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Comparison

Agent Orange vs Jack Herer

Jack Herer is an ancestor of Agent Orange: Leafly lists Jack’s Cleaner as Jack Herer × The Cleaner, Jack the Ripper as Jack’s Cleaner × Space Queen, and Agent Orange as Orange Velvet × Jack the Ripper. Users give both a focused, energetic profile, with pine for Jack Herer and orange for Agent Orange.1,2,3,4 In state labs Jack Herer tests higher: 19.59% median THC across 910 tests against 12.80% for Agent Orange, whose 140 tests are mostly Maryland flower with low results (see potency).5

Side by side

Agent OrangeJack Herer
TypeHybrid; 50/50 in the breeder description, 75% sativa on AllBud3,6,7Sativa-dominant (55% sativa)4
LineageOrange Velvet × Jack the Ripper3,8Haze hybrid × (Northern Lights #5 × Shiva Skunk), Sensi Seeds4
Median THC (state lab tests)12.80% (140 tests); 118 from Maryland19.59% (910 tests)
Middle half of THC results11.05%–14.30%17.13%–22.00%
Top terpenes (median)No profile: none of the 140 tests reports individual terpenesTerpinolene, β-Caryophyllene, α-Humulene (413 tests)
Leafly top effectsUplifted, happy, focused3Focused, energetic, creative4
FlavorOrange, citrus, sweet3Pine, woody, earthy4
Flowering55–65 days (breeder description); 55 days (Leafly)3,650–70 days4

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

Lab-tested THC: Agent Orange vs Jack Herer

12% 16% 20% Jack Herer Jack Herer: median 19.59%, middle half 17.13%–22.00%, 910 tests 19.6% n=910 Agent Orange Agent Orange: median 12.80%, middle half 11.05%–14.30%, 140 tests 12.8% n=140 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.5

Three generations apart

Jack Herer’s lemon-pine line reaches Agent Orange through Jack’s Cleaner, whose “overpowering lemon pungency” Leafly credits to The Cleaner, and then Jack the Ripper, which Leafly describes as a seed version of Jack’s Cleaner.1,2 MzJill credits Jack the Ripper with Agent Orange’s “sour, bright, freshly squeezed lemon notes”.9

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Jack’s Cleaner strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Jack the Ripper strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Agent Orange (Agent O) strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  4. Leafly, Jack Herer strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  5. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  6. SeedFinder, Agent Orange (MzJill Genetics): strain info, breeder description and awards. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  7. AllBud, Agent Orange marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  8. MzJill Genetics, Agent Orange F2. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  9. MzJill Genetics, About MzJill. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.