Sherb Cake is a Seed Junky Genetics cross of Permanent Marker and Purple Push Pop, a dessert-gas hybrid built from two of the brand's newest house lines. Diesel, grape and berry are the notes people name most, and the reported arc runs talkative and euphoric up front, calming underneath.
Where It Comes From
Sherb Cake is a recent-generation Seed Junky release and it shows: both parents are themselves modern house crosses rather than heirloom stock. That is what the catalog has looked like since the early 2020s, with the brand stacking its own Sherb, Cake and Jealousy work on top of itself instead of reaching outside for new material.
That matters for how you read the name. "Sherb Cake" describes a flavor lane, not a documented Sherbet-crossed-with-Cake pedigree. The actual parentage runs through Permanent Marker and Purple Push Pop, and plenty of unrelated flower gets sold under similar dessert names.
Release timing helps too. Permanent Marker was carrying Strain of the Year attention when this cross appeared, so Sherb Cake arrived with interest already attached to it rather than having to earn a room from scratch.
The Cross
Seed Junky Genetics is the breeder. The cross is Permanent Marker paired with Purple Push Pop.
Permanent Marker is documented as a three-way cross of Biscotti S1, Sherb BX and a third-generation Jealousy cut. Purple Push Pop is documented as (Ice Cream Cake x Sunset Sherb BX1) x Jealousy F2, with Ice Cream Cake itself listed as Gelato #33 x Wedding Cake.
Read those side by side and the genetics stop looking like a grab bag. Jealousy and Sherb material appear on both sides of this cross. Sherb Cake is a doubling-down, not a widening, which is why the profile lands so concentrated and why phenotype selection matters this much. Two plants out of the same population can push solvent, grape candy or vanilla cream to the front.
The consistent report is sweetness with a solvent edge underneath, and the order is the interesting part: diesel leads, ahead of the dessert notes the name promises. That tension is the point. Flower that collapses into plain sugar has lost the Permanent Marker half of the equation.
Flower is typically dense and resin-heavy with purple expression, consistent with the Purple Push Pop side of the family. Structure and color still come down to the grower, and terpene ratios move with cut, harvest window, dry and cure.
Reported effects run talkative, euphoric and creative early with a calmer, heavier back half, a conversational opening that flattens into body weight. Best fit is a low-stakes evening with people you actually like. Push the dose and the second half gets slower. Effects vary with tolerance, method, setting and batch chemistry.
What It Left Behind
The trophy in this family belongs to the parent: Permanent Marker took Strain of the Year honors for 2023. That award does not transfer down the family tree, and Sherb Cake holds no placement of its own. What it did inherit is attention, since the cross drew immediate interest on release because of what sits on one side of it.
The High Rise Take
Sherb Cake is Seed Junky doubling down on its own Jealousy and Sherb work: grape-and-diesel sweetness over cake, talkative early, heavy at the finish. Judge it by the package and the batch panel.