Buddha Seeds: Spanish Autos, from Dwarf-Sized to Magnum

Search "Buddha Seeds" and half the results hand you Cheese strains from Big Buddha Seeds, which is a completely different bank. This shelf is Buddha Seeds, the Spanish breeders behind White Dwarf, Deimos Auto and Magnum, and there's no Cheese lineage anywhere in it. Ten strains live here, most of them autoflowering. If you want the long menu instead, the full cannabis seeds catalogue sits one level up.

Small autos, big autos, and working out which one you need

The Dwarf line and friends: plants you can hide

White Dwarf came from crossing two indicas. She stays small, grows fast, and she's tough enough that a first-timer can get away with a few mistakes. Red Dwarf Auto is White Dwarf crossed with a strong Skunk and then backcrossed, so you get the same compact frame with a louder smell and flavour, ready in about two months from seed. Deimos Auto carries Northern Lights genetics and stops at 70-80cm; through flowering she puts out a sweet, herbal smell that a small room won't swallow on its own, so budget for a carbon filter. Syrup Auto turns out sweet buds in around 60 days, and Purple Kush Auto brings the Purple Kush side of the family into an auto.

Magnum and the Assorted Auto pack, for when small isn't the point

Magnum is Buddha's big-calibre auto, a three-way cross of high-production parents that gets the job done in roughly 75 days from seed. Indoors, keep the pots on the small side to rein her in, or she'll eat the whole tent. Assorted Auto is 10 feminized autos in one strip: one each of White Dwarf, Red Dwarf, Deimos and Syrup, plus 6 unmarked seeds from future or experimental Buddha crosses. Watch out for that unmarked half, there's no strain ID on the strip at all, so you won't know what you're growing until it shows itself. Total growing time across the pack runs from 50-55 days up to 80-85. If you'd rather know exactly what's in the pot, get a straight pack of White Dwarf instead.

Where the CBD sits, and how this lot handles a British summer

Morpheus, Medikit and Medikit Auto on paper

Morpheus is the photoperiod with a 1:1 balance at around 10% CBD, flowering in about 65 days indoors. The smoke tastes of citrus, sweetness and earth, and the buds go dark green to nearly black under a heavy frost of white trichomes. Medikit is photoperiod too, 75 days of flowering, THC under 1%, up to 480g/m² indoors, with lemon, orange and mango up front and a bit of pine underneath. Medikit Auto runs that same flavour on a 75-day seed-to-harvest clock, some phenos going past 20% CBD, at 450-480g/m² indoors or around 80g/plant outside. Set against the rest of our CBD-rich seeds, these three are the Spanish version of the idea: sticky resin, sharp citrus.

Outdoors up here, timing decides the harvest

Morpheus and Medikit both come in during early October in the northern hemisphere, and both can reach 1000-1500g/plant on a big plant in good conditions. That's a long season to ask of British weather, so a greenhouse or a sunny south-facing wall does a lot of the work for you. The autos are the safer bet in the UK: start them in late spring, pull them mid-summer, and get a second run going before the autumn damp sets in. Indoors, the autos want 18 hours of light a day from seed to chop.

Our pick: White Dwarf if it's your first grow and you want a plant that forgives you, Magnum if the tent's already dialled in and you're chasing weight, Morpheus if the 1:1 ratio is the whole reason you're here.