Cheese by The Plant

Type indica/sativaFlower ±56 daysCross Cheese

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Listen, if you weren’t around the UK underground scene in the early 90s, it's hard to explain just how much of a chokehold the original Cheese had on everyone. This wasn't some lab-bred polyhybrid. It was a freak accident. Some grower out in the Chiltern Hills popped a pack of Sensi’s Skunk #1 back in the late 80s and found a single female that absolutely stunk of sharp, savory, old gym socks and aged cheddar. That one plant got cloned to hell and back, eventually landing in the hands of the Exodus Collective in Luton. They were throwing raves and squatting in empty buildings, passing this clone around like currency. For years, if you wanted true Cheese, you had to know somebody who knew somebody.

Eventually, breeders like The Plant stepped in to try and lock down those genetics into seed form. It’s a notoriously branchy, vine-like plant that practically begs to be scrogged. If you just let it go naturally, it’ll flop all over the place under the weight of its own buds. And the smell? Man, you better have your carbon filters dialed in. I remember running a few cuts in a basement tent, and the stench would hit you before you even pulled into the driveway. It’s that raw, pungent funk that modern fruity strains just can't touch.

These days, you'll see a lot of arguments on the forums about whether the real Exodus cut even exists anymore, or if genetic drift finally killed it. But when you pop a pack of The Plant's Cheese and get that specific savory pheno, you know it instantly. The high is immediate—a heavy behind-the-eyes stone that melts into your body, but leaves you just lucid enough to raid the fridge. It's old-school skunk history in a pot, plain and simple.

