Kick 2025 off right with these picks.

The new year is the perfect time to branch out and try something new, and we aren’t just talking about some overly ambitious resolutions. We’ve assembled a list of fantastic brands and products from around the cannabis universe to help you explore what the plant has to offer and make 2025 a banner year. These products can be shipped straight to your door, so save yourself the mid-winter trek to the dispensary and stay warm, dry, and high with these picks.

Kind Oasis

The pride of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kind Oasis is a family-run hemp brand that aims to nurture their customers’ minds, bodies, and spirits. They offer top-quality hemp-derived THC and CBD-infused edibles that are specifically designed to increase wellness and help you relax. They take special care to source their ingredients from vetted suppliers, to ensure that only the best of the earth’s bounty reach their customer’s hands.

2025 pick: Infused chocolate peanut butter cups

Kind Oasis has found a way to improve the all-time classic combo of chocolate and peanut butter by adding 25mg of hemp delta-9 THC to the mix. These delicious bites are available in either milk or dark chocolate varieties, but whatever your persuasion, you’ll find that Kind Oasis’ ethically sourced chocolate rivals what you’ll find at the local chocolatiers. The sweet, hand-crafted bites are the ideal before-bed treat or reward for a long, hard day, and with eight pieces per pack, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to experiment. Click the link below to order your infused chocolate peanut butter cups from Kind Oasis now, and start having a kinder year.

Canna River 

Canna River is a laid-back brand, a family operation that values life’s little moments and wants to bring America hemp products that help us all chill out a little. They focus on hemp delta-8, HHC, and CBD products with gummies, tinctures, and vapes all represented on their store shelves. While the attitude at Canna River may be relaxed, don’t think that the team behind Canna River is anything but dedicated. Not only do they take pride in their sustainable, transparent production, but they’ve also partnered with theGoodAPI to plant one tree for every order, so you can help to ensure the health of our environment while receiving excellent hemp. What’s not to love?

2025 pick: Delta-8 disposable vape

Canna River’s disposable delta-8 vapes are potent, delicious, and delightfully smooth. Each disposable is loaded with a massive 2g of Canna River’s USA-grown, non-GMO delta-8 extract and botanically derived terpenes to ensure a top-shelf experience with every puff. Each batch is rigorously tested for pesticides, heavy metals, and microbes, so you can rest assured that Canna River has your back. You can find these vapes in a wide variety of strains, with favorites like Purple Kush, Green Crack, and Wedding Cake available. Find your favorite strain or try a new favorite, but either way, the Canna River will get you there. 

Plain Jane

If you’re a fan of flower, then we’d like to introduce you to Plain Jane. This Oregon-based outfit specializes in CBD-rich hemp flower, but they also offer topicals, edibles, and even some hemp-based treats for your pets. Plain Jane is so confident in their products that they offer a satisfaction guarantee, so if you’re not 100% happy with your purchase, let the team at Plain Jane know and they’ll do their utmost to make things right. 

2025 pick: Indoor pre-roll joint 6-pack

The peak of hemp pre-roll flavor, style, and convenience, Plain Jane’s six-pack of premium CBD pre-rolls is just the relaxation aid you need to unwind after the hectic holiday season. Each pack contains six .5g pre-rolls that are packed with Plain Jane’s indoor-grown, freshly ground CBD flower and professionally rolled for a stellar smoking experience. Plain Jane pre-rolls are packaged in sleek and durable tin cases to keep your pre-rolls pristine while looking good on your Instagram reel. Order yours from a selection of top strains like Jelly Doughnut and Strawberry Cough today, then watch your worries go up in smoke. 

MCRO

MCRO is an innovative edibles brand that prides itself on bringing the power of hemp to the people. They offer a lineup of gummies painstakingly crafted to induce certain effects by blending microdoses of hemp delta-9 THC and functional mushroom blends. This alchemy produces targeted, tailored effects to match and enhance your vibe, no matter what that vibe might be. 

2025 pick: Calm Down Microdose gummies

The Calm Down gummies from MCRO feature a proprietary blend of mushrooms and 5mg of hemp delta-9 THC that helps you tell your anxiety to f*ck off, just as the front of the package aptly states. Each pack contains either 10 or 20 pineapple peach gummies, enough to take a lengthy vacation from your troubles and experience a gentle euphoria that never crosses into a “stoney” feeling. Order yours now and put your anxiety on notice. 

