90s (Super) Skunk

[Mithridate]

The bit about not feeding any bug dumber than a grass hopper refers to excess of unmetabolized nitrogen in nitrate form..

The yellow and plum colors some growers get around harvest is a molybdenum deficiency and sign of nitrate burnout

Sap sucking insects such as aphids themselves are part of the nitrogen fixing cycle, standing right between nitrate and ammonium. Wink wink nudge nudge

 

[i.love.scotch]

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Super Skunk in 2025 side by side to The Seed Bank of Holland catalog (1986-1990).

To me the absolute most defining part of the Super Skunk look is the very pale buds with the very dark green 'dog tongues' bud leaves, much like Sour Diesel has. There aren't very many good pictures of the 'original' Super Skunk but that definitely seems like a pretty locked in trait within the line that it has passed onto hybrids.

I wish we had more and better pictures of it. Even the two you shared from different sources are just the same picture reversed.

 

[i.love.scotch]

Dr. Atomic's Atomic Shiva has Super Skunk in its genetic makeup. I think this pheno is an SS leaner; curious what others familiar with SS think...

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Outdoors, not topped:

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Smells great, tastes really good and smokes great. A sample of this was said to be better than two phenos of AB G-13 Bx that was described as FIRE reminiscent of smoke from the '90s.

Woah, that is a blast from the past! Dr. Atomic gear is awesome and unfortunately very rare these days. H Depot kept teasing his possible return but it doesn't seem to be coming to fruition.

That Atomic Shiva looks great. Is that recent? Do seeds still exist?

 

[Dime]

Woah, that is a blast from the past! Dr. Atomic gear is awesome and unfortunately very rare these days. H Depot kept teasing his possible return but it doesn't seem to be coming to fruition.

That Atomic Shiva looks great. Is that recent? Do seeds still exist?

I have never bought from them.

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[Garlicbud1]

happy to help the afghanT has always been mysterious. we only know about her because nev came on forums around 2010 and explained all the pedigrees from the orignal seed bank plus when it became sensi.

this also when he explained the haze males original haze hunt etc. these breeding plants were known in amsterdam coffee shops/ south holland but most others didnt before nev came online.

silver haze is another example of a carried over seedbank strain which sensi vagued the pedigree. silver pearl x haze C was the original seedbank f1
but now listed as haze x "non dominant nl parent".

notice the haze parent doesnt say A or C and the nl parent isnt numbered as a particular plant.

since nev left behind all the real 1 to 1 pedigrees its easy to study his work and look fr patterns'. be interesting to cross afghan haze into super skunk and look for double recessive afghanT throwback. not sure if any pics exist. of aghanT
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I just started some Afghan Skunk x Afghan Haze.

I thought Afghan T was a Afghani that smelled maple.

Great post here , enjoying everything 🕊

 

[Garlicbud1]

I've got Skunk here. The phenotype from 89 Garlic bud was RKS at harvest. A cured bud was full RKS when breaking it open.

We enjoyed it for 15 minutes before rolling it. Zero Skunk taste. Hashy dank taste. I crossed that special 89 to my Skunk male Heirloom Afghani.
It had a Skunk frontside with a slight Afghani on the backside.

Last season I tested my full Skunk male Washington Skunk x Uncle Festers Skunk 18 male into it. Took a clone of the male WS18 for future projects, and froze lots of WS18 Skunk pollen.

Testing begins, Skunk is present as the dominate smell, with a dank backside. Let's hope this Skunk overshadows the backside to increase its Skunk smell in the end.

Also testing my WS18 x Heirloom Afghani now.

 

[Wolverine97]

I've got Skunk here. The phenotype from 89 Garlic bud was RKS at harvest. A cured bud was full RKS when breaking it open.

We enjoyed it for 15 minutes before rolling it. Zero Skunk taste. Hashy dank taste. I crossed that special 89 to my Skunk male Heirloom Afghani.
It had a Skunk frontside with a slight Afghani on the backside.
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Last season I tested my full Skunk male Washington Skunk x Uncle Festers Skunk 18 male into it. Took a clone of the male WS18 for future projects, and froze lots of WS18 Skunk pollen.

Testing begins, Skunk is present as the dominate smell, with a dank backside. Let's hope this Skunk overshadows the backside to increase its Skunk smell in the end.

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Also testing my WS18 x Heirloom Afghani now.
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IMO, if it doesn't also taste like skunk, it isn't skunk.

 

[BerryManilow]

I've got Skunk here. The phenotype from 89 Garlic bud was RKS at harvest. A cured bud was full RKS when breaking it open.

We enjoyed it for 15 minutes before rolling it. Zero Skunk taste. Hashy dank taste. I crossed that special 89 to my Skunk male Heirloom Afghani.
It had a Skunk frontside with a slight Afghani on the backside.

Very similar to my experience with this Super Skunk pheno. Pure RKS during the grow and it stinks 500ft away. Old school hash taste with skunk & Afghani notes. 10/10 pheno, but not pure "skunk." It's definitely in these genetics, but crossing the Afghan T to the skunk brings out "more body" as Nevil put it.

 

[Wood Booger]

I just started some Afghan Skunk x Afghan Haze.

