Pyramid Seeds: Spanish Genetics Behind the Pharaoh Names

Ask ten growers where Pyramid Seeds come from and half of them will guess wrong, because a catalogue full of pharaohs sends your brain to the wrong continent. The expert breeders from Pyramid Seeds work in Spain, and Auto Alpujarrena is named after the Alpujarra, the valleys under the Sierra Nevada, which tells you more about the breeder's postcode than any tomb does. Their brief is narrow and they stick to it: feminised and autoflowering cannabis seeds that are easy to run, loaded with terpenes, and far more productive than the space they occupy suggests. If you've been searching Pyramide Seeds or Pyramid Seeda and landing on half-empty pages, this is the shelf you wanted.

Autoflowers That Refuse to Stay Small

The old line about autos is that you trade weight for speed. Nobody told the Spanish. Auto Blue Pyramid is the autoflowering follow-up to Blue Pyramid, faster and easier to run than its predecessor, and it stays compact at 40-90cm. Only 60-67 days after germination you're cutting her down, and a good run can leave you with half a kilo of weed off a plant you could hide behind a wheelie bin. THC sits at 24%, with 1.4% CBD and 0.3% CBN alongside it, so the hit lands hard and heavy rather than sharp.

Auto Tutankhamon takes the opposite approach to height. She's a Ruderalis and Indica cross brought together with Tutankhamon, she stretches to 110-130cm, and she still races through: 20-25 days of veg, then 45-50 days of flowering, with around 450 grams waiting at the end. At 20% THC the high is softer than Auto Blue Pyramid's, which is why we point beginners at her. She's forgiving about feeding mistakes and she doesn't sulk if you get your watering slightly wrong.

Auto Ramses is the one to watch your ceiling for. She's a last-generation autoflowering Amnesia Haze pheno that averages 70-120cm but can shove past 2m if she's happy, so a 60x60 tent will get cramped fast. Give her 18 hours of light from seedling to chop, or full sun outdoors, and she'll do up to 450g/m² indoors and 200g per plant outside in just 70 days from germination. The flavour is the reason to bother: orange and lemon up front, dank earth and spice underneath, and a clean 16% THC buzz that wakes you up rather than flattening you. If you want a Haze that finishes before autumn ruins everything, she's the pick.

Purple Colas, Alien Buds and a Hard 25% THC

The feminised side of the range is where Pyramid Seeds get their reputation for looks. Purple Urkle was built on Mendocino Purps, the high-anthocyanin Cali variety that made its mark through multiple victories at High Times Cannabis Cups, and those wins belong to that classic genetic line rather than to Pyramid Seeds as a company, whatever you read elsewhere. What Pyramid Seeds did was refine her over several generations into an 80% indica with 20% THC and colas in proper shades of purple, not the sad grey-lilac you sometimes get. Indoors she gives 350-400g/m² after 55-60 days of flowering, outdoors 750-1000g per plant with a September chop. Break a dried bud open and you get tropical fruit, ripe grapes, and a skunky edge behind it. It's an evening strain, full stop, the body load is too sedating for a working afternoon.

Gorila exists because tolerance is real. Pyramid Seeds crossed Chem Sis with Sour Dubb and landed on 25% THC in small, dense buds with dark green and purple hues, so crusted in trichomes the flowers look wet. Aroma is pine, wood, and lemon. Indoors she does around 400g/m² over 56-63 days, and a good outdoor season can push up to 1000g per plant. The stone is fast, physical, and long, and the munchies turn up without an invitation.

Romulan is named after the Star Trek species and honestly earns it, with reddish-purple sugar leaves jutting out of tapered flowers that come to a sharp point. She's 75% indica, 24% THC, 50-60 days of flowering. Watch out for the indoor return, though: roughly 300g/m² is modest next to Gorila and Purple Urkle, so if weight is your priority she belongs outdoors, where she does about 500g per plant.

Watermelon Zkittlez is the terpene project of the bunch, a 50/50 hybrid from Watermelon Zum Zum #3 and OG Eddy that does 400g/m² indoors over 60 days and 750-1000g per plant outside. Worth knowing that other breeders cut the same cross differently: Watermelon Zkittlez from Barney's Farm chases maximum weight, while the Pure Instinto version is a small-batch take on the same watermelon genetics. Pyramid Seeds went for flavour, and a vaporiser gets more out of those sweet, fruity notes than a joint does. Double OG Haze rounds things off, an indica-dominant, high-THC bruiser for nights when you want to sink into the sofa and disconnect.

Which Pyramid Seeds Pack Should You Actually Buy?

The range splits cleanly into autos and photoperiod feminised, and that split should decide for you before flavour does. Short version:

• Small tent, quick turnaround: Auto Blue Pyramid. Compact, done in 60-67 days, and the yield is silly for the height.
• First ever grow: Auto Tutankhamon. Trouble-free, tall but manageable, and 20% THC that won't wipe you out.
• Sunny balcony or garden with time until September: Purple Urkle or Gorila, both capable of 750-1000g per plant outdoors.
• Highest THC on the shelf: Gorila at 25%, with Auto Blue Pyramid and Romulan just behind at 24%.
• Flavour first: Watermelon Zkittlez, or Auto Ramses for the citrus-and-spice Haze route.

What growers tell us about Pyramid Seeds

The feedback we get on this brand is consistent in a boring, useful way: strong germination, plants that all come up looking like siblings rather than a lottery, and yields that land in the range the breeder claims. Reviews cluster around the autos, mostly because people are surprised by the weight. The honest counterpoint is that these are big feeders in flower, and growers who run them lean on nutrients sometimes report smaller, lighter buds than the numbers above. Feed them properly and the specs hold up.

How Your Seeds Are Packed and How to Wake Them Up

Every pack here arrives in the breeder's own sealed packaging, and the whole order goes out in plain, unmarked outer packaging with fast and discreet UK delivery. Nothing on the outside says weed, seeds, or Spain. If you're not planting straight away, keep the pack sealed in a cool, dark, dry spot, a drawer away from the radiator or a sealed jar in the fridge both work. Heat and damp are what kill viability, not age.

For germination, the paper towel method is still the one we'd use: damp kitchen roll on a plate, a second plate on top, somewhere dark at roughly 20-25C, and check daily so the towel never dries out. Taproots usually show inside two to four days, and you plant them tip down about a centimetre into moist soil. Go easy on the water for the first week, drowning seedlings is the single most common way a new grower loses a pack.

If you're picking one pack to see what this Spanish breeder is about, we'd take Auto Blue Pyramid for an indoor tent and Purple Urkle for outdoors, in that order. Browse the rest of our cannabis seed range if you want to line these up against other breeders before you commit.