The Roadkill Skunk Fan Club

[ozza]

Thiols. That's the compound. It's a sulfur analogue supposedly found in the original rks, and they're not terpenes, and aren't tested for on current common Terpenoid analysis.

3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol is found in alcoholic beverages. Substance responsible for ``sun-struck'' flavour of beer. 3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol is found in coffee. 3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol is used in food flavourings 3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol belongs to the family of Hemiterpenes. These are terpenes containing only one isoprene unit (C5-terpene).

 

[ozza]

Not sure if this has been discussed before here:

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-marijuana-have-such-a-strong-smell

This has been discussed, you bring up a lot of stuff that you could have read already in this thread.

Here's another link with some other peoples thoughts on RKS:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=295057&page=10

This dude says he has never come across buds that smell like skunk. We have.

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

Also did SamS create the whole Skunk line (Colombian/Afghan x Acapulco Gold) as well as the cultivar/IBL Skunk#1. Or was there some pre-SamS Skunk around?

If there was stuff called skunk before Sam, I havent heard tell of it except for one rumor. I know that Sam seems to say he started from scratch to make his skunk, not sure if it was just luck or he was trying to duplicate some previous skunky thing he had experience with, only he would know.


trippy, my mercaptan guess was not far off it seems..

http://www.wisegeek.org/why-do-skunks-smell-so-bad.htm


thiols responsible for extreme skunk odor : (E )-2-butene-1-thiol and 3-methyl-1-butanethiol

 

[StankyBeamer]

My oldest customers are in their 60's, an old married couple, the husband says he smoked weed they called skunk weed in the late 60's/early 70's, which would be before Sam bread skunk #1. Skunk #1 is a cultivar, the skunk pallet is not specific to only skunk#1, the terpenes existed before Sam bred skunk, so yes, there was skunk weed before skunk #1, just no official stabilized strains. My theory is that the skunk weed old timers smoked before skunk #1 was import weed, maybe pre Soviet afghan, or some columbo

 

[Croissant]

This dude says he has never come across buds that smell like skunk. We have.

IKR! then he likes to stir up the pot with his shit. Trying to prove to us what we experienced didn't happen lol

 

[Croissant]

My oldest customers are in their 60's, an old married couple, the husband says he smoked weed they called skunk weed in the late 60's/early 70's, which would be before Sam bread skunk #1. Skunk #1 is a cultivar, the skunk pallet is not specific to only skunk#1, the terpenes existed before Sam bred skunk, so yes, there was skunk weed before skunk #1, just no official stabilized strains. My theory is that the skunk weed old timers smoked before skunk #1 was import weed, maybe pre Soviet afghan, or some columbo

that makes sense. The reality of buds I came across called skunk were called so because of the smell. I came across other buds people called skunk that smelled sweet and they would talk about genetic lines and stuff rather than just name their own weed based on their experience with it.

The few oldtimers I did meet that had their own lines just called it their "stash." They might make up pet names to differentiate between different phenols in their line that season but it seemed to originate from a previous sesh where someone was describing the direct experience with the herb themselves.

When herb has a very distinct loud skunky smell it is pretty much a no brainer that people are going to call it skunk, even if it happens in multiple places without coming with a name.

the herb I got called "skunk"in the early 2000s that smelled like a road kill skunk. Was likely the old time skunky genetics imported to mexico mixed and acclimated with local lines that came across the border as import brick weed. Then some stoners grew some seeds from the import and found something very skunky, when the skunkiness had already been bred out of the contemporary dutch skunks.

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

Ya for what we had in our area, As i said it came in 1980 from Cali, so its likely its from Sams' breeding program, but certainly not for sure. The timing is just so good that its possibly confusing. Madjag theorized what we may have had was an early expression of the skunk#1 before it became highly sativa dominant, but its still just more theory.

We are from the Vancouver Canada area, and my Dad is 70 now, and for us the skunk we got in 1980 was pretty much the first thing like it any of us saw. We missed out on the 60's and 70's skunky stuff i guess.

 

[window]

The first Afghani's to make it to the U.S were refered to as skunk weed/bud because of there strong aroma.

 

[StankyBeamer]

Ding ding ding! Pre Soviet afghan for the win

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

I will ask my dad if he recalls Afghani back in the day. I know we got a lot of hash, all the regular kinds including afghani, and the 70's stuff was typically much more potent than a decade or so later. Anyway for weed, we got cambodians, columbians, mexicans, things called california/ mexican redhairs, thai-weeds, all those types of things a lot, but I dont recall afghani pot, just its hash up this way.

 

[SpaceBros.]

IKR! then he likes to stir up the pot with his shit. Trying to prove to us what we experienced didn't happen lol

Yeah I never disputed a skunk spray terpene profile existed I was just sharing other peoples views on what may be the cause for the terpene profile since is rarely found if at all today. Maybe you should read the linked thread carefully and try to learn something before you go tapping away at your keyboard and trying to incite conflict. You really are a small-minded pathetic person!

