Do-Si-Dos Strain: Lineage, Terpenes, Aroma and Effects

Do-Si-Dos is an indica-leaning hybrid that Archive Seed Bank of Portland, Oregon, made in 2012 by crossing OGKB, a GSC phenotype, with Face Off OG BX1. It smells of fuel first, then sweet grape, cookie dough and pepper. Leafly's lab-sourced data lists limonene, caryophyllene and linalool as its top terpenes, and Leafly named it the 2021 Strain of the Year.

Menus also list it as Dosidos, Dosi or Do Si Dos. Our Native® Do-Si-Dos blend rebuilds the profile from botanical terpenes, with no THC in the bottle.

Three bottles for the Do-Si-Dos profile

• Native® Do-Si-Dos, from $35. Our cultivar-specific blend: caryophyllene first, then limonene and humulene. Grape and citrus up front, with a dry, hay-like finish.
• Native® GSC, from $35. The cookies side of the family. It uses the same three terpenes with humulene moved up to second, so it works as a reference bottle beside the child.
• Build Your Own Sample Pack, $80. Pick six blends from our 150+ strain library, 5 mL of each. Do-Si-Dos, GSC, Wedding Cake and Purple Punch make a family set.

Do-Si-Dos strain at a glance

Trait	Do-Si-Dos
Type	Indica-dominant hybrid (Leafly, Weedmaps)
Bred by	Archive Seed Bank, Portland, Oregon
Year	2012; Leafly Strain of the Year 2021
Parents	OGKB (a GSC phenotype) x Face Off OG BX1
Dominant terpenes	Limonene, caryophyllene, linalool (Leafly lab data)
Aroma and flavor	Fuel, sweet grape, cookie dough, pepper, floral funk
Reported effects	Relaxed, sleepy, tingly, euphoric
THC	20% on Leafly, 16 to 30% on Weedmaps
Entour™ blend	Do-Si-Dos, Native® line (caryophyllene, limonene, humulene)

What is the Do-Si-Dos strain?

Do-Si-Dos joins the OG Kush and cookies families, and most strain databases file it as indica-dominant. Leafly and Weedmaps both use that label, and SeedFinder lists the breeder's release as mostly indica.

Its looks helped it spread. Leafly describes glittering trichomes and leaves in lime green and lavender, and the award article says Dosi "resets the bar for bag appeal."

Two spellings circulate, sometimes in one catalog. Leafly reports that Archive no longer hyphenates the name, and Archive's numbered lines use Dosidos while its original seed pack is still listed as Do-Si-Dos. SeedFinder's copy of the breeder description says the name comes from a peanut butter sandwich cookie. That fits the chemistry. Compound Genetics breeder Christopher Lynch told Leafly that Dosidos was the first released strain built on the OGKB clone, and that it had "a 'peanut butter' terpene profile."

History and lineage

Leafly credits Archive's breeder Fletch, known online as TheDocta, with breeding and selecting Do-Si-Dos in 2012. Archive's own listing names the parents as OGKB and Face Off OG BX1.

OGKB stands for OG Kush Breath. Leafly traces it to a Bay Area grower of that name who kept a "mutant cookies" version of GSC and passed it to the grower NorCal IC Mag for breeding and safekeeping. Archive describes its Do-Si-Dos as built from NorCal IC Mag's verified OGKB.

Face Off OG BX1 is Archive's own line. Leafly explains that Fletch crossed the Face Off OG #4 clone with an heirloom inbred line called the Manic, then backcrossed the offspring once to the #4 mother. That mother was a Southern California OG Kush with an all-gas nose, and Leafly says Face Off hands its fuel smell down to its offspring.

The sources describe one cross at different levels of zoom. Leafly's Strain of the Year article shortens it to "OG Kush and GSC," and our product page says GSC and Face Off OG. The breeder's version is the precise one. Our GSC terpene profile covers the cookies half of the tree.

