OG Kush
Family: <a href="https://www.lovetheplant.com/family/og-kush">OG Kush</a>
Parents: <a href="https://www.lovetheplant.com/strain/chemdawg">Chemdawg</a> (reported) × Kush / <a href="https://www.lovetheplant.com/strain/hindu-kush">Hindu Kush</a> influence (reported; partly Unknown)
# OG Kush
OG Kush sits near the center of modern North American cannabis storytelling. Most published accounts place its rise in Southern California during the 1990s, with a loud fuel-pine-citrus profile that later breeders treated as a template rather than a single locked cultivar. Early paperwork is thin. Community cut names and regional stories did more to spread the line than any one seed-company catalog entry.
Common teaching models connect OG Kush to [Chemdawg](/strain/chemdawg) on one side and a Kush or [Hindu Kush](/strain/hindu-kush) influence on the other. Records conflict: some circles emphasize a Chemdawg seed story; others stress unnamed Kush cuts or Triangle Kush adjacency. Love The Plant keeps unresolved links marked partly Unknown instead of inventing a clean pedigree.
Why the line mattered is straightforward. OG Kush gave breeders a recognizable gas-and-pine aroma language and a structure that crossed well into dessert and fuel hybrids. It became a parent or grandparent name behind countless OG selections and helped set expectations for what a modern hybrid should smell like on a shelf.
Named descendants and relatives on this site include [SFV OG](/strain/sfv-og), [Tahoe OG](/strain/tahoe-og), [Ghost OG](/strain/ghost-og), and the Cookies bridge via [Girl Scout Cookies (GSC)](/strain/gsc) (commonly reported as OG Kush × [Durban Poison](/strain/durban-poison)). Later dessert work such as [Wedding Cake](/strain/wedding-cake) and [Gelato](/strain/gelato) still sits in the wider OG-influenced conversation.
Aroma conversations around classic OG cuts often mention [Myrcene](/terpene/Myrcene), [Limonene](/terpene/Limonene), [Caryophyllene](/terpene/Caryophyllene), [Pinene](/terpene/Pinene), and sometimes [Linalool](/terpene/Linalool). Exact lab percentages vary by grow and cut, so this library names terpenes without inventing numbers. Use the local tree on each related page—parents, this cut, children—rather than a giant unverified graph.
