Chem Dog and OG Kush
Chem Dog and OG Kush
My research on this from west coast, Colorado and New York growers of these strains is this (much of the history is spoken about and still available on YouTube by most of the actual growers involved) is that it was Pakistani:
Dog Bud (not to be confused with God Bud) was a cut taken from the Emerald Triangle in NorCal and grown in Crested Butte area of Colorado where it was held closely by a few growers there. Bags of Dog Bud were sold for $500 an oz at the now infamous Grateful Dead concert at Deer Creek in 1991 by a guy maned Joe to a guy later dubbed Chem, who was from NYC. He bought one oz there and ordered and later received 2 more oz's in NY. In one of those later those bags were 13 viable S1 seeds. He planted 4 the first year, and from that sprang 3 females and one male. The male was pulled (he later regretted doing that). The best one was called Chem Dog after the parent, Dog Bud and the smell, (later the name morphed into Chem Dawg) and is now commonly known as ChemDawg'91 and is the main cut found out there now. The two other females are known as ChemDawgA and ChenDawgB. Chemdog/dawg became better known in the NYC area as Diesel, Sour Diesel and NYC Diesel. Chem himself confirmed that. It was called Diesel because of the chemical diesel smell to it.
Later Chem and his GF planted 3 more of the seeds, and they were labeled C, D, and E. Supposedly E did not germinate at all and C was crap. D turned out to be OK. Then fast forward further to 2006 when Chem met up with Joe again and Chem gave him four of the remaining six seeds. Joe germinated the seeds, and only one was noteworthy, and it became known as the Reunion Strain. Supposedly there are two of the thirteen original seeds left in Chem’s stash.
Now the story diverges. One story is that the Chem Dog strain made its way to Florida where it became known as Triangle Kush, and OG Kush was crossed. Out here in the west the story is this which I believe, given the YouTube testimonies and all the California dominant strain names for it:
Chem Dog cuts made their way back to the west from NYC. It is still fairly common out here still as a ChemDawg clone-only medical strain. A flowering cut of it was crossed in Grass Valley, CA with a Lemon Thai x Hindu Kush (Pakistani) male. The results of that was OG Kush. After a time that grower married a woman from NZ and he moved there with her. He left his clones with a few people in California, and from there (Salinas and Downey) more cuts were distributed around California. They also made their way out to other states. The OG in the name is attributed to OverGrow.com, where member Ghost received one cut from member OrgnKid. OverGrow was a web site that is now defunct, but was dedicated to growing weed in the 1990s. The cuts made their way around California and to LA where they became known as over a dozen different names, and OG became known as Ocean Grown. In Sacramento the cuts were known as Sac1, Sac2, and Sac3. There as also a Tahoe cut and the Lost Coast (the name for the Mendocino and Humboldt Co coast) cut. It is debatable if the Triangle Kush was attributed to the Florida Triangle (Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa), or the Emerald Triangle in NorCal. I believe that all of these names are for the same genetics, of which I have grown several myself, including Ghost, Triangle Kush and SFV Kush. Here is a list of the names of the same OG Kush strain as it moved around the country:
Triangle Kush
Tripple OG/XXX OG
Ghost, Ghost OG, Ghost OG Kush
OG Kush
Super OG Kush
SFV OG/San Fernando Valley, SFV OG Kush
Larry, Larry OG
Diablo, El Diablo
Raskal's OG
HA OG/Hell's Angles
Fire, Fire OG
Abusive
818
SAC #1,#2, & #3
Poison OG
Private Reserve OG
Purple OG Kush
Tahoe OG, Tahoe OG Kush
Lost Coast OG
True OG
Kosher Kush
Supposedly the best cuts of OG Kush are Tahoe and Ghost. I grew the Ghost cut last winter indoors, and I made many clones of it that I grew outdoors this summer. It has rather different pheno characteristics growing indoors and out, and has a full range of colors to it in the fall (gold, purple, bronze, red, and yellow). It finishes outdoors here on the 45th parallel later than is typically advertised (mid October).
