Catalogue entry · lab-tested · every claim cited
LA Kush Cake, also listed as Los Angeles Kush Cake, is an indica-leaning hybrid of Wedding Cake and Kush Mints from Los Angeles’ Seed Junky Genetics; Leafly also credits Liberty Health Sciences.1,2,3,4 It tests at a median total THC of 25.39% across 770 state lab tests of LA Kush Cake flower, with the middle half of results between 22.57% and 28.31%.5 That median is higher than the median of 40 of the 42 other strains in our dataset with at least 100 tests, and CBD is negligible: none of the 565 tests that reported CBD reached 1%.5
LA Kush Cake is Seed Junky’s Wedding Cake × Kush Mints cross, an indica-leaning hybrid with Animal Mints on both sides. Parents, breeder, cuts, offspring.
Plate IILA Kush Cake flower tests at 25.39% median THC (22.57%–28.31%) across 770 state lab results, with limonene as the top terpene and almost no CBD.
Plate IIILeafly’s top effects for LA Kush Cake are aroused, relaxed and sleepy, rated mostly calming, with a euphoric start per AllBud. Downsides: anxiety, dry eyes.
Plate IVLA Kush Cake flowers in about 56–63 days indoors (Weedmaps) or 7–8 weeks (SeedFinder). Specs side by side, and why the original cut is hard to get.
Plate VLA Kush Cake flower was listed by 28 stores near Los Angeles on Weedmaps on Oct 4, 2026. Store counts and eighth prices for 27 US markets.
Plate VIHow Seed Junky’s Wedding Cake × Kush Mints cross from Los Angeles won at the 2019 Emerald Cup and became Alaska’s top-selling strain. With sources.
An indica-leaning hybrid. Leafly calls it indica-dominant and rates its effects mostly calming, Weedmaps also says indica-dominant, and SeedFinder files it as an indica; AllBud is the exception, at 50% indica and 50% sativa. Of its parents, Leafly calls Wedding Cake an indica-hybrid and lists Kush Mints as 50/50.1,2,3,6,8,9
A cross of Wedding Cake and Kush Mints from Seed Junky Genetics in Los Angeles. It won the personal-use flower category at the 2019 Emerald Cup, and Leafly ranks it third among the Wedding Cake strains of all time, behind Wedding Cake itself and Papaya Cake.3,4,10,11
Higher in THC than most strains we track. Its median total THC across 770 state lab tests was 25.39%, higher than the median of 40 of the 42 other strains in our dataset with at least 100 tests, and 53.4% of its tests reached 25% or more. In every year with at least 100 tests (2021–2023) the yearly median stayed between 24.00% and 27.00%.5 Strain databases publish 23% (Leafly), 20–24% (AllBud) and 21–29% (Weedmaps).1,2,3
Vanilla and mint, with pepper. Leafly users list vanilla, mint and pepper, and Leafly describes a vanilla smell with an earthy peppermint taste; on Weedmaps, 42% of flavor reports say earthy, 35% woody and 23% sweet. Leafly’s 2022 write-up describes a sweet, dessert-like front end with a mint-like finish.1,3,4
Not according to Leafly, which keeps a separate Kush Cake entry, also known as Double Kush Cake: an indica-dominant cross of Cherry Pie and Girl Scout Cookies. LA Kush Cake is Wedding Cake × Kush Mints.1,12
Seed Junky Genetics, the Los Angeles breeder led by J Beezy, according to Weedmaps, SeedFinder and Leafly’s 2022 HighLight. Leafly’s strain page credits Liberty Health Sciences alongside Seed Junky; SeedFinder lists Liberty Health Sciences among the brands Seed Junky works with.1,3,4,6,13
Full lab data: by year, by state, terpenes and the downloadable dataset →
LA Kush Cake won first place in the personal-use flower category at the 2019 Emerald Cup, a contest SF Station put at more than 700 entries, with a grower’s entry rather than the breeder’s; in 2021 another entry reached the top 20 of the cup’s sungrown category.3,4,10 Leafly made it its February 2022 HighLight, ranks it third among the Wedding Cake strains of all time and lists it among its 100 best strains, under feeling relaxed.4,11,14
Sales data put it first in one state: Alaska, where it was the best-selling strain in Leafly dispensary orders in 2025 and the top seller in August 2026, according to The Marijuana Herald’s reading of Headset data.15,16 It does not appear in California’s top-10 flower lists for 2024 or 2025.17,18 In our Weedmaps snapshot on Oct 4, 2026, 166 store listings carried it in 18 of 27 US markets, the most around Los Angeles (28).19
| Market | Stores | Menu items | Median eighth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 28 | 36 | $18.51 (n=14) |
| Chicago, IL | 24 | 42 | $35.00 (n=13) |
| Baltimore, MD | 24 | 29 | $35.00 (n=17) |
| New York, NY | 17 | 23 | $31.48 (n=16) |
| Detroit, MI | 13 | 14 | $25.00 (n=5) |
| Boston, MA | 9 | 12 | $20.00 (n=5) |
Stores within 50 miles listing LA Kush Cake flower on Weedmaps, Oct 4, 2026.19
In Germany, where it is a prescription medicine, weed.de lists 8 pharmacy products made from LA Kush Cake; in-stock flower starts at €2.95 a gram.25
LA Kush Cake
Seed Junky alone or with Liberty Health Sciences? Animal Mints twice? The full genetics page →
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