I thought Afghan T was a Afghani that smelled maple.

Great post here , enjoying everything 🕊

see this and going to leave it here

 

[Garlicbud1]

see this and going to leave it here

I couldn't resist and popped the Afghan Skunk. Plan is to cross and repopulate both. 🕊
Not much around anymore.

 

[BerryManilow]

see this and going to leave it here

Nevil thought the rks plant he was talking about was Super Skunk due to the smell. I could be wrong, but I don't believe that most Super Skunk phenos taste like skunk, only smell like it. Will have to see what comes out of the Sensi Super Skunk that was popped.

"The plant being described takes 11 weeks and looks like Afghan Haze." Maybe a few Super Skunk phenos will go to 11 weeks but I doubt it. It's always been an extremely fast finisher at 7-8 weeks, maybe 9.

Love going through these old posts again because it helps connect more dots.

Afghan Haze

"Roadkill" Skunk 2025

11 weeks flowering in aeroponics

 

[BerryManilow]

"Roadkill" Skunk

Aeroponics with mountain spring water
LED + full spec UV
CO2 @ 1600 ppm

 

[Garlicbud1]

Nice man!! Bred these last year. Nice collection of old school stuff. Hoo Doo x Uncle Festers Skunk 18 was PM bad all females

I let a male HD Skunk hit a Vintage Punto Rojo Gold. Last chance for this genetic line to carry forward. 🕊

 

[Digger102]

I just started some Afghan Skunk x Afghan Haze.

I thought Afghan T was a Afghani that smelled maple.

Great post here , enjoying everything 🕊

I started my last ASH beans a few weeks ago. Already have one female, fingers crossed for a male or two out the last two plants that havent shown sex yet. I also have a couple Sensi Skunk x Original Haze going, one male and looking for the other to be a girl. Good luck with your run, I hope to have mine in flower by the middle of next month

 

[kro-magnon]

"Roadkill" Skunk

Aeroponics with mountain spring water
LED + full spec UV
CO2 @ 1600 ppm

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Wow I had not seen this pic, it is beautiful. As I already said I doubt I'd like the smell of this roadkill but she looks really great.

 

[Wolverine97]

Wow I had not seen this pic, it is beautiful. As I already said I doubt I'd like the smell of this roadkill but she looks really great.

If it's the real deal, as I know it, anyone would love it. It's an amazingly addictive smell/taste combination.

 

[kro-magnon]

If it's the real deal, as I know it, anyone would love it. It's an amazingly addictive smell/taste combination.

Honestly I don't know, I've had a few plants with putrid smells and I could not enjoy smoking them, it was too disgusting to me. Each time I've seen someone describe the old RKS it really only disgust me, skunk spray or putrefying corpses are horrible foul smells I don't want in my cannabis.

 

[Absorber]

 

[Osama Bong Loadin']

Glad to share this with everybody. I'm another person who misses that old skunk. After seeing all the posts all over the web about it, some going back to the mid 2000s, I had no clue it was so highly sought after.

I figured I was misremembering the leaves, and the smell could be contributed to all weed smelling like skunk anyways. I remember seeing the plants growing when I was a teenager, and I smoked a lot of it. But that was 30 years ago, so my memory could be slightly off. I was ready to be wrong. After all the reading, I know that I'm not the only one who remembers it the way I do.

Here's my best conclusion. There was never a strain called roadkill skunk. People just use that name to tell it apart from the sweet skunks, or try to sell seeds or clones, or at worst as scam bait. But if you've ever smelled a skunk (my dog just got sprayed by one), that smell is unmistakable. Same as that old school ganja we all remember.

To my knowledge and experience, I'm guessing there are 3 different versions worthy of the name roadkill skunk. They might be related, might be different phenos, or might be completely separate lineage.

1. The first roadkill. Late 70s early 80s. Sativa dominant. Long flowering.

2. Northeast / east coast roadkill. Indica dominant. Short flowering. Late 70s-80s, still around in the 90s (possibly the super skunk indica dominant pheno, or the precursor)

3. 90s roadkill - which I believe to be Super Skunk. Sativa dominant.

I believe I have found 2 of the 3 so far. Won't know until I flower them.

The VA. climate was perfect for skunk and I still hold a Skunk.

I don't think this one is pure. But is dominant in every way. I love old Skunk and this has the Royal Skunk in it that came from Gypsy and Sam.

 

[Wolverine97]

Honestly I don't know, I've had a few plants with putrid smells and I could not enjoy smoking them, it was too disgusting to me. Each time I've seen someone describe the old RKS it really only disgust me, skunk spray or putrefying corpses are horrible foul smells I don't want in my cannabis.

It's just a thing you have to smell. It isn't putrid at all, nothing rotten about it. When people start talking "roadkill" it makes it tough to pin down the nuances. Yes, it is like roadkill in that it's like the whiff you get as you drive by an area where a skunk has recently sprayed, or been hit. I am NOT talking eany decay smell. Not am I talking about what it smells like when your dog gets directly sprayed... that's disgusting. But like a skunk sprayed in the woods 50 yards away and you just got the first whiff of it.

It's absolutely unique, and amazingly delicious.