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How did Skunk the strain get its name?
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This is the ONLY reason they don't grow it here as far as I know...
This is the ONLY reason they don't grow it here as far as I know...
Canadian police mistake skunk for a marijuana grow-op
» by Bill in: Canada
Oliver MacQuat is raising a stink about it too.
A rural Gatineau, Que., family is angry at police who raided their home armed with loaded guns looking for a marijuana grow-op, which turned out to only be a skunk that lived on their property.
Auto mechanic Oliver MacQuat was home alone just before 8 p.m. Thursday when he saw flashing lights outside.
He thought a small water-bottling plant next door was being robbed, but then he heard a knock at his door.
The father of two was met by Gatineau officers who declared they had a warrant to search his home and arrest him.
“I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” said MacQuat, who was handcuffed and seated on a stool while officers searched his home.
“That scared the living daylights out of me. They were very respectful, but it’s very humiliating to be wearing handcuffs and to have people going through your house.”
He was told the skunk smell — which is noticeable when driving by — was also similar to that of a grow-op.
MacQuat insisted the skunk thought it was spring after the unusually mild winter weather but police were adamant it wasn’t a skunk.- Toronto Sun
MacQuat has every right to be angry. He and his wife’s life were put in danger by overreaching police. Don’t law enforcement need more than a smell for probable cause?
Hat tip- The Agitator
This is the ONLY reason they don't grow it here as far as I know...
Canadian police mistake skunk for a marijuana grow-op
» by Bill in: Canada
Oliver MacQuat is raising a stink about it too.
A rural Gatineau, Que., family is angry at police who raided their home armed with loaded guns looking for a marijuana grow-op, which turned out to only be a skunk that lived on their property.
Auto mechanic Oliver MacQuat was home alone just before 8 p.m. Thursday when he saw flashing lights outside.
He thought a small water-bottling plant next door was being robbed, but then he heard a knock at his door.
The father of two was met by Gatineau officers who declared they had a warrant to search his home and arrest him.
“I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” said MacQuat, who was handcuffed and seated on a stool while officers searched his home.
“That scared the living daylights out of me. They were very respectful, but it’s very humiliating to be wearing handcuffs and to have people going through your house.”
He was told the skunk smell — which is noticeable when driving by — was also similar to that of a grow-op.
MacQuat insisted the skunk thought it was spring after the unusually mild winter weather but police were adamant it wasn’t a skunk.- Toronto Sun
MacQuat has every right to be angry. He and his wife’s life were put in danger by overreaching police. Don’t law enforcement need more than a smell for probable cause?
Hat tip- The Agitator
Got that skunk pinine terpene right HERE boy's!!!
Got that skunk pinine terpene right HERE boy's!!!
Breeding now........
peacen HEY,i can find that roadkill in my F3's alright too!!
skunk#1 F3's will show you some HUGE varities to choose from,sensi skunk#1
Lg
Got that skunk pinine terpene right HERE boy's!!!
Very good CHIM,ive got her baby,pine delite!!!
Breeding now........
peacen HEY,i can find that roadkill in my F3's alright too!!
skunk#1 F3's will show you some HUGE varities to choose from,sensi skunk#1
Lg
^ So skunk smell is synonymous with weed, but weed that actually smell like a skunk is rarer than bigfoot.
around here we have a lot of these, in our wetlands 
Lysichiton americanus, also called western skunk cabbage (USA), yellow skunk cabbage (UK),[1] or swamp lantern, is a plant found in swamps and wet woods, along streams and in other wet areas of the Pacific Northwest, where it is one of the few native species in the arum family. The plant is called skunk cabbage because of the distinctive "skunky" odor that it emits when it blooms. This odor will permeate the area where the plant grows, and can be detected even in old, dried specimens. The distinctive odor attracts its pollinators, scavenging flies and beetles. Although similarly named and with a similar smell, the plant is easy to distinguish from the Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), another species in the arum family found in eastern North America.
