We had this cutting for over 20 years. Its not a novelty memory at all, not in the slightest.
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The Roadkill Skunk Fan Club
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We had this cutting for over 20 years. Its not a novelty memory at all, not in the slightest.
Truly, I find the childish part, or maybe the dumb part, is the way people who never tried it act like they are knowledgeable enough to make relevant commentary. This is what gives rise to people defending what most of them consider their favorite plant of all time.
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St. Phatty; said:
This would be a pheno
Just saying, no one actually knew it as Road Kill. least I didn't.
I think we had been growing it for at least 10-15 years before we heard the term roadkill too. it was just skunkweed, and there was no other skunkweed around that made it need another name. Eventually we saw a couple similar examples, like i mentioned before with placenames, such as Louisiana, or Humboldt. It might have actually been online where we first found the term roadkill, but once you hear it, its so fitting.
Did I say "novelty memory"...
Nope!
You might read that again.
Comprehension/understanding is a major part of communication.
Just saying.
Lol, i read your post exactly as it was written, and answered just as I meant to.
When someone has a cutting for 20 years, its not a memory of a novelty item. After 20 years of use, its not new or unusual.
When someone has a cutting for 20 years, its not a memory of a novelty item. After 20 years of use, its not new or unusual.
Just curious how you folks who never tried it come in here and dispute the qualities of this strain? That's like saying I have never driven a Ferrari but I heard they handle like shit. Nonsense.
I also grew the strain for years. It is neither fiction or imagination or nostalgia. It was very real.
I have come to the conclusion that the closest comparable high out there is the ECSD. The RKS had a little more body to it though. And we just knew the strain as Skunk #1.
I also grew the strain for years. It is neither fiction or imagination or nostalgia. It was very real.
I have come to the conclusion that the closest comparable high out there is the ECSD. The RKS had a little more body to it though. And we just knew the strain as Skunk #1.
Actually, its more like saying i have never driven a Ferrari, and all these people who have say its super awesome, but i totally don't believe it, it can't be possible; they must all be delusional!
If its not unusual,
Why is it so unavailable?
I think that all clone onlys would be considered unusual... If they weren't, there'd be no reasons for keeping clones to begin with cause every seed would be excellent.
However, this is definitely not the case and especially not the case with cannabis.
Novelty may have been the wrong term but it's what came to my mind at that point. I still think its fitting, however.
sk1 is sweeter than old school roadkill skunk ...I used to get awesome bags in Vermont way back....yeehaw..gainsville green also wasn't as skunky having lived in florida and smoked quite a bit of gg....
Its been said over and over, in this thread recently even, maybe you didnt read very many posts?
I guess you missed my point, which is that I dont feel like repeating stuff I have already typed out, especially for arrogant not-knowit-alls.
Its really cool how you come in here and try and act superior, when you dont actually know what you are talking about.
I hope you feel really cool
Its really cool how you come in here and try and act superior, when you dont actually know what you are talking about.
I hope you feel really cool
eastcoastjoe
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I've read this entire thread over more than once and the fact that clones lost vigor or it's too stinky so people got rid of it sounds like BS. Something that popular would not have just vanished if it was a variety that was that good so until that can be answered I don't believe it was a variety.
Chem 91 reeks like a motherfuker, it's been around and still around for what 23-24 years ? If the stink theory is true how could people keep that around, Chem d ?ECSD ? the rest of Chem cuts are 10-20+ years old, og since the 90's. I have nor cal gooey and it's over 30 yrs old, it grows just fine. Chem 4 over 10 yrs old, again, in my garden grows just fine. These are just clone only examples that are still around today so the loss of vigor is bullshit too unless the grower is horrible and can't keep a plant healthy. Even Sam says he has the original clones used to make the SWEET skunk #1 so come on bro
If RKS was a real variety and not a terp profile, where did the entire line go ? We're not talking one elite clone were talking an entire gene pool so popular it was legend, sold openly in seed form and poof it's gone ? Disappeared into thin air ? That's more silly than some of these clone only stories. If you grew it for twenty years your obviously a seasoned grower, how did you let this mother become so genetically weak you lost it ? Especially if it was so special ?
