The Roadkill Skunk Fan Club

[Brother_Monk]

I know what you mean bro.....the first day I walk around at work, and ppl are all looking at me like I'm pepe' le' pew...will be a happy day! Only people who know what that smell really is, will be following me around lol!

I agree with you about the HTC skunk...and not because I work for them. I have tried a few skunks over the years too, and I kept one really skunky smellin' girl out of my pack of HTC Skunk Ibl's. Funny thing tho, she never really did snap out of flower mode when I took a clone. I've had her for a while now. You saw the grow. She still only has those one blade leaves, and is long to veg. But once in flower, man she takes off like a jet! Oh how we had our hopes up on that grow... didn't we. The quest goes on! It's only a flesh wound!

 

[motaco]

@ ganico. yeah I had some of that brickweed about a year ago. looked like shit but when you broke it open it still had some pretty trichs but most were destroyed. had a great smell though. I saved the ten or so beans I got of it. couldn't hurt.

it had that weird color distorition. like how color tv looked when it first started was all funny looking.

 

[Guest423]

I know what you mean bro.....the first day I walk around at work, and ppl are all looking at me like I'm pepe' le' pew...will be a happy day! Only people who know what that smell really is, will be following me around lol!

I agree with you about the HTC skunk...and not because I work for them. I have tried a few skunks over the years too, and I kept one really skunky smellin' girl out of my pack of HTC Skunk Ibl's. Funny thing tho, she never really did snap out of flower mode when I took a clone. I've had her for a while now. You saw the grow. She still only has those one blade leaves, and is long to veg. But once in flower, man she takes off like a jet! Oh how we had our hopes up on that grow... didn't we. The quest goes on! It's only a flesh wound!

i hear ya man....will be a very fun day

the clones i took of the htc skunks snapped out of it......i kept 2 moms and passed them to a buddy of mine...then he passed on some cuts to friends so there are 2 skunk ibl phenos floating around....one of my friends actually has some of them cuts goin outdoors...i should make my way over and take a peek one of these days.

everyday on my way home from work i drive past this farm that reeks of skunk...either a skunk has a den or something near the road or they are growing rks outdoors....probably a real skunk but everytime i drive by i'm like god damn it i want my buds to smell like that again!!

 

[Hans Blix]

I don't know if the RKS is a phenotype (or several phenotypes) or Skunk #1 or other skunks, but has someone tried recreating Skunk #1 or other skunks from the original parental strains (more or less), and then gone on to look for RKS phenotypes? At least a recreated "Retro Skunk" wouldn't be subject to the sweetness and genetic homogeneity of present-day Skunk #1.

Sorry to bring up something that has in all likelyhood been debated before. I just couldn't find any reference to this.

 

[bounty29]

I always kinda wondered the same thing Hans Blix. Anyone got any input on that?

 

[Raco]

I remember a thread by Reeferman...@ OG...
He was trying to re-create skunk, if I don´t remember bad
I laughed!!

 

[Hans Blix]

Nothing is new under the sun:

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=43901&page=10&pp=15

If people are that desperate to get it, what is stopping them getting the original landraces, all easy enough to find, then breed the 3 way cross until you reproduce the road kill feno. Reefer has all the required parents so I would guess he's doing something along those lines.

 

[tiedye420]

If they REEK on the second set of true leaves..
That's roadkill!
Time2unite- those sound like the ones... Good luck with that...
Do they look indica dominant?

 

[ctg]

sk#1 is not the roadkill skunk of old..
roadkill was something totally different... the name sk1 was created as a marketing ploy to sell seed!

also, a person can't judge a plant roadkill or not by the second true set of leaves as posted above, many strains are smelly but few if any are true roadkill.
-ctg-

 

[theFLINTSTONERS]

sk#1 is not the roadkill skunk of old..
roadkill was something totally different... the name sk1 was created as a marketing ploy to sell seed!

and it's been confusion ever since . . .

also, a person can't judge a plant roadkill or not by the second true set of leaves as posted above, many strains are smelly but few if any are true roadkill.
-ctg-

ctg's right folks . . . at least to the best of our knowledge . . .

many things from the past have been lost . . . or have become extremely rare . . . and remain alive only in memories . . .

