Big Buddha Cheese
Hybrid
Cheese
No alternate names recorded
- Sourced
- Cannabinoids: Sourced
- Effects: Sourced
- Review date not recorded
Review date not recorded
At a glance
- Type
- Hybrid
- High
- Head and Body
- Genetics
- Cheese
- Flowering
- 56–65 d
- THC Range
- 13% – 18%
- CBD Range
- 0.29% – 100%
- Dominant Terpenes
- Caryophyllene, Humulene, Linalool
Effect Profile
Reported by the community and curated from multiple sources.
- Reported
- Reported Negatives
Frequency not recorded
Energetic
Reported
Giggly
Reported
Happy
Reported
- Hungry
Plant Profile
Cannabinoid Profile (As Reported)
View methodology- THC13% – 18%
- CBD0.29% – 100%
- CBC0.36% – 0.99%
- CBG0.29% – 1.09%
- CBN0.06% – 0.11%
- THCV0.44% – 1.93%
Ranges reflect legacy lab reports and aggregated user data, as recorded.
Dominant Terpenes (Top 5)
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CaryophyllenePeppery, SpicyReported
HumuleneWoody, HoppyReported
LinaloolFloral, LavenderReported
User-Reported Medical Usage New
Community- and source-reported, not medical advice.
5 reported uses
- 1StressReported as a reason for use.—
- 2DepressionReported as a reason for use.—
- 3PainReported as a reason for use.—
- 4InsomniaReported as a reason for use.—
- 5Loss Of AppetiteReported as a reason for use.—
Listed by how widely each use is reported across strains. The share of reporters is not recorded for these reports. Not a measure of whether it worked.
View all reported usesGenetics & Origin
Cheese’s parents
Cheese
Indica
Parent Strain
Big Buddha Cheese
Hybrid
Origin
Big Buddha Cheese is the original Cheese crossed with an Afghani selection, from the breeder known only as Big Buddha. The Cheese side carries the entire identity, and it is itself a Skunk phenotype from a bag of Sensi seed. The Afghani adds body and stability. The 2006 Cup win is what carried Cheese from a UK underground name to a strain sold worldwide.
Bred from Big Buddha Cheese (1)
The Grow
Best Results
Indoor and Outdoor
Preferred Climate
Warm
Grow Difficulty
- Beginner
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Expert
Average
Outdoor
- Harvest
- October
- Height
- Average
- Yield
- Moderate
Indoor
- Harvest
- 8–10 wk
- Height
- Average
- Yield
- Moderate
- Flowering
- 56–65 d
- Resistance
- Standard
The difficulty to grow Big Buddha Cheese is known for being average. For growers cultivating indoors, expect average height with a moderate yield with in about 8–10 wk. Outdoors, harvest around October.
Cultivation Notes
Big Buddha Cheese resists disease well and grows large central buds that are easy to trim, which is part of why it stayed in circulation. It finishes outdoors in October. Height, yield and flowering time are not recorded in our data. Figures are grower and breeder reported.
When To Try It
Best:
Morning
Occasions:
- in the morning
About
Big Buddha Cheese is the strain that turned a UK bag-seed legend into a Cup winner.
An anonymous breeder took a clone of the original Cheese and crossed it with a specific Afghani, and the result took a 2006 High Times Cup. It is a THC strain despite a broken 100 percent CBD reading in our data.
What to Expect
The effect notes on file are light and social: energetic, giggly and happy, with a strong appetite. Sources describe a balanced high that lifts the head before the Afghani side settles in.
Hunger is the only recorded downside. With the data this thin, meet a new batch with a modest dose and expect the munchies.
Flavor and Aroma
Big Buddha Cheese is the sharp, aged-cheese funk of the original Cheese with a sweet, floral note and a spicy edge from the Afghani side. The funk is the identity; the sweetness rounds it. The flavor is sour and earthy with the cheese carrying through.
Terpenes Explained
Big Buddha Cheese has no terpene panel in our data, only three names without amounts. Nothing here is measured.
The cheese note comes from the same compound family that defines the original Cheese, none of which a standard terpene test reports. Judge a batch by how sharp and clean that funk reads against the sweetness.
Cannabinoids and Potency
Big Buddha Cheese THC is reported around 13 to 18 percent, a moderate range, though sources note the exact figure was never pinned down. Our records also carry a CBD reading of 100 percent, which is impossible and clearly an error; nothing about this strain is CBD-forward. A strain-level cannabinoid label is worth less than the batch's own certificate.
This is a moderate THC strain sold on its smell, not a CBD strain, whatever a stray number in a database says.
Awards & Recognition
Each award is bound to the exact entry that won it. Nothing is inherited by the strain as a whole.
2019 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “Big Buddha Cheese”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2017 Highlife Cup — entry recorded as “Big Buddha Cheese”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2017 Homegrown Cup — entry recorded as “Big Buddha Cheese”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2006 High Times Cannabis Cup — entry recorded as “Big Buddha Cheese”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2006 Ic 420 Growers Cup — entry recorded as “Big Buddha Cheese”
Source: not recorded on this entry
0 verified recognitions. 5 unresolved entries shown but excluded from the count.
Competition historyBusinesses familiar with Big Buddha Cheese 0
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How we verify businessesExperience Evidence & Sources
Where this record’s observations come from, and what each source covers.
Community strain database aggregation (Labster/Blaster/Grower/Writer)
Aggregated from third-party community strain databases — 3 source records.
Ascendancy Drupal preserved public extract
Carried over from the preserved Ascendancy archive — 1 source record.
Source summaries only. Evidence bodies are not published on this page.
Methodology and sourcesReader Reviews 0
Reader experiences, not verified data. Nothing here feeds the effect percentages above.
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