What is Skunk?

[Guest423]

there is NO roadkill skunk on the market, between me and a bunch of members here that talk about it have tried every skunk strain u can buy. sure u can find some "skunkiness" in some but u can find "skunky" in other strains too.

there probably are people on here that are either newbs or don't post much that knows some grower that has had the rks for yrs.....speak up.

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.

because of the strong skunk stank even in veg alot of people just grew it outdoors, there wasn't as much odor control technology as now days, alot of the rks got crossed with other outdoor plants people had and crossed with "ditch weed" is my honest opinion. if you grow anything in my area it gets crossed with wild hemp "ditch weed", i've seen many of good growers have their bomb strains go bunk after 5 yrs. did that happen everywhere?

pollen travels for miles and miles and only a little bit of unwanted pollen pollutes your line, if you use them seeds for the following year your strain just got worse, if you reuse them it gets even more worse, ect, ect, ect, until you have a wild hemp "ditchweed" dominant strain......i know it isn't like that everywhere but u cannot reuse seeds from your outdoor plants in my area unless you want a shitty line in 4-5 yrs.

 

[Mr. Nevermind]

skunk plant always is sweat, small It all depends on how well you take care of your garden. there are bad batchs in every stran. People just like to give it a good name because it sells easyer to have a big named bud.

Skunk nowadays is sweet yes. there were 2 pheno's . the RKS and the sweeter pheno. Some people prefered the high of the sweeter pheno as well as the RKS is a security risk to grow or smoke so the sweeter pheno was bred more than the RKS and it died out. Sam the skunkman did a thread about it. So noone gave a name to RKS to sell it for more $$. RKS sold no matter what and it was a real strain. No just someone labeling something to cash in.

My mother would let me smoke inside when i was growing up living at home. But whenever i had RKS she wouldnt let me even bring it in the house. She said it was to strong and it smelled like a skunk in her place. You know a strain is special when your mom even wont let you smoke it , but will let you smoke other weed.







Nevermind

 

[GoodbyeBlueSky]

I would! I had roadkill skunk back in early 90's. It was super potent and stunk just like a skunk. However it was amazing herb, to this day in my top 5 of best strains ever. It may sound nasty but once you smoke it you see its owrth it. However the roadkill skunk was bred out and the sweeter skunk has become more available while the roadkill is pretty much gone. But if you ever had it you know it was owrth the stink

all i know is that the only skunk i've grown out is Sammy Skunkman's Skunk #1 and it was quite sweet... that's the original, though i believe you're right about skunk being selectively bred towards the sweet side...

though i don't believe for a moment that the potency was bred out just to get the taste right...

 

[Babbabud]

The original skunk used to be so skunky you could put it in five baggies rolled up in a t-shirt in your drawer in the back of the house. If someone showed up they swore your dog got hit by a skunk. If you havent smoked it dont knock it . Was truly great strong MJ. I have not seen pot that smells like this for 20 years easy.

 

[GoodbyeBlueSky]

i guess i'm wondering then, why does RKS no longer exist if it was so enjoyed by all who have partaken?

 

[Babbabud]

yea we all wish we knew. I say if someone came up with it in seed form it would be a huge seller

 

[Mr. Nevermind]

The original skunk used to be so skunky you could put it in five baggies rolled up in a t-shirt in your drawer in the back of the house. If someone showed up they swore your dog got hit by a skunk. If you havent smoked it dont knock it . Was truly great strong MJ. I have not seen pot that smells like this for 20 years easy.

Fuck yeah. People think diesel reeks? Diesels odor dont have shit on a RKS. You couldnt carry it around with you in your pocket cuz it reeked. No matter waht you put it in as babba said. For those if us like myself, time2unite and babba we ll remember the RKs and know it was the real deal. I dont think anyhting in todys market can touch it. And for me the last time i saw it was 92-93.

all i know is that the only skunk i've grown out is Sammy Skunkman's Skunk #1 and it was quite sweet... that's the original, though i believe you're right about skunk being selectively bred towards the sweet side...



indeed. Sam bred the sweeter pheno more over the RKS , there is a thread on here somewhere about it. 2 pheno's. 1 sweet ( skunk #1 of today) and the RKS which died out.







nevermind

 

[GoodbyeBlueSky]

u think skunk #1 is good, it can't touch real skunk....beasters is to diesel what skunk#1 is to real skunk.

i don't know where you get your canna-history, but Sam's Skunk #1 IS real skunk... the taste/smell may be different, but being as Sam's the father of this strain it's really up to him what the proper incarnation of it should be...

 

[Babbabud]

well it doesnt smell like the skunk of yesteryear i would bet or ppl would not still be lookin for it. It smelled so much like a skunk that ever since the smell of a real skunk has never bothered me. I have not smelled anything like it in many many years.... not even close!!

