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Comparison

Maui Wowie vs Sour Diesel

Leafly rates both strains mostly energizing, with energetic and uplifted among the top effects of each; the difference is in the jar, pineapple against diesel.1,2 Sour Diesel tests higher in state labs: 21.68% median THC against 18.18% for Maui Wowie.3

Side by side

Maui WowieSour Diesel
TypeSativa (Leafly)1Hybrid (Leafly)2
LineageHawaiian × an unknown strain (Leafly)1Chemdawg × Super Skunk2
Median THC (state lab tests)18.18% (190 tests)21.68% (1,071 tests)
Middle half of THC results16.50%–19.65%19.00%–25.30%
Top terpenes (median)Too few tests report individual terpenesβ-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (167 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsEnergetic, uplifted, happy1Energetic, uplifted, talkative2
FlavorTropical, pineapple, citrus1Diesel, chemical, skunk2
Popular sinceThe 1970s, per Weedmaps4The early 1990s (Leafly)2

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

Lab-tested THC: Maui Wowie vs Sour Diesel

16% 18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Sour Diesel Sour Diesel: median 21.68%, middle half 19.00%–25.30%, 1,071 tests 21.7% n=1,071 Maui Wowie Maui Wowie: median 18.18%, middle half 16.50%–19.65%, 190 tests 18.2% n=190 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Its own site

Sour Diesel was #4 in Leafly’s national ranking of 2025 dispensary orders.5 It has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at sourdiesel.com.

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Maui Wowie) and Oct 3, 2026 (Sour Diesel), 124 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Maui Wowie flower on Weedmaps, against 156 stores for Sour Diesel; around New York the counts were 75 and 125.6

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, Maui Wowie (aka Maui Waui, Mowie Wowie) 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. Weedmaps, Maui Wowie strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Leafly, The best-selling weed strains of 2025 (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-02-02). 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.