Zen Cannabis

One of the most forward-thinking brands in the cannabis space, Zen Cannabis is a team of industry veterans, innovators, and tastemakers with style and substance in equal measure. When they aren’t flexing on lesser brands by setting world records for cooking up the biggest, most potent edible in history, they’re making gummies, chocolates, and drinks that are nano-infused for lightning-fast onset times. Zen Cannabis is only available in select states for now, but even if they aren’t there yet, Zen will be coming to your neck of the woods soon. 

For hemp-legal states, consumers can purchase Zen CBD+ NiteNite gummies online at iwantzen.com

2025 pick: NiteNite gummies

Millions of Americans resolved to get better sleep in 2025, and if you’re one of them, then Zen Cannabis is here to lend a hand. Their grape-flavored NiteNite gummies gently lull you to sleep and still your running mind, and they are a tasty before-bed snack to boot. Each nano-infused bite contains 5mg of THC, 20mg of CBD, and 2.5mg of Melatonin, a potent mix that’ll help you get to sleep and stay asleep all night long. Don’t wait to start sleeping better—stop by your local dispensary and find your Zen. 

Galaxy Treats

Galaxy Treats makes gummies for eager explorers of the cosmos who are interested in blasting off and seeing the true power of hemp THC. Their gummies are more potent than most others you’ll find, making them a favorite of experienced consumers who are looking for a brand that can match their tolerance. Galaxy Treats gummies are made in the USA and third-party tested to ensure quality, meaning they’re as reliable as they are potent, and as legions of satisfied customers will attest, these gummies are plenty potent.

2025 pick: Strawberry Moon Babies delta-8 gummies

Strap in, these gummies will send you twice round the moon and back again. Galaxy Treats delta-8 Moon Babies are filled with 25mg of high-octane delta-8 THC, more than double the amount found in most other gummies. These gummies are designed to enhance your mood and uplift your mind, but leave you feeling refreshed when you return to Earth. Each jar contains 20 flavorful strawberry gummies that will help you blast off to enjoy a night of gaming, creating, or socializing with your squad. Order now to start exploring the universe—no space suit required. 

With edibles, vapes, and pre-rolls like this, the New Year is looking even brighter. Happy New Year from all the brands on this list and us here at Leafly, we hope that you have a wonderful 2025. 

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Crazy, exotic candy flavors. Dramatic, blingy looks. Knockout effects.

The next hot cannabis strains of the culture stand ready for your taste buds.

Every January, the Leafly Buzz flower column widens its lens from the West Coast to predict the next winners across the US for the new year.

Leafly Buzz’s 12 hot strains to smoke in 2025 collects the all-stars of the garden and the bag. They’re refinements and remixes of our favorite hit strain families like Z, Sherbert, OG Kush, Cookies, Runtz, and more.

Candy gas? Of course. Smells of Jello? Yes, please. Hints of newly upholstered vinyl? We’re game. So let’s get to it.

Zoap

Zoap keeps winning with smokers and budtenders alike thanks to its (OG Kush x Z) x Sherbert roots. First reviewed in 2021, people get giggly, relaxed, and hungry with this indica hybrid bred by Deo Farms. The best bags add that chemical lye note to rainbow sherbert flavors including apricot and apple. Growers like Doja, Lumpy’s, and Alien Labs sell it in the California market. Zoap seems to have escaped into the wild and made its way as far as the Mississippi medical market. Will 2025 see the Zoap wave fully crest? Only the sales and awards will tell.

Cap Junky

Guaranteed to flatten you, Cap Junky keeps charging into 2025 thanks to the powerhouse breeders behind it: Capulator and Seed Junky Genetics. Cap Junky marries each breeder’s champion: Alien Cookies x Kush Mints #11. Completely sleeted with resin, its effects hit hybrid, and strong, “right between the eyes, deep in the head,” reviews say. The smell defies expectations—with some reporting mango yogurt and others tasting apricot, apple, and mint.

Gello Shotz

As we enter deeper into 2025 on our eternal quest for the heat, Gello Shotz from Seed Junky Genetics must appear on the radar of anyone who loves terps. The wild pedigree pairs a cross of Z and Animal Cookies Bx2 with the same strain crossed to Leafly Strain of the Year 2023 Permanent Marker. Across the lineage, you see a trio of strains that have left their mark on history. Original Z is arguably the most legendary hash strain of all time. Animal Cookies was the highest-impact dessert weed at the peak of the wave. And Permanent Marker is here to stay! The best-case expression for Gello Shotz offers a bit of the Z terp with the impact of Permanent Marker. —Jimi Devine

Blue Nerds

Lemon Cherry Gelato stays undefeated, but an update comes in the form of the surging strain Blue Nerds. The breeder Global Genetics mixed LCG with the Original Z for this hit hybrid, which emits apple, blueberry and apricot notes. Different growers at different times seemed to have settled on this name, but whatever the cross, a Blue Nerds wave keeps building.

