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Comparison

Lamb’s Bread vs Sour Diesel

Sour Diesel is a Chemdawg × Super Skunk hybrid that became popular in the early 1990s and tastes of fuel; Lamb’s Bread is an earthy, woody sativa of unknown parentage. Leafly users call both energetic and uplifted.1,2 In state labs Sour Diesel tests lower: 21.68% median THC against 22.74% for Lamb’s Bread, a figure that rests on two states and mostly one lab.3

Side by side

Lamb’s BreadSour Diesel
TypeSativa, as labelled2,4Hybrid1
LineageUnknown; Leafly lists only a Jamaican landrace2,5Chemdawg × Super Skunk1
Median THC (state lab tests)22.74% (117 tests); two states, one lab 76.1%21.68% (1,071 tests)
Middle half of THC results19.05%–25.37%19.00%–25.30%
Top terpenes (median)Too few tests report individual terpenes (0 of 117)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (167 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsEnergetic, focused, uplifted2Energetic, uplifted, talkative1
FlavorWoody, earthy, spicy/herbal2Diesel, chemical, skunk1
Popular sinceUnknown; the name was a reggae song title by the late 1970s6Early 1990s1

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

Lab-tested THC: Lamb’s Bread vs Sour Diesel

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Lamb’s Bread Lamb’s Bread: median 22.74%, middle half 19.05%–25.37%, 117 tests 22.7% n=117 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

On Oct 3, 2026, 5 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Lamb’s Breath flower on Weedmaps, against 156 stores for Sour Diesel; around New York the counts were 1 and 125.7

Its own site

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

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, Sour Diesel strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Lamb’s Bread aka Lamb’s Breath strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  4. AllBud, Lamb’s Bread marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  5. Leafly, Jamaican aka Jamaican Red strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  6. Wikipedia, Sylford Walker. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  7. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 3, 2026. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.