Chem Dog and OG Kush
My research on this from west coast, Colorado and New York growers of these strains is this (much of the history is spoken about and still available on YouTube by most of the actual growers involved) is that it was Pakistani:
Dog Bud (not to be confused with God Bud) was a cut taken from the Emerald Triangle in NorCal and grown in Crested Butte area of Colorado where it was held closely by a few growers there. Bags of Dog Bud were sold for $500 an oz at the now infamous Grateful Dead concert at Deer Creek in 1991 by a guy maned Joe to a guy later dubbed Chem, who was from NYC. He bought one oz there and ordered and later received 2 more oz's in NY. In one of those later those bags were 13 viable S1 seeds. He planted 4 the first year, and from that sprang 3 females and one male. The male was pulled (he later regretted doing that). The best one was called Chem Dog after the parent, Dog Bud and the smell, (later the name morphed into Chem Dawg) and is now commonly known as ChemDawg'91 and is the main cut found out there now. The two other females are known as ChemDawgA and ChenDawgB. Chemdog/dawg became better known in the NYC area as Diesel, Sour Diesel and NYC Diesel. Chem himself confirmed that. It was called Diesel because of the chemical diesel smell to it.
Later Chem and his GF planted 3 more of the seeds, and they were labeled C, D, and E. Supposedly E did not germinate at all and C was crap. D turned out to be OK. Then fast forward further to 2006 when Chem met up with Joe again and Chem gave him four of the remaining six seeds. Joe germinated the seeds, and only one was noteworthy, and it became known as the Reunion Strain. Supposedly there are two of the thirteen original seeds left in Chem’s stash.
Now the story diverges. One story is that the Chem Dog strain made its way to Florida where it became known as Triangle Kush, and OG Kush was crossed. Out here in the west the story is this which I believe, given the YouTube testimonies and all the California dominant strain names for it:
Chem Dog cuts made their way back to the west from NYC. It is still fairly common out here still as a ChemDawg clone-only medical strain. A flowering cut of it was crossed in Grass Valley, CA with a Lemon Thai x Hindu Kush (Pakistani) male. The results of that was OG Kush. After a time that grower married a woman from NZ and he moved there with her. He left his clones with a few people in California, and from there (Salinas and Downey) more cuts were distributed around California. They also made their way out to other states. The OG in the name is attributed to OverGrow.com, where member Ghost received one cut from member OrgnKid. OverGrow was a web site that is now defunct, but was dedicated to growing weed in the 1990s. The cuts made their way around California and to LA where they became known as over a dozen different names, and OG became known as Ocean Grown. In Sacramento the cuts were known as Sac1, Sac2, and Sac3. There as also a Tahoe cut and the Lost Coast (the name for the Mendocino and Humboldt Co coast) cut. It is debatable if the Triangle Kush was attributed to the Florida Triangle (Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa), or the Emerald Triangle in NorCal. I believe that all of these names are for the same genetics, of which I have grown several myself, including Ghost, Triangle Kush and SFV Kush. Here is a list of the names of the same OG Kush strain as it moved around the country:
Triangle Kush
Tripple OG/XXX OG
Ghost, Ghost OG, Ghost OG Kush
OG Kush
Super OG Kush
SFV OG/San Fernando Valley, SFV OG Kush
Larry, Larry OG
Diablo, El Diablo
Raskal's OG
HA OG/Hell's Angles
Fire, Fire OG
Abusive
818
SAC #1,#2, & #3
Poison OG
Private Reserve OG
Purple OG Kush
Tahoe OG, Tahoe OG Kush
Lost Coast OG
True OG
Kosher Kush
Supposedly the best cuts of OG Kush are Tahoe and Ghost. I grew the Ghost cut last winter indoors, and I made many clones of it that I grew outdoors this summer. It has rather different pheno characteristics growing indoors and out, and has a full range of colors to it in the fall (gold, purple, bronze, red, and yellow). It finishes outdoors here on the 45th parallel later than is typically advertised (mid October).
but I would never grow weed with the intent to sell it again!
