RIP Silverback:
I know that @Baudelaire has spent the last few years working on Bubblegum, I wonder if he has any knowledge to share about this strain and/or Silverback?
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Interesting story on the possible origins of Indiana Bubblegum. I had not heard of it before. The timelines and genetic inputs seem plausible from my experience with the '91 clone we used in FDM’s stabilized Bubblegum line.
It’s definitely a balanced indica/sativa hybrid, and the overall morphology, terp mix and head would support Mexican lineage on the sativa side. That would have a common breeding input in the early 70s, and a common strategy, i.e., “skunking” a long-season Latin American sativa with a short-season Afghani Indica to bulk-up yields and bring down maturation times. As this breeding strategy was first practiced by California growers in the Santa Cruz area, the Oakland angels connection ties it all in. It at least makes for a good origin story. I have no reason to doubt it, but that’s not the same as confirming it. A lot of this stuff is apocryphal.
The earliest references I’ve heard about the strain date to the late 70s, when it was fairly widely known and grown in the Midwest, especially Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio. It was guerrilla grown in the feed corn fields where it could mature before the feed corn, which was allowed to dry on the stalk before it was harvested.
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Been looking for this old outdoor strain. This was popular back in the early 90’s in the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana region. We couldn’t wait until harvest each year. It was definitely in the Big Bud Skunk family but unique to itself. There was another local cousin of this called Jack THE Ripper not to be confused with the more infamous Jack. That bud had beautiful yellow ribbons and would couch lock a dude. I still remember cops burning 20 acres of it in greene county in September 1993. Broke my heart
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An old drunk guy i work with always says hes got " the shit that killed Elvis" and its always some bunk lol. Hope you have better luck than him.
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Don’t be cruel
Lol
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I did a Pinkman Goo outdoors last summer.
Are they the same? Ive heard not. Ive got the Elvis if anyone has The Shit That Killed Elvis to compare that would be dope. I had Shit That Killed Elvis around 2000 in Flagstaff, and came from Cali. I remember huge frosty spears but dont remember terps.
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Maybe they are the same?!? @ogn3rd
And is it related to The Shit That Killed Berner? 
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berner died? 
Nah the cookies dude is still alive.
that would have been a suprise …
(as in: “the good die young”, lol 
)
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right, i thought the same thing when i heard it 
but its apparently strain name 
No idea what it is tho.
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PB& Banana.
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