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Blue Cheese Shop

Comparison

Blue Cheese vs Sour Diesel

Both have Skunk #1 in their family trees and strong savory-to-chemical aromas, but users report them differently: Leafly rates Blue Cheese mostly calming and Sour Diesel mostly energizing.1,2,3 Blue Cheese's lab median is higher, 25.93% against 21.68%, though most of its tests come from a single Maryland lab.4

Side by side

Blue CheeseSour Diesel
TypeIndica; rated mostly calming1Hybrid; rated mostly energizing2
LineageBlueberry × UK Cheese, a Skunk #1 phenotype1Chemdawg × Super Skunk2
Median THC (state lab tests)25.93% (288 tests)21.68% (1,071 tests)
Middle half of THC results24.27%–26.87%19.00%–25.30%
Top terpenes (median)Too few tests with individual terpene values (6)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (167 tests)
Most-reported effectsSleepy, relaxed, hungry1Energetic, uplifted, talkative2
FlavorBlue cheese, cheese, pungent1Diesel, chemical, skunk2
Flowering7–9 weeks110–12 weeks; 77 days in its grow notes2

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.4

Lab-tested THC: Blue Cheese vs Sour Diesel

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 Sour Diesel Sour Diesel: median 21.68%, middle half 19.00%–25.30%, 1,071 tests 21.7% n=1,071 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.4

Skunk #1 on both sides

On Leafly's family trees both trace back to Skunk #1: Cheese, Blue Cheese's mother line, is a Skunk #1 phenotype, and Sour Diesel's Super Skunk parent is Skunk #1 × Afghani.1,2,3 Sour Diesel has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at sourdiesel.com.

Which is easier to find

On Oct 3, 2026, 44 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Blue Cheese flower on Weedmaps, against 156 stores for Sour Diesel; around New York the counts were 0 and 125.5

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Blue Cheese strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Sour Diesel strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Super Skunk strain information. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  4. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 3, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 3, 2026. Accessed Oct 3, 2026.