The numbered Dosidos lines

Archive also sells F2 seed lines selected from Do-Si-Dos, each with its own character in the breeder's notes:

• Dosidos #9: Face Off OG structure with a doughy OGKB funk, and the densest, most resinous of the F2s.
• Dosidos #18: the most Kush-dominant line, with big resin glands and a mostly OG Kush nose.
• Dosidos #22: the most OGKB-dominant line, described as a "purple incensey grapy funk."

So "Do-Si-Dos" on a label could mean the original selection, one of these lines, or another breeder's seeds, a point Weedmaps also makes. If flavor matters, ask which cut you're buying.

Awards and offspring

Leafly chose Dosidos as its 2021 Strain of the Year from search trends, menu listings, awards and expert input. It noted that Dosidos and its crosses had won, placed or shown at contests every year since 2016.

The bigger legacy is as a parent. Leafly names ThugPug's Peanut Butter Breath, In-House Genetics' Slurricane and Symbiotic Genetics' Dosi Punch, a cross with Purple Punch. Archive bred Moonbow from it, and SeedFinder traces Archive's Rainbow Belts to a Moonbow selection, which makes Do-Si-Dos its grandparent. Archive also lists Dosi-Cake, a Dosidos and Wedding Cake cross. Our Wedding Cake terpene profile covers that side.

What does Do-Si-Dos smell like?

Gas first, sweet second. Leafly's editors describe good Do-Si-Dos as a hit of fuel followed by "velvety sweet, dank grape, and cookie spice," plus the funk growers call the "breath," which Leafly says can read as savory or bitter.

Crowd reports tilt in different directions. Leafly's top flavor tags are flowery, pepper and earthy. Weedmaps users report earthy (44%), citrus (35%) and berry (20%).

Part of that maps onto the terpenes. Leafly tags limonene as citrus, caryophyllene as pepper and linalool as floral. The fuel and the grape are harder to pin on a top-three list, which is why two products with matching lead terpenes can still smell different.

Do-Si-Dos terpenes: the lab picture

Leafly's terpene data, which comes from lab-tested products, has limonene on top, caryophyllene a hair behind and linalool in third, with myrcene and humulene trailing further back. With a lead that thin, another batch or cut could easily put caryophyllene on top.

That is how our Native® blend lists them: caryophyllene, then limonene, then humulene. The leading pair matches Leafly's in reverse order. The third slot is where we differ. Leafly has linalool there, while our blend carries humulene, the same supporting terpene our GSC blend uses. That placement comes from The Werc Shop®'s own data on a specific Do-Si-Dos cut, not from Leafly's pooled numbers.

We've left percentages out on purpose. Any single figure reflects one harvest, and data filed under a famous strain name pools many unrelated grows.

One caution applies to every strain database. Retail names are loosely policed, so flower sold as Do-Si-Dos may be a distant seed line, a renamed cut, or a plant with no Archive genetics in it at all. Read crowd-sourced data as a snapshot of what gets sold under the name, not a measurement of the 2012 original.

Limonene

The citrus note. Limonene is a monoterpene with 10 carbon atoms, and in Do-Si-Dos it brightens the sweet side so the fuel doesn't flatten everything around it.

Caryophyllene

Pepper and dry wood. Caryophyllene is a sesquiterpene with 15 carbon atoms that boils far hotter than limonene. A 2008 study in PNAS found that it binds selectively to the CB2 receptor, and the authors point out that plenty of spices and food plants carry it too. That is lab chemistry, not a promise about any product.

Linalool

The floral note, and Leafly's third-ranked terpene here. Linalool is a monoterpene alcohol that Leafly notes is also found in lavender, and it is the most likely source of the flowery tag in reviews.

Humulene

Woody and hoppy. Humulene, also listed as alpha-caryophyllene, shares caryophyllene's C15H24 formula in a different ring. It sits third in our blend and lower in Leafly's data, and it links our Do-Si-Dos blend back to our GSC.

Do-Si-Dos effects people report

Most reports call Do-Si-Dos calming and heavy. Leafly sums up its effects as "mostly calming," and its 1,273 reviewers rank relaxed, sleepy and tingly highest, with euphoric and happy close behind. Weedmaps users report relaxed (45%), euphoric (29%) and sleepy (25%). Leafly's editors describe a fast, heady start that settles into couch-lock.

