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Comparison

Blue Dream vs Northern Lights

These sit at opposite ends: Northern Lights is an Afghani × Thai indica that users call sleepy and relaxed, while Blue Dream is a sativa-dominant hybrid known as creative and happy. Their lab-tested THC is similar: 19.96% median for Blue Dream, 20.03% for Northern Lights.1,2,3

Side by side

Blue DreamNorthern Lights
TypeSativa-dominant hybrid2Indica1
LineageDJ Short's Blueberry × Haze4Afghani × Thai1
Median THC (state lab tests)19.96% (2,118 tests)20.03% (406 tests)
Middle half of THC results17.62%–22.37%17.28%–22.05%
Top terpenes (median)β-Myrcene, α-Pinene, β-Caryophyllene (483 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (15 tests)
Leafly's top effectsCreative, euphoric, happy2Sleepy, relaxed, hungry1
FloweringAbout 67 days (Leafly average)27–9 weeks1

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.3

Lab-tested THC: Blue Dream vs Northern Lights

16% 18% 20% 22% 24% Northern Lights Northern Lights: median 20.03%, middle half 17.28%–22.05%, 406 tests 20.0% n=406 Blue Dream Blue Dream: median 19.96%, middle half 17.62%–22.37%, 2,118 tests 20.0% n=2,118 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Where Northern Lights comes from

Leafly traces Northern Lights to the Seattle area and its propagation in the Netherlands after 1985 by the company that became Sensi Seeds. It has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at northernlightsstrain.com.1

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Northern Lights strain information. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Blue Dream strain information. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  4. Leafly, The origin of Blue Dream, the Santa Cruz strain. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.