Strain guide
What each strain actually is — lineage, terpenes, and typical effects — plus the dispensaries that carry it. For information only, not medical advice.
5G
5G is a name shared by more than one breeder, so what is on the shelf can vary. The version from Twenty20 Mendocino in California crossed GM…
Apple Fritter
Apple Fritter is a dessert-era hybrid from Northern California, bred in 2013 by Jason Dias of Lumpy's Flowers by crossing Sour Apple with An…
Berry Pie
Berry Pie comes out of the Cookies orbit, a collaboration with Seed Junky Genetics that crosses GSC with the classic Blueberry. It started a…
Blue Dream
Blue Dream is one of the most popular strains in American legal markets, and its appeal is easy to explain: a sweet blueberry nose and a hig…
Blueberry
Blueberry is one of the great legacy strains, created by breeder DJ Short in the late 1970s. He worked the unusual way around, using Thai an…
Bubba Fett
Bubba Fett is a Colorado creation, bred by Boulder's Green Dream Cannabis during the state's post-legalization breeding boom by crossing Pre…
Bubba Kush
Bubba Kush is one of the foundational American indicas, a 1990s California strain whose origin story is almost as hazy as its effects. The u…
Candyland
Candyland is Ken Estes' daytime answer to his own Granddaddy Purple. Around 2011 the Bay Area breeder crossed GDP with Bay Platinum Cookies,…
Cosmic Apple
Cosmic Apple is a recent hybrid from an uncredited breeder, made by crossing Cosmic Candy with Apple Fritter. The Apple Fritter side brings …
Do-Si-Dos
Do-Si-Dos, often shortened to Dosi, is one of the defining strains of the Cookies-meets-OG era. Archive Seed Bank in Portland, Oregon, relea…
Fire OG
Fire OG is a California OG from around the turn of the millennium, made by crossing OG Kush with the San Fernando Valley cut known as SFV OG…
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit is a flavor-first, indica-leaning hybrid that pairs Cherry Pie with Tangie. It is credited to Chameleon Extracts in Santa Cl…
Fritter Fuel
Fritter Fuel is a recent release from Spaceman Seed Co. that pairs Apple Fritter, the dessert favorite from Lumpy's Flowers, with Motorbreat…
GMO Cookies (aka Garlic Cookies)
GMO Cookies, listed on many menus as GMO or Garlic Cookies, is the strain that made savory cannabis fashionable. It is credited to Mamiko Se…
GSC (Girl Scout Cookies)
GSC, originally sold as Girl Scout Cookies, is the strain that launched the Cookies family and much of today's dessert-style cannabis. It ca…
Garlic
Garlic is less a single cut than a name dispensaries use for savory, garlic-forward flower, so what arrives under it can vary by grower. The…
Gelato
Gelato is one of the strains that shaped the modern dessert era. It came out of San Francisco in the mid-2010s, where the Cookie Fam and bre…
Gelato #33 (Larry Bird)
Gelato #33, nicknamed Larry Bird after the Boston Celtics great who wore that number, is the best-known phenotype from the original Gelato h…
Golden Ticket
Golden Ticket, sometimes listed as Mr. Dank's Golden Ticket, is a Portland-bred hybrid from Archive Seed Bank that crosses Mr. Dank's well-l…
Granddaddy Purple (GDP)
Granddaddy Purple, usually shortened to GDP, is one of the defining purple strains of the California scene. Ken Estes introduced it in the S…
Green Crack
Green Crack is an old-school daytime strain whose name has always drawn more notice than its origins. It was bred around 1990 in Athens, Ohi…
Harlequin
Harlequin was developed in Northern California in the early 2000s by Mr. Green of the House of David Collective, who combined four landrace …
Hawaiian Haze
Hawaiian Haze is a sativa-leaning cross of Hawaiian and Haze genetics, and the name tells most of its story. The Hawaiian side reaches back …
Hawaiian Punch
Hawaiian Punch traces back to the sativa stock of the Hawaiian Islands, and its exact parentage has never been pinned down. The version most…
