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Comparison

Grease Monkey vs Sour Diesel

Sour Diesel sits in Grease Monkey’s family tree: GG4’s parents include Chocolate Diesel, which Leafly lists as a Sour Diesel × Chocolate Thai cross.1,2 The two pull in opposite directions, though: Leafly rates Sour Diesel mostly energizing, with energetic, uplifted and talkative as its top effects, and Grease Monkey mostly calming. Grease Monkey tests higher in state labs: 22.84% median THC against 21.68% for Sour Diesel.3,4,5

Side by side

Grease MonkeySour Diesel
TypeHybrid; mostly calming per Leafly4Hybrid; mostly energizing per Leafly3
LineageGG4 × Cookies and Cream; Exotic Genetix4Chemdawg × Super Skunk3
Median THC (state lab tests)22.84% (576 tests)21.68% (1,071 tests)
Middle half of THC results19.39%–27.08%19.00%–25.30%
Top terpenes (median)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, α-Humulene (55 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (167 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsRelaxed, sleepy, hungry4Energetic, uplifted, talkative3
FlavorSkunk, earthy, pungent (Leafly); diesel among AllBud’s flavors4,6Diesel, chemical, skunk3
Leafly THC listing22%419%3

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.5

Lab-tested THC: Grease Monkey vs Sour Diesel

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% 28% Grease Monkey Grease Monkey: median 22.84%, middle half 19.39%–27.08%, 576 tests 22.8% n=576 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.5

The diesel note

The fuel shows up in Grease Monkey’s descriptions: AllBud lists diesel among its flavors and aromas, Zamnesia describes pungent diesel and skunk, and Exotic Genetix sums up the aroma as "vanilla jet fuel".6,7,8 Sour Diesel has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at sourdiesel.com.

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Grease Monkey) and Oct 3, 2026 (Sour Diesel), 24 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Grease Monkey flower on Weedmaps, against 156 stores for Sour Diesel; around New York the counts were 24 and 125.9

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, GG4 (aka Glue, Original Glue) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Chocolate Diesel (aka Choco Diesel, Chocolate D) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Sour Diesel (aka Sour D, Sour Deez) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, Grease Monkey strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. AllBud, Grease Monkey marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. SeedFinder, Grease Monkey (Zamnesia): strain info and breeder description. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. SeedFinder, Grease Monkey (Exotic Genetix): strain info, breeder specs and descendants. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  9. 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.