Indica
King Louis XIII Strain
Indica · straight gas, pine and damp earth · heavy and fast
| Flavor profile | Pine, Earth, Mango |
|---|---|
| Reported feel | Sleepy, Relaxed, Hungry |
| Strain type | Indica-leaning |
The short answer
King Louis XIII is a potent indica and one of the densest, earthiest things we carry. It smells like the outdoors, all pine and damp earth and musk, with none of the sweetness that runs through most of our range. The effect is deeply physical and it comes on fast, so treat it as a night-time strain, not an evening one. It comes two ways here: a THCa cart, or a live resin THCa disposable with nothing to assemble.
THCa names the cannabinoid a hemp lab reports, printed on the package as a percentage.
Indica (Night)
Pine, Earth
Sedating, Relaxing
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King Louis XIII at a glance
| Strain type | Indica |
| Best time | Night |
| Tastes like | Straight gas, with pine, damp earth and musk behind it |
| Feels like | Deeply physical and fast-arriving. Heavy, with an oddly cranial edge |
| Top terpenes | d-Limonene, beta-myrcene, beta-caryophyllene |
| Also known as | King Louie XIII, King Louie |
| Lineage | OG Kush crossed with LA Confidential |
Is King Louis XIII indica or sativa?
King Louis XIII is an indica, and about as far into indica as our menu goes.
The onset is fast for something this heavy, which is the unusual part. Most indicas this dense take their time. This one arrives inside a couple of minutes on a vape, and it arrives in the body first and barely visits the head.
There is an odd cranial edge to it, a density behind the eyes that some people find deeply comfortable and others don’t enjoy at all. That’s the OG Kush side showing up. The overall direction isn’t in question though: night, and preferably a night with nothing after it.
King Louis XIII strain effects
King Louis XIII lands heavy, fast and physical, with a pressure in the head that shows up alongside it.
Most indicas build. This one lands. Within a few minutes the body is noticeably weighted, and the sensation is less relaxed than anchored, which is a real distinction and the reason people keep this one for the end of the night specifically.
The head part is worth describing because it isn’t what people expect from an indica. There’s a dense, slightly pressurized feeling behind the eyes and forehead, and it brings quiet rather than lift. Some people find that the thing they like most about it. Others find it more than they wanted, and there isn’t much middle ground. You’ll know inside ten minutes which one you are.
It lasts longer than most. The fade is slow, and it never drops you.
Good for: the last hour of the night, stillness, and anyone whose tolerance has outgrown gentler indicas. Bad for: anything at all that needs doing, and anyone new to cannabis, because this is one of the strongest-feeling things we carry. One more thing almost nobody writes down: appetite sits in this strain’s top three reported effects, so have something in the kitchen before you start.
What King Louis XIII tastes and smells like
King Louis XIII smells like straight gas, with pine, damp earth and musk behind it.
This isn’t a dessert strain and it makes no effort to pretend otherwise. The first note is fuel, sharp and chemical in the way the OG-family strains that do it well are, and underneath it sits a wet conifer note and a dark, musky earthiness closer to forest floor after rain than to anything sweet.
It’s pungent, more so than most. Vape this in a room with other people in it and they will know what it is and roughly how strong it is.
If candy and fruit are your usual picks, this will read as harsh where we call it bold, and that’s a perfectly good reason to pick a different cart. If you’ve been looking for the classic gas smell and finding sweetened versions of it, this is the undiluted one.
King Louis XIII terpenes
King Louis XIII leads on d-Limonene, with beta-myrcene second and beta-caryophyllene third.
d-Limonene
Leads, which isn’t obvious from the smell. Limonene is the citrus one, and against a profile this dark it lands as sharpness, never as lemon: the brightness that keeps the gas note from going muddy.
Beta-myrcene
Second, and the one doing the physical work. It’s the terpene people blame for a sunk-in, settled body, and in a strain that lands this fast it’s the single most useful thing to know about the profile.
