Sour Diesel is New York’s strain, and New York keeps its secrets. The cut dates to the 1990s; the credit is argued between a grower known as AJ and one known as Weasel, and the recipe is usually given as Chem 91 crossed to Super Skunk, with Hawaiian and Northern Lights whispered into some tellings.

What is settled is what it did: East Coast Sour Diesel set the standard for fuel, and JJ NYC’s cut of it was the trade bait that brought the Chem D into seed history.

Everything below carries Sour Diesel.