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There is no single best CBD flower strain, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What there is: a handful of strains that consistently do what people want them to do, and a lot of variation in how well any given batch of those strains has been grown, dried and cured.
This is our honest read on the range we stock — what each one smells and tastes like, when it suits, and where the marketing gets ahead of reality.
Pick a strain in thirty seconds
If you want to skip the detail:
- Never tried CBD flower before? Start with Pineapple Express or Blueberry. Both are gentle on the nose and easy to like.
- Want the classic, earthy, old-school profile? OG Kush or Northern Lights.
- Using it in the evening? Northern Lights or Girl Scout Cookies.
- Using it during the day? Amnesia Haze, Super Lemon or Jack Herer — brighter, sharper, citrus-forward.
- Care most about flavour? Gelato 41, Zkittlez or Sherblato.
- On a budget? Outdoor OG Kush gives you the profile at a lower price, with looser buds. Cheaper still, if you are rolling or infusing rather than admiring: CBD shake.
The classics
OG Kush CBD Flower
The name most people recognise, and the one we sell most of. Earthy, piney, faintly fuel-like. Dense buds, and the aroma carries — this is not a discreet strain. If you have smoked cannabis before, OG Kush is the CBD flower that will smell most familiar.
Northern Lights CBD Flower
Sweet and slightly spicy, with tight, resinous buds. One of the oldest stabilised genetics in the business and it shows in how consistent it is batch to batch. Our pick for the end of the day.
White Widow CBD Flower
Named for the trichome coverage, and a decent batch genuinely does look frosted. Earthy with a sweetness underneath. If you want to see what good trichome coverage looks like, this is the strain to look at.
AK-47 CBD Flower
Complicated in a good way — earthy, floral and sweet all at once, which is unusual. A multi-award winner in its original form and a sensible choice if the sweeter strains are getting boring.
Jack Herer CBD Flower
Peppery, piney, with a lift to it. Named after the American activist. Sativa-leaning genetics, so it sits in the daytime column.
Gorilla Glue (GG4) CBD Flower
Sticky, pungent, heavy on the caryophyllene. Not subtle. Buds are usually dense and it grinds up slowly because of the resin content.
Fruit-forward
Zkittlez CBD Flower
Grape and berry, sweet enough that people who dislike the classic cannabis smell often get on with it. One of the better-selling strains in the UK market generally, not just for us.
Blueberry CBD Flower
Been around since the 1970s and still holds up. Genuinely berry-ish rather than vaguely sweet. We wrote about what actually produces that blueberry note — it is not what most people assume.
Pineapple Express CBD Flower
Bright and tropical. The easiest strain on this list to hand to somebody who has never tried CBD flower.
Strawberry Kush CBD Flower
Sweet strawberry over a kush base, so it does not tip into sickly. Good middle ground between the fruit and classic camps.
Grapefruit CBD Flower
Sharp citrus, limonene-heavy. Cuts through in a way the softer fruit strains do not.
Dessert and modern genetics
Gelato 41 CBD Flower
The most in-demand modern profile on the menu. Sweet, creamy, often with purple in the bud. Worth knowing that purple colouring comes from anthocyanins and tells you nothing about potency, whatever the photos suggest.
Girl Scout Cookies (GSC) CBD Flower
Sweet, earthy, with a mint edge. Dense buds and a strong terpene profile. Crossed over from the US market years ago and has not lost ground since.
Sherblato CBD Flower
Sherbet crossed with Gelato. Creamy citrus. One for people who already know they like the dessert end.
Daytime and citrus
Amnesia Haze CBD Flower
Citrus-forward and lively. A haze profile without the length of flowering time that made the originals a nightmare to grow. Our most-requested daytime strain.
Super Lemon CBD Flower
Exactly what it says. Sharp lemon, high limonene, no ambiguity about it.
What "best" actually means, and why the percentage is not it
Most people shop CBD flower by the number on the label. It is the least useful thing on there.
A 21% strain is not meaningfully "better" than an 18% one. What separates a good batch from a mediocre one is how it was dried and cured, how intact the trichomes are, how much moisture is left in the bud, and how much of the terpene content survived. A badly handled 22% flower will smell of hay and taste of nothing. A well-handled 15% flower will smell like the strain is supposed to smell.
We go into this properly in what CBD percentage really means. The short version: use the percentage to compare like with like, and use your nose for everything else.
One more tell worth knowing when comparing sellers: round figures like 15%, 20% and 35% are marketing decisions. Decimals — 22.23%, 32.7% — are numbers read off an actual certificate.
Indoor, glasshouse or outdoor
Growing environment affects appearance and aroma more than most buyers realise. Indoor flower is denser, more uniform and more aromatic, and costs more because it costs more to produce. Glasshouse sits in the middle. Outdoor is looser, often larger, and cheaper — our Outdoor OG Kush is a fair example of what you get and what you give up.
Full breakdown in how CBD flower is grown.
Will it smell?
Yes, and identically to cannabis — which surprises people who assume the smell has something to do with THC. It does not. Cannabinoids are heavy, essentially non-volatile molecules that never reach your nose. What you are smelling is terpenes and a family of volatile sulphur compounds, and hemp produces exactly the same ones.
Some strains are considerably louder than others. Gorilla Glue and OG Kush are pungent; the fruit-forward end reads as sweet rather than skunky to most noses. Full chemistry, and what it means practically, in does CBD flower or hash smell like cannabis.
How to judge a batch when it arrives
- Smell it first. It should smell of something specific. Hay, grass or nothing at all means the terpenes have gone.
- Look at the colour. Green, with visible trichome frost. Brown or khaki means age or heat damage.
- Check the feel. It should have some give and snap slightly at the stem. Crumbling to dust means it is too dry; spongy means too wet, and too wet is how you get mould.
- Look at what you are paying for. Stems and large fan leaves are weight you did not want.
- Ask for the batch report. Not a generic site-wide one — the one matching your batch.
More on this in how to tell whether flower has gone over and how to store it once it arrives. If you are choosing between suppliers rather than strains, how to choose a CBD flower shop in the UK sets out twelve checks worth making — including several that most UK sellers fail.
A note on UK law
The legal position on hemp flower in the UK is more complicated than most retail copy admits, and it is worth understanding before you buy anything from anyone.
Under section 37(1) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, "cannabis" is defined by plant genus and plant part — mature stalk, fibre from mature stalk, and seed are excluded, and no THC percentage appears anywhere in the definition. The 0.2% figure that gets quoted everywhere comes from Home Office industrial hemp cultivation licensing, and applies to approved seed varieties grown under licence — not to finished consumer products. The Home Office guidance is explicit that a hemp licence "only allows for the industrial use of the seed and fibre" and "does not allow for the use of the flowers or leaves".
So: this is a grey area, enforcement is inconsistent, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We are also not lawyers, and none of this is legal advice. If the legal position matters to your circumstances, take proper advice. Our fuller write-up is here.
What we can tell you about our own stock: every batch is third-party tested, and the reports are available on request against your batch number.
Browse the full CBD flower range, or if you would rather have resin than bud, the CBD hash collection is here — and our field guide to every type of hash explains what all those names actually mean.