 

[Dalaihempy]

Did any one ever stop to think that the road kill sk as you call it was a sk line expresing a lot of afgani and why it stunk so much?.


Originally Posted by ctg
sk#1 is not the roadkill skunk of old..
roadkill was something totally different... the name sk1 was created as a marketing ploy to sell seed!

Sk1 isnt skunk ? what is it then .

 

[Guest]

Seinfeld's take; http://www.sendspace.com/file/v7p8zp

 

[Hindu Killer]

Skunk #1 was a marketing name. The Dutch breeders bred it for sweetness. Not ACRID/SKUNKY!

 

[Dalaihempy]

Skunk #1 was a marketing name. The Dutch breeders bred it for sweetness. Not ACRID/SKUNKY!

SURE ?

Here Read what sam had to say about it im sure sam knows something about sk right ?.


Sam_Skunkman Post found here

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=43901&page=6&pp=15

Sam_Skunkman

Mr. Nevermind,
"but most people would prefer the RKS over a sweet smelling pheno."

WRONG, the high from sweet Skunk #1 is much nicer then the Skunky Skunk #1 or #2. The Skunk #2 was more skunky, and a little bit stronger. Nice if you want to lay on a couch, and vegetate, I like the sweet up clear high of the sweet Skunk #1 much better and so do the majority of growers. If the skunky one was all that was available then the growers would all be screaming for the sweet Skunk #1.
Maybe I will reintroduce Skunk #2 the skunky one but to be honest it is not imporant to me, I am busy with other goals.

"RKS is a true gem that may be lost forever. I am sure some old hippie somwhere has a cut of it. "

Maybe, but I doubt it. But I do still have it.

"the smell is ****in awful the high puts you on your ass, aint nothing sweet about it . Skunk #1 aint skunk to me and many others who have tried RKS. the only strain that should be called skunk smells like a ****ing skunk, not sweet, hence the name"

Well, I named the strain in 1976 and I decided on Skunk #1 if you don't like it then what can I say? Make a better 3 way stable Indica/Sativa hybrid and name it the real Skunky RKS, good luck....
It will still not be what you want....
And it will not be stable.

"i am surprised no breeder has tried to find and work RKS. Anyone wanting to win a cup need only to enter RKS. i dont care how rigged the cup is, RKS would win hands down ."


In case you forgot 20 years ago I won the first High Tines Cup with Skunk #1, it was skunky and sweet. Then I dropped out of the Cup as it became more about sales then quality. And I do not need the sales.


unicorn,
"skunk is in a lot of strains...but true skunk it seems nobody grows anymore...i personally wont grow anything but low odor strains"

This is your loss, low odor strains are not as strong or stony, that is a fact.


Time2Unite,
"people were talking about skunk before sam the skunkman and had skunk before sam the skunkman"

Are you joking? Who was selling seeds of Skunk before me? NO ONE.

"tell me why everyone thats smoked ass loads of all these strains STILL says roadkill skunk is some of the best if not the very best weed they've ever smoked....no one has seen it in years and you could never buy the seeds commercially but everyone still talks about it non stop.....imagine how many people would be talking about it if someone got some."

Are you joking? I had the best what you call RKS, and I did not even smoke it much, I had much stronger Original Haze with a much nicer high to me. What you call RKS was very popular with the blue collar types, although they liked Afghani #1 even better because you could not walk, it made you a cripple.
I like to get high not loaded, but to each their own....
Different smokes for different folks.

"either that or it choked itself out from inbreeding depression, thats what happened to the people that i knew that grew it for 10+ yrs.....one yr it wasn't as good, every yr after that it got worse until there was no point to keeping it."

What are you refering to? Making seeds every year? If you mean the clone got worse year after year, I don't know the problem, it is not imbreeding depression, as maintaining a clone does not involve inbreeding at all. I have the same clones for 20 years and see no differences at all. Zero! Clones can pick up a virus which will lower health and yield. Don't use infected clones to make progeny clones or seeds.

