Super Lemon Haze Strain: Citrus Terpenes, Lineage and Forms

Written by Sophie Clarke · Updated 2026-10-18 · ⏱ 9 min read

Super Lemon Haze strain is a sativa-dominant hybrid bred from Lemon Skunk x Super Silver Haze, prized for its sharp lemon aroma. Most people shorten it to SLH. It comes out of the Amsterdam haze breeding scene, built to pair bright citrus with a resinous backbone.

• Type: sativa dominant hybrid, leaning toward its sativa haze side (a description of lineage and plant structure)
• Origin: an Amsterdam seed bank’s line of haze crosses
• Parents: the Lemon Skunk x Super Silver Haze cross
• Aroma family: super lemon up front, with peppery, resinous haze underneath
• Typical forms: cannabis flowers, pre-rolls, hash

“Strain” names the genetics, not a fixed product. Phenotype and curing shift every batch, so the batch label is your reference. Think of it like a song: the original recording stays the same, but every live version sounds a little different.

Below, you’ll learn to read the strain the way you’d read a label: how each of the two parent strains, Lemon Skunk and Super Silver Haze, maps to something you can smell, which terpenes show up, how the buds look, and how flower, pre-roll and hash compare.

Super Lemon Haze at a glance

Here’s the quick snapshot. Super Lemon Haze comes out of Green House Seed Co., a Lemon Skunk, Super Silver Haze cross built to lock in a lemon-forward terpene profile on a haze frame (the full family tree gets its own section).

Don’t mix up plain Lemon Haze, SLH’s citrusy namesake, with the real thing. That’s a separate cultivar with its own parentage, and the two share a citrus theme rather than a family tree.

The giveaway is in the name: “Super” points straight at the silver haze parent, while the skunk side carries the lemon. If a menu just says “Lemon Haze”, you’re looking at a different plant, even when the aroma lands in a similar place.

Lineage: Lemon Skunk x Super Silver Haze

Knowing the parents is half the story. Leafly describes Super Lemon Haze, often shortened to SLH, as a sativa-dominant hybrid obtained by a seed bank, bred from the parent strains Lemon Skunk and Super Silver Haze, and a two-time Cannabis Cup winner^[5].

That cross works like a label you can learn to read, and knowing it will help you pick out one parent per sensory trait:

• Lemon Skunk: the bright citrus top note, that zesty, sweet-sour lemon peel you catch first when the bag opens.
• Super Silver Haze: the resinous, peppery haze spice underneath, plus the tall, stretchy sativa-leaning plant structure.

Think of it as a track. Lemon Skunk plays the melody, Super Silver Haze lays down the bass line. Take away the bass and you’d get a flat, candy-like lemon; take away the melody and you’re left with a dry, spicy haze strain with no sparkle.

One level deeper, the family tree explains why a Lemon Skunk Super Silver Haze cross feels so seamless. Lemon Skunk descends from Skunk #1, while Super Silver Haze comes from a three-way cross of Skunk #1, Haze and Northern Lights #5^[4]. That shared Skunk root lets the citrus and the silver haze spice sit together instead of fighting for the same space.

The competition circuit built a big part of the super lemon haze strain’s reputation, with its record at the High Times Cannabis Cup as the headline. Those cup results turned SLH into the reference point for lemon-type hazes: read reviews of almost any citrus sativa and you’ll see it measured against this one.

Aroma and terpene profile

With each parent mapped to a trait, the nose of the super lemon haze strain splits into three layers. On top sits grated lemon peel and lemon candy, the middle turns sweet-sour like lemon sorbet, and underneath you get black pepper and earthy haze.

Which terpenes give it that lemon character?

Limonene and terpinolene carry most of the lemon character, while caryophyllene and myrcene build the base. These four are the terpenes commonly reported in lemon-type hazes and other citrus-leaning strains, and each one has a food match you already know:

• Limonene: citrus peel, the zest you’d grate over a tart.
• Terpinolene: pine and fresh herbs, a green brightness that stops the lemon from turning too sweet.
• Caryophyllene: black pepper, the terpene Super Lemon Haze leans on for its spicy haze bottom end.
• Myrcene: earthy and ripe fruit, a rounder note under everything else.

None of this comes with fixed values. Phenotype, harvest timing and how long the buds cure all shift the balance, so two jars of Super Lemon Haze (SLH) can lean differently, one zestier, one spicier. The lab analysis of each batch is available on request from customer service.

Terpene names belong in the aroma column, and that’s their only place. A strain’s terpene list has no data like that behind it, whether it’s this cultivar or plain Lemon Haze.

Look and structure of the buds

Your eyes get there before your nose does. A well-grown super lemon haze strain flower shows its sativa genetics in its shape: elongated, spear-like buds with a slightly airy build, closer to a pine cone than to the dense golf balls you get from indica-leaning cannabis plants.

Colour and texture are the second read, and they work like good design. Lime to light green calyxes form the base, orange pistils add the contrast accent, and a frosty trichome layer sits over everything like a matte sugar glaze.

Then let your fingers check freshness:

• Springiness: the bud gives a little and bounces back, neither crumbly nor damp.
• Sticky resin: a light tack on your fingertips when you handle it.
• Citrus on the break: split a bud open and a clear, strong lemon note should jump out right away.

The forms it comes in: flower, pre-roll, hash

Once you can read a bud, the next question is which format carries that reading best. Super Lemon Haze shows up differently as flower, pre-roll or hash, since each format changes how much of the citrus top note survives.

Flower, pre-roll or hash: which suits your taste?

Pick flower for the full lemon picture, a pre-roll for convenience, and hash if you prefer the warm haze base. Here’s how the three compare:

Our take: to get to know SLH, start with flower. Its place in High Times Cannabis Cup history means little if the format flattens the zest, and the Lemon Skunk side fades first once buds are ground and pre-packed. Hash suits anyone who’d rather lean into the peppery haze backbone than the lemon candy top; format shapes aroma and texture, not a guaranteed high.

At Spliff, the Super Lemon Haze product page lists the available formats in 3 g, 5 g, 10 g, 20 g, 50 g and 100 g, with the price of the day on the product card. THCX is a trade name, not a molecule: every batch is lab-tested for classified molecules and none are detected. The lab analysis of each batch is available on request from customer service.

Conclusion

Whichever format you pick, the reading method stays the same. The super lemon haze strain decodes like a label: bright, uplifting zest from Lemon Skunk, resinous spice from Super Silver Haze, and a spear-shaped bud that gives away its haze frame.

What that cross still offers you is something to read with your nose and eyes. This guide left effects, the high and growing aside on purpose. Whether you’re loading a grinder or breaking a bud by hand, smell first and judge the citrus before anything else.

The same checks work for other strains on the CBD side of the collection: zest, spice, structure. Let the trait you care about most place high on your list. Then start with a small pack if you want to compare flower, pre-roll and hash side by side.

Sources

4. Super Lemon Haze – Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org
5. Super Lemon Haze aka SLH Weed Strain Information | Leafly — www.leafly.com