Another thing, let's say SAM's story is true and he's been using the same clones for twenty years that were originally used to make sweet skunk that we know as skunk #1. That would mean the old genes are not commercially available so that would make sense. Only problem with that is, I know quite a few people who have grown sacred seeds old skunk and nada, no roadkill. So how did a terp profile go missing from a variety it was bred from ? These theories sound good but there's a lot of smoke and mirrors here
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SpaceBros.
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So why would you stop growing it if it was much better than anything else going around?
If it's comparable to ECSD with just a little more body then it's nothing above and beyond what's already out there like some are trying to claim. It's just a little better.
Also you would have to compare all cars on the market before you can make a qualified claim about a Ferrari handling. I'm sure if you were driving a Subaru Impreza or a Citroen C4 then you were to drive a Ferrari you would say it's handling is shit.
So you are calling me a liar then, when i said those reasons. Nice. I saw it lose its vigor, i saw the growers around me switch to other things. I was about to get a clone to breed with to bring it back, and I was too late, I couldnt find one. Pretty sad I was, let me tell you.
You dont believe it was a variety? Lol, good one man. Why would so many people remember it so fondly if it never existed? lol, too funny, get off the dope
You are calling us a liar on that too, not so cool, or even reasonable.
eastcoastjoe
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So you are calling me a liar then, when i said those reasons. Nice. I saw it lose its vigor, i saw the growers around me switch to other things. I was about to get a clone to breed with to bring it back, and I was too late, I couldnt find one. Pretty sad I was, let me tell you.
You dont believe it was a variety? Lol, good one man. Why would so many people remember it so fondly if it never existed? lol, too funny, get off the dope
im not calling you a liar but no, im not buying that this was its own variety, named roadkill skunk. im almost certain it was a terp people remember that they associated with what they had not a variety. i would have to be on dope to believe the bullshit your saying on here. where's your proof to back up these crazy claims ? pictures?
i could believe it was a import of some sorts that we dont see anymore because weed isnt commonly imported anymore like in the 70's and 80's. i tell you something thats more likely the cause of why you dont see it, genetic bottlenecking. everything is the fukin same anymore, everything. without true landraces true hybrids cant be made so all we will have left is the same watered down bullshit thats floating around. thank all these greedy old fuckers that wont share anything for that.
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Wrong, Skunk #1 was the first version and it was skunky as hell. I bred through selections of skunk #1 and reproduced the sweeter seeds and later the sweeter and higher clones, maybe not more stoney or skunky. I selected for what I liked as well as against the skunky smell that caused problems for growers, it was illegal and just to stinky to manage safely. I called all versions Skunk #1 they were all from the same genepool Afghan / Colombian X Acapulco Gold, just selected for different end goals. I never called any Skunk #1 RKS that name popped up long after Skunk #1 was introduced in 1976 (people did say it smelled like a dead run over skunk near a grow). I did not like to smoke the really skunky ones they were stony as hell but did not get you high the way I like, so by selection I altered that and made a much higher sweeter version that was pretty much ceilingless when the resin was smoked, and still strong as hell but a better high to me. I also increased the brancheyness (from the main stalk, side branches from the branches, from the branches from the branches) making more sites for bud as well as increasing the flower to leaf ratio. I always did selections with big plants in the ground to avoid using parents that cant hold up big flowered branches, I want strong stems, and reject parents that have problems.
If I decide to come out of retirement I will consider resurrecting the original skunky version I have seeds frozen as well as a few clones that are 25+ years old that lean a bit more to the skunky version selected by RCC, so it can be done if I do more work, I just want to decide if that is really what I want to do, as I spent years making it sweeter, and it seems not one person that had the millions of Skunk #1 seeds I have sold or given away over the years seem to have a skunky Skunk #1 clone, I find that amazing.... When I was working I gave away Kgs of seeds that were made from Skunk #1 seed parents unselected for sweetness and sold several hundred Kgs of the same, part of the reason Skunk #1 was so well known everywhere, they were everywhere. Lots of folks told me they grew skunky ones at the time.
I have no plan at this moment to start breeding again, but I am interested in NLD varieties for the tropics and hashish production, and just might do it, anything is possible.
-SamS
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