Hawaiian Snow
Hawaiian Snow is one of the signature sativas from Amsterdam's Green House Seeds, the company Arjan Roskam founded in 1985. It is usually de…
Jack Herer
Jack Herer is named for the activist and author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, one of the best-known voices in the American fight to end c…
Kali Mist
Kali Mist is the flagship sativa of Serious Seeds, bred by Simon in 1993 and released the following year. Its exact makeup has been kept pri…
Lemon OG (Lemon OG Kush, Presidential Kush)
Lemon OG, also sold as Lemon OG Kush and sometimes as Presidential Kush, is DNA Genetics' effort to push the OG family toward bright citrus.…
Lodi Dodi
Lodi Dodi is a Washington State favorite whose exact genetics have been kept deliberately quiet. It is most often credited to The Clone Zone…
Midnight
Midnight is a balanced hybrid bred in the mid-2010s from The Black and Fucking Incredible, a project associated with Israel's Tikun Olam and…
OG #18 (Private Reserve)
OG #18, often sold as Private Reserve or Reserve OG, is a standout OG Kush selection from DNA Genetics' Reserva Privada line. In the mid-200…
OG Kush
OG Kush is the genetic backbone of West Coast cannabis, and its descendants fill much of any modern menu. Its story begins in the early 1990…
Peanut Butter Breath
Peanut Butter Breath is a strong hybrid cannabis strain created in Michigan around 2017 by crossing Do-Si-Dos and Mendo Breath. It has high …
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express was already on dispensary menus before the 2008 stoner comedy borrowed its name, but the film turned it into one of the mo…
Pineapple OG
Pineapple OG is a West Coast hybrid from the 2010s, most often described as Pineapple Express crossed with an unnamed OG Kush cut, though ot…
Pink Rozay
Pink Rozay is a Cookies release from San Francisco, created around 2020 by crossing Lemonchello #10 with London Pound Cake #75 and closely t…
Platinum Kush
Platinum Kush takes its name from the look of its flowers: dense, compact buds so heavily frosted with resin that they read as silver, often…
Power Plant
Power Plant is a Dutch classic built on South African sativa genetics. Dutch Passion worked the line through the 1990s and released it in 19…
SFV OG
SFV OG takes its name from California's San Fernando Valley, where it circulated as a prized clone-only cut of OG Kush in the mid-2000s. Swe…
Sherblato
Sherblato brings together two stars of California's dessert wave, crossing Sunset Sherbert with Gelato. The version usually credited is from…
Sonoran Sour
Sonoran Sour is a newer entry in the sour family, bred in Arizona by Spaceman Seed Co. and named for the desert that surrounds its home. It …
Sour Cookies
Sour Cookies brings together two of the most influential strains of the past few decades: Sour Diesel, the fuel-heavy icon of the East Coast…
Sour Diesel
Few strains are as closely tied to a place as Sour Diesel is to New York. It surfaced in the city's underground scene in the early 1990s, th…
Strawberry Banana (Strawnana)
Strawberry Banana, better known as Strawnana, came out of Amsterdam through DNA Genetics' Reserva Privada line in collaboration with Serious…
Strawberry Cough
Strawberry Cough is one of the rare fruit-named strains that genuinely smells like its namesake, giving off a sweet, ripe-berry aroma the mo…
Super Green Crack
Super Green Crack joins two well-known daytime lines: Green Crack, the fast-hitting cut that began life in Georgia as Cush before Snoop Dogg…
Super Lemon Haze
Super Lemon Haze came out of Green House Seed Company in Amsterdam around the turn of the millennium, when Franco Loja and Arjan Roskam cros…
Tangie
Tangie is DNA Genetics' modern take on Tangerine Dream, the 1990s citrus favorite, developed with breeder Crockett from California Orange an…