Prizm is an indica bred and grown by Maven Genetics, the Los Angeles indoor cultivator and seed breeder. It crosses Maven’s own Opal with Permanent Marker #12.
Maven picked Prizm from 31 competing phenotypes and launched it as the first release of its 2024 collection. That same year it took first place in the indica category at the Best of California competition.
Maven specializes in indoor-grown, connoisseur-grade flower and runs a selection-heavy breeding program. The team already had cup results before Prizm, taking first place with Orange Bellini and second with FKAFL, also known as French Laundry, at the 2023 High Times Cannabis Cup SoCal.
Opal and Maven’s collaboration with Saber
Opal is the house side of the cross. Maven developed it together with the graffiti artist Saber and lists it as a limited-edition strain in its library.
Its lineage is Blue Agape × Carbon Candy, which gives Prizm a Maven-bred mother on one side of its family tree.
Maven builds its catalog through heavy phenotyping, judging each candidate on structure, resin, flavor and terpene expression. Prizm went through that filter too, beating 30 sibling phenotypes for its release slot.
Permanent Marker #12 on the other side
Permanent Marker ranks among the biggest strains of recent years in Leaf Magazine’s view, and Maven used a specific numbered cut, #12, to make Prizm. The Highest Critic credits the parent genetics behind Prizm to DEO and Seed Junky Genetics.
The number matters to Maven’s breeding notes. The library records the full cross as Opal × Permanent Marker #12, and a sibling selection, Prizm #13, later went into Lipstain.
Maven lists Prizm as an indica. Weedmaps describes it as an indica-dominant cross, and one Weedmaps batch posted 32% THC.
Spade-shaped buds with purple mottling
Prizm is built for bag appeal. Maven describes shimmering, spade-shaped buds, and Leaf Magazine compares them to little footballs made of Romanesco broccoli, mottled purple under a beaded coat of trichomes.
The Highest Critic lists limonene, myrcene and trans-nerolidol as its leading terpenes, and scored the strain 89%. Half-ounce bags carried a $120 MSRP at the time of its review.
The smoke finishes in sharp lemon-diesel territory. Maven frames the effects as sedative and calming.
Prizm as a parent in Maven’s program
Maven kept Prizm as an in-house male, selected for heavy resin production, strong structure and striking purple expression. It now sits behind several newer releases.
Chroma crosses Prizm with Black Diamond X and is also listed as an indica. Black Diamond X brings XXX OG × Black Diamond OG into that cross. Lipstain pairs Lipsmackerz with Prizm #13, and Dirty Laundry crosses FKAFL with Prizm.
Lipstain and Dirty Laundry both launched as feminized 6-packs at $150, with a 60–65 day flowering window and 23–28% THC ranges.
Prizm also appears in Maven’s Halo pre-rolls. The Prizmatic Halo packs 1.5 g of Prizm flower with 0.4 g of Chroma solventless live rosin, pairing the parent with its own offspring in a single joint. Maven also sells Mini Halos, half-gram pre-rolls infused with 0.1 g of live rosin and sold in 5-packs.