OG$$$Kush represent.
I agree it’s silly.
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Wasn’t sure if I jumped on here and said this but Josh d brand is owned by calyx a MA company, so there’s a bit of info for you about OG kush I found out lol.
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I think the thought was OG Kush might’ve got its ‘OG’ initials from 'O’ver’G’row, where the ghost and such were shown off and passed around…
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I have to agree that show is really hard to listen top for very long and they are so full of themselves . . . I get it that they had all of these great experiences and are building their empire out there but sometimes it almost seems condescending . . .
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I’ve always known it to come from the term ‘Original Gangsta’
Surely OG Kush was around before OverGrow as well?
Or is that when the OG was added to differentiate between the various cuts and the original.
I’m sure I heard Marty TK Origins talking about this on a potcast sometime too.
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Always thought it was some white kids using “OG” as “Original Gangster/Gangsta” and not the grown by the coast “Ocean Grown” thing I’ve heard. But, who really cares?
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Who really cares, BINGO
HOLYANGEL DOES 
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Has anyone found a reference for OG Kush prior to the early 90’s? In High Times or Cannabis Culture maybe? Just wondering if anyone has dug anything interesting up.
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There is kush then there is og kush and the 2 are not very simular in my opinion . Kush is a indica landrace from the hindu kush mt regions and og kush is a cross with possibly some kush genetics mixed in but nobody knows for sure what the genetics are but its definitely a hybrid of some sort with the cuts i ran being sativa dominant in growth but having small clusters of dense buds . Having grown both nothing is simular to me but the name used.
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According to Marty from TK Origins,
His grow in Florida is where the OG Kush and TK came from (they’re sisters apparently both from the same grow that accidentally got pollinated).
Emerald Triangle x Hindu Kush.
But no one knows what Emerald Triangle definitely is, and which Hindu Kush seeds he popped is a bit of a mystery too.
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@SonsOfAvery The Hindu was nevils hindu which was not Hindu but a mix of genetics.
Og first ment original genetics but original gangster and then ocean grown became widely assumed. It was grown indoors in the valley and near silver lake at first nothing ocean about it.
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The earliest references would have been on the original overgrow and other cannabis forums that no longer exist.
Adam dunn did sell seeds a long time ago that had og in the name which I have always found as odd.
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Nevil’s Kush x Kush was a mix of-
Afghani Hindu Kush (Kush 4) x (Afghani Hindu Kush ( x Afghani Mazar?) (Northern lights #1) x (Afghani Hindu kush x Thai)) (Northern Lights #2 F3)
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Yes that is correct and it still causes confusion to this day.
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shes much more of a bubba type of kush. still some bomb nonetheless.
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Not really. People need to understand that they will never find OG in a pure Hindu kush.
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Yeah that is def a waste of time.
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I guess the thing I’m trying to establish is did the name actually come FROM the internet (Overgrow or elsewhere) or was it named outside of that space.
I’m not sure I buy the Florida origination story. Certainly for the Triangle Kush and Crippy though.
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In the bay area and emerald triangle, the history that was given was that OG came from emerald triangle green bud. But the story was really more of a general oral history of growing in the emerald triangle. So consider it like that.
OG stands for ocean grown because it was grown in the humboldt / trinity / mendocino coast.
The green bud was a localized polyhybrid formed by cross pollination in the era when most grows were lightly seeded. There were a lot of people planting guerilla in the redwoods and manzanitas, and people growing on family owned farms. Experienced families had family heirlooms that they grew every year.
People would sell their local harvests in fall, and in the off season a lot of people were importing bud. People started growing out the seeds they got in import bud, and it cross pollinated with some of the local lines.
People would continue to grow out the seeds from each crop the next year, and the local and import lines mixed over time with natural and human selection. Just growers using seeds from their crop from the plants that were best or healthiest.
That’s what the emerald trianlge green bud was. when I say “green bud” that’s just a term for high quality light green outdoor bud from that area. That’s to differentiate it from low quality outdoor and imported bud, which was usually brown.
Over time people transitioned to sinsemilla, and many sources for import just dried up. (the decline of middle eastern imports, asian imports and import from the west indies… and imports from the south transitioning from small scale to narcos. All of this ended the import scene in the emeral triangle.)
it was all about locally grown product.
At some point people started making selections from their green bud for indoor growing. This is the era that OG came from.
When I was learning in the prop 215 medical community, people considered the OG lines to be selections that initially came from that origin. People thought that the seeds originating southern california OG lines likely came from the emerald triangle as lightly seeded bud. Starting in the late 80s dealers from LA were driving up to the humboldt area every harvest season and buying in large volume for dealing in LA.
So that’s the story of “ocean grown.”
The name also meant that it did well in foggy coastal conditions. The distinctly spaced golfball and berry sized smallish dense buds and stretchy structure made it more resistant to mold and moisture than plants with huge colas. The buds were very easy to trim which was good for growers, and dense for their size which was good for dealers.
I never heard the florida story until a couple years ago. That story still mentions emeral triangle green bud though. I didn’t see southern OG cuts like irene grown in california until 2012, maybe around 2009 for triangle kush.
My personal theory is that the california OG and the florida OG may have both come from the same emerald triangle bud, but after that they were distinct and separate.
I never saw any indication that og in california came from florida, or heard of southern OG genetics being grown in california until much later.
The florida story makes sense for the southern OG cuts, but it doesn’t make any sense to me as an origin story for OG in california.
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