London Pound Cake Strain Feminized Marijuana Seeds

Where London Pound Cake comes from

London Pound Cake strain, sold in some places simply as Pound Cake and occasionally as Lemon Pound Cake, came out of the same California cookie circles that produced Gelato and Biscotti in the late 2010s. Its one confirmed parent is Sunset Sherbet, the Girl Scout Cookies and Pink Panties cross that sits behind a large share of the modern dessert menu. The second parent has never been disclosed, and everything about the plant says heavy old-world indica: short internodes, broad dark leaves, and buds that pack down like wet sand.

The name is a description of the flower rather than a place. A well grown cola is so tightly stacked that a jar of it feels wrong in the hand, and the flavour that comes with that density is genuinely cake-like: grape and berry sweetness wrapped around vanilla and a toasted, nutty base. At roughly 70% indica it behaves the way the buds look, which is to say slowly.

London Pound Cake strain effects and experience

There is a short bright window at the start, maybe fifteen minutes of lifted mood and a light tingle across the shoulders, and then the plant does what it was bred to do. The body goes heavy in stages, limbs first, then everything else, and the head follows into a soft, unhurried quiet. Most people describe the last hour as sleepy rather than sedated.

At 20% to 28% THC the upper phenotypes are strong enough to end a plan, so treat the first session as an experiment with nothing scheduled after it.

London Pound Cake flavour, aroma and appearance

Break a bud and the first note is grape, then a bright lemon zest from the Sherbet side, then vanilla and something distinctly nutty, like the crust of a loaf. The smoke is thick and creamy, sweet on the inhale and woody on the exhale, and limonene is high enough that the citrus survives a careless dry better than the vanilla does.

The buds are medium sized, extremely dense, olive green with purple streaks running out from the stems on plants that see cool nights, and covered in short, bright orange pistils. The plant itself is squat and bushy with tight nodes and heavy fan leaves that need thinning around the bud sites, or the interior of the canopy never dries out.

Growing London Pound Cake in Canada

Indoors

Veg three to four weeks and flip at 40 to 50 cm; the stretch is a modest 1.5 times to a finished 100 to 160 cm. It is a moderate to heavy feeder that handles a strong flowering mix without burning. Keep the room at 23 to 26 degrees. The real work is air: this is the densest bud structure in this batch, so defoliate around the flower sites at week three and again at week six, hold humidity at 45% or below from week five, and put a fan where it moves air through the canopy rather than across the top of it. Flower runs 63 to 70 days.

Outdoors, by region

A 9 to 10 week flower and a mid October harvest limit London Pound Cake outdoors to the warmest, driest corners of the country. Coastal BC and the Gulf Islands can do it with a rain cover over the last three weeks, and a warm year in the Niagara and southern Ontario belt will finish in the second week of October. Quebec, the Maritimes and the Prairies have no realistic outdoor window for it: an October finish on a mould-prone plant in a wet or freezing autumn is a lost crop, and a greenhouse or a tent is the honest answer. If you want a dessert indica for a garden in those regions, our fast flowering seeds for Canada guide lists strains that come in three to four weeks earlier.

Height and training

Top twice and train flat. Left alone the plant makes one enormous central cola and a ring of shorter branches, and that central cola is the piece most likely to rot. A wide, even canopy of ten or twelve medium colas yields the same weight with a fraction of the risk. Stake or net anyway, because the buds are heavy enough to fold branches in the last fortnight.

Flowering and harvest cues

Watch the bud interiors, not the pistils. Squeeze a cola gently at day 55 and again at day 62; it should feel firm and springy, and any sponginess or off smell means opening it up to check for grey mould. Trichomes go cloudy with the first amber around day 63, and day 66 to 70 is the sweet spot for the heavier, sleepier version. Dry slowly, 14 days at 60% humidity, and hang whole branches rather than wet trimming so the density has time to give up its moisture evenly. Two to three weeks of cure brings the vanilla back.

London Pound Cake yield indoors and outdoors

Indoors, 450 to 550 g/m² is normal, and the weight is honest: dense flower loses less on the hangers than fluffier strains. Outdoors in coastal BC a full-season plant gives 500 to 650 g dried. Against the other heavy indicas we sell it is a mid to high yielder, and there is very little popcorn on a well trained plant.

Who London Pound Cake is for, and who should pick something else

Grow London Pound Cake if you want a genuinely heavy evening indica with a dessert flavour, if you have an indoor room you can keep warm and dry for ten weeks.

Pick something else if your space runs humid, because this plant will find that out for you; if you need an outdoor plant outside the BC coast; or if you want something lighter for the daytime, where Black Cherry Gelato keeps the fruit and loses most of the weight.

How London Pound Cake compares

Sunset Sherbet is the known parent: fruitier, lighter on its feet, a week faster and much easier to finish. Girl Scout Cookies sits a generation further back and is the more balanced, more social version of the same flavour family. Wedding Cake is the closest comparison in the catalogue for anyone choosing between two dense, vanilla-led indicas, and it finishes sooner on a smaller plant. Among our indica feminized seeds London Pound Cake is the weight-and-density pick, and our humidity guide is required reading before you run it.

Frequently asked questions about London Pound Cake

Is London Pound Cake indica or sativa?

London Pound Cake is an indica dominant hybrid, about 70% indica and 30% sativa. Sunset Sherbet is its confirmed parent and the second parent has never been disclosed, but the plant grows squat and bushy and the effect is heavily physical, with a short lifted window before the body relaxation takes over.

Why is it called London Pound Cake?

The name describes the flower, not a place. The buds pack down so tightly that a handful feels heavier than it looks, which is where the pound cake comparison came from, and the flavour matches: grape and lemon sweetness over vanilla and a toasted, nutty base. It is also sold as Pound Cake and sometimes as Lemon Pound Cake.

How strong is London Pound Cake?

London Pound Cake tests between 20% and 28% THC with CBD under 0.5%. The upper phenotypes are strong and long lasting, and the effect builds rather than arrives, so it is easy to take more than you meant to in the first twenty minutes. It suits evenings and experienced users.

Is London Pound Cake hard to grow?

The plant itself is straightforward and forgiving with nutrients, but the bud density makes the last three weeks demanding. Hold humidity at 45% or below, defoliate around the flower sites twice, move air through the canopy rather than over it, and check the inside of the biggest colas. Outdoors in Canada it is a coastal BC or greenhouse plant only.