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Breeder	The Plant
Type	indica/sativa
Flowering time	±56 days
Environment	Outdoors
Lineage	Cheese
Descendants	CBX, Deep Cheese, Orange Big Bud, Mango N Cheese, King Kong, Ben Gun, UK Cheese, Venus Genetics - Cheeskaberry, Queso, Genofarm Seeds - Farm Cheese, T99, Irish Cheese, Cheese, V Elementum Seeds - Auto Caesus, K8, Purple Fondue, Sour Chiesel, Badazz OG Cheese, Double Cheese, Cheese, Chocolate Fondue, Original Auto Cheese, Helvetic Cheese, Cheeisenberg, Exclusive Seeds Bank - Cheese x Critical, Parmesan, Dutch Cheese, Satellite Blue, UK Cheese, Franco's Lemon Cheese, Funk #1, Turbo Cheese, Night Light, Crazy Daze, Auto Cheese, Cheese, UK Scottish Power, Og Cheese, Cheese-Wreck, L.A. Cheese, Blue Cheese x SCBDx, Paisa Grow Seeds - Kush And Cheese, Twista108, Mamut Seeds - Mamut Cheese, Balearic Dream, Blue Cheese, 710 Cheese, Cheese, Hazeman Seeds - Cheese BX1, Pepita Seeds - Cheese+, Cheddarhead, Boudica, Marmalade, Choco Cheese, Cheese Tease, Cheese, Bogota Breeze, Cheese, Blue Cheese, Trichome Jungle Seeds - Jungle Cheese V2, Alphakronik Genes - Queso Fuertes, Hawaiian Afghan, UK Cheese, UK Cheese x Aloha WW, Honey Lemon Cheese, Zativo - Critical Cheese Autoflowering, Connoisseur Genetics - Purple Cheddar, South Mountain Cheese, LA Cheese, Chiesel, El Queso, G-Power Cheese, Auto Cheese, Love Cheese, Blue Cheese, Blue Cheese Autoflowering, Dr. Blaze - Cheese Auto, Blue Cheese, Crazy Cheese, Cheddar, Cheese Auto, Cheese Auto, Exodus, Blueberry Cheesecake, Cheesy Headband, Blue Cheese, Dinafem - Kush'N'Cheese, Xodus #1, Humboldt Fogg, Bubble n Squeak 1, Auto Cheese, Cheese, Hawaiian Pizza, Cheese, Critical Cheese, UK Cheese, Exodus Cheese x Swaziland, NL Cheese, Cheese Master, Cheese, Exodus Kush, Mascarpone, Toe Jam, Deadcheese, White Cheese Auto, Pineapple Chunk, Chocolate Chese, Heavy Blue Cheese, Kush Fromage, Blue Cheese Auto, Blue Cheese, Cheese x Cali Orange Bud, Sensi Cheese, Vulkania Seeds - B-Cheese, Auto Love Cheese, Txees Bilbo, Blueberry Express, UK-47, Hindu Cream, New420Guy Seeds - Blue Cheese, Nitrocide, Cheese, Kachina, Rokerij Cheese, Dr. Krippling Seeds - Bubba-Yum, OG Cheese, Cindy 99 x Cheese, Cheese Auto, Auto Cheese, Black Cheese, Supercheese, Cheese Bomb, Cheese, Original U.K. Cheese, Super Silver Cheese, Cheese Auto, Orange Cheese Cake, UK Cheese, Funk #1, Auto Galaxy Cheese, UK Exo, Northern Cheese Haze, Cherry Bud Automatic, Chunky Cheeze, Blue Cheese Auto, Southern Humboldt Seeds Collective - Cheesel, Cheese, Cheesy Smurf, Seedsman - Cheese, Badazz Cheese, Garden of Green - Cheese Automatic, Blueberry Cheesecake, Silver Cheese, Cheesehead, Swish Cheese, DutchFem - Dutch Cheese, Cookies and Cream Cheese, Freeze Cheese '89, Cheese CBD, Taleggio, Caesus, Bulk Cheese Auto, Blue Cheese, UK Blues, Chiesel, Head Cheese, UK Cheese x Zombie Kush, Freedom of Seeds - Cheesedom, High Priority, Cheese x Haze, Cheddar Valley, Exodus Cheese x Durban Panama, Cheeseboy, Pineapple Cheese, Blue Cheese, Mr. Cheese Mass, Cheese Automatic, O.G. Skunk #1, Silver Cheese, Sweet Pink Cheese, BC Cheese, CheeseWreck, Forbidden Genetics - Yogurt, Pablos Cheese, Super Cheese Haze, Ragnarok, Victory Seeds - Cheese, Cheese, Sweet Cheese, Queso Negro, Cheese x SCBDx, Ultra Sonja, Norton, Ripper Seeds - Old School, Ketama Cheese, Chaze, Glouchester Cheese, Plemon, Alieno Formaggio, Chelumbian, Red Leicester Tease, Original Cheese, Connoisseur Genetics - Cheese n Chong, Og Cheese Auto, Lemonchello Haze, Blue Cheese, Big Cheese Auto, Tang-Cheese, Auto 00 Cheese, Auto Pounder with Cheese, CheeseBerry, Cheese, Cheese Dog, Kuchi, Cheese, Blue Cheese, Victory Seeds - Auto Cheese, Cheesus, Cheddarwurst, UK Monkey, Brutal, Smelly Cherry, Verdad, Swiss Cheese, Haze Xtreme, Cheese, Big Buddha Cheese, UK Cheese x Animal Cookies, Washing Machine, Chewaka, Breeders Choice - Chucky's Bride, Zenseeds - Cheesy Royal Lebanese Erdpurt, Spliff Cheese, White Cheese, Exodus Cheese, Expert Seeds - Cheese, Skunk OG, Fatbush Seeds - Cheese 99, Sour Cheese, Dready Cheese, Rockster's Cheese, Island Goat Cheese, Top Shelf Seeds - Exodus 99, Cheese Quake, Fast Eddy Automatic, Amsterdam Cheese, SoGouda, Auto Cheese NL, Cheesy Auto, TGA Subcool Seeds - Cheese Quake, Freedom Seeds - Freedom Cheese, Cheese, Sour Cherry, Triple Cheese, Underground Seeds Collective - Cheesetral, Mouse Trap, 3 Cheese, Chucky's Bride, 00 Cheese, Sputnik Seeds - Galaxy Cheese, Cheese, Cheddarwurst 2, Black Cheese, Connoisseur Genetics - Cheese n Chaze, Bubble Gum Cheese, UK Cheese Auto, Cheesy Dick, Ashava Valley Cheese, Cheese XXL Autoflowering, Exodus (UK) Cheese, Zoo Seeds - Cheese Auto, Delhi Cheese, Cheese Dog, Sweetest Peach OG, Nitro Express, White Cheese, A Cheesy Mist, Breeders Choice - Cheeseberry, Big Buddha Seeds - Cheese Dawg, Rotten Panda, Romulan Cheese, CHxEPxAR, Milky Black Cheezuz, The Bank - LA Cheese, Dairy Queen, Jamaican Cheese, Cheese #1, Cheese Fondue, Dippy Ellsy, Cheese, GH Cheese x Sour Banana, Yogurt, Bubble n Squeak 2, Cheese, Eskobar Seeds - Cheeseberry, OG Cheese, JustFeminized.com - Just Cheese, Menace To Society, Exodus Cheese, Xeddar, Old Cheese, Karma Genetics - Jack Cheddar, Cheese, Piensa en Cheese, UGORG#1, Cheesey Jones, Fondue, Expert Seeds - Auto Funky Skunk, Cheese Autoflowering, B-S-B Cheddar #1, Chupil, Cheesy Rider, El Cid, Zativo - Cheese, L.A. Cheese, Cheesy Fire OG, Cheese, Auto Parmesan, Cheesy Royal Danish Erdpurt, Cheez Wreck, Amnesia Cheese, Yellowstone, Sweet Cheezus Autoflower, Space Cheese, Grover's Galaxy, Auto UK Cheese

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Ancestry Pedigree

Cheese
The Plant

Cheese
Breeder: The Plant
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Cheese
Clone Only Strains

Skunk Nr1
Sensi Seeds

Skunk Nr1
The Seed Bank

Skunk Nr1
Cultivators Choice

Afghanistan Indica
Original Strains

Mexico Sativa
Original Strains

Colombia Sativa
Original Strains

Growing Cheese: what to expect

As an indica-leaning plant, expect a modest stretch after the flip (roughly 50–100%) and dense bud structure — which makes late-flower humidity discipline the main risk: keep RH in the 40s once buds fatten to stay ahead of mold. Growers familiar with Cheese will recognize much of its behavior. Whatever the listing says, the cut in YOUR tent is the ground truth: log feedings, readings, and photos, and let the trends — not the label — drive decisions.

Cheese FAQ

How long does Cheese take to flower?

Cheese typically flowers in around 56 days after switching to a 12/12 light schedule. Individual phenotypes vary, so judge harvest readiness by trichome color, not the calendar.

Is Cheese an indica or a sativa?

Cheese is listed as indica/sativa.

What are the parents of Cheese?

Cheese was bred from Cheese by The Plant.

What environment does Cheese like?

Standard cannabis bands work well: VPD 0.8–1.1 kPa in veg and 1.0–1.4 kPa in flower, with humidity stepping down from 65–75% as a seedling to 40–50% in late flower. See the stage-by-stage table on this page.

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