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Comparison

Lava Cake vs Chemdawg

Chemdawg turns up twice around Lava Cake: 707 Seed Bank sells a different Lava Cake bred from Thin Mint Cookies and its 707 Chemdawg, and Leafly lists Chemdawg Sour Diesel as a parent of Grape Stomper, one of Grape Pie’s parents.1,2,3 In state labs Chemdawg tests higher: 22.94% median THC against 20.00% for Lava Cake.4

Side by side

Lava CakeChemdawg
TypeIndica-dominant hybrid; mostly calming5,6Hybrid; mostly energizing7
LineageThin Mint GSC × Grape Pie6,8Thought to be Northern California bag seed, via a Colorado Grateful Dead concert; grown by its breeder since 19917
Median THC (state lab tests)20.00% (535 tests)22.94% (668 tests)
Middle half of THC results18.01%–22.57%19.25%–25.37%
Top terpenes (median)β-Caryophyllene, β-Myrcene, Linalool (366 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (389 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsRelaxed, sleepy, tingly6Euphoric, relaxed, tingly7
FlavorPepper, mint, vanilla6Chemical, diesel, pungent7
Flowering8–10 weeks (Weedmaps)87–9 weeks (Leafly)7

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.4

Lab-tested THC: Lava Cake vs Chemdawg

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% Chemdawg Chemdawg: median 22.94%, middle half 19.25%–25.37%, 668 tests 22.9% n=668 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.4

The other Lava Cake

SeedFinder lists 707 Seed Bank’s Lava Cake as Thin Mint Cookies × 707 Chemdawg, sold as regular seeds and flowering in about 63 days, with minty, chocolate and skunky aromas and the Thin Mint side dominant. Our lab data cannot tell it apart from the Thin Mint GSC × Grape Pie version.1,4 Chemdawg has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at chemdawg.com.

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Lava Cake) and Oct 3, 2026 (Chemdawg), 18 stores within 50 miles of Detroit listed Lava Cake flower on Weedmaps, against 34 stores for Chemdawg; around Los Angeles the counts were 8 and 79.9

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Sources

  1. SeedFinder, Lava Cake (707 Seed Bank): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Grape Stomper (aka Sour Grapes) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Grape Pie strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. AllBud, Lava Cake marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, Lava Cake strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Leafly, Chemdawg (aka Chemdog) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. Weedmaps, Lava Cake (aka Black Rock Lava Cake, Lava Cake #11) strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  9. 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.