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Cannabis · Hybrid · THC-dominant

Sour Diesel

Also known as East Coast Sour Diesel, Sour D

Disputed

Lineage

Seed parent, then pollen parent. A backcross is a third parent, and it does not replace either of them.

This record

Sour Diesel

Chemdawg × Super Skunk

The East Coast story most often repeated is Chemdawg '91 × a Massachusetts Super Skunk. Other plants sold as Diesel do not share that story. Drawn with Chemdawg and Super Skunk, and marked disputed.

Market report

Read from the Leafly public index on 2026-10-11. One source. Not a pedigree, and not confirmed by a second catalog. Parent names inside Leafly’s paragraph were not copied into the diagram.

Leafly reviews
4.3 average across 8,599 reviews
Lab producer count
0

Leafly’s producer count on this row is 0. Any median below is what Leafly published. Phylo does not treat it as a lab panel.

  • CBD median 0% · Leafly published 0% and 0% beside the median
  • THC median 19% · Leafly published 17% and 22% beside the median

Terpene scores

Relative scores on Leafly, not a percent of the flower.

  • caryophyllene · 0.43
  • myrcene · 0.39
  • limonene · 0.34
  • humulene · 0.16
  • pinene · 0.14
  • linalool · 0.10

Reported effects

Leafly review votes, not a clinical finding.

  • happy · 3,807 votes
  • uplifted · 3,343 votes
  • euphoric · 3,192 votes
  • energetic · 3,080 votes
  • creative · 2,518 votes
Leafly Strain of the Year 2025 Nominee: Sour Diesel, also known as "Sour D" and "Sour Deez," is a popular hybrid marijuana strain made by crossing Chemdawg and Super Skunk. Sour Diesel effects are dreamy, cerebral…

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Region
United States
Origin
New York / New Jersey clone circles
Breeder
Unrecorded
Era
1990s

Claims

Three clean supports corroborate a claim. Five enter it. The studio can adopt sooner. A dispute keeps it out.

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