Beta-caryophyllene
Third. Peppery and slightly spicy, and the only terpene known to interact with the body’s cannabinoid receptors directly. It sits beneath the top notes and adds weight you notice as texture, never as flavor.
That’s the profile in our King Louis XIII oil. Flower tests differently, because part of the aroma is left behind when the plant becomes oil, and a terpene name will tell you about smell and feel, never about strength.
How strong is King Louis XIII?
King Louis XIII is strong, and it feels stronger than it tests.
King Louis XIII flower usually tests somewhere between 20 and 28% THC, which is high without being unheard of. The reason it feels like more than that is speed plus physicality. It arrives fast and it lands in the body, and both of those read as power even when the number doesn’t say so.
Our vapes are THCa live resin and run 70 to 95% total cannabinoids. That’s a concentration figure and not a strength figure, and a cartridge percentage isn’t comparable to a flower percentage in any useful way. The two are measuring different things.
One draw, then wait two minutes, and take that seriously here even if your tolerance is high. Most of the uncomfortable evenings people report with the denser OG-family strains come from a second draw taken before the first one finished arriving.
King Louie, King Louis, Louis XIII: which one you want
King Louie, King Louis and Louis XIII are all one strain, and the spelling scattered early.
King Louie gets searched almost as often as the correct version. King Louie XIII, King Louis 13, Louis XIII and King Louis OG all turn up regularly, and they’re all people looking for this plant.
The reason is that the name traveled by word of mouth, never off a label, and Louie is how most English speakers hear Louis said out loud. By the time anyone was printing it, both spellings were already in circulation.
King Louis XIII compared to Slurricane and Ice Cream Cake
King Louis XIII, Slurricane and Ice Cream Cake are three indicas for the end of the night, and the difference between them is flavor and speed.
Slurricane is the closest on weight and the opposite on taste. Sweet berry instead of fuel, and it arrives more gradually. Take the Slurricane if you want this level of heaviness without the gas, which is a more common preference than you’d think.
Ice Cream Cake is the gentlest of the three and the sweetest. Vanilla and cream, a slower onset, and a body feel that settles where this one drops. Ice Cream Cake is the pick if this one has ever gone further than you meant, or if being awake in an hour matters.
Ice Cream Cake to unwind, Slurricane to be done gently, King Louis XIII when you want the heaviest thing on the shelf and you like the smell of it.
What is King Louis XIII crossed with?
King Louis XIII is OG Kush crossed with LA Confidential, and both halves are visible in the result.
OG Kush is the gas and the head pressure. It’s the strain most responsible for the fuel-and-pine register that defines a whole branch of any menu, and the slightly cranial quality here comes straight off it.
LA Confidential is the body. It’s a dense, physically heavy indica, and it’s why this one lands as fast and as hard as it does instead of building the way OG-family strains often do.
Put together you get something that smells like an OG and behaves like a pure indica, which is a genuinely useful combination if the OG flavor is what you like but the racy edge some of them carry isn’t.
Worth knowing if you already have a view. If OG Kush has ever felt too heady, this is the version with more floor under it. If heavy indicas usually taste flat and characterless to you, this is the one with a smell worth showing up for.
What is King Louis XIII good for?
King Louis XIII is for ending the night, and not much else.
That’s the honest answer and it’s narrower than most pages will tell you. King Louis XIII is at its most useful in the last hour, when the day is finished and the only decision left is when to go to bed. It suits stillness, quiet, a dark room, and being physically done.
It’s a reasonable pick after a long day on your feet or a hard session at the gym, where the physical heaviness is the thing you actually want, not a side effect to put up with.
Where it’s the wrong pick, and this matters more here than on most pages: anything social, anything before about nine at night, and anyone new to cannabis. This is a strain for people whose tolerance has already outgrown something gentler. If that isn’t you yet, Ice Cream Cake gets you to a similar place with a lot more room for error.
