Haze reviews
Read people’s experiences with the cannabis strain Haze.
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I could write a book about Haze. About its origins, its history, how O Haze seeds take 20-24 weeks to flower, & about how the Original Haze wasn’t worked or bred very well, causing O Haze seeds to produce 25% legendary plants, 50% decent to fairly excellent plants, & unfortunately, 25% total garbage due to the fact that O Haze is an F1 cross of pure landrace sativas that maintained most of the genetics of the landraces used to breed it - a fact that was especially frustrating since it flowers for 5-6 months. O Haze could grow several different phenotypes but the sought after varieties were named for their color: Green Haze, Brown or Golden Haze, & the most rare but most sought after phenotype, Purple Haze. Several high quality Haze varieties were also a combination of these three, & most O Haze seeds would grow combination phenos that also had some of the undesirable characteristics as well.
The most important thing to state right away is that Leafly is totally incorrect about there being Mexican, Thai, & South Indian Genetics in Haze. Original Haze was bred using 3 pure sativa landraces from Colombia. Haze is 100% sativa with 100% Colombian genetics.
Its parents are: Santa Marta Colombia Gold, Colombian Red or Colombia Punta Rojo (nearly identical to Panama Red. Which makes sense. Colombia and Panama were the same country until 1903), & Chocolate Colombian (a phenotype of Wacky Weed - a strain that was once one of the only types of weed most people in the US could find).
It was available as early as 1950 & I’ve got a first hand, confirmed account of it being available in New York in 1953. Most other infamous, early landrace cannabis didn’t arrive until the 1960s.
Wacky Weed was an unfortunate name that derived from the fact that it was here in the 1950s, & people back then were generally pretty cheesy. Especially when it came to naming weed apparently. Ironically, for a strain that was once ubiquitous here, & was one of the only strains available in the US, it’s considered extinct today, & nobody has been able to identify a Colombian landrace that’s quite the same).
The Haze Brothers selected some excellent phenotypes to use as the parents of Santa Cruz Original Haze, but they weren’t breeders. Not that much was known about breeding cannabis back then anyway (some accounts claim it was bred in the late 1960s, & others put its origins in the early 1970s).
Regardless, the fact that Santa Cruz Original Haze aka O Haze wasn’t consistent is precisely why Nevil Schoenmakers spent most of 1985-1988 growing as many O Haze seeds as he could, over several generations, selecting for the best traits, until finally he’d succeeded in creating his infamous Haze A & Haze C males, which were his finalized high quality Haze plants, after he’d bred most of the garbage genetics out, & consolidated the plant’s most sought after traits into his the two distinctly different, but equally high quality plants.
Born in Australia, Nevil moved to the Netherlands in 1976. He’d spend most of his adult life living and working in Amsterdam. Widely considered the most important figure in the history of cannabis breeding (along with David Paul Watson, aka Sam the Skunkman, who first supplied Nevil with O Haze seeds, as well as seeds of Cali Orange, & Skunk #1 in 1985), Nevil founded the first Seed Bank in the world, which was known simply as The Seed Bank, short for The Seed Bank of Holland. He was also the first to ship cannabis seeds internationally in any significant quantity (having advertised The Seed Bank’s catalogue in High Times Magazine throughout the mid-late 1980s).
Most people have smoked a Haze Hybrid made from the Haze A and Haze C males. What most people consider to be pure haze are actually offspring of Nevil’s 1989 cross of (Northern Lights #5 x Haze A). He was the first to make that cross, & it produced several Holy Grail offspring, including the one-of-a-kind gem known as NYC Uptown Haze, Bronx Golden Haze, Cuban Black Haze, The Church, Frankie (From its unique & extremely pungent Frankincense like odor), The Cough, or simply The Piff. Significant numbers of S1 seeds were made from Nevil’s first batch of (NL5 x Haze), & it’s from these seeds that Karma’s legendary A5 Haze was found.
Somehow a lot of people growing the Black Haze (actually a combination of Green Haze & Brown Haze genetics), both in Florida and in NYC got the idea that they were growing pure haze. Which is definitely not the case. Cuban Black Haze aka The Piff takes between 3-4 months to flower. O Haze takes 20-24 weeks. What became known as NYC Uptown Haze & Cuban Black Haze was actually popular all up and down the I-95 corridor. I first smoked it in DC in 1997 & was told it was called Cough. As well as that it was Nevil’s original cross of (Northern Lights #5 x Haze A).
When I moved to NYC for college in 1999 & smoked “Bronx Goldie” as well as Piff for the first time, it was obvious that it was the same plant. Nothing else smells like it. When I visited my boy Adam at the University of Miami, he was raving about how amazing the Miami Pure Haze, as he called it, was, from the moment he picked us up at the airport. It was exactly the same as The Cough I’d had in DC & The Piff from NY. Although he insisted it was only available in Florida and that it was pure haze. That’s apparently what most people that grew Cuban Black Haze in Florida were told. And a lot of them believe it to this day. But everytime the high was identical, the flower looked the same: elongated, fairly loose buds that were dark green, with lots of brown hairs, & smaller than typical trichomes, although they coated the flowers. Most telling was the smell. That Frankincense and basement chem dankness that smelled unlike any other herb I’ve ever smoked.