"sorry but "sams" skunk is not skunk.....i don't care if people think he's the skunkman...your not the skunkman if you don't have real skunk....put that in your canna history pipe and smoke it. sams the father of a sweet plant, which shouldn't be called skunk, why would you ever call a sweet plant skunk? it's the most ignorant thing i've ever heard to be honest. when you name a strain it should have some meaning or resemblence of the name you gave it.
no knock on you or sam but come on, to name a fruity sweet plant skunk if funny. no other strain in the world has such a wrong name....period."

Your ignorence is astounding. When Skunk #1 was named it was skunky as hell, even a rolled joint in a baggie could be smelled in the whole room. It took me ten years to make it sweet like I like. with an up clear high, strong as hell. I like it for hash, as I don't smoke much pot. Although Skunk is much sweeter now it is the same strain, looks the same except it is a bit less leaf then before, and the smells have changed as well as the high.

"it's all a marketing scam imo, how many people bought "skunk" thinking they were gonna get a well known stinky skunky ass strain? why else would you buy skunk? the plan worked to perfection...millions of people bought the strain."

You are either confused or plain stupid, people bought the strain because it grows great Cannabis and everyone knew it. Most growers would prefer the sweet version, a few growers that do not want to get high, but would prefer to get loaded like the skunky version, but as I have not sold the skunky ones for 20 years, a lot of the talk is theoretical.

"if reeferman bring it back then he's the man, anyone that brings this strain back will be famous in the canna community, it would go down in history."

Been there, done that....

"people were talking about skunk before sam the skunkman and had skunk before sam the skunkman"

Can you please tell me the skunky varieties that were offered as seeds before Skunk #1?

"if T2U was the skunkman we'd be wondering where the sweet fruity pheno was, i don't know how anyone would think the sweet fruity pheno is more desirable then the stanky skunk pheno."

If T2U was the skunkman we would not have sweet skunk or skunky RKS skunk, lets be honest here....
How many Skunks have you grown? I have grown millions, not hundreds, millions of from seed Skunk #1 plants.
It is one thing to sit at your computer and rant, it is another thing to actually do something real like make a new hybrid, as for making a 3 way hybrid that is stable as Skunk #1, good luck, you will need it.

British_Hempire,

"UK Cheese is almost certainly Skunk x Afghan rather than a pheno of Skunk #1. I reckon a good Skunk x Afghan is far closer to the roadkill that Skunk #1.

To me Cheese is just a skunk, it sure smells like a pure Skunk #1. Maybe you know better?

HothouseFlowers,
"'Skunk' was initially a name for a strong smelling line of hybridised and acclimatised Pure Sativas grown in California by the Mother Earth communes in the mid to late 60s. I believe these where all South American lines in the genetic mix."
"Just like Haze, Skunk was a generic term used in these ME communes. BOEL marketed crops sold as Skunk prior to 1970..enterprising seed dealers utillised the names to reflect el primo products of the day, just as happens now.."


A pure Sativa that smelled like Skunk? California Communes growing Skunk in the early 60's?
Haze a generic name? BOEL grew very small amounts of weed, mostly in Hawaii.
The name Original Haze was made up by R.L. around 1970, I made up the Skunk #1 name. People did offer herbal Cannabis with the description skunky, indica, kush, afghani, but no one had the seeds to offer, except the BOEL, but they did not understand breeding or conservation. Most of the seeds they traded were imported Landraces or unstable hybrids and are gone today. They were hybridized out of exsistence.
-SamS



I dont know why some people love throwing dirt on the dutch breeders of old what you forget is they were americans Australians canadans and other nationals from all over working there .

 

[tiedye420]

I dont care what anyone says.
Fallbrook skunk rocks!
Fallbrook california, in san diego county was where the roadkill originated, at least what you could back then. If my memory serves me correct it was the "red and white" who had the roadkill.
The growers union develped it in hawaii, before they came over to cali with it.
From there it went to the emerald triangle, and i'm sure was distributed across the friggin nation.
You can bet someone still has it, and they probably crack up as they read this thread and smoke fattys of it....
Only thing I got left to say is "kick me down mule" L.O.L.

