How to grow Ripper Haze

20% indica - 80% sativa
hazefloral
Ripper Haze bud — quarter view
Flowering 60 - 65 days
Yield high yield

Taste

Haze
Floral

Seb's take

Seb Silverback

Ripped, appropriately enough, from Amnesia Haze stock — and the four Cannabis Cup wins suggest the theft was worth it. A sativa through and through, with a short one-to-two-week veg and a brisk 60-65 day flower. A heavy producer wherever she is planted, indoors or out.

Where it comes from

Ripper Seeds tell the origin story themselves: the strain was ripped, in their word and the name's, from Amnesia Haze — here an S1, the parent selfed to fix its traits. The record dates the germ of the idea to a 2002 trip to Holland, and credits the finished plant with four Cannabis Cup wins. So the pun in the name is doubly earned: torn from Amnesia stock, and a decorated line in its own right. A pedigree with both a story and a shelf of silverware behind it.

Nose & flavour

No specific tasting notes are recorded, so I will not invent a nose for her. Being an Amnesia S1, though, she inherits that famous line's character, and the record notes her growing qualities run fairly close to Amnesia Haze — which points to the bright, citrus-led haze profile that variety is known for. Take that as informed inference rather than stated fact; the paperwork gives the lineage but withholds the detail.

The high

The effect is not itemised beyond the plant's plainly sativa make-up — 80% sativa, with a THC the record calls only high, no figure attached. Read that as a soaring, cerebral sort of experience in the Amnesia mould, energetic and clear-headed rather than sedating. But the record withholds the specifics, so I will leave the character sketched by lineage rather than drawn in detail.

Growing it

A typical sativa in structure, and a quick one to get going: the veg is short at just one to two weeks before the flip, after which flowering runs 60 to 65 days to fill out those long, thick, resin-packed bud heads. She is a heavy producer across most terrains, indoors or out — a high yield, in the record's phrase, though no precise figure is given. Sativa habits mean she will want managing for height, but she rewards the effort with volume and quality alike.

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Common questions about Ripper Haze

How long does Ripper Haze take to flower?

Around 9 weeks of flowering, by the breeder's numbers.

Is Ripper Haze an autoflower or a photoperiod strain?

A feminized photoperiod strain — flowering starts when you switch the lights, so the timing is yours to control.