Haze A & Haze C have both died out, but they became two of the most important plants in cannabis breeding history. Along with Northern Lights #5 & Skunk #1, their genetics lived on in Nevil’s Diesel, Nevil’s Haze, The Cough / Piff, Jack Herer, Super Silver Haze, Mango Haze, Skunk Haze, Afghan Haze, G13 Haze, the Amnesia Hypro cut of Super Silver Haze, & many more plants bred mostly by Amsterdam based breeders like The Super Sativa Seed Company, Sensi Seeds, Flying Dutchman, Delicatessen Seeds, Mr. Nice Seedbank, Greenhouse Seedbank, Barney’s Seeds, & many others.
Nevil’s Haze, Jack Herer and Super Silver Haze / Mango Haze used both of Nevil’s original Haze A & Haze C males in their genetics. (Some accounts claim Jack Herer only has Haze C genetics however). So while Nevil’s original males may be lost, their genetic lineage lives on in so many hybrids, it’s impossible to count them all.
March 5, 2015
I love this strain! I could smoke it all day. Doesn't make me sleepy
Wowie wow wow wow wow! Giant, dark green, wispy colas reek of lime leaf, bay leaf, and white pepper. High-energy saliva effect is intense and lasts four-plus hours. Thank you Haze growers!
WITCH HAZE
I've been smoking "1 is fun" with my friend C.A recently (2-3 months). I've really enjoyed myself and actually have experienced really profound, beautiful moments in my life. But.....Pink Haze AKA Witch Haze is and has been incorrectly advertised. This is currently my 2nd "1 is fun" with "said strain".
My first experience caused me to question my mental health. I've questioned many things in my life but never one so concerning. Long story short, my chihuahua told me inside jokes about my wife/his mom. Not funny when you're the only one holding a specific and particular chihuahua laughing at nothing or something but you don't actually know because you are now convinced that you are schizophrenic.........
My 2nd experience is currently happening, there are no chiuahuas but that doesn't mean the cat won't tell me things... Keep you posted
xo S
True Haze is like eating magic mushrooms. It's the perfect strain. Mind warping, visual warping, body numbing, paranoia inducing classic weed. The smell is woody and acidic rain carrots, with a fizzy and slightly citrusy backend. The buds are wispy, NOT AT ALL LIKE THESE FAKE, OG BUDS PICTURED. I've come to the conclusion most of these reviewers have never had real Haze, as they are mostly all buying from dispensaries. Dispos don't grow Haze. It takes too long, and looks like nothing at all. Whatever these dispo fools are smoking isn't Haze if it looks like a chunked out OG bud. That's the problem with sites like this. They allow reviews from dispensary flower, and 90% of all dispensaries sell fraudulent strains... not just Haze, but all types of flower. They buy clones or seeds from random sources and just call it whatever, and most buyers are too ignorant or unfamiliar with the strain to realize they are being lied too. Haze is the unicorn of marijuana, so finding true Haze is difficult if you don't know anything, but dispensaries definitely don't have it.
February 25, 2017
Wonderful taste of citrus, earth and a smoky sweetness.....Big head buzz. A little energized but relaxed....I vaped the Haze strain in a Rove cartridge.....Very nice.....but this stuff gives you SERIOUS MUNCHIES!
First off, I want fo say that this is excellent stuff :)
I can see why it's inspired so many of the world's greatest product.
As a 9 year long, daily or semi-daily toker (a doobie a day or two) with a slight tendency to get easily paranoid and anxious, occasionally panicked, (I'm a softie), the first thing I noticed at the peak of my high was the solid, powerful crispness and focus my senses gave me. Lucid and awake yet dreamy, very distracted from what I was up to but still noticing peripheral ongoings.'Wavy' and 'psychedelic' are common words in this strain's comments for a reason- everything you look at is vivid, colorful and clear.
Colors 'pop' a tad more than usual.
It's also super easy to drift into your thoughts with Haze. The best advice I can extend, and the only thing that saved my lightweight ass from paranoia, was plenty of great music. Auditory attention is hugely expanded and uplifted with this strain, and your tunes will be tenfold as pleasing.
Absolutely no paranoia in my trip, which is incredibly rare for me involving such an intense strain.
For me, Haze is the perfect example of what the experience of 'weed' should be.
Not tiring or scary, just impressive and interesting.
Definitely recommend, but not to the first-timer as it can be overpowering at first.
10/10
Look: A nice light green bud with some dark shades and yellow Hairs with a resiny cover.
Feel: Sticky hard long buds with a snap when broken.
Smell: Fruity and sour with some danky smell.
Taste: Fruity and some sour with a heavy weed taste.
High: An amazing euphoric experience with a great floty body high feel. Euphoria and creativity make this high one that is special. It creeps onto you like nothing else and will leave you super pleased.