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Comparison

LA Kush Cake vs Lava Cake

Lava Cake shares no parent with LA Kush Cake, but Leafly lists the same three flavors for both, vanilla, mint and pepper; it is a Thin Mint GSC × Grape Pie cross that Leafly users call relaxed, sleepy and tingly.1,2 It tests lower in state labs: 20.00% median THC against 25.39% for LA Kush Cake, and both lab samples lean on Nevada.3

Side by side

LA Kush CakeLava Cake
TypeIndica-leaning hybrid; Leafly rates it mostly calming2Indica-dominant hybrid1
LineageWedding Cake × Kush Mints (Seed Junky Genetics)2,4Thin Mint GSC × Grape Pie1
Median THC (state lab tests)25.39% (770 tests)20.00% (535 tests)
Middle half of THC results22.57%–28.31%18.01%–22.57%
Top terpenes (median)Limonene, β-Caryophyllene, Linalool (371 tests)β-Caryophyllene, β-Myrcene, Linalool (366 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsAroused, relaxed, sleepy2Relaxed, sleepy, tingly1
FlavorVanilla, mint, pepper2Pepper, mint, vanilla1
Share of lab tests from Nevada47.4%368.2%3

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

Lab-tested THC: LA Kush Cake vs Lava Cake

20% 24% 28% LA Kush Cake LA Kush Cake: median 25.39%, middle half 22.57%–28.31%, 770 tests 25.4% n=770 Lava Cake Lava Cake: median 20.00%, middle half 18.01%–22.57%, 535 tests 20.0% n=535 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

Lava Cake has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at lavacakestrain.com.

Which is easier to find

On Oct 4, 2026, 28 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed LA Kush Cake flower on Weedmaps, against 8 stores for Lava Cake; around New York the counts were 17 and 0.5

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Lava Cake strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, LA Kush Cake (aka Los Angeles Kush Cake, LA Kush Cake #11) 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, LA Kush Cake strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. 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.