BTW I keep telling you the correct abbreviation for phenotype is pheno not phenol, which is an aromatic organic compound.

You just don't learn!

 

[Croissant]

Yeah I never disputed a skunk spray terpene profile existed I was just sharing other peoples views on what may be the cause for the terpene profile since is rarely found if at all today. Maybe you should read the linked thread carefully and try to learn something before you go tapping away at your keyboard and trying to incite conflict. You really are a small-minded pathetic person!

BTW I keep telling you the correct abbreviation for phenotype is pheno not phenol, which is an aromatic organic compound.

You just don't learn!

what was it you said when confronted oh yeah "go kill yourself."

 

[TelephoneGame]

Spacebros my friend if you never grid and apple before how do you know that it doesn't taste just like an Orange? I have read this thread out and you have to try to understand you have never even smelt the tale tell heart so how can you be so sure the opinions you trust are the right opinions? I am an older guy late 40s I have smoked a lot of RKS when it was around, the people you question are correct in almost everything they say. Just except the facts don't question those who have had first hand experience.

 

[TelephoneGame]

Got to try an apple* phone post.

 

[SpaceBros.]

Spacebros my friend if you never grid and apple before how do you know that it doesn't taste just like an Orange? I have read this thread out and you have to try to understand you have never even smelt the tale tell heart so how can you be so sure the opinions you trust are the right opinions? I am an older guy late 40s I have smoked a lot of RKS when it was around, the people you question are correct in almost everything they say. Just except the facts don't question those who have had first hand experience.

It's well known that human memory is not a reliable indicator of previous events that took place. People often unintentionally over-exaggerate positive and memorable experiences and events of the past.

Some peoples claims here about RKS verge on the incredible. Claims range from RKS being the best, most potent strain ever, to RKS being a strain one can never build any tolerance to, an RKS grow can be smelt from a quarter mile radius away and a triple-bagged half Oz. in an air-tight container smelling like a pound a few yards away.

Sorry but these first hand accounts are just too fanciful for me that I either have to experience it myself or have some factual scientific basis behind it to believe it's true. I'm sure the majority of people who hear these claims too and have more than a few years experience of smoking and growing Marijuana would similarly find it hard to fathom.

It's not even clear from all those who have shared their first hand experiences here whether RKS is a strain/cultivar, just a terpene profile and that what person A calls RKS is the same as what person B calls RKS.

I can also relate from my own first hand experiences with Marijuana in general to what some of the other posters say here about what is responsible for the skunk spray aroma phenomena.

SB

 

[shishkaboy]

https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?language=en

 

[ozza]

spacebros actually read the thread.

 

[blue_tick]

hey all
i am in my early 50's. i can not comment on rks that is being sold today or if it can be detected thru plastic containers. what i can say for a fact that in the late 70's early 80's the skunk that was around then smelled like the animal in the wild. you could double rap it and you could still smell it if your buddy had it in his pocket standing a few feet away or in a car with it it was loud. still can not say it would be detected in a plastic container as then we didn't care. i was born and raised in ohio and that weed was definitely killer

peace

 

[Twisted pleasur]

It's well known that human memory is not a reliable indicator of previous events that took place. People often unintentionally over-exaggerate positive and memorable experiences and events of the past.

Some peoples claims here about RKS verge on the incredible. Claims range from RKS being the best, most potent strain ever, to RKS being a strain one can never build any tolerance to, an RKS grow can be smelt from a quarter mile radius away and a triple-bagged half Oz. in an air-tight container smelling like a pound a few yards away.

Sorry but these first hand accounts are just too fanciful for me that I either have to experience it myself or have some factual scientific basis behind it to believe it's true. I'm sure the majority of people who hear these claims too and have more than a few years experience of smoking and growing Marijuana would similarly find it hard to fathom.

It's not even clear from all those who have shared their first hand experiences here whether RKS is a strain/cultivar, just a terpene profile and that what person A calls RKS is the same as what person B calls RKS.

I can also relate from my own first hand experiences with Marijuana in general to what some of the other posters say here about what is responsible for the skunk spray aroma phenomena.

SB

Its not about it being best. Just something I want in my cheese and wine collection. But I do agree some people tend to exaggerate. My wife for one...

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

Sorry but these first hand accounts are just too fanciful for me that I either have to experience it myself or have some factual scientific basis behind it to believe it's true.

Thats why i told you, those who know, KNOW. Others like yourself full of conjecture happen to be just talking out your ass, over and over. People with firsthand experience tell you stuff repeatedly, and you continually refute it, with no first hand experience. Yeah, we know who to believe. This thread had the mods come in a few weeks ago due to this exact same type of debate. Lets keep it more factual, from actual skunk aficionados who know what they experienced rather than naysayers saying oh you guys are most certainly full of shit, your memories are failing!