Parents

Sources name different parents — 4 versions recorded.

VERSION 1 · 9 SOURCES

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Shown first: named by 9 sources; the next version has 1.

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Version 2 · 1 source — Hindu Kush × Chem Dawg
Version 3 · 1 source — Candy Crush
Version 4 · 1 source — Tahoe OG × 91 OG

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O.G. Kush

aka og, kush og, kush, kush kush, o g kush, what are og, exotic og, original gangster

1996 · Origin disputed; Southern California

Kush/Earth

7 back12 forward

THC 20-25%·CBD <1%

Ancestor of 3190 strains

Disputed lineage

At least one parent for this strain is contested — sources disagree on its lineage.

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Children

Show all 176 children

Girl Scout Cookies (GSC)hybrid2018 descendants

SFV OGhybrid3190 descendants

Skywalker OGhybrid21 descendants

King Louis XIIIhybrid6 descendants

Chem Dawghybrid3190 descendants

Bruce Bannerhybrid6 descendants

Bubba Kushhybrid342 descendants

Headbandhybrid27 descendants

Candy Crushhybrid3190 descendants

Cookieshybrid32 descendants

Dulce De Uvahybrid4 descendants

Ghost OGhybrid134 descendants

Sour Dieselsativa3190 descendants

Lemon Cherry Gelatohybrid65 descendants

GMOhybrid157 descendants

Wedding Cakehybrid242 descendants

Gary Paytonhybrid44 descendants

Do-Si-Doshybrid421 descendants

Cereal Milkhybrid23 descendants

Sunset Sherbethybrid1169 descendants

3,170 more descendants

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Aroma profile

Aroma profile scores for O.G. Kush (Leafly scale; 0 is typical)
Citrus	−0.7
Candy Sweetness	−1.0
Dark Fruit	−1.5
Floral	−0.8
Herbaceous	−0.3
Earth	+2.2
Funk	−0.4
Gas	−0.6
Dessert & Cream	−0.7

What the axes mean

Citrus: Bright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.
Candy Sweetness: Confection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.
Dark Fruit: Deep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.
Floral: Blossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.
Herbaceous: Green, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.
Earth: Soil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.
Funk: Sour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.
Gas: Fuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.
Dessert & Cream: Bakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.

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3 sister strains

Candy Gashybridhalf sister Sugar Kushhybridhalf sister Stargazerhybridhalf sister