I just stumbled onto this thread today, and it really saddens me to see so many of you people throwing shade for no reason.
I was friends with Nevil, and I felt bad that he passed away in March, and I wrote an article about it titled; Legacy of a Legend.
Years before he ever passed away, I had already made the variety I call O.N. Haze, which is a combination of Original Haze and Nevil’s Haze, and the Nevil’s Haze did not come from Mr. Nice/Scotty/Shantibaba, but came directly from Nevil in the late 90s.
I have been growing my cutting of Nevil’s haze since I got out of prison in 2004, then in 2012, when I was getting the Cannabis Culture Award with Dr. Lester Grinspoon and Richard Branson (you may have seen both of the gentlemen in my two documentaries: THE UNION: The Business Behind Getting High & The Culture High) and I happened to be in Amsterdam, so I went and saw Sam and asked him if I could get some of the same seeds he sold Nevil of Original Haze, and I did. Not only did I get Original Haze from him, but I also got:
(Haze/Skunk #1 X Skunk #1) X (Haze X Skunk #1)
(Haze/Skunk No.1) X (Hawaiian Indica X Haze X SK#1)
(Haze/Skink No.1 x Love Potent) x (Haze/Skunk No.1)
(Sleestack X Skunk No.1) x (Haze/Skunk No.1)
Thai/Haze X Skunk No.1
And many many more…
So hate on me all you want, but, I’m not even close to finished with coming out with more haze crosses and varieties.
When I came home from that journey, I essentially backcrossed my Nevil’s Haze female with an Original Haze male from Sam’s seeds, and I called the combination ON Haze. It’s really that simple: I wanted a hazier Nevil’s Haze, that still had a touch of the Northern Lights which set Nevil’s Haze apart, and that seemed like the best way to do it. I have always liked NL#5 x Haze, and considering I started going to Amsterdam back in 1994, and was standing next to Jack Herer when Ben Dronkers named the variety after him, and hanging out with Nevil and smoking his weed at the Cannabis Castle, I think I know what I’m talking about what I’m talking about Nevil’s Haze.
And to say I’m name-dropping is so obnoxious, if any of you kids would pick up Jack Herer’s book, and read it, you would see that I’ve been an editor of it since 1994. It is a project I have worked on tirelessly for countless hours in order to help educate people about the true history of this plant.
I’ve also seen in this thread that people have mentioned Old Ed Holloway, incorrectly stating that it was him that sent the ticket to Sam, when in fact it was not, it was Wernard Brunning. And I know firsthand that Old Ed did not regret Sam coming to Amsterdam, as I was with Old Ed on his 80th birthday when Sam came and gave him a most beautiful present of hashish, the two men were good friends and I know this from my own relationship with them both, and because I spent a over a year of my life growing and breeding with Old Ed at Positronics in 1995 & 1996, and even more time with him in my Bel Air mansion in 1997. While these people may be internet characters to you, they are my old friends.
I would also like to point out that, somebody asked, what does Mel Frank have to do with this; it’s really not complicated, he and I have been friends for over 20 years, the last time I went up to his house before getting busted in 1997 with my Bel Air mansion with over 4000 marijuana plants, was to go up to his place and pick up some Skunk No.1 seeds that he had made the year before. 22 years later, I have some of those exact 1996 seeds in my refrigerator right now, and those are the seeds that have been selling for $20 apiece. On average it costs about $200 a year to keep an old refrigerator running, and he’s had his refrigerator running with the seeds staying cold for over 22 years, his germination rate is 100% on 1996 seeds. I think they’re worth it, especially considering Mel Frank grew them. If you think that’s too expensive for you, I really don’t care, don’t buy them, I won’t lose any sleep at night.
The reason I started selling seeds is because of the 2018 Hemp Farm Bill, that legalized all cannabis/hemp products with less than 0.3% THC. Cannabis seeds have zero cannabinoids, and are now de facto legal. I had already started putting together my catalog well before Nevil passed, and when I showed the catalog to Mel, he liked it and I urged him to let me sell some of his seeds, because I know he’s been keeping them in his refrigerator for a very long time, and they’re not going to do anybody good sitting in there forever, so he agreed, and at age 75, I became the first person in his life that he has ever let sell his seeds.
As a kid, I was 13 years old when I traded a $20 bag for one of his books and started growing, and had my life changed forever. The fact that he is now my friend and I am bestowed with the honor of selling his seeds, is a dream come true to me.
