STINK or BUST

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Haha yeahh :sunglasses:

I was going to do a write up on each strains, at least for others who grow or will grow what I grew, then I remembered how much of a waste of time this was.

The more I read the more I think people have no idea what stink means… :confused:

It’s all hype, all subjective. I’ll continue to work my 93 skunk in private and forget about this shit.

And I wish you all the best with your rks, truly, may your carbon filters burst in flames and your dog stay 100ft away whining and scared of what’s behind that door :pray:

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Ya my Road kill squirrel is the real deal!

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Lmaoo :laughing:

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Its strange hoodoo grown by the other grower has the stink. Not sure what went wrong as I have grown both and gotten pretty good results. Sorry they were not what you were expecting. Good luck with the hunt.

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Thanks man, maybe it was the smaller pool and some bad luck hah. 3 out of 4 females hermied and the one I was left with had no stink, just generic sweet…

I do hear cptcannabis absolutely loves his squat pheno, I had none of those unfortunately. They were beautiful plants nonetheless… I just did not get what I had hoped for. Still have plenty to hunt throught, that Monson cross may be next on my list.

And Disgust-O does flower super fast, I’ll give you that haha. Mine finished with a burned sugar orange tobacco smell, again nice plants just nothing with the stank.

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Roger that good luck with the hunt. Hope you find the good stuff

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Sorry to hear that was hoping you’d stumble on a rks pheno.

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Sorry you did all that hard work for nothing.
I have to ask if they were not skunky at all? Or just not skunky enough due to the fruit flavor.
The reason that I’m asking is because my skunk is a rainbow of fruit and is very sweet. Does it not count as a rks even though it reeks of dead skunk?

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Well I wouldn’t say for nothing, Disgust-O is worthy of keeping around to breed and I f2’d those. Cheese 3 and 4 were nasty, which I also 1:1 inbred.

None were skunky but I wasn’t looking for rks specifically (or at all) in this thread, only stinkers.

When it comes to rks, I’m of the opinion that to be rks it can’t have anything but skunk for a smell. Also cant be sweet (generic).

Then comes sweet skunk or fruity skunk, here anything goes. All kinds of fruits, honey, generic sweet, undertones of this, overtones of that. Has to have the skunk tho, not just the name! lol

Then we have what I call, the please elbow drop a skunk next time you see one category. Here we have - and I’m sure I’m missing a ton - what people describe skunk as, but has nothing to do with skunk. Carcass, ROT, meat, oil, oilrag, piss, death, ammonia, metal, shit, vomit, gas, rubber, yeast, cheese, mothballs, garbage, dog breath, hotdog water, pine, glue, etc

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Thanks for the explanation.

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Well I’m glad you at least got some cheese smell outta those! I love them and am planting some for my summer Skunk the Neighborhood grow, just because they did smell so cheesy. Even after the cure, they have a great funk to them!

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Great read brother and the landrace ghani lines are the passage way to rks in my opinion…fair few established breeders trying now to go back in lineage as far as they can in todays market and there’s some promising findings surfacing…of late…it seems like breeders have finally switched the light on…gathering the oil combination to replicate rks in that form from 30 yrs ago I saw would be a blessing…but it’s the ghani landrace stock that holds the key

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Thank you brother.
I haven’t ran many landraces, but in my skunk line the stinkers are squat and greasy which lends credence to the ghani theory.

If I was to start from scratch I wouldn’t know where to start… I grew a bunch of allegedly skunk/y lines and all were laughable…

So I went my own way

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and sometimes your own way can be visionary…I’ve seen gooeybreeder recently procure some stock via norstar in landrace form and expression and he found a killer bugglegum pheno that’s he’s quite excited on…its old stock…has history and I believe the bugglegum popsicle pheno he found in that stock is of the same flagship breeding line in bogs faithful work from yrs ago…if I was betting man I’d plant a theory of a northern lights(90s stock) derivitive crossed to this pokey male afghan might find some very interesting combinations…nl is the cross used in many good skunks and it sprung the cheese yrs ago…nothing rks but certainly bordering some close parallels…its a combination of something landrace ghani…its just unlocking the combination and having a breeder really study and research older breeders maybe with this older stock, to drive forward and try something…its hidden in plain sight but it needs forethought and highly competent breeding research…you seem to love that strain here at og…and sampling its beauty in the mid to late 90s it was a weed I would run to my dealer every day for…sat in loads of gardens all over South London…the giggle shit we used to call it…and I can fully understand why growing army’s of the old crew are pining for it…a very marketable product for many good ppl…I hope you have every success on your endeavours young man…you seem very passionate in what you believe in and if you have a vision you can make a difference .bless you

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I too am looking out for anything rankity stank.
Sick of Fruits and Berries n Flowers, unless one would turn really sour😉.
Some nasty skunk is what I’d love to run into. RKS is bucket list. Lemon skunk would be the exception to the fruits. Have never smelled bud that made me think of anything dead or rotting sadface.

Gonna watch if the quest continues and wish you luck. :+1:

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Really interesting about the bubblegum pheno from a landrace. I recently read someone had found something close to og kush from a landrace pheno hunt. Some of these lines still have great diversity so I guess it’s a numbers game before someone finds something spectacular, or you know… luck :slightly_smiling_face:

Skunk is a strange case… it must require multiple things to come together for it to express. My latest theory is even rks has some sweet/sugar in it but is metabolized or reduced along the way by some process taking place. I read the skunk smell can be lost in as little as 2 generations. I surmise the thing converting sugar is hard to lock down so all we are left with is sweet skunk…

I truly enjoy reading through journals of the few that are looking for skunk. Makes for some interesting discussions and theories.

I’m still working my 93 skunk line, rks do pop up at about 5% but then other traits have to come together too. The cut I kept and bred with, is the skunk but it was too capricious, and had a tendency to pass on hermie traits to progeny.
I’ll open pollinate all the original stock I have left and get back to hunting.

Thank you for the kind words :pray:

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Fruits can be nice too, but hey, a good sour, skunk or rank is just special :slightly_smiling_face:

The lemon skunk from dirty water organics had zero skunk in it, lots of lemon with a hint of sour.
What it had though is incredibly vigorous roots, great structure, good smoke. All around tough plants.

That line is worth looking into for breeder stock.

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Gorilla growers were using steer manure and cow manure and all kinds of manures in their holes back in the day plenty of software whatever volatile sulfur compound you’re talking about in manure

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You are speaking my language mon ami.

Edit: dead thread

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