CANNALIB · STRAIN DOSSIER · HEAD CHEESE

Head Cheese

2 independent sources put THC at 25%; 2,136 flower lab samples give a 10th to 90th percentile band of 18.2 to 29%; 8 recorded parents; 0 recorded descendants. It placed in results from Nevada Cannabis Awards Music Festival (Las Vegas Cannabis Awards; Nevada CAMF), Las Vegas Weekly Cannabis Awards and Dope Cup.

Head Cheese is a sativa dominant hybrid cannabis strain bred by Sensi Seeds. Lab tests put its THC between 18.2 and 29% (the middle 80% of 2,136 flower samples), with CBD around 0%. The terpenes most often reported are Beta Myrcene, Alpha Pinene, Beta Caryophyllene. Recorded parents: 707 Headband × 707 Truthband × 818 Headband × Big Buddha Cheese × Cheese × Headband × Uk Cheese × Cheese Hybrid. Stated flowering time 63 to 77 days. 11 cup placings on record, 7 verified against published results.

●   frozen 2026-09-29 · API 0.7.1-stdlib

●   evidence bar: thc 2 independent sources

●   type: sativa dominant hybrid

25%
THC, most-agreed claim
2 independent sources

18.2–29%
Flower lab range
10th to 90th percentile of 2,136 samples

8
Recorded parents
with sources, never guessed

0
Recorded descendants
through stated parent links

7/11
Cup results, verified/total
placings found in published results

12
Pictures on record
shown with source and credit

CHEMISTRY, CLAIM BY CLAIM

Every THC claim, and who made it.

THC Independent sources Who states it
25.6% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
24.9% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
25% 2 hytiva, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
22.4% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
23.9% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
24.5% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
25.3% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
25.9% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
25.9% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
26.1% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
26.4% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019
26.4% 2 nv_ccb_lab_library, nv_gnfvbs_2018_2019

Lab range 18.2 to 29% THC is the 10th to 90th percentile of 2,136 flower lab samples, median 25.1%; CBD 0 to 0.2% over 1,435 samples.

top terpenes by stated value: Beta Myrcene, Alpha Pinene, Beta Caryophyllene, Alpha Humulene, Limonene, Linalool

1,642 chemistry rows on record. Flagged rows never used as potency: 113 non flower, 16 quality flagged, 0 percent outliers.

GROW CLAIMS

Height and flowering, as stated.

Height Independent sources Who states it
80 to 120 cm 2 seedcity, seedcity_local
Flowering Independent sources Who states it
63 to 77 days 4 cannaconnection, seedfinder, seedcity, seedcity_local, master
LINEAGE

Recorded parents, and how many sources agree.

Parent Sources Who states it
707 Headband 1 summary:lineage
707 Truthband 1 leafly_parent_slugs:leafly_flat_enrich
818 Headband 1 strain_fact:cannaconnection,master
Big Buddha Cheese 1 strain_fact:cannaconnection,master
Cheese 1 seedfinder
Headband 1 seedfinder
Uk Cheese 1 summary:lineage
Cheese Hybrid 1 strain_fact:allbud

No recorded descendants.

COMPETITIONS AND AWARD CLAIMS

Cup results with sources; claims with verdicts.

No seed-bank award claims on record.

PICTURES, WITH CREDIT

12 pictures on record. Three shown, each with its source.

Head Cheese strain picture, credit images.hytiva.com

credit: images.hytiva.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified

Head Cheese strain picture, credit allbud.s3.amazonaws.com

credit: allbud.s3.amazonaws.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified

Head Cheese strain picture, credit cannaconnection.com

credit: cannaconnection.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified

How to read this page
Every value is a stated claim with its sources. Where sources disagree all claims are listed. The lab range is the 10th to 90th percentile of flower lab samples and is never blended with seed-bank claims. Parents are recorded links, never guessed. Pictures are shown with their source and credit; copyright is unverified. Nothing on this page was invented, averaged across sources or merged from another name.

Aliases on record: head-cheese, big-buddha-seeds/head-cheese, 018NY6XC00VT5QMT8ZW36W24W9, HeadCheese

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dossier head-cheese · frozen 2026-09-29 · published by CannaLib, a Plausible Deniability project · Cite as: CannaLib (2026). Head Cheese strain dossier. https://cannalib.org/strains/head-cheese/

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