Growing marijuana in a tent is a great way to grow your own weed, especially if you’re just getting started or don’t have much room. The confined size of the grow tent makes it easy to control the temperature and humidity, which are both key factors when growing cannabis. In this article, we’ll look at some of our favorite strains that thrive under these conditions and help guide you through the process of setting up your own tent-grown operation!
Top 10 Weed Strains to Grow in a Tent
- American Dream
- Big Bud Feminized
- Haze Auto
- Jack Herer Autoflower
- Maple Leaf
- Northern Lights Autoflower
- Power Plant
- Skunk Automatic
- Super Skunk Autoflower
- Skunk x Northern Lights Fast Version
American Dream

American Dream is a small and compact indica-dominant cannabis strain, perfect for tent growing. Despite its size and shape, you can expect good yields at around 16 to 20 ounces per square meter indoors.
This marijuana strain flowers early at just week 7 or 8 after germination. It will grow buds with 13 to 18 percent THC with unmistakable herbal, woodsy, skunky and pungent flavors. Because of its average THC, you can count on the American Dream to keep you relaxed, creative, focused, and euphoric. It is also a good strain that will deal with all kinds of pain, inflammation, depression, stress, and insomnia.
Big Bud Feminized

Big Bud feminized cannabis strain is an indica-dominant strain with an average height at 150 cm, a manageable size for tent growing. But this strain’s size is just one of its amazing characteristics. It also yields high up to 600 grams/square meter indoors and up to 700 grams/plant.
Big Bud stays true to its promise of large and dense buds, and it flowers early too at just 8 weeks. You’ll enjoy buds with 18 percent THC plus flavors like pepper, sweet, grape, spicy and earthy tones. Big Bud is a euphoric, happy, relaxed, and hungry strain that is effective for anxiety, depression, stress, pain, and insomnia.
Haze Auto

Haze autoflower is a balanced hybrid marijuana strain that’s perfect for tent growing because of its small and compact size. This very flavorful strain grows only 90 cm tall but can produce up to 500 grams/square meter indoors.
It can take time for Haze auto to flower at 12 to 14 weeks, but when it does, your growing area will smell like orange, honey, citrus, and sweet thanks to its dense buds. Haze is an energetic, euphoric, and uplifting strain that can fuel your creativity. Because of these awesome qualities, expect it to treat anxiety, arthritis, migraines, depression, inflammation, and stress.
Jack Herer Autoflower

Jack Herer Autoflower is a fantastic cannabis strain to cultivate indoors or inside a growing tent. It is a balanced hybrid with automatic genetics. It is a tiny plant growing only 40 to 90 cm tall but can produce up to 400 grams per square meter indoors.
Jack Herer is one of the most popular recreational and medicinal strains. It comes with a high THC at 20 percent, making it an energetic, relaxing, uplifting, euphoric strain. It is very effective in the treatment of anxiety, stress, depression, fatigue, migraines, as well as muscle spasms.
Maple Leaf

Maple Leaf is a pure indica cannabis strain that’s so small, even two or three plants can fit in a small growing tent. This strain is only 100 cm high but can produce up to 200 grams/square meter of usable yield indoors. It flowers fast in just 6 to 8 weeks after germination.
This hybrid produces deliciously-smelling buds with citrus, earthy, butter, and sweet flavors guaranteed to get you hooked. It has an average THC, which can make users aroused, relaxed, euphoric, tingly, and sleepy.
Northern Lights Autoflower

Northern Lights is a classic cannabis strain, and this is its automatic version. This strain is an indica-dominant strain that grows only 60 to 90 cm high but produces top yields up to 550 grams per square meter indoors. It flowers fast in just 8 to 10 weeks post-germination.
Northern Lights is the ancestor of most of the modern marijuana strains we know and love today. It comes with a high 22 percent THC and thus will give you a euphoric, happy, relaxed, and sleepy high. And aside from being a potent recreational strain, Northern Lights is also medicinal cannabis capable of treating conditions like anxiety, stress and depression, insomnia, mental or physical fatigue, and different kinds of pain.
Power Plant

Power Plant is a vigorous, high THC sativa dominant strain that grows very well indoors and inside growing tents. It is a small to average-sized plant at 90 to 100 cm tall but can give you up to 600 grams/square meter of yield indoors and up to 600 grams/plant when grown outdoors. You’ll get earthy, woody, spicy, pepper, and pungent-flavored buds as early as 8 to 10 weeks after germination.
Expect a euphoric, uplifted, creative, and talkative high with this strain. It is also useful as a medical strain that provides relief for inflammation, pain, anxiety, arthritis, stress, and migraines.
Skunk Automatic

Skunk Autoflower is a small but very potent strain that’s ready to give you good yields. Skunk auto is a balanced hybrid capable of producing 400 to 500 grams per square meter indoors and up to 100 grams per plant outdoors. It is best grown indoors or inside a growing tent because it is merely 88 to 100 cm high when mature.
Skunk automatic has low THC at 14 percent, and thus, it has a creative, energetic, happy, euphoric, and relaxing high. Many consumers use Skunk auto to deal with anxiety, stress, depression, arthritis, migraines, fatigue, and stress.
Super Skunk Autoflower

Super Skunk Autoflower is a very small plant, a balanced hybrid that’s great for a tent or closet growing. This hybrid strain is just 90 cm tall but will provide you 350 to 450 grams/square meter indoors and up to 500 grams/plant outdoors.
Super Skunk auto will form buds in 8 to 10 weeks. At this time, you will get dense buds with cheese, earthy, skunk, and sweet flavors. This euphoric, relaxing, and happy strain is your key to the relief of stress, anxiety, depression, inflammation, and pain.
Skunk x Northern Lights Fast Version

If you’re looking for a manageable plant with good yields, then Skunk x Northern Lights Fast Version is for you. This strain takes the best qualities of these two legendary strains to grow higher yields in a small tent or closet space.
Skunk x Northern Lights Fast Version grows up to 120 cm but will produce 400 to 500 grams of yield indoors. This strain flowers quickly a 6 to 8 weeks after germination. You’ll get very potent buds with earthy, pungent, pine, sweet, and skunk flavors.
This hybrid is your strain if you want to get creative, relaxed, focused, euphoric, sleepy, and uplifted. And because of its amazing qualities, it has been used as a therapeutic strain capable of dealing with anxiety, stress and depression, pain, muscle spasms, arthritis, and so many more.
Fast version strains like this one grow very fast and will flower early. This may be the strain you’re looking for if you’re new to cultivating cannabis.
If you’re looking for a new way to grow your cannabis, a tent is a great choice. They are easy to use and give you full control over the environment inside them. With these 10 strains, you can have an enjoyable experience growing marijuana in any type of tent.