I’m not too versed in the freezing of cannabis seeds but I saw a member recently suggesting to freeze seeds you receive in the snailmail for a few days before popping to reinvigorate them
These skunks spent 28 years in a fridge that’s one hell of a long winter 
Ha! you looked it up?
reinvigorate
rē″ĭn-vĭg′ə-rāt″
Of course I did! I knew I was close, but it didn’t fit etymologically.
One of the great hidden benefit of OG is that I get to practice my English in secret and noone gives me a hard time for it 
Wait, what? English isn’t your first language?
I honestly would not have known. It is quite good.
Haha I’m French canadian, and thanks.
that’s the secret part, I’m working on my fluidity and vocabulary… I often look up words in an effort to be as clear and precise as I can when expressing concepts and ideas.
Sometimes writing a post can take a long time hahaha
That alone means you’re probably more cogent and coherent than most native speakers. 
I wouldn’t have known either. You did misspell etymologically, but most of my neighbors probably would too…
I’ve not put much effort in the experiments to be honest… so I’ll retry with more rigor as I don’t think the results will be representative of the merits of each method.
I did notice something though. The electrocuted seeds embryos seem to be much firmer and full of life than the others.
Everytime I try to germ these skunks, I first soak them 24h and then precrack the shells. Inevitably there would be a layer of water between the membrane and the embryo, it is not the case with the zapped beans. Those embryos fill all the space in the shell.
I am amazed.
Tomorrow I’ll start all the others strains.
Why not today? I somehow ran out of sandwich bags. Doh.
If anyone want a good guide on germing real old seeds watch this video.Tony doesn’t know it but I’m his biggest fan and I try to share all his knowledge.Boneyard Seeds excellent breeder Tony is. https://youtu.be/XmfKLtnnltc
Round one, poorly executed 
Out of 30 per
Aloe 1
Base 1
Electrocuted 2 + 4 with a tail 
Feels good to get normal germ rates
Cheese x (Cheese x UFS18) 8/8
Disgust-O 7/7
Colombian cheese 3/5
Sour lemon skunk 6/10
Hoodoo x sk18 8/13
showed tails.
I went ahead and planted them all in 3" pots, tagged and numbered them.
I’m waiting on that supergerm bottle and I’ll start a very serious round two of 1993 skunks.
I.Have.to.refresh.the.stock.
We have lift off.
Seeds on my skunk cut are almost ready, we should be good grow a few of these as well.
Im also planning to make S1’s of the cut 
I’m not happy with my soil game, so I started a soil crash course looking for ways to bring more funk and less sweet…
“Also bat guano for instance relly helps bring out that rks smell compered to alfalfa for n source. Bat guano high in p also works better then bone meal to bring out the rks smell”
"In my coco grows epsom has increased the mouth watering funk of plants that are a little funky to begin.
The sweet cherry stuff I flower is less sweet and more sour, a good thing.
Using epsom produced slightly more of the available terpenes without adding
anything not connected to the original genetics."
Suggestions are welcomed 
Not on this round, but at some point, it would be intriguing to do a side-by-side using the named amendments(alfalfa v. high N guano/bone meal v. high P guano/Epsom v. no epsom) using clones to see if there’s a perceptible difference. 
This will happen sooner than later 
The idea is without genetics for skunk terps, there’s no skunk. And if present, the wrong diet could mute the skunk terps to the point where that plant is discarded… proper nutrition is crucial to this search.
For now I’m looking for a cookie cutter soil mix known to increase the rks/funky smell
Then I’ll customize for each cut (because I’ll find more than one, oh that optimistic nature lol)
Found this quote in the same thread as the previous ones. Not sure I fully understand though 
"I am also running a side by side test useing my cotton candy strian .in a readilly avaible high calcium/silica soiless mix with low bicarbonate s and low k value against a high bicarbionate slow release with high calcium/silica soiless mix low in k aswell . i am assuming to find the slow release to out perfom the the readily aviable mix in the terping/rks department but time will tell .
Lots of interesting studys involving silica and its use by plants and expressions not being able to be expressed due to high k and low silica. I will see if i can find some of the articals/studies and post them up"
My money’s on RKS expression being tied to sulfur in some way… saw a few links on the forum but it’s slipped my mind on where to find them. Anyway, look up volatile organic sulfur compounds. This would explain why epsom salt and bat guano seem to help with the expression, since both contain sulfur in higher amounts than standard bag fertilizer. However, anything’s possible, and it won’t hurt anything to try higher silica and lower potassium for a run or two. 
I would have though gypsum would be one of the the ‘go to’ ingredients…
Cheers
G
ah ben tabarnak, sa va ben mon chum?
Hahaha bin kin! On est pas nombreux icitte! Bienvenue dans mon bordel
For clarity you need to understand that the genes determine which terpenes will be expressed, there is no way to get the plant to express terpenes that it does not have a synthase for, and sulfur is not what made RKS be RKS.
I never used sulfur ever…
-SamS
As much as he can be helpful at times, Sam will bring his secrets to his grave I’m afraid…
There’s at least 2 growers I tagged for further reading on the subject. They seem to have read a ton of papers and have been trying different soil mixes for years. Their threads are quite voluminous. But short of reading the papers myself I think these will bring me to speed the fastest
That’s very interesting.
I was just reading last night about how terps mix and my go to guy for anything skunk was suggesting to breed away from chems, cheese, grape and lemon smells…
That’s a good point, and I share that opinion.
There was talk about skunk being a double recessive, rare combo of genes or something that would not breed true…
But the skunkman and others mentioned it bred true for smell when inbred or selfed, so I’d imagine it being quite dominant in outcrosses too.
Thanks for sharing
