What is Skunk?

[watermixer]

skunk

^^ is that some "ass liquid" skunk or some "fruity and no booty" skunk?
please say its some ass juice sir

 

[neongreen]

Does no one else remember the late Dr. Jay saying he crossed Trainwreck with SCBB and the result was bud so stinky he named it "Poo Bear" ? If I remember right, he said it was the strongest smelling bud he had ever encountered, and with his vast experience I'm sure he had come across the RK - just food for thought

One thing about the RK that hardly anyone has touched on in this thread was the taste. I remember the flavor was more intense than anything else (apart from hash perhaps) that I have ever tried, and it lingered for a long time!! I have not tried that many strains, but it was by far and away the best for flavor, as well as high, and of course that deep penetrating funk! I have a feeling all three are connected. I've heard it said before (on more than one occasion), that the stinkiest bud more often than not also has the best high.

ng

 

[Nept]

getting sidetracked on the hype of the new bigger better has lost us the RKS

fads should be harmless....

If we found RKS, would haze be gone forever?! LOL

 

[tankgunner]

exactly! I tell you right now. If i found a roadkill skunk plant i wuld trash every strain i have right now and grow only RKS.

Kush , diesel and all the others that are so popular right now cant touch a true RKS. In the early 90's we got alot of it from a dead show and man that shit was potent. We actually packaged alot of it and sold it as " Georgia Ave. skunk" but i remember that shit had me so high i ended up getting a room at a truck stop and staying there for days just smoking this shit. it was soo good all i wanted to do was smoke and eat. Shit was amazing. too much and you would be passedout.

Most who downtalk a RKS hae no ideas how good it is compared to the best strains of today and have never tried it. If someone had a RKS and entered in in the cup those judges would fall of their chairs and be on the floor . compared to the herb that thye have. RKS is a true gem that may be lost forever. I am sure some old hippie somwhere has a cut of it.



nevermind

Ha! you are so right nevermind! i remember like it was yesterday but it was in the late 80's i first smoked it. if you never have tried it your missing out. everyone that i have ever known loves skunk you would be crazy not to try it.

 

[tankgunner]

To all those who say that pot was better in the 70's (some say music, and perhaps it was),



i personally dont think the pot was better in the seventies, please. the music nowdays the metal or rock if thats what you want to call it couldnt hold a candle to 80's metal or 80's country for that matter.and i'm not a big country fan accept for dwight yoakum. music from the 80's 70's 60's even 50's is way better. sometimes we just listen to the oldies station at work as classic metal gets old somtimes. unless you have ozzy,dokken or like iron maiden in the cd player.

 

[tankgunner]

Being English, as I've mentioned before, I haven't smelled a skunk to know one! That would be funny - I could be the only guy in the Western Hemisphere with a current roadkill skunk mother and I don't know it...irony indeed...

imagine the stinkiest skunk weed you have smoked,thats what a real skunk smells like.

 

[drrico]

i'm not desperate for it...i just want it.....i have alot of other killer strains.

this was over 10 yrs ago, i see him all the time, he's my friends dad and he's still growing that strain and crossing it with others....there is nothing rks about it anymore. like i said it either choked itself out or got cross pollinated with the local ditchweed to many times.

season 1- rks
season 2- rks x ditchweed
season 3- rks/ditchweed x ditchweed
season 4- rks/ditchweed/ditchweed x ditchweed

that old man basically has stablized a ditchweed lol. i don't want ditchweed ibl

Heh...that's been my experience also, in Orygun. Ye Olde Schol RKS was chased further and further offroad as the fields became crossed - not EXACTLY to ditchweed, but to current commercial strains - until it was no longer part of the mix. I bump into similar phenos now and then, mostly among folks that are collectors, but have not grown such a plant for over 15 years. Alas.

As fer Sam da Skunkman's statement about clones:

"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!"

Hmm. Well my experiences are rather different, and viruses are not part of the equation. We have been following genomic changes for years...some of this has made its way into my "epigenetics" posts. More to come, ifn you all care...but to a first approximation, our experience is that clones shift over the years in stochastic ways, often related to metastable patterns of DNA modification, not genetic changes, and occur rather frequently, depending on the distance of the genes giving rise to certain traits from parts of the genome that recruit heterochromatin. Furthermore, these changes can be promoted, for better or worse, through treatments with chemicals that alter patterns of DNA and histone modification. And sexual reproduction in seed manufacture casts the dice yet again...sex resets the epigenetic clock...

Search out my posts fer more deets (for the propellerheads amongst ya'all)....

Out!

 

[tankgunner]

Sam knows better than anyone what good skunk is... like he said he's grown out MILLIONS of the beans...



hats off to Sam if he created this strain i enjoyed smoking it up in 80's. as far as he knows better than anyone? you dont have to be a breeder or rocket scientist to be a judge of good weed.

 

[tankgunner]

Time2Unite or anyone else, With all this talk about Skunk I've decided to make it my next project. What Skunk do suggest i get? I'll be outdoors in the deep south and it doesnt have smell like RKS. Would like some stink though.

 

[Guest423]

the best skunk i grew that u can get commerically was htc skunk ibl...it was the most skunky out of all the skunks i tried.

skunk special from female seeds are all females and the outdoor yields are monsterous....thick and dense...hard as rocks.

the pure is ok if u don't like skunky skunk...more sweet flavor..nice yields

skunk is only ok imo...good for breeding

now rks is the bomb but good luck with that one.

 

[Guest]

what is Skunk, baby dont hurt me no more - bob ricky haha


sorry the warlock spoke through me!

