Blue Cheese

This is Blue Cheese flower, a cross of a Blueberry male and the original U.K. Cheese that our Blue Cheese guide credits to Big Buddha Seeds.

A Blueberry male and a Skunk #1 Cheese

Leafly describes a Blueberry male bred to a female of the original U.K. Cheese, which it notes is a Skunk #1 phenotype. AllBud traces both the name and the blue theme to that Blueberry father, and says the strain turns up most often in Colorado and on the West Coast. Leafly names Triple Cheese and Purple Cheese among its offspring, and its grow note says the plant does best in cool climates.

Green buds, orange hairs, berry and cheese

One Leafly reviewer describes bright green buds with orange hairs under a frosty coat of trichomes, an earthy, pungent smell, and a blue cheese taste up front that fades to a faint blueberry finish. Leafly’s own summary of the smell is a sweet and savoury mix of berry and blue cheese, with a creamy flavour that echoes the original Cheese. AllBud says the taste comes through as strongly blue cheese, unlike other Cheese varieties, and tags the flavour blueberry, cheesy, creamy, spicy and sweet.

Robert Misic’s tip in our guide sets Big Buddha’s description, sweet berry layered on a musky Cheese base, against a Seedfinder grower who found that several phenotypes turned out simply skunky. His advice is to check for both sides once the jar is open: the berry and the savoury cheese together.

Myrcene leads the terpenes

Of the terpenes Leafly charts for Blue Cheese, myrcene is the most abundant, followed by limonene and then caryophyllene. Our limonene explainer covers that second terpene in more detail.

Strength figures and reported effects for Blue Cheese

Leafly’s strain page shows THC around 18% and CBG around 1%, and rates the strain’s potency above average; AllBud lists THC at 20%. Leafly lists Blue Cheese as an indica, and AllBud calls it an indica dominant hybrid at about 80% indica. Our guide to indica, sativa and hybrid sorts out what each of those labels signifies.

Leafly reviewers most often report feeling relaxed and hungry, and Leafly describes heavy effects that leave people relaxed by the end of the day. Its users rate Blue Cheese 4.2 from 2,858 ratings, and AllBud’s score is 4.7 from 97 votes.

Health Canada’s advice for smoking it

Health Canada‘s lower-risk pacing for smoked or vaped cannabis starts at 1 or 2 puffs, from a product with 10% THC or less, and allows as long as half an hour for the effects to peak. Its lower-risk use guidelines put at least 6 hours between a Blue Cheese session and driving.