 

[Mr. Nevermind]

well it doesnt smell like the skunk of yesteryear i would bet or ppl would not still be lookin for it. It smelled so much like a skunk that ever since the smell of a real skunk has never bothered me. I have not smelled anything like it in many many years.... not even close!!

i actually became fond of the smell of a skunk due to RKS. to this day if a skunk is dead on the road i say " i smell weed" no metion of the dead animal. the smell reminds me of RKS. And that is sad.

i don't know where you get your canna-history, but Sam's Skunk #1 IS real skunk... the taste/smell may be different, but being as Sam's the father of this strain it's really up to him what the proper incarnation of it should be...



while you are correct, sams skunk #1 is real skunk. when peoplelike babba, time2unite and myself think of a skunk we only think of RKS. Which is how it gots its name. noone would name a sweet smelling strian RKS for no reason. 2 phenos were present. you have the sweeter of the 2, but most people would prefer the RKS over a sweet smelling pheno.










nevermind

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Like many popular strains, original "Skunk" was a local Northern California strain from the 70s-early 80s. Originally it was acclimated to the climate of that area, and became popular at the same time sinsimillia(without seeds) came into vouge on the west coast USA, this also helped increase its popularity outside of California as California was already a worldwide supplier of fine cannabis.

It was the first widely popular and cultivated Indica/Sativa hybrids. Skunk refers to its very potent smell, growing plants are knock you over stinky. Seed samples made it to the Netherlands where it was further refined, and became the basis of many breeding programs, and today a mojority of strains have at least some of it in its ancestory.

Of course the ultra stabilised pure strain of this plant becam known as "Skunk #1", the rest is history!

 

[Babbabud]

Too bad they bred teh skunk smell out . Although i doubt many growers would have tried indoor or anywhere close to home. It truly was the most stinky weed ive ever smelled. Ive been smoking hard since 1963

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

there is NO roadkill skunk on the market, between me and a bunch of members here that talk about it have tried every skunk strain u can buy. sure u can find some "skunkiness" in some but u can find "skunky" in other strains too.

The roadkill skunk is still around. I came across it not too long ago in an Amsterdam coffeeshop. I didn't smoke it myself, but someone in the place did, because that smell just knocks out all the other smells around. It was roadkill skunk for sure, I'm old enough to remember it from the late 80's/early 90's. I didn't think about it then, but I've seen a few roadkill nostalgia threads since and now I wish I'd asked about it. I didn't realize it went near extinct.

 

[zamalito]

There used to be several hybrids called skunk from all over the u.s. Before the indoor craze and dutch genetics were available we used to get georgia skunk, oklahoma skunk, virginia skunk, south carolina, kentucky skunk, donkey dick etc. All of them were outdoor strains and most grew large. As dutch genes became more common they disappeared. Its as simple as that. I don't believe sk 1 was ever really that stinky. Cheese isn't an rks in my opinion. Most of the rks's were afghan dominant but the the donkey dick, Virginia and South carolina skunks were all very similar. Very fluffy with narrow bud leaves and large calyxes. I believe them to be a southeast asian afghan cross because of the monotone colored hairless long bracted flowers. Though I know of some highland cali skunks interestingly the sativa dom rks's were all very humid lowland varieties. In my first indoor grows before I had access to dutch genetics I grew seeds from the oklahoma skunk and donkey dick (not the west coast seeds strain) the smell wasn't the same. Though it was an excellent outdoor strain the sativa dom donkey dick was terrible quality indoors but the indica dominant oklahoma skunk did quite well and kept it going for some time however it was more of a piney smell indoors. I believe I may no a couple people who have seeds of either the South Carolina or Virginia Skunks and I'm in the process of tracking them down. What happened was the growers saw that people were getting twice as much for sweeter more sticky and indoor stuff so they quit the skunks and went for the money. I'm sure roadkill skunk seeds are still around. If people kept panama red santa marta gold and acapulco gold seeds from the late 70's then there's no doubt that people kept rks seeds from the late 80's. Especially considering rks was a domestic product so people knew it was possible to grow the rks plants making it much more logical to keep the seeds.

 

[Elevator Man]

Well...I should emphasis that my pheno 'A' Skunk #1, which is pictured in my Seedsman Skunk thread smells nothing like the other two, and now looks very little like them either. It's getting taller, is still very green-looking, and the pistil growth is insane. It's at least ten days behind the other one I chopped today. The smell is much sharper, greasier, more astringent, and is way more in the pine/disinfectant/floor polish end of the spectrum than fruity or sweet. Maybe this is the one?

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...

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Yeah, when I got ahold of some Skunk #1 indoor, I shared some with my dad who was a minor grower and major smoker in Northern Cali during the time Skunk was popular. He said it was very good and reminded him of the original Skunk, but still did not seem as strong.

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Skunk al started in Californias San Francisco bay area, and spread in all directions from there.

 

[redrider]

I think what had was the Georgia skunk cause it was an outdoor grown Indica with a very loud "skunk" smell and a hashish taste.

 

[zamalito]

I disagree nackcountry. Though I was inexperience at the time I've grown several roadkill skunks from different areas there were some very different hybrids from different regions. I don't think there was one skunk strain that fathered the rest other than the first pure afghani seeds.

 

[redrider]

Old GA Skunk

Old GA Skunk

Here's some bad pics, it had a VERY strong skunky oder and a most narcotic high/stone.





Peace from Colombia