Lysichiton americanus, also called western skunk cabbage (USA), yellow skunk cabbage (UK),[1] or swamp lantern, is a plant found in swamps and wet woods, along streams and in other wet areas of the Pacific Northwest, where it is one of the few native species in the arum family. The plant is called skunk cabbage because of the distinctive "skunky" odor that it emits when it blooms. This odor will permeate the area where the plant grows, and can be detected even in old, dried specimens. The distinctive odor attracts its pollinators, scavenging flies and beetles. Although similarly named and with a similar smell, the plant is easy to distinguish from the Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), another species in the arum family found in eastern North America.
^ So skunk smell is synonymous with weed, but weed that actually smell like a skunk is rarer than bigfoot.
Dunno about that rarity. There is a medical warehouse grow op very near my old place of employment growing some very skunky stuff, so much so that the neighborhood occasionally reeks of it. They've been there for years. It seems to be the kind of op where they only vent occasionally, not continuously.
Reeks, for real. At times, it damned near makes your eyes water driving by & is often mistaken for a real skunk.
Dunno what strain it is or who the actual growers are, and it's not like I'm gonna just knock on the door to find out.
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i find it quite telling that when people talk about the great strains they describe the effects,the emotions the experience...
when they talk about skunk they describe the smell.and.well.nothing.....
cos thats all it had wasn't it?shit stinks so it must be good...fuck that...
haze all the way!!!!!
when they talk about skunk they describe the smell.and.well.nothing.....
cos thats all it had wasn't it?shit stinks so it must be good...fuck that...
haze all the way!!!!!
^ So skunk smell is synonymous with weed, but weed that actually smell like a skunk is rarer than bigfoot.
Every person I know that has had this still wishes they had it if it wasn't for the huge smell things would be different I am assuming. This was and still is one of my fav strains of all time. Always "big ups" to Sam for this baby...Stay frosty headband 707
if your growing any strong Indica types ie; Chems, Kush, Hashplant, etc and don't have proper air scrubbing, your vented hot air will smell "skunky". if you are running something like a C99, vented air will smell sweet and/or fruity
I have yet to see anything that would stop the stink of Train Wreck here in BC .. Which is why most ppl stopped growing it. Stay frosty headband 707
This ^^^
The original cheese clone has no sweetness to it and is all out dangerous stinky musky pcp anise brick wall penetrating funk.
Big buddha made it sweet but the original (what brightside had) is what I imagine RKS to be.
Peace
Cheese is the closest, I've had in a while. The dude at the Cannabis Museum in Amsterdam had the exact skunk I was looking for and he said that one of the guys from the cannabis college grew it at home. It was a free tester smoke with museum ticket, He wouldn't sell us any and the dudes at the college weren't helpful when acquiring new genetics.
So I'll keep trying and testing. Sam told us you need to look for a RKS male. I've thought about this and I guess I'll be reversing a few males to test there flavour. This way I can find the Skunkiest male.
Sam have you ever thought about letting another reputable seed provider, use your genetics for a fee. I think Rare Dankness does something like this now. This way you could provide people with the thing they want, stop getting asked questions about it, not have to worry about the work as much and still retain the genetics yourself as yours and make money from it. I can't see a bad thing anywhere with that. If you were worried about them using your name somehow, just don't let them.
Hey I'm not bagging you. If you have it, it is yours to do what you would with it. I would love for you to allow me to have these genetics the easy way. If you don't I will find it myself anyway. Just seems like it would be great to have it now. Reading this and knowing you have it makes me more envious.
One person can dream I guess. Seems like I'm one of many though.
I know if I had it, and could I'd let everyone have it. This is just me though. I really don't care for fame , money or rep. When and if I find it, I'll help all you poor bastards like me who want it.
I'm not directing this solely at you skunkman but every one who has a real, road kill, ol skool skunk. I find it a little greedy you don't share. Imagine if cannabis was like that when you started, you wouldn't have even got seeds to start off with. Seems a shame to me, oh well, guess I'll deal with the world I've got.
copping it in 321!
P.S. I'm a devotee because I loved it.
So I'll keep trying and testing. Sam told us you need to look for a RKS male. I've thought about this and I guess I'll be reversing a few males to test there flavour. This way I can find the Skunkiest male.
