Arjan’s Strawberry Haze
Sativa 70 / Indica 30
Origins: Swiss sativa x Northern Ligths #5 x Haze-Mist
Flowering: 75 days
Harvest: mid October
Arjan’s Strawberry Haze is a bright green mid-sized sweet sativa. She descends from Swiss stock on her mother’s side, and popular Northern Lights and Mist varieties on the paternal side. These seeds are feminized, meaning that they will all grow out as bud-producing female plants. The Strawberry Haze’s buds have the aroma of an almost candy-like strawberry, and her smoke is sweet-tasting with an upbeat high.
This mountain plant is adapted to humid areas, and overall very versatile, strong, and easy to grow. She ranges from 3 feet in small containers, to 10 feet when her roots are given free reign. She has short internodes and medium-sized round leaves. Her branches tend to choot out vertically, straight toward the light, allowing plants to be placed closer together than is possible with more rangy sativas. Three to four plant per square meter is an ideal arrangement.
Strawberry Haze performs best and delivers the utmost in strawberry flavor when grown in soil. Hydro systems can be used to increase the yield, but the taste is less sweet. Green House recommends a light hand when it comes to nutrients, as this plant is more sensitive to overfeeding than most sativas. Start with a low pH (5.6 hydro / 5.8 soil) and slowly increase to reach 6.5 at the end of flowering. Extra P and K should be added after the 5th week of flowering. The maximum EC should be 1.9 in hydro and 1.7 in soil. Flush plants at the end of flowering, which takes about 10-11 weeks or until mid-October outside.
Arjan’s Strawberry Haze finishes with chubby buds, composed of rounded calyxes that are thickly coated with resin and thin long hairs. Aside from the expected, very sweet strawberry aroma, which is much sweeter than most sativas, the smell has also been compared to summer blossoms, rose petals and red berries. Her high is fast hitting, clear, creative and giggly. It is good for social moments as well as for introspective ones. Chasing the blues away, making love, making friends laugh, and making art are all recommended activities to accompany this strain. Arjan’s Strawberry Haze was created by Arjan in the period 2000-2004. He introduced it on the market in 2006, after winning the 1st prize among Green House’s strains at their Very Important Smokers Panel event in 2005.