Best Varieties for Hemp Flower
Do you want to improve your crop to get the best industrial hemp flower? Check out this brief overview to help you choose varieties for flower, including our best varieties for smokeability and new CBG flower opportunities. You may consider planting one or more new varieties on just an acre each to see how they do, and then consider expanding your most successful trials.
How to Choose Hemp to Grow for Flower
Consider these four major factors when choosing hemp for its flower:
- flavor/scent (terpene profile)
- CBD content
- ability of the plant to stay legally compliant
- how prolific the buds are for the particular strain
You’ll want a desirable terpene profile as well as high CBD content for smokeable flower. It’s also important that the plants reach peak flavor and CBD content without going hot. Hemp is Cannabis that contains .3% or less THC; if your hemp plants exceed this THC content, your crops will no longer qualify as hemp, and you’ll lose them. Some hemp flower strains go hot (become illegal by having more than .3% THC) faster than others. You’ll want to choose types of hemp that you can harvest in time to keep them from going hot. Lastly, you’ll get the most smokeable flower out of industrial hemp strains that have more buds and fewer leaves.
Our Best Varieties for Smokeable CBD
A couple of our most popular hemp varieties for flower are The Wife and Cherry Citrus.
The Wife has a strong cannabis smell and sticky bud, similar to typical marijuana. This similarity may be appealing to growers and those who enjoy the terpene profile of marijuana but are looking for the benefits of CBD without the effects of THC. One challenge of The Wife is that it will go hot more quickly than some other varieties, so it needs to be planned carefully and harvested efficiently before it matures past appropriate THC levels. However, it also has some of the highest possible CBD content among cannabis plants.
Cherry Citrus is a popular variety that offers a sweet citrus flavor and high CBD content. Its CBD to THC ratio is slightly lower than that of The Wife, meaning it’s a little less likely to go hot as quickly.
The Difference Between CBD and CBG
CBG stands for Cannabigerol, which is a cannabinoid that matures in cannabis plants before CBD, CBC, and THC. CBG is up-and-coming due to its use in treating some mental disorders like anxiety, PTSD, depression, and OCD. CBD is more typically used to treat physical ailments. Both are lucrative pursuits for industrial hemp farmers.
While it’s wise and legally necessary to test THC levels for compliance, CBG hemp strains are very unlikely to go hot. They can remain THC compliant while grown longer, allowing for a staggered harvest if you’re also growing industrial hemp varieties that must be harvested earlier to be compliant.
We offer CBG Gold, a premium CBG hemp strain that produces high CBG and low THC. CBG Gold produces excellent smokable flower and offers superior relaxation, anti-anxiety, and anti-inflammation properties compared to CBD.
You can find even more information on preparing your fields, and growing and testing industrial hemp, here.