Candy Fumez

Bloom Seed Co’s Candy Fumez sizzles in the genetic hype zone of Z x Sherbanger. New in the database since 2023, this berry, blueberry, chemical-smelling hybrid indica leaves folks focused, creative, and happy. Grown to elite levels by Green Dawg in California. See also: Sherbanger.

Dante’s Inferno

Embrace your dank side. Super-dramatic, dark icy weed wins in this hard charger—Dante’s Inferno, a cross of Oreoz x Devil Driver. Step out of the candy aisle, this hybrid indica offers ammonia, pepper, and tea notes. Reviewers first scored Dante’s Inferno in 2022, and it comes from Clearwater Genetics and Tiki Madman.

Cadillac Rainbow

Michigan throttles into the pole position with this cross of Pure Michigan x Runtz. Cadillac Rainbow from 3rd Coast Genetics offers a counterpoint to the “candy-gas” craze with weed that smells like re-stored vinyl upholstery (diesel, ammonia, and earthy.) Cadillac Rainbow hits like an indica hybrid Escalade.

Glitter Bomb

Compound Genetics’ 2022 cross of Grape Gas #10 x OGKB Blueberry Headband keeps surging to new heights nationally. It grows great indoors, in greenhouses, and outside, with crazy size and bling. Nothing can stop Grape Gas on its own, or in other strains including GastroPop and Blueberry Caviar (below). The indica hybrid offers notes of pear, plum, and blueberry and will leave you tingly, giggly, and relaxed.

Pink Lemonade

Over on the East Coast and in Canada, Pink Lemonade by 34 Street Seed Co follows the trend of more sativa-leaning hash strains. The genetics: Pink Kush x Lemon Skunk, and while those seem old hat in the world of high yields and modern flavors, the dense and resinous nugs keep up with the times. The flavor dances on the palate and waxes nostalgic for pink lemonade Crystal Light powder, and the mouth-coating taste hits no matter how you smoke it. These highly stimulating, cerebral variety flowers in only 8 weeks, and grows well indoors and outdoors, and we think Alberta has positioned growers for fruitful harvests. —Max Blick

Moroccan Peaches

A peach ring candy wave arrives! Created by California’s Purple City Genetics for a hash collection, Moroccan Peaches expresses big, jammy peach preserves with secondary notes of orange and fuel. Moroccan Peaches marries the original peach that blasted off in Spain, Barbara Bud, with some Lemon Tree Skorange (combining old-school California classics, Lemon Tree, Cali-O, and OG Kush.) The hash masters at Arcata Fire took home multiple awards for Moroccan Peaches rosin at the 2024 Emerald Cup. Purple City Genetics crossed two versions of its Barbara Bud—Spanish Barbara and Peaches—to create a bunch of other fruity bangers to hunt in 2025, including Peach Panther and Marrakech. —Ellen Holland

John Connor

Light it up if you want to live. John Connor from Team Elite Genetics in California offers an outstanding smoke—worthy of these strange times. The new flavor first hit California shelves in January 2025. It’s an underdog, a dark horse if you will. And it’s the perfect cultivar to accompany 2025’s other horsemen of the apocalypse. If your world is aflame, you might as well smoke the best weed possible. Its seductively layered flavor profile showcases sour, petrol, with hints of coffee and sweet cream. As a potent indica, John Connor’s effects tranquilize and comfort. It encapsulates the best of its parent cultivars: Team Elite’s award-winning Styrofoam Cup #2 and Sh3rb3t. Its purple, light green, and white trichome-covered nugs smell respectably loud. You’ll need John Connor to survive this year. —Lindsey Bartlett

Blueberry Caviar

Rounding out our dozen: Blueberry Caviar bred by California’s winningest grower Ridgeline Farms for weed mogul Berner’s Cookies brand. Blueberry Caviar satisfies the toughest critics. It’s extremely purple, large, glittering, and roaring loud—which is how you get to the winner’s circle in today’s flavor chase. The dank blueberry aroma lunges out of the bag and translates to a lovely, indelible taste, with chill indica hybrid effects that never agitate. Ridgeline’s Jason calls it “my new favorite,” and if you can find a bag this year—it may become yours as well.

We must stop at 12, but we know even more greatness will surprise us amid ganja’s golden age.

Here are a few more strains to watch in 2025. Plus—submit your own below:

Everything you need for your growing journey, all in one place.

