The origins of Skunk

chubby44 2024-01-13
In 1973 my buddy and a friend from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love went to Kabul Afghanistan on a hash oil run. While they were there they bought some seeds from a farmer outside of Kabul. They called the seeds "Kush" . THESE SEEDS WERE NOT HYBRIDS, they are IBL/landrace seeds that have grown in Afghanistan for centuries !! We grew them out the next year in central Illinois and renamed it "Skunk" because of the pungent, lingering smell . In the following years some friends took the seeds down to Arkansas and tried to grow them there. Well ...the smell got all of them busted. Glad I stayed in Illinois. These days there is supposedly a cultivar of skunk called "Arkansas Skunk" I have yet to find them !! No Sam the Skunkman here !!! Peace, Chubby

Randy 2023-05-26
I just want to know if anyone is selling anything really close to the SKUNK BUD of the 70s and 80s

Starmaykr 2021-08-07
This is a question for Tim Alchimia in particular and anyone else in general. I am doing my own research for an article on the very first "Hybrid"? By 'Hybrid' I specifically mean the very first strain crossing sativa landraces with 'Afghani' in California, sometime during the late 60s early 70s. "G-13" is certainly a top contender but I am looking for any other contenders.

Aldo Rey Kelley 2020-11-24
Good post.....in 1970's, I worked in Idyllwild for Forest Service.....at that time, Gene Geno and crew returning form Thailand and Vietnam brought home stash and seeds and planted along Desert Divide at 6000' near Oak Spring...great harvest! Some of those seeds were brought to next army ranger duty in Darien Mts of Panama to be crossed with a shorter smellier 'Persian Blue.....seems the Idyllwild Brotherhood of Love purist Leary fathers now turning out pure LSD got angry at the slight downer of the new cross, although it was 6' as opposed to scraggly first grow 11' footers.....so, the servicemen crossed that again......75% Sativa, 25% Indica........Thai/ColoMexican x Persian Blue (seems pure Indica strain form 9000' Esfahani mountain range overlooking the Black Sea).....the pistils had changed color to pink, kept a slight sweet hash scent, and, now with advent of DEA, the shorter 8 footers blended in perfectly with native chaparral Manzanita...some of those precious little guys ended up in AK shells and brought out in 2010 after almost 40 yrs hibernation in a ranger's fridge...Viola, bloomed...Check out March 2013 High Times for the photo from Tahquitz Lookout!.

CaseDog 2020-11-11
I second the opinion that skunk was a variety of an Afghani landscape strain and not the more modern skunk #1 strain thought to be an indica / sativa hybrid. Anyone who has experienced the real original skunk I believe would tend to agree.. The original strain possessed many qualities which were unique and unlike any other strain. Killer bud it was. I miss it and haven't seen it in about 30 years unfortunately.Gone maybe, but definitely not forgotten.

C 2020-07-09
Skunk.. Original skunk came from a mountain in Arkansas in the 70s I know for sure its origins and will say no more other than the confusion about where it came from involves someone cultivating it in creeks from Mississippi to Michigan.. He was the first person to ask 20 for a gram and everyone told him he was crazy... Untill they smoked some..

Buzzz 2019-10-22
Hi My youth was in the 70s and 80s. Only seedless weed we got was from vietnam or cambodia(best i ever smoked, $250 a sack back then,high energy.),then later a bit of maui wowie came around. Columbian gold$60 and red $50 always had seeds. Gold was a lot bettr than the red. Colour was actually gold and was quite cerebral. As far as skunk goes, its not pure indica or pure anything. ( this line anyway). But it does breed fairly true. Its not gone though. I have the old school line .its stable and potent. Done 2nd week october outdoors in southern ontario canada. I made plenty of seeds and they all stink like skunk. Growing you can smell it 200 feet away if theres a slight wind ,and with it in your pocket you wouldnt enter a public place of business when it was illegal.Ive had many people visit and ask me if a skunk sprayed by my house. When completely finished its acrid.Todays skunk #1 is not skunk at all. I have no idea why people accept it as skunk. It was called skunk for a reason and not because of a sweet pleasant smell. Its still a force to be reckoned with and even aftr all these years , it and original c99 are still my favorite homegrown. Indoor or outdoor its great and reliable.

