CannaDB

OG Kush

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Origin year
1995
Origin region
California (via Florida)
Indica / Sativa
75/25 indica-dominant

Description

OG Kush is the strain that defined West Coast cannabis identity for nearly two decades. Its name is the subject of more bar-room arguments than any other strain in the modern catalog — "Original Gangster," "Ocean Grown," or simply the original Kush that came out of Florida and travelled west — and the actual genetics behind it are very nearly as contested as the etymology.

The most widely cited account places OG Kush as a phenotype selected from a Chemdog cross, possibly with Hindu Kush and Lemon Thai influence, brought from Florida to Los Angeles in the mid-1990s and propagated as a clone-only cut for years before any seed lines stabilised. The Chemdog parentage is well-supported; the rest is partly inference and partly mythology.

What is not contested is OG Kush's role as ancestor: Triangle Kush, GSC's GSC's lineage, and a generation of Kush-family hybrids descend from this cultivar. This record exists primarily as a lineage anchor. A second OG Kush record (with a different lineage claim) is published alongside this one as a deliberate canonicalization-test fixture; the maintainer has not chosen between them.

Lineage

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Claims

Flavors

  • pine
  • lemon
  • kush
  • earthy
  • fuel

Effects

  • relaxed
  • euphoric
  • happy

Terpenes

  • myrcene
  • limonene
  • caryophyllene
Raw record

AT-URI: at://did:plc:lrtzzib3ycggsodkfidzuorw/org.cannadb.strain/og-kush

CID: bafyreibp4i5ytpcd5bxgwju6c6a7h3zwk2osfrqa5qgu5fry7crnx77qma

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  "parentNames": [
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  "indicaSativa": 25,
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