aparently breeder steve was posting somewhere recently about creating a strain that is sterile and the females only grow calyxes and no pistils… all bud, no hairs I guess.
If memory serves me right Chimera aka Ryan Lee of Canada is currently or has been working with the genetics of cannabis to add genetic markers for trackable, traceable cannabis in Canada.
Many top breeders including Karma Genetics are currently working with Klonetics of Canada… who are a bunch of fat cat gas and oil profiteers who have now turned thier eyes to Cannabis.
Thier plan is trackable, traceable clones and ready to flower plants for the Canadian market.
Once these groundwork is laid in Canada, trackable traceable cannabis will be all that is legal to grow in Canada for anyone. I absolutely see this coming in the next 5 years.
back to the skunk topic…
lets face it, most growers were growing for profit not just for thier heads. We aren;t talking true canna heads like most of us are these days, we are talking cash croppers and most with biker ties. So many grow ops were getting busted in the mid 80’s and it was all the bc skunk growers getting popped due to the stench that fill neighborhoods.
All these growers were not fine tuning nutrient regimes to coax out that skunk weed odor, they were fly by night cash croppers using mercury vapor lamps or whatever they could find that would grow plants indoors. HID tech was just developing for growers here and actual grow stores with indoor lights were unheard of back then. By the late 80’s the knowledged growers were starting to get a handle on HID lighting and grow stores began to slowly show up. The two I remember were John’s Plantland and California Hydroponics , both saw huge police and community pressures though they stayed the course.
Truthfully, Skunk was not on the radar when I started my growing journey in 89. I was mentored by patch members of the Outlaw biker club (sandy richards RIP) , and they were growing Afghani #1, Purple Indica, Hawaiin Indica and Sandy was the first person to receive the UBC Chemo clone outside the university. I was there that day.
Skunk was phased out as it was getting too many people busted and BC Bud was in huge demand in the USA. When I went out on my own in 95 , I grew the purple afghani and the chemo (sandy spelled it Kimo) and then due to working trim crews back then in HA affilliated grows, I received the biker hashplant, blueberry and NL5 which I grew till 05 when I had to shut down.
Skunk was so far off the scene by then that I would imagine “very few” held the cut anymore save for serious old heads. Skunk went underground as it was replaced with potent, tasty varieties that didn’t reek for 2 blocks vegging and whole neighborhoods at harvest time LOL
Those cash cropping skunk growers back then were not practicing some kind of special nutrient mixes, they were growing in sunshine 4 and feeding with Peters , Plant Prod or perhaps it was the Alaska fish emulsion and alaska morebloom. Not many other nutrient mixes were availlable off the shelf in the 80’s when skunk went underground.
just my thoughts