Most successful cannabis growers prefer to grow their plants using hydroponics. Because roots are submerged in nutrient-rich water, growing in hydroponics can guarantee healthy plants, good growth, and great yields. But not all cannabis strains can grow in hydroponics. Some strains can adapt well to the soil but will fail miserably when cultivated in hydro. So let us help you find the best hydroponic weed strains; check out our top ten hydro strains list.
10 Best Weed Strains for Hydroponics Growers
- Blue Dream
- Bubba Kush
- Fire OG
- Girl Scout Cookies
- Green Crack
- Jack Herer
- OG Kush
- SFV OG
- Skywalker OG
- Sour Diesel
Blue Dream
Blue Dream is an indica-dominant cannabis strain with a very high THC. It’s a good beginner strain capable of growing in almost all environments, especially in hydroponics. It grows to an average plant around 150 cm tall and will produce amazing yields up to 700 grams per plant outdoors and 600 grams per square meter indoors.
This strain flowers early around 8 to 10 weeks, and it will produce buds with blueberry, earthy, berry, sweet, and tropical flavors. It’s a strain for anxiety, depression, and stress as this can naturally provide sedating, focused, uplifting and energetic effects.
Bubba Kush
Bubba Kush marijuana strain is an indica-dominant cannabis strain that’s capable of producing heavy yields. This is a small plant growing only 80 cm high but is capable of producing from 500 to 600 grams per square meter in an indoor setup or from 600 to 800 grams per plant outdoors.
It can survive almost all growing environments, including greenhouse and an indoor hydroponic system. And in just 8 to 10 weeks, you’ll have lovely dense buds with delicious coffee, pine, sweet, earthy, and spicy flavors.
Bubba Kush has euphoric, relaxing, and sedating effects perfect for the relief of conditions like insomnia, stress, inflammation, depression, arthritis, and many more.
Fire OG
Fire OG is an indica-dominant cannabis strain that’s known for its high yields despite its small size. This strain grows only 70 to 100 cm tall and thus can grow even in small stealth growing environment but can produce good yields. This strain can produce up to 600 grams per plan to outdoors and up to 500 grams per square meter indoors.
Fire OG will put fire in your loins as it comes with 23% THC. It is a strain with a creative, energetic, focused, sleepy, and relaxing effect. Because of this, you can use it to relieve migraines, stress, anxiety, fatigue, depression, insomnia, and inflammation.
Girl Scout Cookies
Another impressive strain that can grow easily in hydroponics is Girl Scout Cookies. This classic strain is an indica-dominant cannabis strain known for its high 24% THC. It grows to a feasible height of 100 to 180 cm, which makes a good candidate for indoor growing and hydroponics growing.
This strain can produce up to 500 grams per square meter indoors and from 400 to 500 grams per plant outdoors. You’ll love GSC’s amazing flavors like lemon, sweet, vanilla, spicy, and sweet. GSC is a calming, sedative, relaxing, creative, euphoric, and uplifting effects and can be used to deal with arthritis, migraines, depression, stress, and anxiety.
Green Crack

Green Crack is a sativa-dominant cannabis strain with high THC and faster flowering times. It is a potent plant but grows small from 60 to 80 cm high. Despite its height, you can get as much as 650 grams per square meter indoors and around 800 grams per plant outdoors.
Flowering takes place quickly with Green Crack as early as 8 weeks. It grows well indoors and in greenhouses in soil or a hydroponics system. Green Crack buds smell lemon, tropical, earthy, sweet, and citrusy. Its effects can be energetic, happy, relaxed, uplifted, and creative. It is also a prized therapeutic strain that can help stop conditions like stress, migraines, fatigue, depression, and anxiety.
Jack Herer
Jack Herer is a high-THC, heavy-yielding strain. This sativa-dominant strain is an average-sized plant growing up to 200 cm tall with good yields up to 500 grams per square meter indoors and up to 500 grams per plant outdoors. It’s a perfect strain to cultivate in hydroponics indoors.
Jack Herer comes with 22% THC, and with this potency, you can expect an uplifting, happy, relaxing, euphoric, focused, calming, and energetic effects. It is a strain for the relief of medical conditions, including depression, arthritis, inflammation, stress, fatigue, and migraines.
Jack Herer is a hardy strain ideal for growing indoors or inside a greenhouse. You’ll also love its spicy, tropical, pine, pepper, sweet and earthy flavors.
OG Kush
OG Kush marijuana strain is a classic indica-dominant cannabis strain. It is easy to grow and is perfect for indoor or hydroponic growing setup. OG Kush grows from a small 90 cm tall plant up to 160 cm, still a good candidate for indoor growing. These plants will flower early in just 8 weeks and produce up to 450 grams per plant outdoors and up to 500 grams per square meter indoors.
And given the right growing environment, you can expect large, dense buds with earthy, lemony, spicy, and woodsy flavors. These buds come with calming, energetic, hungry, relaxed, sleepy, happy, and euphoric effects that are perfect for the relief of insomnia, migraines, depression, arthritis, and anxiety.
SFV OG
San Fernando Valley OG is an indica-dominant cannabis strain known for its high 22% THC. This strain grows small to an average height but can produce good yields from 300 to 350 grams per square meter indoors.
SFV OG flowers early in just 8 weeks after germination. Because of its many impressive qualities, it is a good strain to grow indoors and in a hydroponic system. Expect buds with zesty lemon and lime, tropical, skunk, and sweet flavors when mature. This strain has a happy, relaxed, and uplifting effect that is perfect for the treatment of anxiety, migraines, arthritis, depression, and stress.
Skywalker OG
Skywalker OG is an indica-dominant cannabis strain with a high THC content at 26%. It is a relaxing strain that will make you sedated and sleepy. It is commonly used in the evening to cap a busy day and to deal with conditions like poor appetite, anxiety, and depression.
This hybrid is one of the easiest to grow, especially in a hydroponic setup. You can expect this strain to bloom in just 7 to 9 weeks with high yields. Hydro growers will enjoy its good yields and easy-going nature.
Sour Diesel
Sour Diesel is a lovely sativa-dominant cannabis strain that can produce good yields despite growing up to 150 cm tall. Enjoy a productive hydroponic growing setup with up to 700 grams per plant outdoors and up to 500 grams per square meter indoors.
Sour Diesel is not just known for its growing prowess and its creative, energetic, and focused high but also it’s very potent pungent, skunk, diesel, and citrus flavor. This very potent odor can be easily detected by anyone, and thus, growers must do all they can to mask or remove this very powerful scent.
Sour Diesel Marijuana strain also works as a strain for stress, anxiety, arthritis, depression, inflammation, lack of appetite, and migraines.
There you have it. Ten of the best hydroponic weed strains. Choose any of these strains and get the best results and wonderful yields even if you’re new to hydro growing.