I donât think this is gonna put anything to rest, even if every judge said âitâs not RKSâ it would just hype up the âwell itâs ultra rare duhâ crowd.
And if itâs like any other âcannabis cupâ then the judges will say what theyâre paid to say. BOLO for âRKSâ packs for sale from the âwinnerâ after this goes down haha.
I mean, everyone and their mom has an RKS story, which means it was once everywhere across USA for what seems like early 80âs to mid 2000âsâŚthatâs a LONG time. But now itâs impossible to find?
Folks like the story, even if itâs bunk, so itâll keep getting repeated even if thereâs no evidence for it and anyone on the sidelines can poke logical hole after logical hole in the narrative. Itâs entered the stoner mythos and stuff never leaves after that haha.
I donât know anything about this contest but, I do know a little about Midwest âskunk budâ.
In the late 80s, early 90s I was at lots of dead shows buying lots of killer bud. Lots of it. It was dank but none of it was like the âskunk budâ I grew up with. The bikers in the Midwest were growing the stuff that smelled like sweet skunk. Nothing dead, nothing rotten. It smelled exactly like fresh skunk spray on a hot mid-Illinois summer night. It was a super vibrant green with no red hairs, and yes, 1 gram would stink up an entire gymnasium. The taste was skunky but very pleasant with an energetic stone. It didnât give me couch lock like some of the the cali varieties at the time did. Outdoors it would grow to 7â tall and the smell traveled for a mile or more. You could not hide it. I tried.
Almost every amateur I know that had seeds or a clone got busted, including 2 very close friends.
The pros grew it in grain silos. The bikers I knew didnât even use scales. They sold it by the shoebox. Worked out to about $400 for a QP. I took lbs on dead tour and it was all the rage with my crew from 89-94. No matter how much I took, it was never enough. The only downside was if you got pulled over, you were getting busted.
I returned to the area in '97 and it had all but vanished. None of my old friends knew where to get it. Including the bikers. All they had was really nice looking BC bud that wouldnât get you high. Remember that stuff?
I went to BC in the summer of '97 and bought some Skunk #1 seeds from Marc Emery. It was nice bud but not the âskunk budâ I was looking for. My search was just getting started.
I swear I smelled it at Big Cypress FL on NYE 1999-2000. I was tripping, but I swear I smelled it but did not find it.
Over the last 20+ years, I have bought basically every black market, gray market, street, medical and recreational bud and seed with the word âskunkâ in it and none have been legit. Its all been a cash grab profiteering on my nostalgia
Thereâs the site. They have started to take entries. Iâm not sure if Iâll have mine done in time. Iâm hoping I will. But when ya gotta push past 90days itâs cutting it close with me
I wanted to put this together because just like they said the nyc haze was lost, we found it. I think the same can be achieved with the skunk. Iâm personally too young to have smoked skunk buds in the 80s but Iâd be interested to see some that actually smells like skunk spray cause I personally love that smell!! So weâll see what happens. Got a lot of cool vendors coming out and itâs gonna be a great time. Hope to see you all there whoever can make it!! Letâs see if any of these breeders really have skunk!! And as for the comment of judges being paid, thatâs definitely not the case. Itâs going to be just like piffcon. All the judges will get unlabeled jars and Iâm the only one who will know what strain is what. After I get the judges top 3 I will average them all and thatâs who the winner will be. I hope we find something or at least take a step forward in unlocking this magical skunk bud that so many people love!