Every roadkill seed I ever popped from bags of roakill (seeds were few and far between) Had the roadkill stench by the second set of true leaves.
Although as ctg and flintstone's say, other strains exhibit a stench which could be similar or even the same, and if it doesn't get the lime green nugs like golfballs- which double up as you cut them with sissors- it ain't the kill.
What I liked best about roadkill, is after one or two tokes from a bong; your forehead would break out in a sweat, somewhat similar to doing a line of cocaine..
It was the signature of roadkill, golfballs of sticky green goodness, so crystallized it would coat the bag with sugary crystals of thc, and a duber would screw about 6 or 7 people up.Around christmas and december a fruitier purple version would be mixed into the bags- but they were still roadkill- just black golfballs with a fruitier smell and flavor.
What a treat those were...
If I don't make a kill from my pool- She will find me for trying so hard to find her...
I'm contemplating mexican "skunk" indica, and of course this G-13 afghani I'm always freaking out about....
Another X I'm thinking of is a given- g-13 and hindu kush....
The purple ratio of a good hindu kush is generally 50% purple and 50% green, at least from seedstock in the 70's it was that way..
And this g-13 has primarily green to it, though can turn purple or have purple highlights in colder weather.
So the purple ratio would be around 25% in a X, which fits the bill of roadkill.
The density of purple kush, and the light fluffiness of the g-13 could very well combine to golfballs.
The g-13 would definetly sugarcoat the kush..
They would be truebreeding, which fallbrook roadkill was a trubreeding strain.
I never even heard of anyone getting a true roadkill over 4 1/2 to 5 foot..
The g-13 I'm running has a fairly solid one bud phenotype... Hindu kush generally have better branching and internode spacing....
As you can see I actually think about what the heck I'm doing here on the ranch...
In a few weeks or a couple months I'll be looking for hindu kush beans....
Are there any? L.O.L.
anyone been to nepal lately?..
Like a hindu kush from nepal where temple hash is made?
AWWW SHHUCKKKs nevermind.....
tie

 

[LORD BENIS]

I have some, quite a few seeds from the late 70's early, mid 80s....i have no idea what they are but in those days there was so much RKS I think there may be one or two in this lil bunch

Sounds promising man, don't let 'em go to waste

If I don't make a kill from my pool- She will find me for trying so hard to find her....
I'm contemplating mexican "skunk" indica, and of course this G-13 afghani I'm always freaking out about....
Another X I'm thinking of is a given- g-13 and hindu kush....

Also sounds promising.....

I'm pschyed to see this thread blowing up!
I finally got a Shoreline cut to root. As has been mentioned previously, the RKS seemed to be quite prevalent around Texas and I've heard that the Shoreline can be quite skunky. Opinions???

 

[Triceratops]

No offense Lord Benis, but shoreline is not RKS by a long shot. Shoreline smells very citrusy, lemony with some old school funk in there, but calling it RKS is simply not true.

I have the Shoreline cut and i have the UK Cheese also. The Cheese is the stronger smelling plant of the 2, but on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the strongest.... Cheese rates a 3 compared to RKS which would be an 11. I mean simply NO comparison, and yes, as Tidey420 has stated earlier in this thread, they reek of skunk in veg only to get so bad it will burn your eyes and nose while manicuring after harvest.

Simply my favorite herb of all time and as i have said many many times, it is the standard by which i measure all other strains. I hate be the bearer of bad news, but Shoreline is most definitely not RKS.

Great thread T2U..... Awesome to see so much interest in a strain that is popular amongst the so called "blue collar" types of people. I hope the seeds you have now turn out to be what you are looking for, as it sure sounds like you are on the right track. All i need to hear is a real strong indica profile, lime green hard golf ball buds that grows virtually identical to Bubba Kush and you indeed have her my friend. I am sure she will turn up before long, i just feel it. Keep us posted T2U. All eyes are on you.

Peace and pot, Tric

 

[order 66]

I would like to add my 2 cents to this long, long thread.

First, tonight I smoked about a gram of first run vapor remains in a big cone. It rocked and I wasn't really expecting anyting, Anyway, I don't know what it was the weed being a little toasted but it totally had a rks funk skunk heavy flav aftertaste -- the weed that was in it was mostly haze strains not skunky at all -- weird.

