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THE KING OF CANNABIS: NEVIL’S SEED EMPIRE 👑🌱

presented by ‪@nuggnotes‬

From parrots in Perth to hybrids in Holland, Nevil Schoenmakers turned cannabis from clone whispers into catalog commerce—laying the genetic foundation for the indoor revolution.

This is the rise of the first seed king.

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🧠 What You’ll Learn:

• How Nevil, born in 1956 in Perth to Dutch parents, moved to Holland in ’76 & saw cannabis as a breeding project, not just a high

• Why founding The Seed Bank of Holland (1983–84) made him the first to openly catalog & ship hybrids worldwide

• How full-page High Times ads flipped secret clone trades into public mail-order access for U.S. & EU growers

• Why his Skunk #1, Haze, Northern Lights & NL#5/Haze hybrids became HID grow staples & cup winners

• How High Times crowned him “King of Cannabis” in 1987, cementing his legend from coffeeshops to basements

• Why Operation Green Merchant (1990) led to his arrest in Australia on U.S. seed charges—though extradition failed

• How selling the Seed Bank archive to Sensi Seeds (Ben Dronkers) safeguarded his vault & kept his genetics alive

• Why his Mr. Nice collabs with Shantibaba & Howard Marks birthed icons
like Super Silver Haze, Nevil’s Haze & Black Widow (the original White Widow)

• Why Nevil’s legacy matters:

 1️⃣ Industrialized access—clone-only elites → shippable seeds

 2️⃣ Armed indoor growers—HID-ready hybrids

 3️⃣ Archive preservation—via Sensi & Mr. Nice, his DNA is still the rootstock of countless cultivars

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🕯️ Takeaway: When Nevil died in 2019 at 62, he left more than seeds—he left the playbook for modern cannabis genetics. The castle wasn’t just a lab. It was the launchpad.

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