Some of you people stating that I am just some writer who recently started growing and that really makes me laugh, as you clearly have the internet, yet, have you not tried typing my name into Google and doing a search? I’ve literally been growing cannabis since 1984, I’ve been getting busted for growing cannabis since 1995, and I’ve never stopped growing cannabis, I’ve been raided in 1995, 1997, served five years in prison, got out, and started the nursery called “Select Strains” and flooded LA with OG Kush cuts till I was raided again in 2006, then again in 2009, and again in 2012, and I was prosecuted every single one of those times because I never cooperate, simply because I hate the system.
I have more experience growing cannabis than I do doing anything else in my life, I have always grown my own cannabis because I can’t find the types of cannabis I want to smoke from anybody who’s growing skunk or early maturing varieties, which is the majority of everybody growing.
All of the seeds that I make, I sell for just $10 a piece, which I think is very reasonable considering I see SSSC advertising €400 for 12 seeds of questionable Haze. I see twentysomethings “breeding” together Sour Diesel and OG Kush and acting like they’re doing something, charging hundreds of dollars a pack.
The only seeds that I’m selling for $20 each are select old seeds made by Mel Frank, which he made and stored in a refrigerator with desiccants since 1996 and 2010, respectively. If anybody in this industry deserves to get top dollar for his efforts, it’s that 75-year-old man who paved the way for most of us to know how to grow. And comparing $20 to the BS prices I see people asking, still seems cheap to me.
Which brings me to Durban Poison, which is a variety I’m not that familiar with. I did not get a chance to grow or smoke the original varieties back in the day, and when I went to go pick up seeds from Mel, he said that they were Durban Poison, and considering who he is, I’m not one to argue with him, he knows better than I know if it is even close to what he remembers.
And that also brings me to the other point that, all of his recently made seeds, I’m also selling for just $10.
So don’t let the facts get in the way of your fiction. I can see a majority of you people don’t know what you’re talking about, and can’t read my catalog and see what I am really selling seeds for; I also realize that the truth ruins your BS story.
I live in the San Francisco Bay area, and I have access to many varieties of clone only cultivars, and over two years ago I was doing a nursery and I had over 150, clone only cultivars in my collection, I took less than half of them and crossed my favorites against my ON Haze male, for two reasons, one is because I was always a fan of Nevil’s NL#5 x Haze, and Kali Mist (I also worked for Simon/Serious Seeds, running around Amsterdam and growing his seedless AK-47, Chronic and Kali Mist, the year I lived in Amsterdam, but again I have seen people say I am just a writer and have no experience growing and I just laugh), and I always loved the combination of Haze male with a faster flowering female.
One night when I was playing chess with Nevil, he gave me a large bud of Nevil’s Haze, and while I was breaking it up, I found one seed in it and I offered it back to him, and he laughed at me, and said that he had a lot of them, and that I could keep it. I was stoned and I exclaimed; “Thank you, I hope it’s a female”, and he said to me: “No, hope it’s a male, that way you can cross it against all of your favorite females and make them better.”
That moment always stuck with me, and last year before he passed away, I decided to do exactly that, cross a lot of these amazing clone only cultivars with a longer flowering ON Haze, to brighten them up and bring some Haze back into the mix.
I love long flowering equatorial varieties, and I have since I first encountered them back in 1994, when I got to Amsterdam. I have been making seeds and growing cannabis since I was 13 years old. I wonder how many of you have been so good growing cannabis that you’ve been able to get yourself from being poor and living in your your grandma’s house growing in your closet, to just 13 years later to being in a Bel Air mansion and able to fill it up with all your favorite cannabis varieties, especially after having cancer ten freaking times as a child.
I don’t care what anybody thinks of me, I have never lived my life pandering to other people’s expectations. The truth is the truth and my experience is easy to demonstrate, if you don’t like Haze, I really don’t care.
But don’t say that I am exploiting my old friends passing, if he was still alive I would still be doing exactly what I’m doing because I had no expectation he was going to pass away last March.
If you haven’t read what I wrote about Nevil, do check it out, it might help you better understand my perspective.
love the story man and I think having a mansion to grow 4000 plants in regardless of whether you lost great genetics and some of your free time is still admirable and ontop of that it wasn’t legal then. I’m out here trying to live essentially the same dream I’ve just gotta get my bank game on:blush:
Thanks. 
. That said, there are plenty of suckers with the coin and no sense and that’s capitalism for you.