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Blue Cheese Shop

Comparison

Blue Cheese vs Granddaddy Purple

Both are indicas whose top Leafly effects are sleepy, relaxed and hungry; Granddaddy Purple tastes of grape and berry, Blue Cheese of cheese and berry.1,2 Blue Cheese has the higher lab median, 25.93% against 17.87%, though most of its tests come from a single Maryland lab.3

Side by side

Blue CheeseGranddaddy Purple
TypeIndica1Indica2
LineageBlueberry × UK Cheese1Mendo Purps × Skunk × Afghani, or Big Bud × Purple Urkle (Leafly lists both); popularized by Ken Estes in 20032
Median THC (state lab tests)25.93% (288 tests)17.87% (512 tests)
Middle half of THC results24.27%–26.87%15.00%–21.55%
Top terpenes (median)Too few tests with individual terpene values (6)Limonene, β-Caryophyllene, β-Myrcene (55 tests)
Most-reported effectsSleepy, relaxed, hungry1Sleepy, relaxed, hungry2
FlavorBlue cheese, cheese, pungent1Grape, berry, violet2
Flowering7–9 weeks1About 60 days indoors2

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.3

Lab-tested THC: Blue Cheese vs Granddaddy Purple

16% 20% 24% 28% Blue Cheese Blue Cheese: median 25.93%, middle half 24.27%–26.87%, 288 tests 25.9% n=288 Granddaddy Purple Granddaddy Purple: median 17.87%, middle half 15.00%–21.55%, 512 tests 17.9% n=512 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

A shared Skunk #1 thread

Cheese, Blue Cheese's mother line, is a Skunk #1 phenotype, and Leafly's Skunk #1 page lists Granddaddy Purple among its children.4,5

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Blue Cheese strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Granddaddy Purple strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  4. Leafly, UK Cheese strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  5. Leafly, Skunk #1 strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.