How did Skunk the strain get its name?

[Wu Wei]

If you read thru this thread the skunk #1 was diluted with sweet smells before it made it to Amsterdam.

The word "skunk" seems to have a different connotation in EU, over there it seems to be used as a slang term for good weed, not something that actually smells like a skunk.

The Cheese keeps being mentioned, and it may be stinky but its not a true skunk odour.

Hey bud, I have not read through the whole thread. I must be incorrect then but I have read in the past that the skunk smell from skunk #1 was diluted in holland because it was virtually impossible to grow back then because a lot of illegal growers were getting busted?

I am unsure about the whole EU but its been a long time since people would call all good weed skunk, its a term used to purchase like "got any weed"

I am very sure I know what skunk (cannabis) smells like! If you claim Cheese the original cut is not a true skunk smell then I am intrigued. So what it a true skunk to you?

Peace brother

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

I am very sure I know what skunk (cannabis) smells like! If you claim Cheese the original cut is not a true skunk smell then I am intrigued. So what it a true skunk to you?

Peace brother

Ok wu wei, pardon my frustration but we are not on the same page. What we know as skunk the strain, is not necessarily what is being discussed here.

Skunk the strain was converted to sweet smells before it made it to Amsterdam, google "sssc catalog" or "cultivators choice" from 1985 and look at the old catalog listings for skunk #1 and it says it is a sweet strain. If you'd read this thread, you'd see where sam said he changed the smells before it ever went to europe, so the EU never saw the roadkill skunk.

What is referred to as "roadkill skunk" is a strain or strains of unknown origin, perhaps it could be from the "skunk" line but no one really knows what it is, we are going off of a few rare occurrences of this type of strain.

The "RoadKill Skunk" in which Americans speak of is weed that smells just like the odor that comes out of the ass of this animal when it is hit by a car in the road.



if you never seen one, or smelled one then it is doubtful you know what it smells like, because nothing else on earth smells like it.

 

[Rinse]

I think as well that the most "fetid" afghani terpene profiles are the outcome of a long exposure to a extreme climate.

What about growing/breeding a Skunk population in some place of the States with a extreme climate that could resemble the arid/extreme climate of some áreas of Afghanistan?????

I was thinking places like Nevada,Arizona......would be a interesting experiment.

just a funny idea...

Look up "Madjag", he grew shit loads of skunk 1 and Afghan direct from Sam and RCC in the Arizona desert canyons in the 70's, amazing story and the weed destroyed everyone.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=230368

 

[Wu Wei]

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if you never seen one, or smelled one then it is doubtful you know what it smells like, because nothing else on earth smells like it.

Hey bud, sorry to cause you any frustration that is now what I want. I geus the story I heard was wrong then... No worries!

So would I be wrong in saying that the cheese cut is a rare pheno or geno of skunk #1 so it would hold mostly the skunk gene rather than whatever she was sweetened with?

I am unsure of what a dead skunk smells like but the original cheese cut is a indescribable pungent its a dirty filthy smell of death at your door... That is what I imagine a dead skunk smells like.

Peace brother

 

[pinkus]

While it's true that the skunk that went to europe was predominantly sweet, lots of people in the US and Canada were already growing skunk. There are MANY MANY people on the west coast (and others as well) that never had to resort to Holland for anything. I think this is a key point as to why some of us think it's rare and some think it's never gone away.

 

[rhinoman 1]

Look up "Madjag", he grew shit loads of skunk 1 and Afghan direct from Sam and RCC in the Arizona desert canyons in the 70's, amazing story and the weed destroyed everyone.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=230368

Hey Rinse, that's were the m39 came from.

 

[hush]

For those of you outside of North America who might wish to know what an actual skunk (the animal) smells like... just bring your cat to the vet and ask them to "express" its anal glands. The smell that comes from a cat's anal glands is VERY similar to the actual skunk's anal gland smell.

