How does the same strain win back-to-back Cannabis Cups in Amsterdam… and then do it again more than a decade later in Massachusetts?
To understand that, we have to go back to before Super Lemon Haze even existed. Back in the late ’90s, Super Silver Haze was already dominating the cannabis competition scene. It won the High Times Cannabis Cup three years in a row — 1997, 1998, and 1999 — making it one of the defining Haze strains of that era.
So when Green House Seed Co. started developing what would eventually become Super Lemon Haze, they were already working with proven genetics. They crossed Super Silver Haze with Lemon Skunk, and that’s where Super Lemon Haze really started to take shape. Super Silver Haze brought years of Haze history and a championship pedigree with it. Lemon Skunk brought something that helped the new cross develop an identity of its own: that bright, unmistakable citrus character. Instead of simply becoming another Haze built from an already famous bloodline, Super Lemon Haze became something people could recognize on its own. And it didn’t take long for the strain to prove itself.
From New Cross to Cannabis Cup Champion
Super Lemon Haze entered the High Times Cannabis Cup in 2008 and took first place. Then it came back in 2009 and won again. Going back-to-back at one of the biggest cannabis competitions in the world was enough to turn a promising new cross into a strain known far beyond Amsterdam. There was another layer to the story, too.
Green House Seed Co. had become so successful at the Cannabis Cup that its dominance sometimes drew suspicion. The company had been involved in a voting controversy years earlier, and by the time Super Lemon Haze started winning, there were already people questioning whether Green House simply had too much influence over the competition. But there has never been evidence that Super Lemon Haze’s 2008 or 2009 victories were fixed.
For Super Lemon Haze, the results spoke for themselves. A strain created from championship genetics had stepped onto the same stage and built a championship run of its own. And somehow, that still wasn’t the end of the story.
Amsterdam to Massachusetts
More than a decade later, that Green House lineage shows up again, this time much closer to home. Happy Valley’s Super Lemon Haze traces back to Green House Seed Co., the same breeder that started this story in Amsterdam. That connection is what makes what happened next so interesting. When Happy Valley began entering its Super Lemon Haze into the High Times Cannabis Cup here in Massachusetts, we were still following the same genetic story that began overseas years earlier.
In 2021, Happy Valley’s Super Lemon Haze took first place for Sativa Flower. Then in 2022, it did it again. Back-to-back Cannabis Cup wins in Amsterdam. More than a decade passes. Then another back-to-back run, this time in Massachusetts.
A Legacy That Keeps Going
That kind of longevity is hard to ignore. Super Lemon Haze has gone from the genetics of a three-time champion, to building its own reputation on the competition stage, to seeing that same lineage continue winning years later and thousands of miles away. Maybe that’s the real story of Super Lemon Haze: great genetics can stand the test of time and cross continents. More than a decade after going back-to-back in Amsterdam, that same lineage was still winning here in Massachusetts.
Find Super Lemon Haze at The Vault
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