The first Haze is vintage masterpiece of cannabis breeding - a
harmonious blend of complementary equatorial genotypes that’s widely
regarded as the purest and most powerful Sativa ever created. Sensi’s
award-winning Silver Haze distils the sunny cerebral magic of her
towering parent into a manageable strain with great indoor potential
Haze
started out as a multiple-Sativa hybrid with roots in Central America,
South India and Thailand. Developed in the days before indoor growing
and cultivated below 30°N, her breeders were not restricted by factors
like height, yield or short summers. As indoor growing gained
popularity in the Eighties, true Haze began to disappear. Though
smokers still adored the soaring high, growers found her slow
flowering, low yields and unstoppable height-gain impractical for
indoor production.
Silver Haze was the first seed strain to
offer a solution by delivering the full-strength Haze experience in a
fatter, faster, more compact form. Together with NL#5xHaze (her taller
sister), Silver Haze helped reverse the decline of the psychedelic
Sativa. As soon as such frosted, pleasingly dense tropical crops could
be produced efficiently with lights, ganja lovers all across the globe
were able to sample that supreme high and the Haze cult rapidly spread
far beyond its original circle of devotees.
The original Haze
has had both its outrageous height gain and interminable flowering
period brought under control by breeding with an extra-potent,
non-dominant individual from the Northern Lights line. The dark
Afghanica also throws its weight behind the feathery Sativa budding
pattern, adding bulk without affecting flower formation.Silver Haze
should still be expected to triple her vegetated height in flowering,
so seedlings and clones may be flowered almost immediately in
close-cultivation methods like SOG.
Silver Haze buds are
composed of long, silky pistils sprouting from oval calyxes which surge
along the stem and branches to fill the gaps between internodes.
Afghani influence is seen in the strain’s thick layers of silver resin
glands and the way her calyxes swell, adding density in the final weeks
of flowering.