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The Official Cannabis collection · sheet 15No 15 · Purple Hazevs Sour Diesel

Comparison

Purple Haze vs Sour Diesel

Both sit on the energizing side of Leafly’s calming-to-energizing scale. Sour Diesel is a Chemdawg × Super Skunk hybrid that first became popular in the early 1990s, and it tastes of diesel where Purple Haze is listed as lavender and violet.1,2 In state labs Sour Diesel tests about the same: 21.68% median THC against 22.39% for Purple Haze.3

Side by side

Purple HazeSour Diesel
TypeSativa, rated energizing (Leafly); 85% sativa (AllBud)1,4Hybrid, rated mostly energizing2
LineagePurple Thai × Haze in most listings1,4,5Chemdawg × Super Skunk2
Median THC (state lab tests)22.39% (116 tests)21.68% (1,071 tests)
Middle half of THC results19.42%–24.73%19.00%–25.30%
Top terpenes (median)Limonene, β-Caryophyllene, β-Myrcene (81 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (167 tests)
Leafly top effectsCreative, euphoric, giggly1Energetic, uplifted, talkative2
FlavorLavender, flowery, violet1Diesel, chemical, skunk2
Leafly ratings1,25918,5982

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.3

Lab-tested THC: Purple Haze vs Sour Diesel

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Purple Haze Purple Haze: median 22.39%, middle half 19.42%–24.73%, 116 tests 22.4% n=116 Sour Diesel Sour Diesel: median 21.68%, middle half 19.00%–25.30%, 1,071 tests 21.7% n=1,071 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Purple Haze) and Oct 3, 2026 (Sour Diesel), 35 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Purple Haze flower on Weedmaps, against 156 stores for Sour Diesel; around New York the counts were 20 and 125.6

Its own site

Sour Diesel has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at sourdiesel.com.

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, Purple Haze strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Sour Diesel strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. AllBud, Purple Haze marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, Purple Haze strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 4, 2026. Accessed Oct 4, 2026. Latest capture Oct 4, 2026.