Birthday Cake

strain editorial also known as: Birthday Cake Kush

published by cannadb.org (did:plc:lrtzzib3ycggsodkfidzuorw)

Origin year: 2016
Origin region: Los Angeles, California
Indica / Sativa: 75/25 indica-dominant

Description

Birthday Cake shares the same parent set as Wedding Cake — Triangle Kush × Animal Cookies — and emerged from the same Seed Junky breeding work, but represents a different phenotype selection from the F1 cross. Where Wedding Cake (the Triangle Mints #23 cut) leans gassier and more fuel-forward, Birthday Cake leans further into the dessert-sweet character of the Animal Cookies parent: vanilla and frosting notes, slightly less kush funk, slightly less pronounced fuel.

The two records exist as siblings in the lineage graph rather than as parent and child. This is exactly the kind of family relationship the lexicon's parents field is designed to capture honestly — "these strains share parents and emerged from the same breeding work, but neither is descended from the other."

Less commercially dominant than Wedding Cake but a frequent appearance in Cookies and Cookies-adjacent retail catalogs, and a reasonably common parent in subsequent Cake-family hybrids.

Lineage

See full lineage graph →

Claims

THC: 20.00%–26.00%

Flavors

sweet
vanilla
frosting
earthy

Effects

relaxed
happy
euphoric

Terpenes

caryophyllene
limonene
linalool

Cultivation notes

Flowers in 8–9 weeks indoor, similar to Wedding Cake. Phenotype variation in seed packs is wider than Wedding Cake's was — a few notably dessert-forward phenos and a few that revert toward the Triangle Kush parent.

Raw record

AT-URI: at://did:plc:lrtzzib3ycggsodkfidzuorw/org.cannadb.strain/birthday-cake

CID: bafyreiheabod4e3nac2h5tvb772swr6cqfetjmuqivextxxcn7at6mrnsy

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  "kind": "strain",
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  "claims": {
    "effects": [
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    ],
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      "earthy"
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      "limonene",
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    "thcRange": {
      "max": 2600,
      "min": 2000
    },
    "cultivationNotes": "Flowers in 8–9 weeks indoor, similar to Wedding Cake. Phenotype variation in seed packs is wider than Wedding Cake's was — a few notably dessert-forward phenos and a few that revert toward the Triangle Kush parent."
  },
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  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-04-30T20:00:50Z",
  "originYear": 2016,
  "alsoKnownAs": [
    "Birthday Cake Kush"
  ],
  "breederName": "Seed Junky Genetics",
  "description": "Birthday Cake shares the same parent set as Wedding Cake — Triangle Kush × Animal Cookies — and emerged from the same Seed Junky breeding work, but represents a different phenotype selection from the F1 cross. Where Wedding Cake (the Triangle Mints #23 cut) leans gassier and more fuel-forward, Birthday Cake leans further into the dessert-sweet character of the Animal Cookies parent: vanilla and frosting notes, slightly less kush funk, slightly less pronounced fuel.\n\nThe two records exist as siblings in the lineage graph rather than as parent and child. This is exactly the kind of family relationship the lexicon's `parents` field is designed to capture honestly — \"these strains share parents and emerged from the same breeding work, but neither is descended from the other.\"\n\nLess commercially dominant than Wedding Cake but a frequent appearance in Cookies and Cookies-adjacent retail catalogs, and a reasonably common parent in subsequent Cake-family hybrids.",
  "indicaSativa": 25,
  "originRegion": "Los Angeles, California"
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