Second, I am from "the south" and while I am not quite 30+ (getting there) I have smoked and do remember real "skunk weed." Believe me sam, no one doubts your accomplishments, but no one had your product/seed line in mind. ****, the people I hung out with knew shit about growing or seeds or wtfe, they thought you could grow weed with incandescent lights -- this shit was called skunk cause it literally smelled like dead skunk funk x 232121, not because of your genetics or whatever. Who ever said in this thread that it made them fond of the smell of skunks on a southern drive on a summer night was dead on -- that's soo true. I don't remember if the weed was that good but it was such a free feeling. The last time I remember seeing "skunk" *rks buds was about 1996, and by that time it was really just home/farm growers not really commercial. I don't remember seeing them since then.

Third, I remember seeing on here a few months ago seeing that Greenhouse had advertised a "coming soon" RKS line on their site. I went to Greenhouse Seed Co. Shop in NL recently and dude had no f-ing clue what I was talking about when I asked him (very plainly) about their RKS seeds/project. The idea that they know what they're talking about or will deliver that kind of product is such bs! You can't bottle 1980s East Tennessee and sell it.

thanks for the memories in this thread

 

[Guest]

SURE ?

Here Read what sam had to say about it im sure sam knows something about sk right ?.


Sam_Skunkman Post found here

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=43901&page=6&pp=15

Sam_Skunkman

Mr. Nevermind,
"but most people would prefer the RKS over a sweet smelling pheno."

WRONG, the high from sweet Skunk #1 is much nicer then the Skunky Skunk #1 or #2. The Skunk #2 was more skunky, and a little bit stronger. Nice if you want to lay on a couch, and vegetate, I like the sweet up clear high of the sweet Skunk #1 much better and so do the majority of growers. If the skunky one was all that was available then the growers would all be screaming for the sweet Skunk #1.
Maybe I will reintroduce Skunk #2 the skunky one but to be honest it is not imporant to me, I am busy with other goals.

"RKS is a true gem that may be lost forever. I am sure some old hippie somwhere has a cut of it. "

Maybe, but I doubt it. But I do still have it.

"the smell is ****in awful the high puts you on your ass, aint nothing sweet about it . Skunk #1 aint skunk to me and many others who have tried RKS. the only strain that should be called skunk smells like a ****ing skunk, not sweet, hence the name"

Well, I named the strain in 1976 and I decided on Skunk #1 if you don't like it then what can I say? Make a better 3 way stable Indica/Sativa hybrid and name it the real Skunky RKS, good luck....
It will still not be what you want....
And it will not be stable.

"i am surprised no breeder has tried to find and work RKS. Anyone wanting to win a cup need only to enter RKS. i dont care how rigged the cup is, RKS would win hands down ."


In case you forgot 20 years ago I won the first High Tines Cup with Skunk #1, it was skunky and sweet. Then I dropped out of the Cup as it became more about sales then quality. And I do not need the sales.


unicorn,
"skunk is in a lot of strains...but true skunk it seems nobody grows anymore...i personally wont grow anything but low odor strains"

This is your loss, low odor strains are not as strong or stony, that is a fact.


Time2Unite,
"people were talking about skunk before sam the skunkman and had skunk before sam the skunkman"

Are you joking? Who was selling seeds of Skunk before me? NO ONE.

"tell me why everyone thats smoked ass loads of all these strains STILL says roadkill skunk is some of the best if not the very best weed they've ever smoked....no one has seen it in years and you could never buy the seeds commercially but everyone still talks about it non stop.....imagine how many people would be talking about it if someone got some."

Are you joking? I had the best what you call RKS, and I did not even smoke it much, I had much stronger Original Haze with a much nicer high to me. What you call RKS was very popular with the blue collar types, although they liked Afghani #1 even better because you could not walk, it made you a cripple.
I like to get high not loaded, but to each their own....
Different smokes for different folks.

"either that or it choked itself out from inbreeding depression, thats what happened to the people that i knew that grew it for 10+ yrs.....one yr it wasn't as good, every yr after that it got worse until there was no point to keeping it."

What are you refering to? Making seeds every year? If you mean the clone got worse year after year, I don't know the problem, it is not imbreeding depression, as maintaining a clone does not involve inbreeding at all. I have the same clones for 20 years and see no differences at all. Zero! Clones can pick up a virus which will lower health and yield. Don't use infected clones to make progeny clones or seeds.

