How is the smoke?
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All pics are fresh harvest mostly packed with seeds.
Prob won’t be smokable for a week. And will be a shadow of true sensi in taste and effect
The smoke was great in peru. Basically a great sativa buzz minus the pungency and sour Citrus of the rks from the 90s. Wich easily could have been related to mass production and processing methods down there
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It’s not terribly potent but a nice even high. Taste is good and reflects the smell. The strong and pungent skunk smells fade away quickly unfortunately but maybe that’s just the nature of the beast.
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Here is some skunk from the 70s.
Came from Cali but could have been made in Mexico or new mexico…
Who knows? Maybe skunk-scam Sam Genetic make up is true?
It 100% has mexican and or “thai” and hashplant. Would love to have a plant dna tracker
This is def on par with loud skunk / road-kill and will be graduating
Ammonia. Burnt rubber. Sulphur. Sour Citrus
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Here is a pnw hasplant rumored to be started from nevils catalog 1988…it’s either the pure, the g13 cross or the nl1 cross. I was gifted the clone from old timers from the sunshine coast who finally coughed it up
Looks and smells like a pre soviet Mazar or hybrid of it.
Another graduated specimen. Would have been called skunk weed in the 70s, 80s, 90s
She is already in reveg
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Gotta love all that beautiful resin! Awesome
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When you do succeed at making a modern RKS I will gladly bye a pack from you. Keep up the good work!
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I dont know if it was the same as what Nevil had, but it was 6 years before Nevil started selling seeds, that my buddy obtained, the skunk.
Skunk was everywhere in bc 1974/1975. I think it really broke out as a clone only when indoor growing got going in 1980
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Well. Basically. Becuase the Peruvian is a isolated and non worked feral colombian landrace.
2 plants finished really fast. Looked a smelled pretty similar to modern sk1. Just more sour and pungent
2 plants look identical but 1 is hazey and the other is like pure acapulco gold or Mexican. Longest to finish
The 2 weak hermies were like straight road-kill (of course)
And this gem ripened fast (medium finisher) its straight rks (ammonia, burnt rubber, sulpher, cat piss) but with like a dash of og “sour”. It turned purple too but could be due to the weather.
What a gene pool to play with. I can’t wait to see what the offspring with the Roadkill ghani have in store
Breeding outside has its benefits. But would be nicer to have the space to continue inside
This season thankfully has also yielded some great graduating students.
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I figured you would be the one to ask. Are Pink Kush and King the same strain?
Hey man. I started growing in 1992.
Based on a direct quote from referman: king came from lightly seeded flower to Vancouver Island between 74-78. I renamed king “pink kush” (red and white?) In 2003. Named after king crew from nanaimo / Alberta. Was their “hashplant” hydro bucket strain.
This is a 4 paragraph quote reduced.
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After 20 days veg I now have RKS smell that irritates the eyes in deep line alchemy 16. I tried to just pick out skunk but it is definitely the RKS type smell. 2 carbon filters needed 2-3 weeks in.
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I’ve been meaning to share that skunk 18 is def 110% an old skunk plant.
It’s not rks. That I found. But def skunk in there. In the skunkiest plant I grew we could say “stunted” skunk , but not hidden.
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That is very exciting!
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Do you believe it was intentionally bred out? I believe the odor gradually left because the aroma is very hard to retain is very recessive,doesn’t pass easily,and dilutes quickly . Where it originated ,the odor must havebeen beneficial for the plants and maybe if grown out of it’s origin it doesn’t need it ,adapts without it or replaces it,gets filtered over time ,and comes out now and then but not as pungent. I would assume unless it’s extinct if you wanted roadkill it’s still growing wild somewhere and with proper connections you could find it and if you did whether it breeds true for aroma is another matter.I don’t think Sam bred it out of the plants from Afghanistan or where it lives.The odor and effects sold it so it doesn’t make sense that it was intentionally bred out to end up with inferior plants,surely all people didn’t toss all the seeds out too in fear of the smell and not too many people would worry about serious time for seeds. Also in 1997 cannabis became legal for med so any scripts could grow it without concern.
The answer is mutli tiered
1 - seed stock changed and became more available
2 - people bred or switched to shorter outdoor strains
3 - a generation or 2 of growers went to jail due to odor and switched to northern lights or bc big bud etc
4 - millions or people ordered “skunk” seeds and got scammed by the low odor dutch seeds
5 - alot of people didn’t breed and grew for profit and relied on clone suppliers to get their strains.
6 - import seeds from bricks changed. Bagseed cross pollinated or were “better”
7 - seeds to smokers were dispised and never really kept
I’m sure there are more too.
I have heard the pungent rks smell is recessive. By a few old guys.
This is why I am choosing to start from landrace genes and the most skunky clones onlies I can find which most likely are pre soviet hashplants or close to their ancestors
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that number 7 hit hardest for me on that list, i remember back in the mid 80’s getting the SKUNK BUD and sitting in the back breaking buds down and just throwing the seeds on the ground. if i could go back in time i would save every single skunk seed i put my riesinish fingers on. and man full 1/4 $25.00 cant not remember how many week ends me and our group scrambled around trying to come up with 25 bucks before friday night.
man those were good times poor but very good …
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Werd brotha man
I feel ya
Was it season batches ie: outdoor / fall time?
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Lately, I’ve been pondering if laissez-faire curing actually kept the smell longer.
Perhaps something about field drying and packaging, or just quick flipping into tightly packed bags/bricks made the Thyol stain the bud in a sense…
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