Since most of my life I had no access to genetics other than local stuff, my consolation hobby has been reading all I could about the exotic (for me) genetics available in US / Europe / Canada. Regarding the origin of Haze, what I found is that the various Hazes corresponded to various Colombian landrace phenotypes Rojo, Dark Green, Light Green and Magenta (which was encouraging for me because for very short periods we had Colombian brick coming and I collected seeds, which I lost). But let's hear Sam the Skunkman tell the story:
Sam the Skunkman on the origin of Haze:
The very first original Haze was a late 60's three way cross of Colombian Punto Rojo, a green one, a light green one and a magenta one, all different, all from Colombia. Several years later I gave Thai and South Indian seeds that were also crossed to Haze, I had seeds of all of them, Original Haze, and Original Haze x Thai from the stick gold Thai about 76 in Santa Cruz called Laos at the time. I spread the seeds around Cali etc and I brought the seeds with me to the Netherlands and used them to select clone parents for my unimproved Haze lines I preserved, I did not do much work to improve Haze I was trying to preserve it. The Thai and South Indiana Kerala x Original Haze crosses were made by my neighbor, R.L. The junior Original Haze grower that made the O Haze poster, as I did not grow much Haze until the next year. So anyway, it is now pretty hard to tell but what most have was pure Colombian, green, purple, lime green, silver, magenta, blueish, I saw all this before Haze had anything besides Colombian in it. A little bit has Thai, and even less has South Indian. I will be testing the DNA of my Haze lines and clones, then we will maybe have answers about what they is and isn't, and maybe where all the best Cannabis in Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico came from India, Africa or Asia, time will tell. I have found that my line is fairly inbred as it was not out-crossed except for the Thai and S Indian one year, and that was just a few plants. Most are just pure Original Haze Colombian, with no WLD Wide Leaf Drug (was called Indica) genes, zero. Because it is inbred if you do if you do outcross it the qualities are improved like vigor and potency. I have done this and seen where 16% THC Mom Skunk 1, X a 10% THC O Haze gives progeny in the 20's for THC%, try it, you will see what I mean. I found Purple Haze to be the strongest, but the silver-blue and lime-green ones where the high I preferred, purple Haze was more physical also. Up, clear, electric, speedy, cerebral mental, energetic, euphoric, psychedelic, no ceiling, every hit gets you higher every time, the kind of Cannabis that gets people turning white, passing out or falling over when they stand, and getting paranoid. Some of you may prefer the same, I can tell. I have never gotten too high, I have gotten to high to walk, that's what chaise lounge sofas, Lazy-Boys and the floor were invented for.