He created Vinkovetsky’s favorite expression of Haze, which became the benchmark Neville’s Haze, a cross of pure Haze with a Northern Lights #5 x Haze plant.Įven though California launched Haze into the spotlight, Dutch breeders cemented its mythic status by creating new versions of it. Schoenmakers went on to speed up the plant’s finishing time by crossing them with indica Afghani genetics. In another account relayed in Ed Rosenthal’s The Big Book of Buds Volume 1, the Haze Brothers visited the Netherlands themselves and got the Haze to Schoenmakers directly. Bred for power in ’80s AmsterdamĪ post shared by Authentic Genetics one story goes, Skunkman brought cultivars like Skunk #1, California Orange, and Original Haze from California to the Netherlands in the 1980s and sold the seeds to Schoenmakers. As legend foretells, these Haze Brothers selections got into the hands of two fabled breeders, Dave Watson (better known as Sam the Skunkman) and Nevil Schoenmakers, who established Holland’s The Seed Bank thanks to a loophole in Dutch drug law. When the Haze Brothers in Santa Cruz got a hold of it in the early 1970s, different offspring emerged. The seeds for what became the Haze may have ended up in California due to this “hippie mafia.” Either way, when Haze seeds got to two “brothers” in the climate of Santa Cruz-where the sunny weather allows for the outdoor growing season to go late-the long-flowering sativa genetics of the Haze found their ancestral home.Ĭultivation expert Dan Vinkovetsky (formerly Danny Danko of High Times and current editor of Northeast Leaf Magazine and Grow Bud Yourself! podcast host) said rumor had it Original Haze consists of landrace cultivars from Thailand, Mexico, and Colombia. Old-school Haze seeds are available today through Todd McCormick’s Authentic Genetics. Note the thin, sativa-type leaves and tall, airy shape. Grown by ’70s Santa Cruz, CA ‘Haze Brothers’Ī Haze plant flowers in the Santa Cruz greenhouse of Dave Watson (aka Sam the Skunkman) in about 1981. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love is better known for spreading the acid called Orange Sunshine, but these guys also packed hollowed-out surfboards with hashish and cannabis as surfing took them across the world in a quest for an endless summer. Some say it starts with a psychedelic surf gang of LSD-selling rebels to whom cannabis folklore attributes the beginnings of American cannabis breeding. Think reverb-heavy guitars, played at a fast tempo to evoke the sounds of crashing waves-this tale begins in coastal California in the 1960s. It’s compiled from oral cannabis folk legend and includes characters such as the “Haze Brothers” and Sam the Skunkman. Haze’s origin story reads like a Brothers Grimm fairytale. (Leafly, 2021) Sourced by ’60s stoned surfers Tap or click to open and save this poster of notable Haze strain family members and friends. It was a remarkable feeling to see a cannabis strain that had no ceiling, or no cap.” One that cut through the other would then cut through the other. “There were some nights where we had a session and we probably went through like 50, 60 grams of smoking, it was a bunch of Hazes that had come out of the archive of the Dampkring Coffeeshop and literally we just kept getting higher and higher. It never capped out,” cannabis breeder Harry Resin says. “The more you smoked, the higher you got. (Think Blue Dream or Super Lemon Haze.) Haze formed a fundamental building block of modern-day marijuana, and those who have smoked it say the energy provided by those early Hazes offered no ceiling to the high. Its hybrid progeny remains some of the most popular types of marijuana to this day. This legendary, second-generation strain represents the best of Holland and California, the two initial powerhouses responsible for creating new types of cannabis. And no cultivar represents the global blending, the combined electric energy of the fusion of places, the stretch of tall thin branches in those last moments before full flowering late in the harvest season, better than Haze. First up: Famous Hazes!Ĭannabis is a unique plant ally, one that humanity carried across oceans to other continents to spread its seed. Leafly honors the 50th anniversary of “4:20” (aka “420” or 4/20) this April with a celebration of legendary strain families.
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