I had 8 big buddah cheese run I finished not long ago, phenos all over the place, no consistentsy between them, from the 8, 1 was slim finger sativa leaning, and had no smell no taste but got me lil lil high, 2nd one was more indica, broader leafs and fingers, had an amazing smell just like you describe, reeked the fuck outta my house and car, the smell is point on like old cheese, but lacked taste and high so I dumped it tooTo the people who say "don't waste your time growing cheese in seed" are so wrong. I grew 1 seed of big buddha cheese out of a pack of 5 and it was the strongest, funkiest, stuff i have ever grown and i could not believe it.
I knew it was special when in veg it absolutely REEKED!! the strongest most distinct smell i have ever had from a plant in veg. It smelt super skunky, funky, powdery, savoury, and what is my ideal cannabis smell. Here is another strange thing that even happened, in veg when it was REEKING it legit was growing something that looked like trichomes on the fan leaves. In early flower it didn't have that same skunky smell like it did in veg, but instead a DANK AF candy, fruity, typical dank aroma. Compared to the dinachem (smelt like straight catpiss mid flower btw), and pineapple express i also grew, it had the dankest smell in flower.
Now at first i thought it didn't look like it was going to smell anything like cheese, but towards end of flower that skunky savoury smell returned except this time actually smelling like CHEESE! i could not believe it, it actually smelling and stinking like CHEESE! once dried it smelt super cheesy, gassy when squeezed, wet mop, funky, funky smell! the terps on the dried bud were also super greasy, and if you just slightly touched the bud the smell legit clung to your fingers. After growing this plant i am convinced if you were to cross it with something else funky, you could no doubt bring back the RKS. This plant impressed me so much i was going to make a whole thread talking about it. That said, i've only grown 1 seed, who knows if i will be as lucky to get one as good.
I don't think big buddah has the original cheese clone for many years now...
The cheese I grew back in 05 was a 5 pack from AMS generic seed shop, no breeder mentioned on the pack, just 5 seeds labeled cheese,
Got home, grew it, 3 made it, all were identical, cheese 1:1, flew back to AMS after I finished that grow, smoked the cheese there, fucking same, I felt proud