Banana OG is a West Coast hybrid credited to breeder OrgnKid, built by crossing a banana-scented male with an OG Kush female. The defining trait is an unusually literal overripe-banana character sitting on earth, pine, and OG funk. Its other defining trait is timing: consumers very commonly describe a creeper that arrives later and heavier than the first few minutes suggest.
Where It Comes From
OrgnKid is a genuine figure in West Coast breeding history, a name that surfaced on 1990s cannabis forums like Overgrow and stayed relevant across a roughly 30-year run that also produced Ghost OG and Blackberry Kush. The Banana OG origin story he is credited with is specific enough to be checkable.
He won a bag of seeds at auction on Seed Bay, grew them out, and found short, stocky plants with very thin branches and a strong banana character. He kept that population, selected a male from it, and crossed it to an OG Kush female. That cross became Banana OG.
The Cross
More than one Banana OG exists, and sorting out which one is in front of you comes first. The version tied to OrgnKid is the cross described above: his own banana-scented male over an OG Kush female. That is the line most people mean when they use the name.
Separately, California seed bank Apothecary Genetics released its own Banana OG, documented as an OG Kush male crossed to a Banana Kush female, mostly indica, with a flowering time around 53 days. Same name, different house, similar direction, and consistent with the origin story of a banana-scented male over an OG Kush female.
Published terpene data puts limonene first, followed by myrcene, caryophyllene, and pinene, figures that belong to the samples tested rather than to every jar. One honest note on that chemistry: limonene-forward profiles usually track brighter, which sits oddly against the heavier reports Banana OG tends to draw. Worth flagging rather than smoothing over.
How It Grows
OrgnKid's original plants were described as short and stocky with thin branches. Commercial flower is typically compact and frosty with orange-to-copper pistils, though structure varies with selection and environment. Cure and storage decide whether the delicate fruit note survives to you at all.
The High Rise Take
Banana OG is OrgnKid's banana-male x OG Kush cross: real overripe fruit over earth, pine, and fuel, with a widely reported slow build. Check which Banana OG you have, OrgnKid's or Apothecary's, before assuming the lineage on the label, or browse the rest of the High Rise strain library.