London Pound Cake strain

London Pound Cake (LPC) is an indica-leaning hybrid credited to Cookies, the California brand. Its listed pedigree is Sunset Sherbet crossed with a second parent that Cookies has never named, so half of its family tree is not on record.

The file

Where the name comes from

The “pound cake” is about the dessert, not a quantity. It sits in the Cookies catalog next to another dessert name, Cereal Milk, and a non-dessert cut, Gary Payton. “London” has no documented origin story. Treat any tale about a London cut as folklore until the breeder says otherwise.

Weedmaps says the breeders have kept the full lineage confidential. Leafly and Weedmaps also disagree on how to describe the missing parent: “heavy-hitting indica” on one, “hybrid” on the other. Neither is a name, and neither can be checked.

LPC vs LPC 75

Weedmaps keeps a separate entry for London Pound Cake 75, credited to Cookies. A number after a strain name usually marks one selected phenotype kept as a clone, though nobody has published what 75 refers to here.

The two aroma write-ups barely overlap, which fits two phenotypes from one cross. If a menu says only “LPC,” the cut is unknown. If it names another number, ask the seller where that number comes from. The COA is the only document that describes the flower you are actually looking at.

What does it smell and taste like?

Leafly reviewers describe sweet and spicy flavor with diesel and nutty undertones, plus vanilla, butter and lemon notes (Leafly). Weedmaps users lean citrus: lemon, citrus and berry are the top three flavor tags, with pine mentioned in the description (Weedmaps).

The published terpene order fits part of that:

Vanilla and butter are not explained by those three. Compounds outside a standard COA terpene panel are a likely source of the cake side, though no published LPC analysis confirms which ones. Leafly lists the same three terpenes in the same order for Sunset Sherbet (Leafly). That is consistent with the profile coming from that parent, but it is also the most common order in dessert hybrids, so it proves little.

Reported effects

User reports on Leafly most often tag LPC as sleepy, tingly and relaxed (Leafly). On Weedmaps, 42% of effect tags say relaxed, 31% happy and 27% euphoric. Weedmaps describes “immediate cerebral effects” followed by a relaxing body high that can turn sleepy (Weedmaps). These are crowd-sourced tags, not measurements, and they come from dispensary flower rather than any specific hemp Batch. None of this is medical advice.

Grow and phenotype notes

• Flowering: around 60 days, per Weedmaps. No breeder grow sheet is public.
• Structure: Weedmaps notes dense buds with orange pistils and frosty, amber-colored trichomes.
• Cuts vs seeds: a selected cut such as LPC 75 is kept alive as clones. Any plant grown from seed, even from an LPC cross, is a new phenotype and not that cut.
• Color: purple coloring shows up in some photos and not others. It depends on phenotype and night temperatures, not potency.

How LPC shows up as THCA flower

In the hemp lane, the strain name is a claim the seller makes, and the COA is the evidence. Check these before you trust the name:

• Batch code on the COA matches the bag.
• Delta-9 THC is at or below 0.3% by dry weight, the hemp test in force as of October 3, 2026.
• Total THC is reported. 7 CFR 990.25 requires federal hemp tests to reflect THC plus THCA; labs commonly calculate delta-9 + (THCA x 0.877).
• Terpene panel names individual compounds. For LPC, caryophyllene near the top is consistent with the published profile. A limonene-free panel is a reason to ask questions.
• Cut named, if the seller claims LPC 75. Ask how they know; a clone source or grower statement is the only documentation that exists.
• Lab credentials: ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation and a sample ID you can verify on the lab’s own site.

Log 2026-10-03: the legal line

Federal law today defines hemp by delta-9 THC alone, at 0.3% or less on a dry-weight basis (7 U.S.C. 1639o). That is how high-THCA flower is sold as hemp. Several states have already closed that route for flower.

Section 781 of P.L. 119-37 moves the federal test to total THC, including THCA. H.R. 6500 was signed September 2, 2026 and set December 11, 2026 as the date that applies to naturally occurring cannabinoids such as THCA (enrolled text, Sec. 2019). CRS IF13136 covers the original section 781 change. After that date, any LPC flower with a typical THCA reading fails the hemp definition.

Related field notes

• Lemon Cherry Gelato: another Sunset Sherbet descendant with an undisclosed parent.
• Cereal Milk: a Cookies dessert cross, cream instead of citrus.
• Gary Payton: Cookies again, with a gassier profile.
• Ice Cream Cake: dessert name, heavier body reports.

Sources

• Leafly: London Pound Cake: breeder credit, lineage, terpenes, flavor and effect reports
• Weedmaps: London Pound Cake and London Pound Cake 75: lineage, flowering time, bud structure, effect and flavor tags, cut aroma notes
• Leafly: Sunset Sherbert: parent lineage and terpenes
• 7 U.S.C. 1639o and 7 CFR 990.25
• Congress.gov: H.R. 5371, H.R. 6500 and its enrolled text, CRS IF13136

Not legal advice. Last reviewed October 3, 2026.

Asked at the desk

Log 2026-10-04 Last checked and updated on October 4, 2026.