Super Silver Haze: a haze engineered to be growable

At a glance

Type

Sativa-leaning hybrid (as usually given)

Parent strains

Skunk #1 × Northern Lights × Haze

Where and when it appeared

Amsterdam, the mid-1990s (as usually given)

Credited to

Green House Seeds (Shantibaba, Neville Schoenmakers)

Flowering

10–11 weeks indoors, in the range growers usually report (as usually given)

Terpenes usually reported

terpinolene, myrcene, alpha-pinene, limonene (as usually given)

Aroma

lemon, incense, green herbs, pine needles, skunk funk

Aroma family

haze and citrus

How the character is usually described

usually described as a daytime profile, attention that holds on one thing, a clear-headed start

Competition results

High Times Cannabis Cup 1997, High Times Cannabis Cup 1998, High Times Cannabis Cup 1999

Also sold under

SSH

Compare it against

Amnesia Haze, Jack Herer, Blue Dream

The cross is documented, which is rare here

Skunk #1, Northern Lights and Haze. This is one of only two lineages in this cluster marked as documented rather than commonly cited, and it is worth noticing how unusual that is — most of the famous names on a menu carry a pedigree reconstructed after the fact.

Each parent has a job. Haze supplies the aroma and the character. Northern Lights, which finishes in six to seven weeks, pulls the schedule back. Skunk #1 firms up the structure and the yield. The result flowers in ten to eleven weeks, which is still long but no longer impossible.

The work is attributed to Green House Seeds in Amsterdam in the mid-1990s, with Shantibaba and Neville Schoenmakers named. Both names recur across this cluster: Schoenmakers is the man who took Northern Lights to the Netherlands a decade earlier, and Shantibaba is credited with the Green House work behind White Widow.

Three consecutive Cannabis Cups

1997, 1998, 1999. Nothing had done that before, and the run is the reason this name reached menus that have never had the plant anywhere near them. A competition result is one of the few claims in this trade with a date, a place and an outside record behind it.

It is also a claim about a specific moment. A plant that won in 1998 tells you about a plant grown by particular people in a particular room; it says nothing about what is in a jar in Pattaya twenty-eight years later.

The competition results are printed in the facts table above precisely because they are checkable. Where a claim rests only on a breeder's own count, this cluster leaves the row empty rather than filling it — the AK-47 page explains that case in detail.

Terpinolene is the fingerprint

The reported terpene profile here leads with terpinolene, which is unusual and which is the fastest way to tell a haze from a fruit hybrid without knowing anything else. Terpinolene reads as fresh and herbal with an apple-and-pine edge — it is not sweet, and it does not resemble the citrus-sugar note of the candy families.

Over that sit lemon, incense, green herbs, pine and a skunk backing from the Skunk #1 side. The skunk is the detail that separates it from Amnesia Haze, which has incense and citrus but no funk underneath.

The character is described as a clear-headed daytime profile with a focused quality, and that description has been stable since the Cup years. It is still a description of how people talk about the plant, not a prediction about any particular afternoon.

Choosing between the three hazes on this list

Amnesia Haze is the long, uncommercial one with the disputed ancestry. Jack Herer, made in the Netherlands at almost the same time, went towards pine and floral notes. This one keeps the citrus and adds funk.

The practical sorting question at a counter is what you want underneath the brightness: incense, skunk or resinous pine. All three of those are legible to a nose that has smelled the family once, and none of them require anyone to trust a label.

Against Blue Dream, its other listed neighbour, the difference is the sweetness: Blue Dream puts berry over its haze backbone and this does not. People who like haze but find Blue Dream cloying usually end up here.

Super Silver Haze: common questions