Los Muertos is the Michigan-market name for LIT Farms' Dia de los Muertos, a cross of Motorbreath 15 and Project 4516. Detroit's Hytek grows it and puts it on shelves there. Rubbery OG diesel sits over dessert sweetness and light berry, and the lean is indica — an evening jar, not a daytime one.
Where It Comes From
The genetics belong to LIT Farms. The seed line runs under the full name, Dia de los Muertos, sold feminized in ten-packs and finishing in eight to nine weeks. It moved through boutique seed channels rather than a mass launch, which is why the name spread regionally instead of everywhere at once, and why most people met it as finished flower rather than as a pack of beans.
What reaches Michigan consumers as Los Muertos is Hytek's cultivation of that cross under a shortened name. Dia de los Muertos is the seed name; Los Muertos is what the shelf calls it. Same cross, shorter label, and the two turn up interchangeably in conversation.
The split still matters when you are reading a label. LIT Farms holds the breeding credit; Hytek holds the grow and the brand on the shelf. Neither substitutes for the other. The same cross from a different producer would be a different jar, and that is not a technicality — cultivation decides most of what ends up in your hand.
The Cross
The lineage is Motorbreath 15 crossed with Project 4516. Motorbreath 15 is a Chemdog and SFV OG Kush selection, and it is the side carrying sour diesel, funk and pungent fuel — the loud, tire-shop end of the OG family rather than the piney end.
Project 4516 comes from Grandiflora Genetics, which has kept its parentage unpublished on purpose. That is a choice, not a gap, and it means the honest way to judge what it contributes is the jar in front of you rather than a pedigree chart.
Together the two land in familiar territory: OG gas up top, dessert richness underneath. Hytek runs it as indoor. Flower comes out dense and sticky, deep green shot through with purple, orange pistils, thick trichome coverage. Resin is the giveaway — this is a cross that builds it, which is why the jar stays tacky instead of crumbling.
What It Left Behind
There is no cup shelf behind this one. Its footprint is regional and practical: a LIT Farms cross that found a stable home in Michigan through a single cultivator, which is how a fair number of modern seed-line strains actually reach people. Staying in commercial rotation season after season is the honest measure here, and it has.
One buying note. Potency figures printed on a package belong to that harvest, not to the plant. Check the panel and the pack date in front of you, and take the fresher one — resin-heavy flower rewards a recent cure more than most.
The High Rise Take
Los Muertos is LIT Farms' Motorbreath 15 x Project 4516 — diesel and OG gas over dessert sweetness, heavy resin, grown in Michigan by Hytek. Give it the end of the night and nothing scheduled after.