Haze varieties: where they come from and what sets them apart
The Hazes form a lineage of sativa cultivars that began in Santa Cruz, California, at the end of the 1960s, reached the Netherlands in 1976 and was stabilised by the seed houses of Amsterdam. Super Silver Haze, Amnesia Haze, Super Lemon Haze, G13 Haze and Skywalker Haze all attach to that stock, with announced flowering times of 9 to 12 weeks where the original Haze ran beyond 16 weeks. Four flowers in the catalogue touch this family: Lemon Haze, Amnesia Haze, Purple Haze and Skywalker OG, from 7.7 % to 12.2 % measured CBD, all below 0.3 % Δ⁹-THC. Neither Super Silver Haze nor G13 Haze is among them.
Contents
- 011. A lineage that began in Santa Cruz
- 022. The Haze genealogy, cultivar by cultivar
- 033. What really sets these cultivars apart
- 044. A variety name is neither protected nor guaranteed
- 055. The four catalogue flowers attached to this family
- 066. Hemp below 0.3 %: not the historical cultivars
- 07Frequently asked questions
- 08Sources
The word "Haze" travels across dozens of pouches without anyone fixing what it contains. This guide takes up the line of descent as the breeders publish it, and points out that a name guarantees neither genetics nor composition.
> Key points > > - The original Haze brings landraces together, selected in California then worked on in the Netherlands. > - The shared traits are agronomic: long flowering, slender habit, lemony or peppery profiles. > - No official register protects a name; two pouches with the same name may differ.
1. A lineage that began in Santa Cruz
1.1 Four landraces and a Californian selection
Leafly places the roots of the Haze in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1960s, a region whose long season accommodated a very extended flowering cycle. The seed house Alchimia puts the selection at the start of the 1970s and attributes it to the brothers nicknamed the Haze Brothers. The two sources agree on the starting material: local populations, or landraces, from Mexico, Colombia, South India and Thailand.
Alchimia sets out the sequence: a Mexican sativa crossed with a Colombian one, the best females crossed with a South Indian, then the following generation pollinated by a Thai male.
1.2 1976, the move to the Netherlands
Still according to Alchimia, seeds left for the Netherlands in 1976 with David Watson, known as Sam the Skunkman, who would distribute them under the Cultivator's Choice label. Neville Schoenmakers took up that stock and hybridised it with the Afghan genetics already stabilised in Europe: the Northern Lights #5 × Haze cross won the Cannabis Cup in 1988. It is that move which made the lineage growable indoors.
2. The Haze genealogy, cultivar by cultivar
The table takes up the parentage published by the breeder or by SeedFinder. These are declarations, not independent genetic verifications.
| Cultivar | Published parentage | Breeder | Announced flowering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Haze | Mexican, Colombian, South Indian and Thai landraces | Haze Brothers, Santa Cruz | more than 16 weeks |
| Silver Haze | Silver Pearl × Haze | Sensi Seeds | 65 to 75 days |
| Super Silver Haze | ((Haze × Haze) × Skunk #1) × ((Haze × Haze) × Northern Lights #5) | Green House Seeds | 10 to 11 weeks |
| Amnesia Haze | Afghani Hawaiian × Laos × Jamaica | Soma Seeds | 12 weeks |
| Super Lemon Haze | Lemon Skunk × Super Silver Haze | Green House Seed Co. | 10 to 12 weeks |
| G13 Haze | G13 × Hawaiian sativa | Barney's Farm | 10 to 11 weeks |
| Skywalker Haze | (Blueberry × Mazar) × Amsterdam Amnesia | Dutch Passion | about 67 days |
| Purple Haze | Purple Thai × Haze, parentage given as presumed | not attributed | not documented |
Four remarks come out of it.
Super Silver Haze is the best-documented node. SeedFinder publishes its full formula and its record: first place at the High Times Cannabis Cup in 1997, 1998 and 1999. It is the most sought-after Haze, and precisely the one we do not sell. It appears here as a genealogical landmark, not as an offer.
Amnesia Haze carries two contradictory versions. SeedFinder gives, for Soma Seeds, an Afghani Hawaiian × Laos × Jamaica assembly, with no Haze named. Alchimia presents it as coming from a selection of Super Silver Haze. Neither one is verifiable from outside. The Journal returns to it in its article devoted to Amnesia Haze.
Skywalker Haze and Skywalker OG are two different cultivars. The first, at Dutch Passion, crosses a (Blueberry × Mazar) with an Amsterdam Amnesia clone: its share of Haze comes from that second parent. The second, according to Leafly, descends from Mazar and Blueberry OG, with no Haze.
The documented Lemon Haze is the Super Lemon Haze. Wikipedia gives it as a Lemon Skunk × Super Silver Haze, selected at Green House Seed Co. by Franco Loja, first prize in Amsterdam in 2008 then in 2009. The "Lemon Haze" without a prefix is often presented as a Lemon Skunk × Silver Haze, without any breeder's sheet formalising it. The Journal traces its history along that thread.
3. What really sets these cultivars apart
Three traits come back from one sheet to the next. None of them is a property: they are observable agronomic and chemical characters.
A long flowering cycle. It is the family's most stable marker. Where many Afghan hybrids wrap up in 55 to 60 days, Silver Haze is announced at 65 to 75 days, Super Silver Haze and G13 Haze at 10 or 11 weeks, Amnesia Haze at 12 weeks.
A slender habit. These plants keep the silhouette of the tropical sativas they descend from: long internodes, elongated calyxes rather than compact heads, the direct counterpart of the long cycle.
Lemony or peppery profiles. Wikipedia gives limonene and terpinolene as dominant for Super Lemon Haze, with beta-caryophyllene, ocimene and myrcene behind; Leafly puts myrcene at the head on the original Haze, followed by pinene. These values vary from one batch to the next: the dominant terpene is read on the GC-MS analysis, never on the name.