 

[Red_Nine]

Ahhh, the RKS...I just saw this thread and it sure brought back memories. When I was in high school, probably around 90-91 we got ahold of the best bud I've ever had to this day. We called it Christmas bud because it came around about 2 weeks before christmas and it just smelled soooo strong. Awesome taste, big buds, just reaked like a skunk. To this day, when I smell a skunk on the highway it smells like good weed to me,lol. Even my stoner friends think I'm weird for liking that smell, but like I said earlier it brings back memories.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

As fer Sam da Skunkman's statement about clones:

"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!"

Hmm. Well my experiences are rather different, and viruses are not part of the equation. We have been following genomic changes for years...some of this has made its way into my "epigenetics" posts. More to come, ifn you all care...but to a first approximation, our experience is that clones shift over the years in stochastic ways, often related to metastable patterns of DNA modification, not genetic changes, and occur rather frequently, depending on the distance of the genes giving rise to certain traits from parts of the genome that recruit heterochromatin. Furthermore, these changes can be promoted, for better or worse, through treatments with chemicals that alter patterns of DNA and histone modification. And sexual reproduction in seed manufacture casts the dice yet again...sex resets the epigenetic clock...

Is this work with Cannabis or other species? I ask because different species give different results for sure. Have you kept Cannabis clones around for 20 years and then measured their changes? What were they exactly? What did you measure and how did you measure it? What type of Cannabis was it you did the work with? Do you think that all Cannabis clones will react the same way to repeated cloning year after year?
-SamS

 

[Wu-Skunk]

did somebody said skunk ???
here is some of dutch passion skunk,this buds are made of gold and the high is just great but the smell is sweet...pics

and some dry buds

This strain is just great only the potency is little low but overal is great
wu-SkUnK

 

[Old Soul]

There is a guy in Illinois who still has the roadkill skunk and it the best skunk you will ever try. Since the first time I came in contact with this strain I have truly enjoyed the aroma of a skunk on the side of the road. Anyone who has a chance to try it do so, you will not be sorry. You will be surprised how much you like the smell once you have had it.

Peace

 

[Red_Nine]

Hey Old Soul, give this guy in Illinois my number. I can be reached 24 hours a day,lol. Seriously though, we all know there are a few out there with a momma sitting there just waiting to be shared, but alas...Where the hell are you???

 

[2ezy]

There is, what I think what you guys describe as RKS, floating around here in Oz still.

Australia is like many other places around the world where anything that reeks or is potent is called Skunk. However because there is no real names to any weed(most of the time), people tend to take extra note of the smell appearance and potency of what each grower puts out there, myself included. Most older growers here stick with the same gear they have had for years and years and just grow them to perfection, which is usually WW, NL and you guessed it Skunk.

Back to my point, there is pot that goes around from time to time, that is almost lime green that is almost covered in red hair. The smell is the most pungent of any weed of been in the presence of.. by far. I don't know that I would say it smelt just like roadkill but it is not far off. I would describe it as a cross between gasoline, cleaning detergent and something dead. It has been around for decades and is extremely potent, up high in small doses and a total KO in bigger doses. Very sought after over here.

Does this sound like the RKS you guys talk of???

 

[drrico]

Is this work with Cannabis or other species? I ask because different species give different results for sure. Have you kept Cannabis clones around for 20 years and then measured their changes? What were they exactly? What did you measure and how did you measure it? What type of Cannabis was it you did the work with? Do you think that all Cannabis clones will react the same way to repeated cloning year after year?
-SamS

Hi Sam,

1) C. sativa, A. thaliana, P. sativum

2) No, I haven't kept any clones that long. My colleagues and I measured our changes over 2-5 year periods, depending on the experiment. Our observations were peripheral to the main point of the work, though. Colleagues at another institution are about 25 years into studying clonal instability in Pisum. They note changes on methylaton at almost 20% of the sites monitored and changes associated with a couple types of transposons.

3) Changes observed were of two main types: 1-epigenetic changes evident by changes in sensitivity to methyl-C sensitive restriction enzymes in Southern blots (using methyl-C insensitive restriction enzymes that cleave the same sites as controls) or in changes in heterochromatin or euchromatin as evident by nuclease sensitivity in chromatin digestions (Southerns again, but looking at nucleosome ladders); 2-genetic changes from transposons. Transposons were of the copia family in sativa and another I don't recall right now...it was another retroposon, though.

4) We worked with sativa-derived strains that were common to our environment. The first experiments were conducted about 30 years ago and these observations were made in experiments conducted over four periods of investigation at different research facilities.

5) I hesitate to generalize our results to all strains/lineages. Some backgrounds have more transposon activity than others depending on the presence of activator elements and their association or lack with neighboring heterochromatic regions. Some backgrounds have modifiers that modulate epigenetic phenomena to greater extents than do others, too. I'm just reporting our experiences. So far, wherever we have looked, there has been evidence of epigenetic and genetic changes. My current work takes me to plow other fields, but I wish to return to these studies as time and money allow.

Thank you for your interest. The degree of clonal stability you are reporting is interesting!

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

A tree is like a clone, it that is around for years and years, yet from what little I know they do not change do they?
Cannabis is an annual, so I can see it is different, but I have not seen the change in clones I have had for 20 years, I am not testing the stability with any tests.
I have had problems with lines getting virus's a few times, but had back-ups that did not have problems.
I don't think there is any problems keeping Cannabis clones for 20+ years.

-SamS

 

[Raco]

WADR Sam:
I have two kinds of cuttings from the same Pine Tar Kush mom started from seed in 2004.One type resembles the og seed mom..huge fan leaves,columnar and low yield.
The type 2 originals (from the mom as well) were put under high pressure...drought,mites,rootbound etc...they lost almost all their leaves and were headed to trash,but I killed the mites and took care for a while and they came back to health...
These of the type 2 don´t develop huge fan leaves,and branch out very well and yield 3x!!
Even the taste and smell are not exactlly the same!!
Help me explain this please!
thx in advance.