The Origins of White Widow
The origin of the White Widow variety is quite well known, although its history is problematic. This plant has the most famous since its birth in 1994, a number of awards, including first place in the 1995 High Times Cannabis Cup was won. Known to be very resinous and very powerful, the plant has the ability to humble even the most experienced smoker and has used in the manufacture of many new hybrids is to continuously improve the quality.
This strain was first published by Shantibaba, shortly after he called the Green House Seed Company, founded in 1994 in collaboration with a Dutch partner Arjan. The pedigree of the famous Sativa / Indica hybrid is a pure Sativa Brazilian mother and a father from South India, Kerala hybrid together. The exact origin of the mother plant remains a mystery, but the best educated guess is that maybe the old school, pure Brazilian landrace sativa Manga Rosa, who has a long history of using mental. The father was discovered during a trip to India, where Shantibaba of a man who was raised by a single joint out with him finally to his farm in the mountains of Kerala. The farmer then has presented a hybrid indicators that had been cultivated and selectively bred to produce an optimum resin in his village for a very long time. After several days of sampling plants Shantibaba farmers left for the Netherlands with a fresh batch of seeds, from which he discovered the man for the White Widow cross. He finally race the Brazilian Sativa mother, is the union spectacular gardens have been blessed countless worldwide since.
While working alongside Neville Schoenmaker (the father of the Dutch seed banks) in joint projects were established several new hybrids with superior genetics. Some of the measures they used back to the earliest days of the seed bank that Neville himself had a company that later formed the new owners and reform as Sensi Seeds unknown. At the time of the White Widow was prepared, and Neville Shantibaba focused on aspects of reproduction of the Arjan business, not a farmer himself, was responsible for the promotion and sale of the left. After some conflicts of interest between owners, sold his half of the company Shantibaba Green House Seed Arjan in 1998 and moved to Switzerland, the seed bank Mr. Nice, take the original White Widow, with their parents.
Repeal of the tactics a little theatrical rival, the master coach Shantibaba then consider the producers to strains of the genetics of the old world and the new focus. The exceptional quality of its products no one can deny. He began raising the widow under the banner of his newly established brand, and they called the Black Widow as the name of the White Widow is already being marketed by Green House Seeds Arjan more. Here is the story of the tribe is problematic. Shantibaba discovered many of his stumps while working under the label of Green House, but apparently never the stock of the parent strains shared everyone. This suggests that it is only in possession of the original parents of the widow. Nevertheless, the Green House Seed Company is still common and many of his offer Neville, claiming they are original stock. The most important of these strains are White Widow (Black Widow), White Rhino (Medicine Man), Great White Shark (Shark Shock), El Nino (La Nina), Neville’s Haze and Super Silver Haze.
Not without irony, many of these plants an impressive number of awards for the Green House Seed Company have accumulated over the years. The fact remains that all these plants can return to the original Shantibaba breeders and Neville, who in an attempt to avoid confusion, rename some of their tribes returned. Sorry, came in spite of their efforts, confusion and contradiction, and followed several people crawling out of the wood, the claim that a new gold and White Widow are already popular variety.
According to an interview for the magazine Cannabis Grow German, a farmer named Ingemar takes all credit for the invention of the White Widow strain. Perhaps the self-proclaimed “Father of White Widow ‘also offers its own version known of the work and some hybrids such as the powerful impact Ingemar by the seed bank and DeSjamaan White Widow Web. He also works closely with Arjan more Green House Seeds and provides genetics have only true strain of White Widow. Although discreet about the line of the version of the widow, it’s clear that the creation of Ingemar tree completely different was when the original plant, which Shantibaba is invented. Says Ingemar genetics to the widow in some hand-rubbed Hashish and the system then worked for 6 years before the strain was released found. The first descriptions of the White Widow, were however made by himself, if Shantibaba authenticity and the genetic constitution of the parallel version of the widow remains a mystery.
Today, to sell almost all breeders and seed bank seeds that they are entitled to the original White Widow. In 1996, Nirvana bought both companies and the Dutch Passion seed with a seed packet of White Widow Shantibaba to the Green House Seed Company and within one year of their own versions of the widow. Probably all are very powerful and beautiful plants, the question whether all White Widow plants can in today’s market remains highly speculative as fact purely as the only true parent animals endure are Exclusive Shantibaba and Mr. Nice Seed Bank.

Why are so many different breeders openly claim to personally invented this family is understandable because of its surprising commercial success. new breeders continue to emerge, to enforce his authority over the White Widow variety, including a rancher, who also boldly as Ecotronics that someone makes money from the line of seeds, which he himself invented. There can be only one truth, but vague, it has become over the years.
Since the labels for all the original release entitled we face a problem, what version of White Widow for? The answer is that if you are looking for the original White Widow, first published 15 years ago, you should go to the widow of Mr. Black Nice. If Shantibaba has in fact only the parents of this plant, which is very plausible, the only true and original White Widow plant that is on the market today, the black widow of his ancestry appears to be.



