Irene Kush x Pure OG Kush is Irene Kush crossed to Pure OG Kush. Irene Kush is Irene OG - a sour-scented southern cut that growers keep for the nose rather than anything else. Pure OG Kush is the first OG Kush clone CSI ever held, most likely an early OG Kush S1 from the late 1990s or the start of the 2000s. Between them they cover ground neither reaches alone. CSI breed off held clones rather than off seed stock, which is why the parents named on the pack are the actual plants and not their descendants.

Written this way, Irene Kush is the mother and Pure OG Kush the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Irene Kush. Irene OG - a sour-scented southern cut that growers keep for the nose rather than anything else. Built from traced to an unknown Emerald Triangle plant crossed to Hindu Kush, and widely taken to descend from California OG Kush. CSI recommend a nutrient-rich organic soil with good micronutrient content to bring the terpenes out; it is among the hardest clones they have reversed.
• Father: Pure OG Kush. The first OG Kush clone CSI ever held, most likely an early OG Kush S1 from the late 1990s or the start of the 2000s. CSI put its willingness to hybridize down to that S1 background.
• What the cross is reaching for. One side brings the structure and the other brings the nose. The plants worth keeping out of a pack are the ones that hold both rather than picking a side.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two distinct smells, and a pack will give you both plus everything between.

• The Aroma. Classic Kush sweetness and pine with an unusual sour diesel edge running through it from the Irene Kush side, against the classic OG signature - earth and pine with a fuel edge from the Pure OG Kush side.
• The Taste. Sour over a kush base up front, turning to earthy and piney with OG weight, finishing sharper than it starts through the exhale.

The two halves, side by side

• The smell is a negotiation. Sweet, earthy and floral with rich earth and pine, plus a distinct diesel note that most og cuts do not have on one side against the classic OG signature - earth and pine with a fuel edge on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Structure varies hard here. Resilient with a sturdy frame rather than delicate from one parent; OG-type plants open out rather than fill in from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• They pull differently. Growers put Irene Kush at the potent, focused end of the OG family; settling and Pure OG Kush at potent and focused; settling and physical. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Irene Kush is grown for its terpene profile more than its yield. Pure OG Kush is OG-type plants open out rather than fill in.
• Veg and stretch. Set the frame while it is cheap to do. Anything you fix after the flip costs you flower sites.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Irene Kush as the potent, focused end of the OG family; settling.
• The Body. Pure OG Kush is reported as potent and focused; settling and physical, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. The point of their catalogue is access - cuts that otherwise only move between growers who already know each other, put into a form you can actually buy. Original Humboldt CSI stock.