Do-Si-Dos: The California Strain Behind Half the Strains You Know

Do-Si-Dos is the cannabis strain that took the legendary but nearly ungrowable OG Kush Breath cut and finally made it usable, and this video tells the full story of how it happened. It follows Oregon breeder Fletcher Watson of Archive Seed Bank, a former orchid grower turned genetics preservationist, as he crosses the cursed OG Kush Breath with his stabilized Face Off OG male to create one of the most important building-block strains in modern weed. It is honest throughout about the disputed genetics and it clears up the widespread misinformation about which famous strains actually descend from Do-Si-Dos. What's covered in this video: How Do-Si-Dos came out of Portland, Oregon, not the Cookies scene in San Francisco, from breeder Fletcher Watson, known as ThaDocta. Watson's background growing orchids as a kid in Virginia and Washington, and how he approached cannabis breeding like a botanist rather than a hustler. The founding of Archive Seed Bank in two thousand six as a preservation project, saving clone-only West Coast strains from disappearing forever. Archive's work preserving heirloom cuts like Triangle Kush, Albert Walker, San Diego Cat Piss, and Poison OG, and its twenty sixteen Portland storefront, reportedly the first walk-in cannabis seed shop in America. The story of the mother plant, OG Kush Breath, a mutant phenotype of Girl Scout Cookies named after the grower who found it, prized for potency but notorious for slow veg, tiny yields, and hermaphroditism. The honest dispute over what OG Kush Breath even is, and the contested backstory of Girl Scout Cookies itself as OG Kush crossed with Durban Poison. The father plant, Face Off OG, a clone-only OG Kush cut from late nineteen nineties Southern California, its bragging-rights name, and Watson's years of backcrossing it into a stable male. How crossing OG Kush Breath with Face Off OG produced Do-Si-Dos and gave regular growers seed access to those mythical genetics without seeding out their rooms. The name's origin in the Girl Scout peanut butter cookie, and the trademark crackdown that followed, including the January twenty sixteen cease and desist to Oakland's Magnolia dispensary and the Buds and Roses rebrand to Platinum Cookies. The parallels to Gorilla Glue becoming GG4, Skittles pushing Zkittlez, and the Runts lawsuit over Runtz. The strain's profile, an indica-dominant seventy thirty hybrid with THC in the low twenties, minor cannabinoids like CBG, purple and lime green buds caked in glandular trichomes, and a limonene-led terpene profile backed by caryophyllene, linalool, and myrcene. Its true descendants, including Slurricane with In House Genetics, which won best indica at the twenty nineteen High Times Cannabis Cup in Oregon, Peanut Butter Breath from Thug Pug Genetics, Moonbow, Rainbow Belts, and Dolato. Compound Genetics breeder Chris Lynch explaining how Do-Si-Dos introduced the peanut butter terpene profile to modern weed. A myth-busting breakdown of strains that do not contain Do-Si-Dos, including MAC, Wedding Cake, Kush Mints, Wedding Crasher, Wedding Pie, Gary Payton, Georgia Pie, Jealousy, Permanent Marker, Lemon Cherry Gelato, and Apples and Bananas. Do-Si-Dos winning Leafly's Strain of the Year in twenty twenty-one, and Watson's own irony as a preservationist who accidentally built the hottest commercial strain on the market. Mentioned in this video: Do-Si-Dos, OG Kush Breath, Face Off OG, Fletcher Watson, ThaDocta, Archive Seed Bank, Portland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Triangle Kush, Albert Walker, San Diego Cat Piss, Poison OG, Emerald Triangle, High Times, Girl Scout Cookies, GSC, OG Kush, Durban Poison, Girl Scouts, Magnolia, Oakland, Buds and Roses, Platinum Cookies, Gorilla Glue, GG4, Skittles, Zkittlez, Runts, Runtz, CBG, limonene, caryophyllene, linalool, myrcene, Slurricane, Purple Punch, In House Genetics, Peanut Butter Breath, Mendo Breath, Thug Pug Genetics, Chris Lynch, Compound Genetics, Moonbow, Rainbow Belts, Dolato, Gelato, MAC, Miracle Alien Cookies, Wedding Cake, Kush Mints, Wedding Crasher, Wedding Pie, Gary Payton, Georgia Pie, Jealousy, Permanent Marker, Lemon Cherry Gelato, Apples and Bananas, Leafly.