What we sell, and where to buy King Louis XIII
We sell King Louis XIII as two vapes, both $60, with the same live resin oil in each.
THCa live resin cart. Any 510 battery will run it, and per gram it’s the cheaper of the two once you own one.
THCa live resin disposable. Arrives charged and ready, which makes it the simpler place to start.
You are choosing hardware here, not strength. Live resin means the terpenes were captured off the plant and never added back later, and on this strain that’s most of the point. The gas note is what people come for, and a cheaper extraction turns it into a generic sweetness that could be almost anything.
We ship straight to most states, and every batch has its certificate posted on the product page and never held back for a request. Buying in person works too, though shops carry what they carry, so it’s worth a call before you drive.
If you like King Louis XIII, try…
Two ways to go from here: something that feels like King Louis XIII, or something that tastes like it.
Granddaddy Purple is the closest match in our line for what King Louis XIII is actually for. Same evening weight, same tendency to end the night early, with a sweeter grape-forward flavor instead of pine and pepper.
Ice Cream Cake goes to a similar place by a very different road. Dessert flavor where this one is kush, vanilla and cream cheese frosting instead of earth, and an ending that arrives just as reliably.
Go to Biscotti if the pepper and spice are the part you came for. Nuttier and warmer, still indica-leaning, and easier to describe to somebody who doesn’t enjoy pine.
Slurricane keeps the heaviness and swaps the whole flavor family for something sweet and fruit-forward. A good swap if you want the effect without the OG profile.
London Pound Cake sits a step lighter than all of these. Berry-led, indica-dominant, and the one to suggest if King Louis XIII put you to sleep sooner than you wanted.
Staying inside the OG family and away from the effect family, Runtz shares more of the gas and sweetness while landing far more balanced. It’s the daytime-capable cousin, not the same experience turned down.
King Louis XIII FAQ
King Louis XIII is an indica, and one of the heaviest we carry. It arrives quickly and lands in your body and leaves your head alone, which makes it an evening strain and a poor idea before anything you need to finish. If you want something that takes the day off you, this does it faster than most.
Yes. King Louie, King Louie XIII and King Loui are all spellings of the same strain, and you’ll see every version on menus. The full name points at the seventeenth-century French king, which is where the numerals come from. Type it any way you like, you’re in the right place and nothing about the plant changes.
King Louis XIII tastes like straight gas, pine and damp earth. It’s one of the most old-school profiles on the menu, closer to a forest floor than to anything sweet, and there’s nothing fruity hiding in it. If you like OG-style strains this is exactly what you want. If you came from the dessert end of the menu, it’ll read as serious.
By volume in King Louis XIII: d-Limonene, followed by beta-myrcene, then beta-caryophyllene. Limonene is usually the bright citrus one, and here it sits underneath the heavier notes and never leads the flavor. Myrcene is doing most of the work on that fast, heavy body feel. Caryophyllene brings the peppery, earthy weight. That’s the profile in our King Louis XIII vapes.
King Louis XIII is strong, and it doesn’t ease you in. The flower usually tests somewhere between 20 and 28% THC, which is at the top end of what flower reaches, and our THCa vapes run 70 to 95% total cannabinoids because concentrating a plant does what the word says. One draw and two minutes, and take that seriously with this one.
King Louis XIII is for the end of the night. It suits the last hour before bed, an evening with nothing after it, and the kind of day you want to stop thinking about. It’s a poor daytime choice and we’d rather say so than sell it as flexible.
King Louis XIII is related to OG Kush, not the same as it. King Louis XIII came out of the OG Kush family and carries the gas and pine that family is known for, turned up. If you already know you like OG-style strains, this is a heavier version of that. If OG isn’t your thing, this won’t convert you.
TribeTokes sells King Louis XIII as a THCa live resin cart and a THCa live resin all-in-one disposable, both starting at $60. Same live resin oil in both, so the choice is about hardware, not quality. The disposable arrives charged and needs nothing; the cart is cheaper per gram once you own a 510 battery.
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