Haze names a family of cannabis lines descended from crosses of tropical landrace material, built by growers in coastal California in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is now a generic lineage word for tall, slow-flowering, aromatic plants.
In practice
Haze-type plants are tall and stretchy, with long flowering times, often 12-16 weeks or more from flip, and airy, resinous buds. The aroma is typically spicy, incense, citrus or sharp. Their length makes them demanding indoors: heavy stretch, a long run and late-season mould risk outdoors in temperate climates. Many modern "hazes" are hybrids that keep some of the aroma and shorten flowering.
The exact landrace components of the original haze are told in several versions; treat specific claims as low-evidence.
Don't confuse with
- Sativa: haze is the textbook "sativa" shape, but the label describes structure at most, not effect.
- Hazy appearance: unrelated.
A landrace is a traditional, locally adapted cannabis population kept by farmers in one region over many generations, with its own type and plenty of internal variation.The stretch is the rapid increase in height in the first two to three weeks after switching to flower, when many cultivars grow 1.5 to 3 times taller.A hybrid is the offspring of two genetically different parents; almost all modern cannabis is hybrid, built from crosses between landrace-derived and other lines.Kush is a generic name for cannabis tied to landrace material from the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and now for its many hybrid descendants.Skunk is a generic name for a family of early hybrid cultivars from the 1970s and 1980s, and for the pungent, musky aroma they made famous.