4. A variety name is neither protected nor guaranteed
This is the part that sales pages leave out most often. There is no official register of cannabis variety names. Schwabe and McGlaughlin write as much in the Journal of Cannabis Research in 2019: "there is no official mechanism to register Cannabis strains". Their study genotyped 122 samples from 30 commercial varieties bought in three American states. Only four varieties showed a consistent genetic assignment across all their samples.
The French framework reasons on an entirely different register. The order of 30 December 2021 restricts the sector to varieties of Cannabis sativa L. listed in the European common catalogue or the French catalogue, with a Δ⁹-THC content that does not exceed 0.30 %. The names appearing there are agricultural: Futura 75, Fedora 17, Santhica 27. "Amnesia Haze" or "Purple Haze" are trade names, with no regulatory standing. The name steers the aromatic expectation; the batch certificate gives the composition.
5. The four catalogue flowers attached to this family
Values recorded on 16 September 2026 on the product pages in the CBD flowers category. Each column corresponds to the batch in stock, analysed by HPLC and GC-MS in an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory.
| Criterion | Lemon Haze | Amnesia Haze | Purple Haze | Skywalker OG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batch analysed | PG-26-0085 | PG-26-A32B | PG-26-677C | PG-26-8CA2 |
| CBD | 7.7 % | 11.7 % | 11.1 % | 12.2 % |
| CBDA | 1.0 % | 1.4 % | 1.2 % | 0.6 % |
| CBG | 0.7 % | 0.7 % | 0.5 % | 0.9 % |
| Δ⁹-THC shown | 0.3 % | 0.2 % | 0.2 % | 0.3 % |
| THCA | 0.1 % | 0.1 % | 0.1 % | 0.1 % |
| Growing | indoor | open field | open field | indoor, coco-perlite |
| Profile described | fruity, humulene underneath | peppery, alpha-pinene | ripe citrus, menthol finish | minty, alpha-pinene |
| Price at 2 g | €4.95/g | €6.45/g | €4.95/g | €5.45/g |
| Largest tier | €1.92 (50 g) | €2.42 (50 g) | €1.36 (100 g) | €1.50 (100 g) |
Three of these pages carry the word Haze: Lemon Haze, Amnesia Haze and Purple Haze. The fourth, Skywalker OG, appears here because its name is regularly confused with Dutch Passion's Skywalker Haze, whereas its published parentage contains no Haze.
One absence deserves to be stated plainly. Super Silver Haze and G13 Haze are not in the catalogue. They appear here as genealogical landmarks, nothing more. A site offering a "Super Silver Haze CBD" is selling a hemp marketed under that name, not the cultivar that won a prize in 1998.
Two batches show 0.3 % Δ⁹-THC to the decimal; in both cases the product pages state a content strictly below the 0.30 % threshold. CBDA remains a line distinct from CBD. The same grid holds for the other families, as the comparison of the catalogue's Kush flowers shows.
6. Hemp below 0.3 %: not the historical cultivars
The point is essential if no one is to be misled. The Hazes that won prizes in Amsterdam in the 1990s and 2000s were cultivars rich in Δ⁹-THC, selected for that, and unlawful to sell in France. The flowers sold here under a name from that family are hemp cultivars: they carry the name and part of the aromatic heritage, but their chemistry is that of a hemp dominated by cannabidiol.
Two texts fix that framework. The order of 30 December 2021 sets out the list of admitted varieties and the content threshold; decision no. 444887 of the Conseil d'Etat, of 29 December 2022, annulled the ban on selling raw flowers that it provided for. The MILDECA points out that no claim of a health benefit may accompany these products, which are reserved for adults and are not foodstuffs.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the Haze variety come from?
From a Californian selection carried out in Santa Cruz, dated to the 1960s by Leafly and to the start of the 1970s by Alchimia, from Mexican, Colombian, South Indian and Thai local populations. Seeds reached the Netherlands in 1976.
What is the difference between Silver Haze and Super Silver Haze?
Silver Haze, at Sensi Seeds, is given as a Silver Pearl × Haze, flowering in 65 to 75 days. Super Silver Haze, at Green House Seeds, combines Haze, Skunk #1 and Northern Lights #5, flowers in 10 to 11 weeks and won the Cannabis Cup in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
Do you sell Super Silver Haze or G13 Haze?
No, neither of the two is in the Phytogrammes catalogue. The four flowers attached to this family are Lemon Haze, Amnesia Haze, Purple Haze and Skywalker OG, at 7.7 %, 11.7 %, 11.1 % and 12.2 % CBD.
Does a variety name guarantee its composition?
No. No official register records cannabis variety names, and the study by Schwabe and McGlaughlin showed that one and the same name often covers distinct genetic profiles. Only the batch certificate gives the composition of the pouch.
Sources
- Lemon Haze product page, batch PG-26-0085
- Amnesia Haze product page, batch PG-26-A32B
- Purple Haze product page, batch PG-26-677C
- Skywalker OG product page, batch PG-26-8CA2
- Alchimia, "The origins of Haze"
- Leafly, "Haze"
- SeedFinder, "Super Silver Haze"
- SeedFinder, "Silver Haze"
- SeedFinder, "Amnesia Haze"
- SeedFinder, "G13 Haze"
- SeedFinder, "Skywalker Haze"
- Wikipedia, "Super Lemon Haze"
- Leafly, "Skywalker OG"
- Leafly, "Purple Haze"
- Schwabe and McGlaughlin, Journal of Cannabis Research, 2019
- Legifrance, order of 30 December 2021
- Conseil d'Etat, 29 December 2022, no. 444887
- MILDECA, "Le CBD"
Written by the Phytogrammes team
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