Temptation is a hybrid from LIT Farms, the Reno, Nevada breeding operation led by Ray Schiavone. The cross pairs Ice Cream Cake with Jealousy, and LIT released it as regular seed in 12-seed packs with a 65-day flowering time.
The cultivar has since become breeding stock in its own right. Greenpoint Seeds uses Temptation as the mother of Joker Juice, one of the foundational lines in its current program.
LIT Farms and the Schiavone brothers
LIT Farms is short for Lost In Translation, a nod to experiences that are better felt than described. The Schiavone brothers own the operation, and Ray Schiavone founded it after running Tahoe Hydroponics.
Schiavone arrived at breeding with a competition record. At the 2016 Jack Herer Cup, Tahoe Hydroponics swept first place in all three categories: hybrid, indica and sativa. LIT now works out of a large multi-story cultivation facility in Reno.
Signature LIT releases include Lit OG, Lit Marker, Rainbow Marker, Road Head and Boston Runtz, and the same breeder is credited with the Watermelon Zkittlez × Gelato 45 cross behind Watermelon Gelato.
Ice Cream Cake on the mother side
Ice Cream Cake is an indica-dominant hybrid of Wedding Cake × Gelato #33. Leafly lists it at 22% THC, with light green and purple buds covered in trichomes.
It grows medium-tall, finishes in 8–9 weeks and produces large yields indoors or out. Leafly also notes that its quality stays consistent across different growers, and it suits intermediate to advanced cultivators.
Through Ice Cream Cake, Temptation also carries Wedding Cake and Gelato #33 one generation back. That dessert-line ancestry is the backbone of the sweet, creamy side of the cross.
Jealousy and the Seed Junky connection
Jealousy comes from Seed Junky Genetics. It crosses Sherbet Bx1 with Gelato 41, and the Heritage Seed Bank listing for Temptation names that Seed Junky cut as the one LIT used.
The strain earned a big public profile when Leafly named it Strain of the Year in 2022. Leafly lists it near 25% THC, with dark purple-black buds, dense structure and heavy trichome coverage.
Jealousy is not an easy grow. Leafly rates it hard, with short-to-medium height, medium yields and an 8–9 week flowering window.
What Temptation looks like in the garden
The offspring takes color from both sides. Weedmaps describes dense, slightly rounded buds in bright mint green and purple, with violet leaves, orange hairs and crystalline trichomes.
Leafly lists Temptation as an even 50/50 hybrid at 20% THC, with limonene as the dominant terpene alongside caryophyllene and pinene. Flavor runs sweet and creamy with a diesel finish.
Users describe a balanced high that lifts the mood while settling the body. Leafly reviewers most often call it euphoric, creative, energized and relaxed, and many reach for it in the afternoon or early evening.
From LIT release to Joker Juice mother
LIT sold Temptation through seed banks such as Heritage Seed Bank, where the 12-pack of regular seeds carried a 65-day flowering time. That puts it a little past the 8–9 week windows Leafly gives each parent.
Greenpoint Seeds picked the cross up as breeding stock. Its Joker Juice line uses a Temptation mother, extending LIT's Ice Cream Cake × Jealousy work into another breeder's catalog, and Greenpoint counts both among the foundational genetics of its current program.
Greenpoint ties the value of the line directly to its breeder. LIT built Temptation, and Schiavone brought the same selection standards from his cup-winning cultivation work into his seed releases.