ILGM, aka I Love Growing Marijuana, are reintroducing themselves. They’ve been one of the leading sources for cannabis seeds and expert growing knowledge for years, but the team at ILGM just isn’t the type to rest on their laurels. They’ve been working hard—and they have a newly refined, streamlined seed shopping experience to show for it. Oh, and did we mention their brand-new, dripped-out look?    

The new ILGM is a veritable treasure trove of expert knowledge that’ll help you find everything you need to help your seeds take root and grow strong.

Don’t get it twisted though, ILGM’s new vibe is way more than just a fresh coat of paint. It’s an entire reconceptualization of what an online home for cannabis growers should look like. The new ILGM is a veritable treasure trove of expert knowledge that’ll help you find everything you need to help your seeds take root and grow strong. Their commitment to helping newcomers embrace the craft of growing has never been more secure, and with their new look, more people than ever before can learn to love growing marijuana.

We were lucky enough to catch up with some of the visionaries guiding ILGM’s transformation, and we’ve got all the details on how they’re making ILGM the definitive home of the growers.

More than a seed bank

2025 is set to be the year of the home grower, if ILGM’s new CEO Ernst Rustenhoven has anything to say about it. When he took the reigns of ILGM early last year, he came up with a plan to transform ILGM into a sleek, dynamic operation that better serves consumer needs.

“The cannabis industry is maturing, and so is the home-growing community. ILGM has been a pioneer in the online cannabis seed market for over a decade,” said Rustenhoven. “However, we realized we were not meeting changing consumer expectations and were stuck in the past.”

Holistic home-growing support for today’s grower

Rustenhoven and his expert team began to modernize ILGM by exploring what customers love about ILGM, and how they can do it even better. The home-growing community is larger than ever, but more isolated across different websites due to the social media terrain becoming more unfriendly to people looking to share photos, videos, and home-growing knowledge.

“We are increasingly focused on being a platform that connects people and parties: Offering premium genetics from top-notch breeders to home-grow connoisseurs, providing content and resources from expert growers to beginners, and fostering connections among home growers both online and offline. We are here to serve our community and grow with it,” said Rustenhoven.

The best of the past, infused into a bright future

If you’re one of ILGM’s many devoted customers and all this talk of change is getting you a little nervous, relax. The new leadership at ILGM knows that one of their greatest resources is the accumulated knowledge of their robust home-growing community.

“Ensuring that ILGM offers access to a vibrant community of people that want to share their cannabis cultivation journey, and connect with fellow home growers, is a significant part of our mission going forward.” said the CEO.

Rustenhoven and the team have taken incredible pains to keep the things that have earned ILGM their customer loyalty—like their famous germination guarantee, expert knowledge, and incredible deals—while jettisoning anything that wasn’t working. 

Ernst isn’t alone in his efforts, of course. He’s assembled a top-tier team of industry experts including growers, researchers, designers, and writers to overhaul ILGM and make it one of the very best resources for cannabis growers of all experience levels. The entire ILGM team is unified in their desire to revolutionize the ILGM experience and spread the joy of cannabis wider than ever before. 

A seed for every need

ILGM has been one of the foremost sources of cannabis seeds globally for years, and the new ILGM has no plans to change that fact. What they are changing is basically everything else—how easy it is to buy seeds, get the expert knowledge you need to set your seeds up for success, and learn about strain genetics.

Seeds straight from the source

Before, researching a specific seed you had an eye on often sent cultivators to several different sites, but at the new ILGM, growers will have all the information they need to make an informed decision about your grow in one spot.  

The word is transparency—ILGM believes in being completely upfront about where your seeds are coming from, their genetic pedigree, and the type of results you can expect from a setup that resembles your own. As the cannabis industry has matured and growers of all stripes have become increasingly discerning, these sorts of details are increasingly demanded by the growing public, and ILGM loves giving the people what they want. Anything you could think of asking about these strains, you’ll find.

Craft cultivars from top breeders

ILGM focuses on supporting the breeders behind the genetics and the cultivators who depend on them.

Randy Hansen

When the team at ILGM says that they are the home of the growers, they mean it. ILGM features a wide range of seeds from stellar American growers in addition to their ever-reliable in-house brand. You’ll be able to find seeds from high-quality growers like Speedrun Seeds and Green Bodhi on the storefront, with offerings from Happy Valley Genetics and Certified Seeds coming soon. ILGM does the vetting to make sure these seeds are up to snuff, ensuring that every seed in their store is worthy of your grow by partnering with brands who meet their rigorous standards.

