King Louis OG is a Southern California indica that lands on menus under a pile of spellings — King Louis XIII, King Louie, Louis XIII Kush, King Louie XIII. Its published lineage is OG Kush crossed with LA Confidential, which puts it at the pine-and-fuel end of the OG family rather than anywhere near dessert.
Flower runs dense, sticky and heavily frosted, green calyxes shot through with orange pistils. It has carried an end-of-day reputation since the clone era, and nothing about the way it grows argues with that.
Where It Comes From
King Louis became a fixture on Southern California menus during the stretch when named OG cuts were the market's entire vocabulary. No breeder is credited on it, which is the normal outcome for OG derivatives that moved as clone-only cuts through dispensaries and small growers rather than through a seed bank.
The naming is its own problem. Four aliases circulate for the same plant, and the reuse of Louis on later crosses and branded products has made recordkeeping worse over time. If you see the name on a menu, the spelling tells you nothing about which cut you are getting. Read the cultivator and the package date instead.
The name itself nods to Louis XIII of France, in step with the regal branding that ran through the whole OG era.
The Cross
There is no breeder signature on King Louis OG. What it has instead is a published family tree: OG Kush crossed with LA Confidential. OG Kush supplies the fuel, the citrus, the pine and the tight resinous structure the OG family is built on.
LA Confidential — itself an OG LA Affie and Afghani cross — adds the deep earthy, skunky, broadleaf direction underneath. Between them you get the savory old-school OG shape rather than the sweet Cookies-era one, and that is the whole reason the cut survived the shift into regulated retail with its identity intact.
What It Left Behind
King Louis has no trophy case. Its standing comes from longevity. It is one of the Southern California OG cuts that made the jump from clone-scene word of mouth into licensed retail while staying recognizable, which is rarer than the number of OG names on a dispensary menu would suggest.
The High Rise Take
King Louis OG is the pine-and-diesel corner of the California OG family, published as OG Kush x LA Confidential and sold under four different spellings. Read the label, not the spelling. For another OG-family cut in our library, WiFi OG Kush makes a useful contrast.