Don 2019-08-11
I disagree some of you folks get skunk#1 mixed up with the roadkill skunk from the 70s and 80s is not the same skunk as skunk #1 I know because my father is a breeder and used to get the pure landrace skunk all the time it was only around in the 70s and 80s and short part of the 90s, I saw it twice in my life. It’s not a sativa it’s a pure 100% landrace Afghani indica it smells like a dead skunk almost when you have it in your pocket. You are not going to find the pure skunk anymore it’s all been bred out.

s french 2019-02-08
My view on things are simple. grow old strains from 70s land race sativas all outside all organic fuck the chemicals then tell me u dont have the best smoke around with full turpines flavor and the best stone!!!!

Di Ana 2018-10-25
Neville didn't buy the variety, Skunk #1. He bought some seeds.

wes 2017-12-13
An after thought..... Who at home harvests rain water and makes it safe for the family drinking instead of using tap and with it the additional poisonous chemicals? Who grows all their own food and isnt kept alive by a giant supermarket chain who poisons the food? It all comes down to the landless who for generations have accepted government interference on a global scale. The tree that produces free food lives on land stolen by the state and its all paid for by tax (theft).

wes 2017-12-13
I agree with the comments above. Also consider the feedback from hobby breeders in relation to making seed runs and how they are told by experts that primo bud can only come by named and otherwise packaged seed product and that feminized is the prefered way to achieve this. Feminized seeds are often made by forcing a female plant into producing male flowers and thus pollon, this is achieved chemically. In nature this hermaphrodism and their genetics are generally avoided due to the trait continuing once it has been found by the seed to be successful, however... in commerce its promoted as a convienient way to achieve the 100% ratio to produce seedless flowers. No males equates to no seeds...no seeds means dependency on expensive feminized seeds. Once your platform for promoting seeds is achieved you can sell these "cruft" pedigree pups at a premium and here we are today currently paying upto $15 for a single feminized seed. This is the anti-thesis of free weed. To buy seeds you are effectively bargaining with satan to grow and use what God gave us all to use (the bible states that all seed bearing plants are to be used by man for food and medicine and to be enjoyed). Now we have seeds that cannot produce further seed after the second or third generation. Dependency on satan is where he wants us. This isnt reserved just fir Cannabis....its being rolled out for food and possibly will include water to once its been patented to include a trace of something they say they own.

James K 2017-10-31
I have been studying growing a lot lately. I am high as fuck atm from my nieghbors home grown Skunk. Seem's to me, it all depends on how much TLC the grower puts into his/her plants that decide how the flower develops. Not that I have grown, just what I have observed. About to as soon as the seeds get here. Paid for already. Yeeeeeeay. Awesome sauce.

James P 2017-10-25
I have to agree with. Ticked Toker on the fact that today’s cannabis being sold by licensed producers is bland, does not enlighten you and just zonks you out. I grow my own from seeds acquired from original landrace producers in Jamaica. When you smoke it you remember what cannabis should be like.

TickedToker 2017-03-08
Been smoking for nearly a century. Ive seen the ups, downs, lefts and rights of Cannabis. What everyone has failed to note is HOW one plant develops unique characteristics. Ive watched the trend in pesticides, mediums, inputs and artificial lighting evolve, and witnessed the evolution of pot right along with it. Cannabis absorbs from the environment. If you want to create a new strain, breed with same chemical or fruit inputs. The plant will eventually absorb and reproduce its own version of the smell. Sam Selezny is no hero, he is an agent of Monsanto. Helping patent and eradicate useful genetics through the DEA, the hydroponic nature-neuter industry and the fake seedbank racket. It is common knowledge in the Dutch growing scene that Dave Watson (Sam Selezny) is a secret-society sponsored thief working directly with entities in and above the governments of the world, in an agenda to eradicate nature and install new dependency. Prohibition installed. Sensimilla popularized. Terminator seeds pushed. Growers have finally caught on. Heirloom Cannabis seeds are worth more than gold. Modern pot is bland and useless for a reason : we are transitioning to Corporate Cannabis, where quality does not exist, and is fully replaced by processing methods and marketing of scrap material sold at a premium. Just like tobacco (there is no Marlborough farm, they buy from whoever the lowest bids are, mix it together, pull out all the natural, and reinfuse with their own blend. The tobacco is only a carrier material to soak the synthetic branded blend into.) Pretty soon all Cannabis production will follow suit. Wax pens filled with distilled trim, and artificially flavored with 3rd party blends. Its not medicine, its a novelty market fed by people who want to look cool in front of their friends. Pretty soon lab synthesized THC will be fully acceptable. The retardate generation funding this takeover seems not to care they are already smoking fake terpenes.