That smell is NOTHING at all like the sweet smell that is associated with the strains called "Skunk" in common parlance.

 

[harry74]

The animal that you see around here Roadkilled is the hedgehog.

I have hear about drivers crashing against Wild boards too.

 

[Elmer Bud]

G`day Hush

About to call the vet and make an appointment .
Not sure how El Gato will like it . But its all in the name of research eh ?

Thanks for sharin

EB .

 

[bluntmassa]

Wrong,
I do have 20+ year old clones and a few seeds, but I don't need to make a killing, I am well off, and don't waste my time on efforts I have no interest in anymore.
Listen to people like Tropical Rain if you like, but he is just blowing smoke in this case.....
-SamS

Well if your well off why not hook a fellow American brother up.

 

[DIDM]

I throw things away that I don't waste my time on anymore, so unless you are a hoarder I'm not sure why you would hold onto something for 20+ years that you have no interest in

yes there may be "some skunk" in a lot of strains these days, BUT, it is VERY hard to find ANYTHING that resembles a dead skunk on the road

even if someone had these genes and didn't want to make money, you'd think that they would make a trillion beans and give em away, hell rent airplanes to dump them on the earth, let nature or whoever stumbles upon them do the rest

not a single person can say that a HUGE market isn't there, a real skunk plant, not another fucking fruity strain


Sam, if you have it, work the strain and give all profits to your favorite charity if you don't want money. You supposedly love breeding, so why not give people what they want, besides a simple, I DON'T WANT TO.

and come on, saying that the only reason we want it is cause we can't get it, um, shhhhhhhhhh. Are you trying to drum up more demand before you re release it? I have access to tons of genetics, but the fact I want an old building block of a lot of today's strains should make YOU proud, I want something that came before all this, I want what helped create all these Chem's OG and Diesels.

Hrpuffinkush's photo makes me drool
pre Amsterdam Skunk #1, look how she resembles a lot of our favorites now

personally, I'd take this as a mission, feed the heads

 

[relic1981]

Probably a better chance in Skunk x Afghani(Superskunk). Peace GS

im telling you guys that a skunk crossed with a super skunky afghani or real kush ibls is where its at. sensi super skunk and the beloved mass super skunk are both skunk x afghani ibl. granted the super skunk of today is nothing like it was in the easly to mid 90's i think the last good batch was in 99. but again that funky, skunky dank afghani ibl does wonders for any plant to increase its skunkiness. i really think this is key. im trying to get my hands on a good afghani to breed with and maybe come up with a rks strain by crossin tw to afghani or maybe use my louise the 13th x afghani ibl or my bubbas gift (both are super skunky). the strains themself is super dank so i think it would be a good breeding partener. only problem is their in clone form... theres plenty of ways to fix this issue. i just dont want to produce hermies... but im tellin you its that dank affie that is neeeded. granted there are plenty of skunky sativas but its just easier to get those rks phenos from the affie.

 

[relic1981]

I throw things away that I don't waste my time on anymore, so unless you are a hoarder I'm not sure why you would hold onto something for 20+ years that you have no interest in

yes there may be "some skunk" in a lot of strains these days, BUT, it is VERY hard to find ANYTHING that resembles a dead skunk on the road

even if someone had these genes and didn't want to make money, you'd think that they would make a trillion beans and give em away, hell rent airplanes to dump them on the earth, let nature or whoever stumbles upon them do the rest

not a single person can say that a HUGE market isn't there, a real skunk plant, not another fucking fruity strain


Sam, if you have it, work the strain and give all profits to your favorite charity if you don't want money. You supposedly love breeding, so why not give people what they want, besides a simple, I DON'T WANT TO.

and come on, saying that the only reason we want it is cause we can't get it, um, shhhhhhhhhh. Are you trying to drum up more demand before you re release it? I have access to tons of genetics, but the fact I want an old building block of a lot of today's strains should make YOU proud, I want something that came before all this, I want what helped create all these Chem's OG and Diesels.

