Og Kush
Hybrid
Hindu Kush
No alternate names recorded
- Sourced
- Cannabinoids: Sourced
- Effects: Sourced
- Review date not recorded
Review date not recorded
At a glance
- Type
- Hybrid
- High
- Head and Body
- Genetics
- Hindu Kush
- Flowering
- 45–50 d
- THC Range
- 17% – 27%
- CBD Range
- up to 0.45%
- Dominant Terpenes
- Caryophyllene, Limonene, Linalool
Effect Profile
Reported by the community and curated from multiple sources.
- Reported
- Reported Negatives
Frequency not recorded
Deeply Relaxing
Reported
Euphoric
Reported
Happy
Reported
Hungry
Reported
Uplifted
Reported
- Dizzy
- Dry Eyes
- Dry Mouth
- Headache
- The Scaries
Plant Profile
Cannabinoid Profile (As Reported)
View methodology- THC17% – 27%
- CBDup to 0.45%
- CBC0.1%
- CBG1%
- CBGa0.6%
- CBN0.6%
- THCV0.17% – 0.45%
Ranges reflect legacy lab reports and aggregated user data, as recorded.
Dominant Terpenes (Top 5)
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CaryophyllenePeppery, SpicyHigh- LimoneneHigh
LinaloolFloral, LavenderModerate
HumuleneWoody, HoppyModerate
MyrceneHerbal, EarthyModerate
Flavor & Aroma
Flavor
Earthy, Herbal, Pine, Spicy, Woody
Aroma
Citrus, Diesel, Earthy, Pine, Spicy
User-Reported Medical Usage New
Community- and source-reported, not medical advice.
5 reported uses
- 1DepressionReported as a reason for use.—
- 2AnxietyReported as a reason for use.—
- 3Loss Of AppetiteReported as a reason for use.—
- 4NauseaReported as a reason for use.—
- 5HeadachesReported as a reason for use.—
Listed by how widely each use is reported across strains. The share of reporters is not recorded for these reports. Not a measure of whether it worked.
View all reported usesGenetics & Origin
Hindu Kush’s parents
Hindu Kush
Indica
Parent Strain
Og Kush
Hybrid
Origin
OG Kush's genetics are genuinely uncertain. The most-repeated account is Chemdawg crossed with a Hindu Kush landrace. Another has it emerging from undocumented bag seed as a distinct phenotype of some earlier strain. The name is disputed on the same terms, with Original Gangster, Ocean Grown and OverGrown.com all having their believers. What is not disputed is the reach. OG Kush sits behind a very long list of West Coast strains, from Tahoe OG and Fire OG to a branch of the Cookies family. With a name this borrowed, the specific clone and the producer are what you are actually choosing.
Dr. Greenthumb's record agrees with 26 other breeders: 420 Genetics, Abraxas Seeds, Aficionado Seed Bank, Bulk Seed Bank, Bulk Seeds, Dinafem and 20 more.
3 lineage claim sets recorded. The one shown is attributed to Dr. Greenthumb; the others are in the tabs above, each with its own source.
Bred from Og Kush (141)
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The Grow
Best Results
Indoor and Outdoor
Preferred Climate
Warm
Grow Difficulty
- Beginner
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Expert
Difficult
Outdoor
- Harvest
- Early October
- Height
- 0.8–1.8 m
- Yield
- 16oz/ plant
Indoor
- Harvest
- 8–9 wk
- Height
- 0.8–1.8 m
- Yield
- 17oz/ m2
- Flowering
- 45–50 d
- Resistance
- prone to PM, low resistance to bugs and disease
The difficulty to grow Og Kush is known for being difficult. For growers cultivating indoors, expect 0.8–1.8 m height with a 17oz/ m2 yield with in about 8–9 wk. Outdoors, harvest around Early October.
Cultivation Notes
OG Kush is a hard grow. It is prone to powdery mildew and has low resistance to pests and disease, so it needs a clean, controlled room. It stays under two meters and finishes fast for the family, at 45 to 50 days, with reported indoor yield around 17 ounces per square meter. Feminized and phenotype-selected versions are common. Grower and breeder figures.
When To Try It
Best:
Night
Occasions:
after a stressful day
About
OG Kush is one of the few strain names people know outside cannabis, and almost nothing about it is settled. Its parents are a guess, usually Chemdawg crossed with a Hindu Kush landrace, sometimes an undocumented bag seed. Even the letters are argued over: Original Gangster, Ocean Grown or OverGrown.com, a growers' forum the Canadian police shut down in 2006.
It reached Los Angeles in the mid-1990s and became the building block for a whole coast of strains. Whatever OG stands for, the plant it names is more influential than almost anything with a clearer record.
What to Expect
OG Kush is a two-part high. Across roughly 10,500 Leafly reviews, happy leads at 57 percent, relaxed at 52 and euphoric at 50, and the older write-ups describe the shape well: a bright, sometimes heady lift that gives way to real body weight and, often, the couch. It is a night strain. Hunger is common, reported by 30 percent.
With OG Kush the dose sets everything. A modest amount stays heady and talkative; more brings on the couch-lock and, for about one review in fourteen, some paranoia or a dry-mouthed edge. Dry mouth itself is high at 34 percent, with dry eyes behind it. It is a poor pick for daytime, for focus work or for a first-timer buying on the reputation, because the reputation oversells how gentle it is.
Flavor and Aroma
OG Kush is earth, pine and diesel, with a sharp lemon-lime brightness across the top and a note growers often reach for as barbecue smoke. It is a bold, attention-getting smell, sticky and resinous even in the jar. The flavor tracks the aroma, fuel and earth up front, the citrus on the finish.
Terpenes Explained
OG Kush's measured panel leads with Caryophyllene near four tenths of a percent, then Limonene and a real amount of Linalool, with Myrcene and Humulene behind. Terpinolene barely registers.
Caryophyllene fits the peppery, spicy edge and Limonene the citrus, but the diesel that defines OG Kush for most people is not on the standard nine-terpene panel at all. That fuel note comes from compounds a typical panel does not measure. Use the numbers to compare one OG Kush jar to another, not to account for the smell that made it famous.
Cannabinoids and Potency
OG Kush THC lands between about 17 and 27 percent in our records, with the lab-measured samples near 19. CBD is a trace. CBN reads high, around 0.6 percent, which usually means older or more oxidized flower. Old marketing called it one of the strongest strains in the world; the measured picture is strong but ordinary by current standards.
Potency is not the axis that matters here. Buy on the producer and the cut, because the name covers a lot of different plants.
Awards & Recognition
Each award is bound to the exact entry that won it. Nothing is inherited by the strain as a whole.
2019 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2019 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2018 Canadian Cannabis Awards — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2018 The Emerald Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2016 Santa Cruz Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2016 Spannabis Cannabis Champions Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2015 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2015 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2013 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2012 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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2010 Spannabis Cannabis Champions Cup — entry recorded as “OG Kush”
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0 verified recognitions. 11 unresolved entries shown but excluded from the count.
Competition historyBusinesses familiar with Og Kush 0
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How we verify businessesExperience Evidence & Sources
Where this record’s observations come from, and what each source covers.
Community strain database aggregation (Labster/Blaster/Grower/Writer)
Aggregated from third-party community strain databases — 9 source records.
Ascendancy Drupal preserved public extract
Carried over from the preserved Ascendancy archive — 1 source record.
One recorded conflict
3 lineage claim sets disagree. All are retained with their sources; none is presented as settled.
Source summaries only. Evidence bodies are not published on this page.
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