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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Strawberry Banana (Strawnana)
Strawberry Banana, better known as Strawnana, came out of Amsterdam through DNA Genetics' Reserva Privada line in collaboration with Serious…
Watermelon
Watermelon is an old-school strain whose origins were never claimed by a breeder, and it circulated through California's underground market …
Wedding Cake
Wedding Cake is one of the defining dessert strains of the late 2010s. It was bred in Southern California by Seed Junky Genetics from Triang…