stops around 100 cm indoors instead of running medium-tall, and still lands 20% THC against OG Kush's 19%. You give up the lemon note, and you get a plant that fits under a 60x60 light.

Growing Kush seeds

Kush plants stay short. Critical Kush tops out around 100 cm indoors, Bubba Kush around 110 cm, so a Kush seed suits a small tent far better than a stretchy haze. Flowering runs 7-9 weeks for the photoperiod strains, and the plants come out bushy enough that a bit of defoliation around week three pays for itself in light penetration.

Prefer to skip the light schedule? Royal Kush Autoflower goes from seed to harvest in 8-9 weeks at 13% THC, which is gentle by Kush standards. Want the relaxation without the buzz, Kama Kush CBD runs 12% CBD against 6% THC.