What is Skunk?

[GoodbyeBlueSky]

exactly...i mean sour strains have sour names, fruity strains have fruity names,ect.... so where exactly does a sweet fruity strain have the name skunk fit into this equation?

because it smells strongly PERIOD... Sam Skunkman coined the phrase 'skunk'...

i'm not saying that it didn't used to have a wider range of flavors and smells, but obviously Sam worked it into what he wanted it to be... and that's a plant with a different flavor/smell than what you are describing.

 

[Guest423]

lol strongly like what? not skunk...PERIOD

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

 

[Guest]

lol strongly like what? not skunk...PERIOD

Strongly like an animals ass...?

Of all the long time growers on this wonderful site - didn't anyone stash any seeds away for the future!?

 

[Guest423]

How can you really know for sure what something smelled like 20 years ago?

The skunk from my day was mexi-dirt-brick weed or local homegrown from seeds of said mexi-dirt-brick weed. The potency wasn't even close to today's standards. Shit I wish I had kept some of those seeds, just to grow it out and pass it around.

So - is it really RKS? or NOSTALGIA?

lol there's no mistaken what it smelled like...it smelled just like you hit a skunk plain and simple.

no one would of wanted the "skunk" your talking about....who can't get mexican shwag?

if you put rks and mexi dirt brick in the same sentence you don't know what your talking about.

 

[Babbabud]

A skunk still smells like a skunk ?? not sure what your talkin about .

 

[Guest]

lol there's no mistaken what it smelled like...it smelled just like you hit a skunk plain and simple.

no one would of wanted the "skunk" your talking about....who can't get mexican shwag?

if you put rks and mexi dirt brick in the same sentence you don't know what your talking about.

If I didn't know a little sumpin sumpin I wouldn't post bro.

Someone dig out those seeds you been saving for a rainy day, ones you've held onto like gold for years. Grow them out, post pics, send cured samples to someone "in the know", let us know what you find.

Cause honestly - I've had fuckloads of people ask me for the skunk... and I can't deliver.

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: if today's stoners could get ahold of some road-kill skunk, some old-school Thai, and some Columbian Gold, (late-70s/early-80s) all of this Dutch-based crap weed we see in the clubs would never be grown or smoked again. Even the supposed Diesels and OG Kush doesn't compare, and I've smoked them all.

I don't care if I sound like an old fart. The weed really was way better 25 years ago.

There's nothing wrong with what grew out of the Skunk. Remember that Holland is a very small country, so it's just natural that things get a little bit inbred. If only you knew how great it is for us northern Europeans to have them as neighbors. I drive over there in three and a half hours, it's like having a little Mexico next doors. They have a great Cannabis culture, all the best to them! The US also have a great Cannabis culture, amazing if thinking about how supressed it is.
To all those who say that pot was better in the 70's (some say music, and perhaps it was), we can't help that things change and we're going towards stronger pot through selective breeding. It may be better or not, but the majority wants it. If the old school strain were that great, then they should stand the test against the Skunk hybrids.
In another 20 years, will there be old farts hanging in the 40+ forum reminiscing the golden age of Sour Diesel, and nag about the modern 40% THC stuff schoolkids are snorting up their nose?

 

[Mibri]

Wow, i sure got me some answers to that question. The Skunk strain was exactly what i thought, making all of my friends wrong. They all go; "wow, you're growing Skunk"! And i try to tell them that im really not, cause it's Jack Herer and White Widow, but they insist that when it's this strong and grown inside it's just Skunk, hehe. Well, let them think what they want. They don't have the interest for the varieties, they just wanna get high from something strong - skunk and i'll just bring it. Well continue your nice and entertaining discussion, i'll sit back and watch and learn. Goodspeed to y'all.

 

[Guest]

Ive seen and smoked alot of different herbs but I only have had true skunk weed once. This was the only herb I had that smelled exactly like a skunk. I had it in 2 ziplocks inside a paper bag inside my backpack and little kids and moms would still smell it when I was near and say something like "ewww skunk". I live in LA cali and we get herb that smells potent fruity, sour(like diesel),pine and like kush but never any straight skunk weed. I guess kush is just more popluar in southern cali.

 

[GOATNUTS]

also if looking for that roadkill smell i grew out a pack of nirvana's kush and got 2 that smelled exactly like dead skunk after cure. stunk our car up and it was in a purse inside the center console. really dank too...

 

[Guest]

Sam Skunkman coined the phrase 'skunk'..

Definately not.

'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.

Skunk '1 was developed by Sam post 1970. The first stabillised Indica Sativa hybrid.

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..

All the best, Flowers

 

[Guest]

also if looking for that roadkill smell i grew out a pack of nirvana's kush and got 2 that smelled exactly like dead skunk after cure. stunk our car up and it was in a purse inside the center console. really dank too...

which kush?

 

[Elevator Man]

Heheh...hold tight, here we go...

 

[camelstraights]

this thread exploded!

I got some of this roadkill skunky stuff about 5 years ago. It was from a so-called "medical user" in seattle that got his stuff from "gangsters", not the clubs. I think it's great that the peeps in the ghettos who are constantly abusing crack and heroin are the growers who are keeping this stuff alive. Never seen it before or since in arizona, nevada, oregon, washington, or Vancouver BC.

 

[Raco]

A Skunk??
Cannabis mephitica L.(ol)

 

[Reign of Terror]

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.

preach t2u! sam needs to come in here and explain that

he said he would release it.

but where is it?

and that was sometime ago when he said that.

i mean you can feel the buildup and need for old school genetics now.

i believe sam is sorta doing his own thing ya know, but we need that roadkill, you dont even know

"Skunky Skunk VS Sweet Skunk : The old-school extremly skunky skunk#1 (hence the name) was that way when the skunkman created it in the U.S of A before the mid-80's. With further in-breeding, the skunk genepool goes down the sweet side of thing. The skunky smell is a trait from the afghani used in the breeding process. While choosing the more sativa-leaning skunk, it becamed sweet. This is the skunk we know today, sometime referred to "Dutch Skunk". The Skunkman already confirmed on OverGrow while ago that the skunky skunk was just a bit more potent, but much more "couch-lock". However, for the old-timer that still want that old-school taste, there are a few alternatives:" -taken from tag-monk's the pure thread

if sams the orignial breeder which isnt the question...he could atleast do a backcross of the affy pheno, because of course he still has orignial stock

 

[Raco]

Sam said that in the beginning there were Skunk#1 and Skunk #2....being the #2 the "skunky" one.

 

[Mibri]

A Skunk??
Cannabis mephitica L.(ol)

What? Mephitica

 

[Raco]

Sulphur smell

 

[GOATNUTS]

which kush?

hindu