Sam have you ever thought about letting another reputable seed provider, use your genetics for a fee. I think Rare Dankness does something like this now. This way you could provide people with the thing they want, stop getting asked questions about it, not have to worry about the work as much and still retain the genetics yourself as yours and make money from it. I can't see a bad thing anywhere with that. If you were worried about them using your name somehow, just don't let them.
Hey I'm not bagging you. If you have it, it is yours to do what you would with it. I would love for you to allow me to have these genetics the easy way. If you don't I will find it myself anyway. Just seems like it would be great to have it now. Reading this and knowing you have it makes me more envious.
One person can dream I guess. Seems like I'm one of many though.
I know if I had it, and could I'd let everyone have it. This is just me though. I really don't care for fame , money or rep. When and if I find it, I'll help all you poor bastards like me who want it.
I'm not directing this solely at you skunkman but every one who has a real, road kill, ol skool skunk. I find it a little greedy you don't share. Imagine if cannabis was like that when you started, you wouldn't have even got seeds to start off with. Seems a shame to me, oh well, guess I'll deal with the world I've got.
copping it in 321!
P.S. I'm a devotee because I loved it.
I have my doubts the skunky weed known as roadkill skunk was actually skunk the strain.
It just doesn't make sense, in all of the old seed catalogs skunk is always referred to as a sweet strain. Also in all of the years I have spent reading internet weed forums never once have I seen anyone say they have or had a skunk stinking plant that came from the skunk strain.
Also, if sweet skunk was spawned from original skunk wouldn't there be a chance of dead skunk pheno's popping up from time to time with the thousands of skunk #1 that have been grown.
Skunk is a great strain, and a true building block, I just don't buy the old fable of roadkill skunk coming from skunk #1.
Sam said it was not of interest to him because he didn't like the high, I don't think people care about the high so much as the terpene profile.
It's the stink people don't forget.
Also it is hard to get everyone on the same page as to what roadkill skunk is, a skunk is an animal indigenous to north america, so anyone in europe or anywhere else has probably never smelled an actual skunk so they have nothing to base the opinion off of.
It just doesn't make sense, in all of the old seed catalogs skunk is always referred to as a sweet strain. Also in all of the years I have spent reading internet weed forums never once have I seen anyone say they have or had a skunk stinking plant that came from the skunk strain.
Also, if sweet skunk was spawned from original skunk wouldn't there be a chance of dead skunk pheno's popping up from time to time with the thousands of skunk #1 that have been grown.
Skunk is a great strain, and a true building block, I just don't buy the old fable of roadkill skunk coming from skunk #1.
Sam said it was not of interest to him because he didn't like the high, I don't think people care about the high so much as the terpene profile.
It's the stink people don't forget.
Also it is hard to get everyone on the same page as to what roadkill skunk is, a skunk is an animal indigenous to north america, so anyone in europe or anywhere else has probably never smelled an actual skunk so they have nothing to base the opinion off of.
IME skunk is one of the most common smells to come from weed. I grew from probably 79-90, and from 05-now. One of my main sources since 05 were pineapple C99 "F2"s and crosses from those. There are (TOOO) MANY skunk expressions in these. lol
I say buy something with skunk in the makeup (try a heavy yeilder, they have "skunk") and F2 it. Then stop your bitching about how it doesn't exist and start to wonder how the fuck they bred it out?!?! LOL
I say buy something with skunk in the makeup (try a heavy yeilder, they have "skunk") and F2 it. Then stop your bitching about how it doesn't exist and start to wonder how the fuck they bred it out?!?! LOL
Yeah few things. I think the terpenes have a very big effect on high. If all this wide leaf and narrow leaf is correct or the study that dude is doing about the subspecies being all the same, then the only thing that is different in weed is the terpenes and the cbd amount. So you got things we thought got you high were sativas, but now they are indicas. Well they produce a different high/stoned then what we knew as indicas. Why? if they are all the same the THC would be the same or act the same as a chemical is a chemical. So it has to be other things? Terepenes I think effect the high more then we all think.
These terpenes and the high it gave was not what Sam liked so he went for other terpenes which gave a clearer high.
