What's happened to big Buddha cheese????

Just wondered if anyone else has noticed this.

I've been growing big Buddha cheese of an on for years. Up until about 8 months ago the cheese strain actually smelt like cheese. Obviously not as much as the original but it resembled cheese. They were great plants to grow and would grow pretty uniform and only had a couple of phenos in the strain. Was also a high yielding plant.

Since around 8 months ago I've had 4 grows of cheese harvested and its nothing like before. To start with u might only get one plant out of 12 that resembled cheese. I also get about 4 phenos that are nothing like cheese That grow to about 6 ft and smell almost like a jack herer that I've grown before.

Can anyone else add to this?

I grew a BB cheese out and really enjoyed it. Very fruity/skunk smell to it. Didnt notice any cheesey smell. Nice nugs. I lost the clone when my pump died on my cloner so I bought a couple new single seeds from Attitude. Im dissappointed to hear your review but I guess I will just grow them out and see what I get.
I bought a couple BB blue cheese to try as well.
It sounds like youve grown it alot. I have considered trying Greenthumbs version and just may down the road

I know what you're saying, and i'm on my third run of the Blue Cheese. Only my first run from years ago had a very strong cheese smell. My last two had a more sweet and skunky smell. Disapointed.

I personally never grown the B.B cheese, but I know from reports and a friend of mine who's grown it years ago. Everyone would say the same thing the oder that the plant would emit during flowering would penetrate brick walls. I've even heard some people getting busted because of the oder it would emit. But now I haven't heard such reports in years so something has definitely changed with the breeding.

It sounds like Big Budda may have lost one, or both, of the original parents. He may have found some "replacement" parents, but they clearly aren't getting the job done, according to the descriptions above.

I have still not grown a pheno that smells remotely like cheese from any breeder, and I have grown a few.

TheHermit said:

I have still not grown a pheno that smells remotely like cheese from any breeder, and I have grown a few.

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I grew a single TGA dairy queen which smelled strongly of sharp cheddar cheese and tasted just the same.
The pheno I had was very sativa dom, poor bag appeal and quite fluffy, I suppose it was all in the smell and taste that made it worthwhile.

Bad Karma said:

It sounds like Big Budda may have lost one, or both, of the original parents. He may have found some "replacement" parents, but they clearly aren't getting the job done, according to the descriptions above.

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Yea man that's what I thought. It's a piss take that there still selling it as cheese when it's absolutely nothing like cheese. Gives the company a bad name

cottee said:

Yea man that's what I thought. It's a piss take that there still selling it as cheese when it's absolutely nothing like cheese. Gives the company a bad name

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That company isn't exactly the most reputable one, you can google that real quick. Now as far as people calling their strains cheese, I have never grown a cheese cross that even remotely smelled like cheese. Did some critical sensi star and that shit smells like some straight up ass cheese.

Sucks, but it is a common thing with breeders. Eventually the parents are going to die out. Straight up breeders will tell you, bullshit breeders keep calling the strain the same thing and pretend like all their customers are morons and its is THEIR fault that the strain is no longer the same. Or, like we have been seeing from a certain breeder "those arent authentic seeds" like the most popular, well known, and reliable seedbanks are switching out their seeds....

I run GHS cheese but at the time they were both made by the same people, so its the same shit. But mine has not changed over the years.

althor said:

Sucks, but it is a common thing with breeders. Eventually the parents are going to die out. Straight up breeders will tell you, bullshit breeders keep calling the strain the same thing and pretend like all their customers are morons and its is THEIR fault that the strain is no longer the same. Or, like we have been seeing from a certain breeder "those arent authentic seeds" like the most popular, well known, and reliable seedbanks are switching out their seeds....

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Have you heard of Old Timers Seed Association ? maybe just use "regular" seeds to try tkeep the "true" pheno. . just like one breeder the strain was grapefruit/Haze now it's NL/Haze and is still called the same - another lost strain !!!!!

shishkaboy said:

I run GHS cheese but at the time they were both made by the same people, so its the same shit. But mine has not changed over the years.

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I think he keeps popping beans each year, are you using the same cut or poppin beans too? I would like to find a real cheese!

King Arthur said:

I think he keeps popping beans each year, are you using the same cut or poppin beans too? I would like to find a real cheese!

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Cut, hunted a few years back

Hermdog said:

I grew a single TGA dairy queen which smelled strongly of sharp cheddar cheese and tasted just the same.
The pheno I had was very sativa dom, poor bag appeal and quite fluffy, I suppose it was all in the smell and taste that made it worthwhile.

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I've had similar results with TGA Cheese Quake. Cheesy, funky, grape goodness. Best tasting/smelling weed I've ever grown.

One of these days I gotta meet up with one of you and get some cheese in the garden!

The cut I have is fire but its not close to the real cheese. That was my first pack hunt, and I missed the stinker. This one is just unique, imagine a sweet afghani, with a sweatsock/ mop water undertone. The stinker was the reverse a OD stank,with a hint of sweet affi.

I think it may just be one of those clone only strains that is hard to capture in seed form. I do really like my dinafem critical cheese. I am about to start my third run of it.

Hermdog said:

I grew a single TGA dairy queen which smelled strongly of sharp cheddar cheese and tasted just the same.
The pheno I had was very sativa dom, poor bag appeal and quite fluffy, I suppose it was all in the smell and taste that made it worthwhile.

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I need to give TGA another go one of these days. I did really like the jack the ripper, but I grew a few strains that failed to impress and haven't grown any since. I still have a few singles that I should give a go and see what I can find.

IMO, with TGA you have to really be up for pheno hunting.
There's a lot of great genetics there, but it's all pollen chucking and without many studs in his/their stable.
That said, even TGAs neighsayers will tell you sub has flavor and odors on lock.
Agent orange is another one of those strains, the mixed scent of tangerines and whiskey blew me away.
Good luck, Hermit, if you do pop those singles!