1997: The SF Cup Winning Entry
One year after the surviving Kush cutting reached Los Angeles, an entry grown from it won a private cannabis cup in San Francisco. This photograph documents that entry - the earliest recognition of the plant outside LA in the record we hold.
| Date | 1997 |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Cultivar shown | Kush (the original cut, entered under its original name) |
| Source | Josh D personal archive - original photograph |
| How dated | Date and location provided by Josh D from his personal records |
| Independent corroboration | Leafly's OG Kush family genealogy independently records the 1997 Bay Area contest win |
| Evidence status | First-party artifact · independently corroborated event |
Why this matters
This is one of the earliest fixed points in the public timeline: a dated first-party record of the cut winning against Northern California's best a year after arriving in LA, before the OG name traveled. The event itself is independently corroborated - Leafly's OG Kush genealogy separately records Josh taking OG north to a 1997 Bay Area contest and winning.
This artifact is part of the primary-source record behind the OG Kush record and the OG Kush story.
Published: August 30, 2026Artifact record · Josh D personal archive