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History

OG Kush history: a timeline and unresolved origin

The available history is an account assembled from growers and publishers, not a verified breeding record. Leafly’s timeline begins with a Florida mother plant before 1996, while Leafly and Weedmaps publish different parent accounts.1,2,3

Timeline

  1. Before 1996Leafly’s OG-family timeline says the mother plant was bred in Florida and associates Triangle Kush with the original while calling parentage speculative.1
  2. 1996Leafly reports Matt Berger brought five Florida OG cuttings to Josh Del Rosso in Los Angeles and one survived.1
  3. 1997Leafly reports Josh D brought OG Kush to the Bay Area.1
  4. 2004Leafly’s timeline places OG Kush in the Emerald Triangle and says variants were developed for different climates.1
  5. 2006Leafly’s timeline says DNA Genetics bred Kosher Kush as an early European OG seed line.1
  6. 2008Leafly’s timeline says Cali Connection released an SFV cut in seed form, followed by Larry OG and Tahoe OG.1
  7. 2015Leafly’s timeline records the debut of Khalifa Kush as a premium OG Kush type.1
  8. 2019Leafly’s timeline says Fire OG won its Best OG Kush of California contest.1

How the account says the line spread

Leafly narrates a Florida-to-Los Angeles-to-Bay Area-to-Humboldt path and attributes the story to people in the lineage.1

That account documents why OG became a family of names, but it does not settle the original parentage.1,2

What remains unresolved

Leafly and Weedmaps publish different parent accounts, so this guide does not treat either as settled.2,3

The OG initials also remain contested between accounts from Leafly, Sensi Seeds and Weedmaps.2,3,4

Sources

  1. Leafly, A timeline of the OG Kush family. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  2. Leafly, OG Kush strain information. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  3. Weedmaps, OG Kush strain page. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  4. Sensi Seeds, OG Kush Feminized Seeds by White Label. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.