The man at the head of ILGM’s seed selection operations is Randy Hansen, an industry veteran with a passion for making connections with master cultivators. As the point person for ILGM’s US seed partnerships, his keen eye for quality cannabis ensures that only the finest seeds make it to ILGM’s store.

“ILGM focuses on supporting the breeders behind the genetics and the cultivators who depend on them. We’re committed to elevating each breeder’s unique work, ensuring their genetics meet our high standards and that we, in turn, highlight the passion that goes into creating these craft cultivars,” said Hansen.

He and his team work diligently, examining terpene profiles, cannabinoid levels, and genetic stability to make ILGM’s seed selection one of the most robust and reliable in the industry. 

It takes a village

In ILGM’s opinion, growing cannabis should be accessible, easy, and fun for anyone who wants to try their hand. They’re using this rebrand as an opportunity to refocus their content towards making sure that anyone can find what they need to make their home grow successful.

Information for every experience level

ILGM’s new head of content, Robert Nijhout, is crafting an environment where knowledge flows freely and all growers feel supported. Said Nijhout: “We want to make sure that our grow guides are clear and user-friendly for people from all walks of life without leaving any information on the table or simplifying anything in favor of accuracy.” 

No matter if this is your first time trying out your green thumb or your thousandth, ILGM wants you to feel at home. With Nijhout at the helm of the content department, ILGM will publish expert, high-level content for home growers with experience, but they will also take special care to expand the home-growing community by welcoming in first-time growers.

“Starting out as a grower means facing a ton of questions—which strain to grow, where to set up, what soil or gear to use—it can feel overwhelming,” said Nijhout. “We get that because we’ve been there. That’s why we create content that answers those questions early, helping customers make informed choices from day one.”

One-on-one support

In addition to the incredible articles, grow guides, and videos outlining the art and science of cannabis cultivation that ILGM publishes now, they are almost ready to roll out a feature that will totally transform the online cannabis community.

Soon, ILGM customers will be able to set up direct one-on-one consultations with its in-house team of home grow success consultants,who can help diagnose and remedy ailments in even the most difficult of grows. These experts will be able to analyze your unique growing setup, taking into account things like climate and light conditions to troubleshoot your grow and get your plants back on track. This sort of personalized care just isn’t widely available to most growers, who will find ILGM to be an indispensable resource to increase yields and have more fun with their grow. 

The road ahead 

While the new and improved ILGM is certainly very impressive, the team behind the reimagining isn’t even close to being finished. They have big plans to launch heaps of new features over the coming year in addition to the upcoming personalized consultation feature, making it even less stressful and more enjoyable to grow cannabis.

“We believe these initiatives, which are just the tip of the iceberg, will not only strengthen our existing community but also attract new members to the home-growing movement,” said Rustenhoven.

AI-powered growing assistant

So, what does the team have in store? One of the first features that ILGM will be launching in the near future is the world’s first custom-built AI-powered growing assistant. This AI was developed in-house by the team at ILGM, who trained the bot on decades of expert growing knowledge accumulated on the ILGM website. This AI will be fully integrated into the ILGM website, providing helpful, easy-to-follow advice 24/7 so you’re never alone in facing a growing emergency. 

Culture-driven content

ILGM will also be delivering even more quality content in the year ahead. “In the coming period, we’re excited to create content that sets up our home growers for success,” said Nijhout. They’ll be producing community-driven stories to get the pulse of the culture, in-depth cultivation podcasts that get granular on how to maximize your yields, and Q&As with master growers seeking to share their knowledge.

Home Grow Tour

To top it all off, they’re taking the show on the road and going on tour. Leading up to 4/20, weed’s biggest day, ILGM will be launching their nationwide Home Grow Tour, a massive jamboree to celebrate the love and care that the home-growing community brings to their hobby.

The tour will feature events designed to bring growers together with product launches, influencer meetups, grow classes, and much, much more. The itinerary featuring the specifics will launch soon, so keep an eye out on social media to see if one of the biggest tours cannabis has ever seen will make it to your neck of the woods.

With all of these exciting changes, ILGM is poised to completely revolutionize the seed-buying experience for home growers all over America. But don’t just take our word for it—head to the new ILGM website today and experience the transformation for yourself. With a renewed focus on community engagement and some incredible seeds from vetted partners on the shelves, ILGM is proud to be the Home of the Growers. 

To keep updated on new features, strains, and events, you can head to ILGM’s website or follow them on Facebook and Instagram. You can also head to their YouTube channel for high-quality home-growing videos. Happy growing!

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