Dry mouth, dry eyes and dizziness are the downsides mentioned most. Leafly also lists health conditions that reviewers bring up. We've left those out, because reviews are not evidence.

Terpenes don't make Do-Si-Dos strong. THC and the other cannabinoids do that, while terpenes shape the aroma and, in early research, the character of the experience.

Who Do-Si-Dos suits

Do-Si-Dos suits people who want OG fuel with sweetness underneath and don't mind a heavy finish. Reviewers report relaxed and sleepy far more than energetic, so it gets described as a later-in-the-day strain. For bright, clear-headed citrus, look elsewhere.

For brands, the name does a lot of selling, and buyers walk in expecting a specific nose. A Do-Si-Dos that reads as pure lemon, or as pepper with no sweetness, lets them down.

Pick a reference before you brief a supplier. The original, #9, #18 and #22 smell different by the breeder's own account, so "make it taste like Do-Si-Dos" is an incomplete spec. Then hold it there: a cart or pre-roll SKU should smell the same on its third production run as on its first. Our strain guides cover other cultivars brands ask us to match.

How Entour™ recreates the Do-Si-Dos profile

Native® is the line we call "authentic, cultivar-specific botanical terpene formulations," and Do-Si-Dos (SKU F00438) belongs to it. Its product page names it an indica-dominant hybrid of GSC and Face Off OG and puts caryophyllene at the head of its terpene list, ahead of limonene and humulene.

The tasting notes start with green and red grapes and juicy citrus hops, move to golden raisins, lime and candied mango, and finish on pine nut, corn husk and golden berries smoked with hay. That grape lead echoes the "dank grape" in Leafly's description and Archive's grapy #22.

Each of our 150+ strain blends is formulated with True To Plant®, the fingerprinting technology developed at The Werc Shop®, which rebuilds the profile from real cultivar data. The blends are food grade, and COA, SDS and TDS paperwork comes on request. The target is the character of Do-Si-Dos, not a copy of one lab report's numbers.

There is no minimum order. A single 5 mL bottle is $35. At production volume, 500 mL costs $1,700 and a full liter $2,650.

FAQ

Is Do-Si-Dos indica or sativa?

It is an indica-dominant hybrid. Leafly and Weedmaps classify it that way, and SeedFinder lists the breeder's release as mostly indica. Both parents descend from OG Kush and cookies stock, and reported effects lean calming.

What terpenes are in the Do-Si-Dos strain?

Leafly's lab-sourced data ranks limonene, caryophyllene and linalool highest, with the first two nearly tied and myrcene and humulene further down. Our Native® Do-Si-Dos blend lists caryophyllene, limonene and humulene.

What does Do-Si-Dos smell like?

Fuel, then sweet grape, cookie dough and pepper, with a floral funk. Users most often report earthy, citrus and berry flavors.

How strong is Do-Si-Dos?

Leafly lists 20% THC and rates it above average, while Weedmaps gives 16 to 30%. Potency moves with the cut, the grower and the batch, so trust the lab result on the package.

Is Dosidos the same strain as Do-Si-Dos?

Yes. Dosidos, Dosi and Do Si Dos all name the same Archive strain, which the breeder now writes without hyphens. Dosidos #22 and similar names are Archive's numbered F2 lines, while Dosi Punch and Dosi-Cake are separate crosses.

Where to take this next

Order Native® Do-Si-Dos in a 5 mL bottle for $35 to get started. To smell it beside GSC and Wedding Cake first, build an $80 sample pack. Building a cart, pre-roll or edible line around the profile? Talk to our formulation team about volume pricing and paperwork.

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About the author: The Entour™ team is a division of The Werc Shop®, the first commercial cannabis laboratory to test for terpenes back in 2011. The team formulates True To Plant® terpene profiles for licensed cannabis brands across the US, Canada, and tribal markets.