I would like to join this club because in the mid to late 80's I was taken in at the age of 15 by a family of bikers. The old man's main source of income was growing and selling weed. What kind of weed? real original Skunkbud as we called it.
There was also another man about 50 miles north of us that had developed his own pheno of this strain, he lived in a very small north GA town called Holland, GA. It was called simply Holland Skunkbud. It's hard to remember all the exact details but there were some faintly distinct differences in smell, taste, and some said the high, but I never could tell that much differences in the high. He in the early 90's was busted by the GBI and because of the sheer amount and the fact that the bust involved a firefight with the LEO He went down for a long time I don't remember but maybe even life, mostly because of the firefight. But my point is I learned to grow growing Skunkweed. I had been smoking some good panama red and jamaican creeper, even a lil real Columbian Gold, but this skunk was a whole different ballgame compared to those imported strains. It was much more potent, and had a smell like anything I had ever saw before and I tried to learn everything I could about growing it. It smelled so strong that we kept horses for pleasure riding most thought, but the real reason was because a 15-20 plant patch when mature could be smelled from a loooong way off on the breeze, so we packed and hauled everything from a garden tiller to 10 gal. jugs of water, ferts. (almost entirely manure from horses cattle and chickens, everything far back into the hills to our patches to tend them.
One day I asked the old man where the weed he was growing came from or how he came by it, because it was so distinctly different, he told me he bought a 35mm film canister of the seeds first from another biker for $4 grand some few years back. and that it was a cross of some super good mexican, and columbian, with Afgani. So I'm sure it was at least some variation of old Skunk#1.
The last year or so with all these new strains by this name and that, that I have tried were very good some probably even more potent than Skunk, most not so much. But, that set me to thinking, first to try some of the "Skunk#1" seeds from the seed banks first and see if they really remind me of what I remember, and if not to try to rebreed the strain again using the the same lineages. maybe even try substituting another sativa strain with one of the originals just to see what would happen. I don't know a whole lot about breeding and horticulture husbandry, but I'm doing all I can to learn. The main reason being in 88 I was snitched on, busted, and did a few years for my own young stupidity. when I came out the skunk was gone the old man was passed away and I had no way of finding and getting hold of his sons to see of they had any seeds I'm sure they did, and a few years ago while down there I ran up on a friend who said he could get the old skunk bud. It was expensive as it always was, but sure enough, to my best recollections it was. It has been along time but once a person has grown hundreds of plants of the same strain over almost 4 seasons you pretty well know it when you see it, smell it, taste, and experience it
So please count me in on this one, I'd love to find a source for REAL Skunk seeds. And I am on the hunt now and or an effort to try and rebreed it for my own use, and to give a little to a few close friends once in a while. I don't sell weed. God gave it to us He never charged us anything, so I give it to others when I can. Have a good 'un. Wolf