"sorry but "sams" skunk is not skunk.....i don't care if people think he's the skunkman...your not the skunkman if you don't have real skunk....put that in your canna history pipe and smoke it. sams the father of a sweet plant, which shouldn't be called skunk, why would you ever call a sweet plant skunk? it's the most ignorant thing i've ever heard to be honest. when you name a strain it should have some meaning or resemblence of the name you gave it.
no knock on you or sam but come on, to name a fruity sweet plant skunk if funny. no other strain in the world has such a wrong name....period."

Your ignorence is astounding. When Skunk #1 was named it was skunky as hell, even a rolled joint in a baggie could be smelled in the whole room. It took me ten years to make it sweet like I like. with an up clear high, strong as hell. I like it for hash, as I don't smoke much pot. Although Skunk is much sweeter now it is the same strain, looks the same except it is a bit less leaf then before, and the smells have changed as well as the high.

"it's all a marketing scam imo, how many people bought "skunk" thinking they were gonna get a well known stinky skunky ass strain? why else would you buy skunk? the plan worked to perfection...millions of people bought the strain."

You are either confused or plain stupid, people bought the strain because it grows great Cannabis and everyone knew it. Most growers would prefer the sweet version, a few growers that do not want to get high, but would prefer to get loaded like the skunky version, but as I have not sold the skunky ones for 20 years, a lot of the talk is theoretical.

"if reeferman bring it back then he's the man, anyone that brings this strain back will be famous in the canna community, it would go down in history."

Been there, done that....

"people were talking about skunk before sam the skunkman and had skunk before sam the skunkman"

Can you please tell me the skunky varieties that were offered as seeds before Skunk #1?

"if T2U was the skunkman we'd be wondering where the sweet fruity pheno was, i don't know how anyone would think the sweet fruity pheno is more desirable then the stanky skunk pheno."

If T2U was the skunkman we would not have sweet skunk or skunky RKS skunk, lets be honest here....
How many Skunks have you grown? I have grown millions, not hundreds, millions of from seed Skunk #1 plants.
It is one thing to sit at your computer and rant, it is another thing to actually do something real like make a new hybrid, as for making a 3 way hybrid that is stable as Skunk #1, good luck, you will need it.

British_Hempire,

"UK Cheese is almost certainly Skunk x Afghan rather than a pheno of Skunk #1. I reckon a good Skunk x Afghan is far closer to the roadkill that Skunk #1.

To me Cheese is just a skunk, it sure smells like a pure Skunk #1. Maybe you know better?

HothouseFlowers,
"'Skunk' was initially a name for a strong smelling line of hybridised and acclimatised Pure Sativas grown in California by the Mother Earth communes in the mid to late 60s. I believe these where all South American lines in the genetic mix."
"Just like Haze, Skunk was a generic term used in these ME communes. BOEL marketed crops sold as Skunk prior to 1970..enterprising seed dealers utillised the names to reflect el primo products of the day, just as happens now.."


A pure Sativa that smelled like Skunk? California Communes growing Skunk in the early 60's?
Haze a generic name? BOEL grew very small amounts of weed, mostly in Hawaii.
The name Original Haze was made up by R.L. around 1970, I made up the Skunk #1 name. People did offer herbal Cannabis with the description skunky, indica, kush, afghani, but no one had the seeds to offer, except the BOEL, but they did not understand breeding or conservation. Most of the seeds they traded were imported Landraces or unstable hybrids and are gone today. They were hybridized out of exsistence.
-SamS



I dont know why some people love throwing dirt on the dutch breeders of old what you forget is they were americans Australians canadans and other nationals from all over working there .

Hi Dalaihempy, Ive followed your grows for years now D.H,(the original Hempy). You are a homegrown legend in the community Hempy, your knowledge and skill are always apparent in your post.

 

[Guest]

the Hogsbreath cut is gettin' pretty ranky........not roadkill, but close......the plant itself is nothin' like the RK of old, but covered in a haze of resin.......have fertilized w/ BK/DC male for a hopeful future.......

re-create it........someone may get lucky in the roll of the dice.................