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History

The history of LA Kush Cake

LA Kush Cake is Seed Junky Genetics’ cross of Wedding Cake and Kush Mints, from Los Angeles. No source dates its release, but it was in state lab testing by Mar 2019, won the personal-use flower category at the 2019 Emerald Cup and has since become the top-selling strain in Alaska.1,2,3,4,5

Timeline

  1. Late 1990sBubba Kush, the indica parent of Kush Mints, emerges just after 1996, according to Leafly.6,7
  2. Late 2010sA wave of Cake strains spreads across the US, by Leaf Magazines’ account.8
  3. Mar 2019The earliest LA Kush Cake flower result in our lab data, from a Washington lab.2
  4. 2019Leafly names Wedding Cake, LA Kush Cake’s parent, its Strain of the Year, the first Seed Junky strain to win the title.9
  5. Dec 2019A grower’s LA Kush Cake wins the personal-use flower category at the Emerald Cup in California, a contest of more than 700 entries.1,3,10,11
  6. 2021An entry from Luminescent Farms reaches the top 20 of the Emerald Cup’s sungrown category, and Nevada growers The Source+ feature LA Kush Cake in their annual pheno hunt.1
  7. 2021–2023718 of the 770 state lab tests in our data date from these years.2
  8. Feb 2022Leafly makes it its February HighLight “for date night”: 29% of its reviewers found it arousing, Seed Junky’s own eighths ran $55–$65 before tax in Los Angeles, and it was on sale from Phoenix to Detroit, Boston and Maine.1
  9. 2023Leafly names it one of its top eight strains for arousal.12
  10. Sep 2024Leafly ranks it third among its 12 Wedding Cake strains of all time, behind Wedding Cake and Papaya Cake.12
  11. 2025The top-selling strain in Alaska in Leafly dispensary orders.4
  12. Jul 2026Listed among the best strains for feeling relaxed in Leafly’s 100 best weed strains of all time.13
  13. Aug 2026Alaska’s top-selling strain in August sales, per The Marijuana Herald’s reading of Headset data; its parent Wedding Cake leads Washington.5
  14. Oct 4, 2026Carried by 166 store listings in 18 of 27 US markets in our Weedmaps snapshot.14

Why it spread

It came from a breeder at the center of the Cake wave. Leafly calls Los Angeles’ Seed Junky Genetics longtime industry legends now dominating the legal game, the breeder’s Wedding Cake was Leafly’s Strain of the Year in 2019, and Leaf Magazines describes a huge wave of Cake washing across the country in the late 2010s.1,8,9

Then it traveled. By 2022 Seed Junky was selling limited runs of clones or seeds in California’s legal market and through seed banks, other clone sellers were making their own, and large-scale growers sold eighths at about half the breeder’s price; Leafly found it on sale from Phoenix to Detroit, Boston and Maine.1 SeedFinder lists Cookies, Jungle Boys, Glass House Brands and Liberty Health Sciences among Seed Junky’s partner brands, and Jungle Boys bred two crosses from it, LA Baker and Jungle Mints.11,15,16

The disputed parts of the story

  • Breeder: Seed Junky Genetics in every account; Leafly’s strain page adds Liberty Health Sciences (see genetics).10,11,17
  • Date: no source gives the year it was bred. The earliest records we found are a Washington lab test from Mar 2019 in our data and the 2019 Emerald Cup.2,3
  • Kush Mints’ breeder: Seed Junky per SeedFinder and Leaf Magazines, Mr. Nice Seeds per Leafly.7,8,18
  • The 2019 award went to a grower’s entry in the personal-use category, not to the breeder: Leafly’s 2022 article says an LA Kush Cake grower took home the award.1,3

Sources

  1. Leafly, February’s Leafly HighLight: LA Kush Cake for date night (David Downs) (2022-02-01). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. SF Station, Emerald Cup selects 2019 award winners (2019-12-20). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, The best-selling weed strains of 2025 (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-02-02). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. The Marijuana Herald, The top-selling marijuana strain in all 23 states with legal recreational sales (Anthony Martinelli) (2026-09-18). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, Bubba Kush strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Leafly, Kush Mints (aka Kush Mintz) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. Leaf Magazines, Fire Follower: Seed Junky Genetics brings sexy Wedding Cake back (David Downs) (2026-08-03). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  9. Leafly, A look back at the Leafly Strain of the Year hall of fame (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-02-27). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  10. Weedmaps, LA Kush Cake strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  11. SeedFinder, LA Kush Cake (Seed Junky Genetics): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  12. Leafly, Top 12 Wedding Cake strains of all time (Matt Jackson) (2024-09-19). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  13. Leafly, Leafly’s 100 best weed strains of all time (2026-07-14). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  14. 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.
  15. SeedFinder, LA Baker (Jungle Boys): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  16. SeedFinder, Jungle Mints (Jungle Boys): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  17. Leafly, LA Kush Cake (aka Los Angeles Kush Cake, LA Kush Cake #11) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  18. SeedFinder, Kush Mints (Seed Junky Genetics): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.