Hrpuffinkush's photo makes me drool
pre Amsterdam Skunk #1, look how she resembles a lot of our favorites now

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personally, I'd take this as a mission, feed the heads

well said bro. i agree if your capable of producing rks beans whether you want money or not you should remember the charity of the growers united. alot of us have devoted our life to finding and securing a rks line. i dont feel its unreasonable to ask. plus you could make mad money of it and do whatever you want with the proceeds. its all for the good of the cannabis using society. if i had old skunk lines and something like deep chunk or any potent, super skunky afie ible should turn out some winning phenos and from there its a hop skip and a cubing until its stable.

 

[Tom Hill]

SkunkBud got its name in the mid-late 70's throughout the early 80's,, it was a new broadleaf plant from the mideast (indica or kush at the time) that had that particular terpene profile. The "Skunk" that traveled kept that name bcuz it was as close to the real thing as those introductory countries had ever seen.

 

[Pepe le skunk]

The "RoadKill Skunk" in which Americans speak of is weed that smells just like the odor that comes out of the ass of this animal when it is hit by a car in the road.

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if you never seen one, or smelled one then it is doubtful you know what it smells like, because nothing else on earth smells like it.

Ever smell skunk cabbage hidinginthehaze? That smells like a skunk's azz. The skunk bud we use to get from a grower was actually an old afghani line. It was indica and everyone called it skunk bud because it's smell was unmistakable. The red hairs and the plate leaf on the bud were the dead give away besides the skunk smell.

 

[DIDM]

SkunkBud got its name in the mid-late 70's throughout the early 80's,, it was a new broadleaf plant from the mideast (indica or kush at the time) that had that particular terpene profile. The "Skunk" that traveled kept that name bcuz it was as close to the real thing as those introductory countries had ever seen.

in the early to mid 90's in WI we got skunk bud once a year, it even had seeds, fuck me I got all mine taken by the man too many years ago.

I'd have to say that at least online more than 1/3 of all users would give something precious of themselves for a single cut of a real RKS

the terpene profile alone would be worth study

 

[Tom Hill]

I can not explain it away in any other way but to hypothesize that the terpene profile itself,, leads to a boring high,, this was not a rare smell nor was it recessive i was there and have zero qualms testifying to any of that.. This is and i shit u not,, a case of you guys remembering shit better than it was.. IT"S GONE FOR A REASON...

 

[DIDM]

I can not explain it away in any other way but to hypothesize that the terpene profile itself,, leads to a boring high,, this was not a rare smell nor was it recessive i was there and have zero qualms testifying to any of that.. This is and i shit u not,, a case of you guys remembering shit better than it was.. IT"S GONE FOR A REASON...

if only for teh smell

fuck, people still grow Black Berry Kush, and that is like hemp with trichs

 

[TheRealHash]

SAM THE SKUNKMAN IS A BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

superskunk and the pure in the garden this year... boom

 

[Lester Beans]

OK I have been sprayed more than once by a skunk (the animal) and they are everywhere here in the northeast US of A. If you have never smelled a skunk spray, you can't comment. Its over powering to the point of stupid. The only way to get rid of the smell if the spray hits your body is take a bath in tomato soup. And this will maybe make it so you can be around other humans. Maybe. I use spaghetti sauce, cases of the stuff, submerge myself in it, for hours. Then maybe a few weeks later I won't smell. That's how serious of a stink a skunk has. No lie!

That being said I have grown skunk from the 80's. Grew it in the 90's. This stuff made a mockery of filters, or anything else. It just flat out reeked, like a skunk, but with an added funk of dead animal in summer heat. Wicked. I could not grow it, it stunk that bad.

Side note, when my dog gets sprayed, its a bitch to get him soaked in ragu without the bastard eating it all lol

Come on guys, stop tying to tell Sam what to do with the work he created. He's done enough for us already. Buy his strains and get lifted and thank the man.

Best
Les