What we need to know is what terpene produces the skunk smell or combination. That's why I think looking at Afghan and Cheese Terpene Profiles will help us.
Also where do I find the best Afghan, Acapulco Gold and Columbian seeds from? If this is all I need. Which to me seems like I'm now looking for three more elusive strains as One do they exist anymore? and Two I never got to try these strains as such so how do I know what I'm looking for? I tried the skunk I know that.
These terpenes and the high it gave was not what Sam liked so he went for other terpenes which gave a clearer high.
What we need to know is what terpene produces the skunk smell or combination. That's why I think looking at Afghan and Cheese Terpene Profiles will help us.
Also where do I find the best Afghan, Acapulco Gold and Columbian seeds from? If this is all I need. Which to me seems like I'm now looking for three more elusive strains as One do they exist anymore? and Two I never got to try these strains as such so how do I know what I'm looking for? I tried the skunk I know that.
That easy hey?
Luck of the draw was surely involved but, yes.
The real true is:
Sam was really fond of chilli & carne and he used to have it really strong; afterwards he was always farting so they nicknamed him
" The Skunkman".
And as he was breeding this strain and was quite stinky too was named Skunk#1 ( the number one ).
At least this is what I was told by an Oldtimer highly regarded by the community, I was not there ,but who knows!!!!!
PD: It is not my fault, blame the evil weed.
Sam was really fond of chilli & carne and he used to have it really strong; afterwards he was always farting so they nicknamed him
" The Skunkman".
And as he was breeding this strain and was quite stinky too was named Skunk#1 ( the number one ).
At least this is what I was told by an Oldtimer highly regarded by the community, I was not there ,but who knows!!!!!
PD: It is not my fault, blame the evil weed.
I've been smoking for 38 years, and growing for almost as long. I've smoked some really awesome weed during this time frame, and have seen and experienced a lot of trends and "flavor of the week" strains.
Not only that, but I'm a country boy, know the smell of a Skunk intimately, as well as experienced my share of Road Kill and Dead and Rotting Skunks (the animal, not the strain)
I have also experienced many iterations of Skunk (the strain)
I'm one of those people that can't stand Cilantro. I have that Genetic quirk that makes Cilantro taste like Soap. Who would eat soap? Apparently, lots of people that don't perceive Cilantro to taste like soap.
Now to me, a Skunk smells EXACTLY like clear Silicone Sealer. I crack a tube of aquarium cement and I'm transported back to the country, sitting under the old oak in my grandmothers yard, smelling Skunk wafting on the breeze.
I've never, repeat NEVER had weed that smells like aquarium cement, and if I did, I sure as hell would not smoke it.
Now rotting meat is a smell I associate with some cannabis. The "Roadkill" part I understand, but the "Skunk" part I don't get. Skunk spray is vile. Why anyone would want that smell is beyond me.
The Skunk specimens that I recall most vividly all had some stinky rotten meat component that I most associate with Skunk the strain, but not the smell of Skunk spray.
Not only that, but I'm a country boy, know the smell of a Skunk intimately, as well as experienced my share of Road Kill and Dead and Rotting Skunks (the animal, not the strain)
I have also experienced many iterations of Skunk (the strain)
I'm one of those people that can't stand Cilantro. I have that Genetic quirk that makes Cilantro taste like Soap. Who would eat soap? Apparently, lots of people that don't perceive Cilantro to taste like soap.
Now to me, a Skunk smells EXACTLY like clear Silicone Sealer. I crack a tube of aquarium cement and I'm transported back to the country, sitting under the old oak in my grandmothers yard, smelling Skunk wafting on the breeze.
I've never, repeat NEVER had weed that smells like aquarium cement, and if I did, I sure as hell would not smoke it.
Now rotting meat is a smell I associate with some cannabis. The "Roadkill" part I understand, but the "Skunk" part I don't get. Skunk spray is vile. Why anyone would want that smell is beyond me.
The Skunk specimens that I recall most vividly all had some stinky rotten meat component that I most associate with Skunk the strain, but not the smell of Skunk spray.
