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OG Kush is the most popular strain of Marijuana today, but the true history of OG Kush is widely contested.
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Table of Contents:

What is OG Kush – 00:13
Where does OG Kush come from – 1:00
Does real kush exist today? – 3:55
Terepene Character – 4:16
What does OG stand for? – 9:16
Plant Morphology – 10:25
Strain Name Dilemma – 12:04





Max Montrose, interpener and Founder of the Trichome Institute: [ Ссылка ] discusses the many theories around the origin of OG Kush. The two most popular theories are that Josh D and Matt “Bubba” Burger bred OG Kush from a bag seed he found in Orlando Florida in the 1990s, and that Steve Tuck grew it with some of his friends, from the best of their genetic stock in Canada. While both of these theories may be true, it’s more likely that there never was a pure OG Kush genetic. In other words, there never was an “OG” OG Kush.

Kush itself is a varietal of cannabis from the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. It’s hard to say how cannabis got to the Hindu Kush Mountains, but it’s possible that traders on the Silk Road brought it there. It would have started out as Cannabis-Indica, but due to plant morphology, the different stressors in the Hindu Kush mountains caused the genetics to diverge, creating the afghanica subspecies of Cannabis-Indica. This Afghan Kush varietal is likely the building block of what we know as OG Kush.


Cannabis enthusiasts often wonder to get real OG Kush. Unfortunately, due to hybridization and plant morphology, the original genetic is almost certainly lost. But fortunately, any of these hybrids, if grown under the right care, will taste delicious and get you stoned. The problem with strain names is that they don’t take the plant’s environment into account. The reason that cannabis is such a resilient plant, and so popular all over the world is its adaptability. The plant is a survivor, and it will do whatever it takes to not only survive, but thrive in a particular environment. So everything from soil type, altitude, intensity of sunlight, surrounding cannabis plants, will affect the way the plant expresses certain traits.

It’s perhaps true what Bubba said on the Adam Dunn Show, or maybe Steve Tuck really did grow OG Kush in Canada. The issue is we haven’t been tracking these things. We have no bassline to measure any cuts of OG Kush off of today. We have several competing oral histories of the strains lineage, but no data to back them up. Instead, we can look at the plant itself. What is the terpene profile of kush type strains? Are the plants broad-leafed or narrow-leafed, what are the effects of OG Kush? From looking, smelling, smoking, and touching the plant itself we can’t say if the weed is the “OG” but we can say whether or not it’s a kush type.

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