King Louis OG
Quick Take
King Louis OG is a Southern California indica filed under a pile of spellings — King Louis XIII, King Louie, Louis XIII Kush, King Louie XIII — and Leafly publishes its lineage as OG Kush crossed with LA Confidential. Loud pine and damp earth over diesel and skunk. Reported effects run heavy and late-night.
History and Background
King Louis became a fixture on Southern California menus during the era when named OG cuts were the market's entire vocabulary. No breeder is credited on the major database entries, 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.
Leafly alone lists four aliases 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. The most common retelling ties the name to Louis XIII of France, in step with the regal branding that ran through the OG era.
Breeder, Brand, and Genetics
Leafly states it plainly: an indica strain made by crossing OG Kush with LA Confidential. A competing account describes King Louis instead as a rare, higher-potency selection pulled from Los Angeles OG Kush — a phenotype selection rather than a deliberate cross. Both are worth knowing; neither carries a breeder's signature. Under the published family tree, OG Kush supplies the fuel, citrus, pine, and tight resinous structure.
LA Confidential — itself an OG LA Affie x Afghani cross — adds the deep earthy, skunky, broadleaf direction.
Aroma, Flavor, and Flower
This is where King Louis earns its reputation. Leafly lists myrcene as the dominant terpene with limonene and caryophyllene behind it, and describes an overwhelmingly piney smell with an earthy musk and a spicy kush character. Two observations do most of the work. The pine reads like crushed evergreen needles rather than air-freshener pine. The earth underneath is damp and mushroomy rather than dusty.
Diesel, pepper, and dry wood fill in around them, with lemon peel showing only at the edges; some reports also pick up hops, cinnamon, and lavender. Flavor follows the nose and finishes gassy. This is a savory old-school OG, not a dessert strain. Flower is typically dense, sticky, and heavily frosted, green calyxes shot through with orange pistils.
Reported Effects and Best Fit
Leafly's aggregate lands on sleepy, relaxed, and hungry, with an average near 21 percent THC. That is a database average, not a guarantee, and any given package will differ. Consumers commonly describe an initial head change giving way to a gradual, heavy physical settle, which is why the nighttime reputation stuck. Best fit is the end of the day, when nothing is left to drive or finish. Dose, tolerance, method, and setting still govern the outcome.
Awards, Press, and Cultural Footprint
Its standing comes from longevity instead. It is one of the SoCal OG cuts that survived the transition from clone-scene word-of-mouth into regulated retail while keeping a recognizable identity, which is rarer than the number of OG names on a menu suggests.
Final Take
King Louis OG is the pine-and-diesel end of the California OG family, most often published as OG Kush x LA Confidential and sometimes described as an OG selection instead. Read the label, not the spelling. For another OG-family cut in our library, [WiFi OG Kush](/strains/wifi-og-kush) makes a useful contrast.