London Drip Strain Guide

London Drip is an indica-dominant hybrid, roughly 70% indica, created by crossing London Pound Cake 75 with Gushers. Verified flower analyses put it between 22% and 28% THC, which places it among the stronger cultivars in general circulation.

The profile is the reason people remember it: sweet bakery dough and vanilla frosting over a sharp, gassy baseline, finishing peppery and earthy. Dessert on top, fuel underneath.

London Drip at a Glance

	London Drip
Lineage	London Pound Cake 75 × Gushers
Type	Indica-dominant hybrid, approximately 70/30
Typical THC	22–28%
Primary terpenes	Beta-caryophyllene, limonene, myrcene
Secondary terpenes	Linalool, humulene
Flavor notes	Bakery dough, vanilla frosting, macerated berries, gas, earthy spice, damp pine
Commonly reported effects	Warm cerebral onset, then heavy body relaxation
Best suited to	Evening use

The Lineage — a Four-Grandparent Tree

London Drip is a cross of two strains that are themselves crosses, which is why the flavor arrives in layers rather than as one note.

London Pound Cake 75

The dessert half. London Pound Cake was bred by Cookies from Sunset Sherbert crossed with an unnamed heavy indica — the second parent has never been publicly disclosed, which is not unusual for Cookies releases.

It tests around 20% THC, leads with caryophyllene, limonene and myrcene, and is described in terms of vanilla, butter and lemon. The “75” designates a specific Cookies phenotype selection rather than a separate strain.

This is where London Drip gets its bakery character — and its name.

Gushers — and why it is sometimes called TK41

The fruit-and-gas half, and it comes with a genuinely odd footnote.

Gushers is Triangle Kush × Gelato 41, tests around 22% THC, and leads with caryophyllene, limonene and linalool. Reported flavors run tropical, sweet and berry, with apple, apricot and honey turning up in reviews.

Here is the footnote: Leafly does not print the name “Gushers” on its own strain page. It catalogues the cultivar as TK41 — after Triangle Kush and Gelato 41 — and states directly that the strain “goes by a popular fruit snack name, but we won’t mention it here for legal reasons.” Gushers is a General Mills trademark, and cannabis databases have grown cautious about strain names borrowed from confectionery brands.

So if you go looking for Gushers on Leafly and find TK41 instead, that is why. Same plant, different name, a trademark lawyer in between.

A Note on Disputed Lineage

Worth flagging, because you will encounter it.

The lineage above — London Pound Cake 75 × Gushers — is the one with the most consistent documentation. But at least one dispensary menu lists London Drip as LB Cake × Runtz, which is a different cross entirely.

Neither claim comes with a single named breeder. London Drip is generally attributed to West Coast breeders collectively rather than to one house, and in the absence of breeder attribution, competing lineages are difficult to settle definitively.

What this means practically: treat the lineage as well-supported rather than certain, and treat the terpene panel on a certificate as the thing you can actually verify.

Terpene Profile

Five terpenes do the work here, and knowing what each contributes explains the layered flavor better than the flavor list does.

Beta-caryophyllene is the peppery, spicy compound — the same one that gives black pepper its bite. It is also the only common terpene that binds CB2 receptors directly rather than only contributing aroma. In London Drip it supplies the gas and the pepper on the exhale.

Limonene is the citrus note, found in orange and lemon peel. It is what keeps the dessert profile bright rather than cloying.

Myrcene is herbal and slightly musky, and it is the most common terpene in cannabis generally. It contributes the earthy, damp-pine base people describe underneath the sweetness.

Linalool is floral — the compound that makes lavender smell like lavender. Present in smaller amounts here, and part of why the profile reads as soft rather than sharp on the inhale.

Humulene is earthy and hoppy, unsurprising given that hops and cannabis share a plant family. It rounds out the finish.

The sequence — sweet and floral on the inhale, peppery fuel on the exhale — is the caryophyllene arriving last. That is the strain’s signature.

What London Drip Tastes Like

The consistent description across sources is sweet bakery dough and vanilla frosting with macerated berries, sitting on a sharp gassy baseline with earthy spice and damp pine underneath. The exhale turns peppery and kush-like.

If you have had London Pound Cake, the top notes will be familiar. What Gushers adds is the berry-tropical layer and a good deal of the gas.

What to Expect

Reported effects start as a warm cerebral ease and move into heavy physical relaxation — the pattern people usually describe as a body-heavy indica experience. It is an evening strain rather than a functional daytime one.

At 22–28% THC it sits at the higher end for flower. Effects vary considerably between individuals and with dose, and a strain’s reputation predicts very little about any particular person’s response.

London Drip as a Concentrate

Two things change, and one of them is smaller than usual.

The potency gap is narrower here than with most strains. London Drip flower already tests 22–28%. A liquid diamond concentrate runs 90–95% — roughly three and a half times, rather than the four or five times you would get stepping up from a 20% cultivar. Still a substantial jump, and still enough that flower tolerance does not transfer cleanly, but London Drip is one of the cases where the flower is genuinely potent to begin with. The liquid diamonds guide covers why concentrate numbers reach that high.

Where the flavor comes from depends on the extract. Not all London Drips carry the profile the same way. In flower, the bakery-and-gas character is genetic — it comes from the terpenes the plant produced. In a concentrate it depends entirely on the process:

• Distillate is stripped of terpenes and re-flavoured afterwards, so any bakery note is an additive rather than the plant.
• Live resin and liquid diamonds retain the plant’s terpene fraction, so the profile traces back to the actual cultivar.

For a strain this layered, that distinction is unusually easy to taste. A five-terpene profile reduced to added flavouring loses the sequence — the arrival of the pepper on the exhale is exactly the kind of detail that does not survive re-flavouring.

London Drip in Cali Clear

Cali Clear sells a 2g London Drip disposable filled with liquid diamonds at 90–95% THC. The batch certificate, including the terpene panel, is published on our lab reports page — for a strain whose whole character is its terpene sequence, that panel is the part worth reading.

Tasting notes for the full lineup are on our Cali Clear flavors page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the London Drip strain? London Drip is an indica-dominant hybrid, roughly 70% indica, created by crossing London Pound Cake 75 with Gushers. It typically tests between 22% and 28% THC.

Is London Drip indica or sativa? Indica-dominant — approximately 70% indica and 30% sativa. It is generally described as an evening strain.

What are the parents of London Drip? London Pound Cake 75 and Gushers. London Pound Cake is a Cookies cross of Sunset Sherbert with an undisclosed indica; Gushers is Triangle Kush crossed with Gelato 41.

How strong is London Drip? Verified flower analyses put it between 22% and 28% THC, which is high for flower. As a liquid diamond concentrate the same name carries 90–95%.

What does London Drip taste like? Sweet bakery dough and vanilla frosting with berry notes, over a sharp gassy base with earthy spice and damp pine. The exhale turns peppery and kush-like.

Why is Gushers called TK41 on some sites? Because Gushers is a General Mills trademark. Leafly catalogues the cultivar as TK41 — after its Triangle Kush and Gelato 41 parents — and says openly that it avoids the fruit-snack name for legal reasons.

What terpenes are in London Drip? Beta-caryophyllene, limonene and myrcene are dominant, with linalool and humulene in smaller amounts.