Conradino23
Well-Known Member
re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED
I mean yeah, I was just pointing that Skunk #1 and many early variations of this strain were developed in Cali by Sacred Seeds, and Skunk #1 itself was kept as sativa-dominant strain, so called sweet skunk. There were however indica-dominant variations like like Skunk #1 x Afghani bx-1 grown by Mendo Joe. The seeds were for sale through Seed Co in the 70s and they were $2 a seed back then which was very expensive. As the story goes Sam the Skunkman took the seeds of Skunk #1 and also Original Haze, Northern Lights, Early Girl, Durban Poison to Holland in 1982, and that's when Dutch started getting load of these genetics, and using them for then still a novelty indoor breeding programmes.
Most of these was really crossing Skunk #1 to Northern Lights, backcrossing and isolating potent phenos, exactly like they had already done it in Cali and other states. One of the most famous pheno of Skunk #1 was famous Orange Bud aka California Orange Bud or just California Orange, that is still sold by Dutch seedbanks although now much dilluted. I smoked it in the 90s, and it was a top-notch skunk back then. On the other hand Skunk #1 seeds have flown into Canada in 1982 after Sacred Seeds was busted. It's Mendo Joe who sold all his lines to Ziggy from The Federation Seeds Co at that time, Canadians even took his Romulan, but also Skunk #1 which they renamed Island Sweet Skunk. It's still offered by Next Generation Seeds which inherited the line and has quite good reviews.
These seeds were bought by Kansas guy known as Mr Dank who came out later with Golden Goat which is still kept in Bay Area as a clone, a lot of Skunk #1 genes there I can bet. Then we have Green Crack which is sweet version of Skunk #1 x Maple Leaf Indica or Afghani, and Grape Ape which is Skunk #1 x Mendocino Purple x Afgani, all of them very skunky. It's actually funny but Skunk #1 comes back all the time like in Cheese Quake new cross of SubCool who took Cheese Exodus Cut (which is pure Skunk #1) and crossed it to Querkle. I'm sure it's fire but it's just nothing new.
The way that I understand it, the first skunk variations were developed in Ca. then brought to Holland by Ben Donkers of Sensi shortly after the lines were developed. Once back in Holland he then began working these genes into the lines that Sensi had going at the time.
At least this is the story that I've heard and read. True or not I have no way of knowing for sure. What I do know for sure is that the skunk genetics are very prominent in the dutch lines regardless of their original US origin.
The first variations of skunk that I was exposed to all seemed to be heavily indica dominant. This was back around the mid 80's.
The buds seemed to be a darker shade of green and much more dense than any of the sativa's that were the norm around my area during that time.
When the first bags of skunk came around I collected whatever seeds could be found. When I began growing them out the following spring all had indica type leaves and growth structure. None of the seedlings or plants that I grew from skunk bag seed even closely resembled the sativa's of the day (Colombian, Mexican, Panama, Hawaiian, Thai, etc..) that I had grown previously.
Since becoming aware of the supposed heavy sativa lineage of the skunk strains (70% or more sativa as reported) I've always wondered why the ones that I grew out during the mid 80's exhibited such indica heavy traits.
In hindsight the leaves and growth structure may have been very similar to the hybrids of today. But since all I had been exposed to up until that point were the long and thin leaf sativa's I guess anything even remotely different was assumed to be an indica variety. LOL!! We live and learn.
I mean yeah, I was just pointing that Skunk #1 and many early variations of this strain were developed in Cali by Sacred Seeds, and Skunk #1 itself was kept as sativa-dominant strain, so called sweet skunk. There were however indica-dominant variations like like Skunk #1 x Afghani bx-1 grown by Mendo Joe. The seeds were for sale through Seed Co in the 70s and they were $2 a seed back then which was very expensive. As the story goes Sam the Skunkman took the seeds of Skunk #1 and also Original Haze, Northern Lights, Early Girl, Durban Poison to Holland in 1982, and that's when Dutch started getting load of these genetics, and using them for then still a novelty indoor breeding programmes.
Most of these was really crossing Skunk #1 to Northern Lights, backcrossing and isolating potent phenos, exactly like they had already done it in Cali and other states. One of the most famous pheno of Skunk #1 was famous Orange Bud aka California Orange Bud or just California Orange, that is still sold by Dutch seedbanks although now much dilluted. I smoked it in the 90s, and it was a top-notch skunk back then. On the other hand Skunk #1 seeds have flown into Canada in 1982 after Sacred Seeds was busted. It's Mendo Joe who sold all his lines to Ziggy from The Federation Seeds Co at that time, Canadians even took his Romulan, but also Skunk #1 which they renamed Island Sweet Skunk. It's still offered by Next Generation Seeds which inherited the line and has quite good reviews.
These seeds were bought by Kansas guy known as Mr Dank who came out later with Golden Goat which is still kept in Bay Area as a clone, a lot of Skunk #1 genes there I can bet. Then we have Green Crack which is sweet version of Skunk #1 x Maple Leaf Indica or Afghani, and Grape Ape which is Skunk #1 x Mendocino Purple x Afgani, all of them very skunky. It's actually funny but Skunk #1 comes back all the time like in Cheese Quake new cross of SubCool who took Cheese Exodus Cut (which is pure Skunk #1) and crossed it to Querkle. I'm sure it's fire but it's just nothing new.
... f'n Dutch breeders ...
