Some strains go quiet before they resurface. The Ghost OG strain is not one of them. It has been circulating in serious cannabis circles for decades. It achieved this with clean OG genetics, real potency, and a titillating backstory. One that runs through the Pacific Northwest underground to one of the most significant cultivators in cannabis history.
Now Connected Cannabis Co. brings their premium indoor version to New York, and you can find it fresh at Torches NYC on 42nd Street. If you smoke OG Kush family strains, Ghost OG belongs on your radar. Here’s why.
A Clone with a Decades-Long Journey
Genetically, the Ghost OG strain is a clone-only phenotype of OG Kush. It all traces back to Josh D, the Los Angeles cultivator who helped establish OG Kush as the backbone of West Coast cannabis. A cut of Josh D’s OG made its way to the Pacific Northwest. Here, a grower known as “Ghost” cultivated it for roughly two decades.
Those two decades in Washington State changed the plant. The cooler, more humid Pacific Northwest climate produced what the cannabis community describes as epigenetic shifts. These are changes in gene expression, not in the underlying DNA. What came out on the other side was more euphoric, more citrus-forward, and sweeter than the Southern California original. The plant took on the name of its grower.
Kush Family Farms In WA
The Kush Family is a single-source farm based in Shelton, Washington. They’ve long been known as the “home of the Ghost OG” in the Pacific Northwest legal market. Grower-owned and meticulous about their craft, the Kush Family carries this strain as the centerpiece of their lineup. It represents the original Josh D OG Kush genetics with the kind of care that only comes from someone who grew it before there was a legal market to grow it for.
Josh D and Ghost reportedly met in person for the first time only a few years ago. Josh D now grows Ghost OG under his own California branded line. The two halves of this strain’s history finally know each other.
What the Nugs Look Like
Ghost OG grows dense and oval, with the tight bud structure that defines the OG family. The trichome coverage is where this cut earns its name: buds carry a heavy frost that makes them look almost luminous, layered over lime and forest greens with bright orange pistils. Cooler grows sometimes bring out faint purple in the outer leaves.
Pick up a few nugs and your fingers will confirm the quality. Ghost OG is sticky at a level that’s hard to fake.
Connected Cannabis Co.’s indoor grow preserves all of this. The eighths they put out reflect their reputation for precision phenotype selection.
Ghost OG Strain Effects
Smoking the Ghost OG strain might unleash a fast, euphoric onset: giggly, uplifted, occasionally creative. Connected Cannabis Co. classifies their Ghost OG as a sativa hybrid and lists energetic, happy, focused, and inspired as its potential effects. This all tracks with how Ghost OG historically tends to open.
The second phase may bring the body in. Relaxation might settle behind the eyes first, then spread outward. At moderate doses, many users find it manageable and social. Push higher, and it may lean toward full sedation and sleepiness. People might reach for Ghost OG in the evening or on slower days, though the Connected cut might be versatile enough for more than that.
Naturally, potential effects vary by individual tolerance and method of consumption.
Flavor and Aroma
Open the jar and you get bright lemon and citrus over a base of musky earth and pine, with a fuel note running underneath. The sweetness Ghost OG carries is what distinguishes it from classic OG Kush. It softens the gas.
On the smoke, Connected’s Ghost OG strain delivers gassy pine on the pull, then finishes toward something richer: a creamy, cocoa-hazelnut exhale that rounds out the petrol and spice. It’s a flavor profile that holds across a full session. The complexity doesn’t fade after the first hit.
Terpene Profile
Myrcene
Myrcene forms the earthy, musky backbone of Ghost OG’s aroma and may support the body-relaxing qualities that characterize the strain’s second phase. It might be the terpene most responsible for the classic OG intoxicating feel at higher doses.
Limonene
Limonene brings the citrus. It may contribute to the elevated, mood-forward onset users often describe from Ghost OG and is largely what separates this cut from the heavier, gassier OG phenotypes in the family.
Caryophyllene
Caryophyllene adds the spicy, peppery note to the exhale and is the only terpene known to interact with CB2 receptors in the body. People often associate it with the physical tension relief and body-calming qualities that users frequently report from Ghost OG.
Connected Cannabis Co.’s Take on the Ghost OG Strain
Connected Cannabis Co. launched in Sacramento in 2009 and built its name over the following decade on a simple premise: grow cannabis at the highest possible standard. Their indoor cultivation program, rigorous phenotype selection, and refusal to put their brand on anything that doesn’t make the cut have made them one of the most respected growers in California.
Their Ghost OG stays true to that standard. They describe it as delivering “resiny pine and petrol, slightly sweet on the pull” with a cocoa-hazelnut exhale, and they named it explicitly after the Pacific Northwest grower who kept this cut alive. That kind of intentionality carries through to the product.
Pick up the Connected Cannabis Co. Ghost OG at Torches NYC, or browse the brand’s page on our menu to see what else we’re carrying.
Pick Up the Ghost OG Strain in NYC
Torches NYC sits at 12 E 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, a short walk from Grand Central Terminal and Bryant Park. We carry cannabis flower from producers who take genetics and cultivation seriously. This Ghost OG from Connected Cannabis Co. is one of the clearest examples of what that looks like in an eighth jar.
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