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Comparison

Blue Cheese vs Northern Lights

Leafly users report the same top three effects for both, sleepy, relaxed and hungry, so the practical differences are flavor and lineage: savory cheese and berry from Blueberry × UK Cheese against the pine and earth of Afghani × Thai.1,2 In state lab tests Blue Cheese has the higher median, 25.93% against 20.03%, though most of its tests come from a single Maryland lab.3

Side by side

Blue CheeseNorthern Lights
TypeIndica1Indica2
LineageBlueberry × UK Cheese1Afghani × Thai2
Median THC (state lab tests)25.93% (288 tests)20.03% (406 tests)
Middle half of THC results24.27%–26.87%17.28%–22.05%
Top terpenes (median)Too few tests with individual terpene values (6)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (15 tests)
Most-reported effectsSleepy, relaxed, hungry1Sleepy, relaxed, hungry2
FlavorBlue cheese, cheese, pungent1Pine, earthy, woody2
Flowering7–9 weeks145–50 days2

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

Lab-tested THC: Blue Cheese vs Northern Lights

16% 18% 20% 22% 24% 26% 28% Blue Cheese Blue Cheese: median 25.93%, middle half 24.27%–26.87%, 288 tests 25.9% n=288 Northern Lights Northern Lights: median 20.03%, middle half 17.28%–22.05%, 406 tests 20.0% n=406 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Which is easier to find

On Oct 3, 2026, 44 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Blue Cheese flower on Weedmaps, against 98 stores for Northern Lights; around New York the counts were 0 and 97.4

Where Northern Lights comes from

Leafly reports, as rumor, that Northern Lights first grew near Seattle and was later propagated in Holland, after 1985, at what is now Sensi Seeds.2 It has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at northernlightsstrain.com.

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, Blue Cheese strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Northern Lights 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. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 3, 2026. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.