Sour Kosher runs on AJ Sour Diesel's fuel with a Kosher Kush chassis underneath. Bred by Crockett Family Farms and carried to market through DNA Genetics, it is a sativa-leaning hybrid built for growers and smokers who want the gas without losing the floor. It was never sold as feminized seed, which shaped everything about how it spread.
Where It Comes From
Crockett Family Farms crossed the AJ cut of Sour Diesel with Kosher Kush and released it only as regular seed. No feminized version ever existed, so every grow started as a pheno hunt — part of why plants from this cross can look and finish differently from garden to garden.
DNA Genetics picked up the line and moved it into wider circulation, pairing Crockett's breeding work with real distribution. That partnership is the reason a regular-seed release from a small breeding operation ended up in gardens well outside its home market.
One point of order on the name: the "Kosher" in Sour Kosher is a lineage reference to its Kosher Kush parent. It is not a certification claim, and nobody involved has ever presented it as one.
The Cross
The genetics are straightforward: AJ Sour Diesel x Kosher Kush, running roughly 70/30 toward the sativa side. Crockett Family Farms holds the breeding credit; DNA Genetics handled distribution.
The plant favors warm, dry conditions and feeds heavy. It finishes on the longer end of the calendar — indoor runs stretch toward nine weeks, with outdoor plants clearing by early fall. Structure is typically compact and elongated, dense enough to hold a heavy resin coat, though looser sativa phenotypes turn up in the mix depending on what got selected.
Limonene, caryophyllene and myrcene drive the terpene side: citrus snap from the limonene, pepper and dry spice from the caryophyllene, myrcene rounding it out into something earthier. Buds run compact and resin-coated, and read more sour than kush the moment you break one open. People reach for it as a lift rather than a knockout, and heavier amounts pull toward the kush side. Effects vary by person and by dose, so start low and never drive or run machinery under the influence.
Both parents are benchmarks in their own lanes. Sour Diesel is the fuel reference point most East Coast smokers grew up on, and Kosher Kush is one of the heavier, denser Kush selections to come out of the same era. Crossing them was less about novelty than about anchoring a fast plant to something solid.
What It Left Behind
No competition record is attached to it, and it never became a menu staple the way its Sour Diesel parent did. Its footprint is a grower's footprint — a cross that circulated on reputation among people who were willing to pop regular seed and do the sorting themselves.
The High Rise Take
Sour Kosher earns its name honestly: Sour Diesel's engine bolted to Kosher Kush's chassis. A fuel plant with a floor, and that combination is exactly why growers kept coming back to a cross that was never even offered as easy feminized seed.