Return Of The Skunk

[MotaMan420]

I'd have to agree with Lucifer - youngins here DO NOT know what they're talking about. Being part of 420 does not make the expert.. Slide some of the so called Skunk of today over here to me and St and we'll be the judges.. Skunk actually smelled like a FUCKIN skunk dip shits..

If you smelled that smell it was either "who ran over the skunk?" or "who's got the bud?" - nothing else 420... On a comparison - it would be like me telling a 20 - 30 yr old that I know "all" when it comes to social media, smart phones, computers and the like - just because I owned the device or used a platform.

I lived it , sold it , smoked it -- todays skunk is NOT skunk..

Happy Growing
2024 Hanging

MotaMan

 

[Chrondocious]

Have any of you actually smelt a skunk? That smell is unforgettable, and the seeds they sell us, sold me, grow a nice pot plant, but never in the entire life of the plants grown from Skunk #1 seeds from here, there and everywhere never smelled anything remotely close or even similar to a skunk. Call it what you will, it ain’t skunk bud. You kids weren’t even born yet when real Skunk bud was around, how can all of a sudden, you’re all fukin’ professionals. Joke.

I live rurally, and I'm gonna be 42. Hardly a child. I know what a skunk smells like. I've been growing herb for better part of 10 years, and I'm breeding my own stock. I don't like the word, but I'd say I'm at least in the minor leagues. Give me 1000sq ft and id challenge any grower. I could hang. I think I Might know a thing or three. There's a lot of educated people on here.

 

[Fenderbender]

It's seems people that smoked real skunk suffered some shizoïd episodes and became insufferable.. stay away from it kids!!

All of us are just looking for it yeah?
I think most here agree that the commercialisation of weed has done some great and some sad fucked up shit to it and that a lot of things softened & sweetened up or grown out on purpose as they are not desirable traits for a commercial market.
And heck I'd blame the Americans and their rappers even more than the Dutch in the recent decades as they went even harder into the candyshop shizzle, packing everything like its candy made for kids and big comical figures on everything and all in on the fruity flavours.
What I remember from the 90's the Dutch were smoking very pungent stuff with still many very aggressive not so pleasant notes, like I said the citral was cat piss central in the bag, on the inhale on the exhale, probably a skunk pheno, just like a heavy cheese something that many blowers would avoid, rotten & sulphurous smells were no stranger to cannabis. the heritage is present in strains, but things get bred out and diluted. And well certainly back then the whole seed thing wasn't really that established yet, as if you wanted to grow, yeah you could get seeds but everyone was still buying cuts.
Was it as skunky as the stuff going around over there in the 70's yeah I can't tell, probably not if I hear y'all but the compounds are present in many strains and the ratios of course depend a lot on the cultivar. So it's about finding the right mix..
I'm thinking the Citral might even be quite close, as well we have no skunks around but that stuff smelled straight through the bag like a tomcat sprayed all over it to mark its territory and that contains a similar mix of sulphurous compounds like what skunks spray, and it was a very clingy and long lasting smell.
If you put the baggie in your coat you could just follow the smell trail around the block.
The baggies that had the weed in them would also still smell for miles after the weed was finished, and keeping other stuff in it it would even rub off a bit on the other strain.

And like Sensi lost their lines twice I believe, late 90's and somewhere in the 00's or early 10's so yeah the skunk #1 of recent years is likely far removed from what it once was.
Some claim it never had it and that it's a fruity version, but I think that's something that changed through the years. Or the pheno got here under a different name.

These days you mostly find vaguely reminiscent stuff.
I'm looking for foul powerful stuff too!

 

[anitl]

Yeah okay now what? you got it?

I would think the compounds in cannabis are older than all of us and pop off all kinds of smells all around the globe all the time..
However in the commercial lines it's probably out a long time for the reason mentioned and yes it might have never been in skunk#1
or maybe it is and you just need to get a bucket of the regulars put half a mountain full of plants and take a daily walk to look for it;
A lot of things have been toned down and gone more sweet, I remember Citral weed, that was so violently cat piss it was not really pleasant to smell the bag or smoke the joint, that's over 20 years ago that I've encountered that.

According to the professionals you're looking for a plant very high in Volatile Sulfur Compounds it's not the terpenes that make the skunk https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.1c04196
Terrible publication as they write somewhere, now we know this, this could be useful for future breeding creating even LESS SMELLY strains! noooooo!

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finding something truly pungent like the old Citral or genuine skunk notes is hard nowadays. Commercial lines have shifted to sweeter aromas that are more accessible.

 

[safeman]

It's seems people that smoked real skunk suffered some shizoïd episodes and became insufferable.. stay away from it kids!!

All of us are just looking for it yeah?
I think most here agree that the commercialisation of weed has done some great and some sad fucked up shit to it and that a lot of things softened & sweetened up or grown out on purpose as they are not desirable traits for a commercial market.
And heck I'd blame the Americans and their rappers even more than the Dutch in the recent decades as they went even harder into the candyshop shizzle, packing everything like its candy made for kids and big comical figures on everything and all in on the fruity flavours.
What I remember from the 90's the Dutch were smoking very pungent stuff with still many very aggressive not so pleasant notes, like I said the citral was cat piss central in the bag, on the inhale on the exhale, probably a skunk pheno, just like a heavy cheese something that many blowers would avoid, rotten & sulphurous smells were no stranger to cannabis. the heritage is present in strains, but things get bred out and diluted. And well certainly back then the whole seed thing wasn't really that established yet, as if you wanted to grow, yeah you could get seeds but everyone was still buying cuts.
Was it as skunky as the stuff going around over there in the 70's yeah I can't tell, probably not if I hear y'all but the compounds are present in many strains and the ratios of course depend a lot on the cultivar. So it's about finding the right mix..
I'm thinking the Citral might even be quite close, as well we have no skunks around but that stuff smelled straight through the bag like a tomcat sprayed all over it to mark its territory and that contains a similar mix of sulphurous compounds like what skunks spray, and it was a very clingy and long lasting smell.
If you put the baggie in your coat you could just follow the smell trail around the block.
The baggies that had the weed in them would also still smell for miles after the weed was finished, and keeping other stuff in it it would even rub off a bit on the other strain.

And like Sensi lost their lines twice I believe, late 90's and somewhere in the 00's or early 10's so yeah the skunk #1 of recent years is likely far removed from what it once was.
Some claim it never had it and that it's a fruity version, but I think that's something that changed through the years. Or the pheno got here under a different name.

These days you mostly find vaguely reminiscent stuff.
I'm looking for foul powerful stuff too!

What about 79 Florida Skunk (heirloom) by Katsu's skunk they also have Trinity Skunk and also a 81 Florida Skunk ?? have their 79 skunk at day 76 - skunk has arrived !!! in 5 more days at 75yrs this might be a keeper and search might be over (for a while) have never hear anything bad about "Katsu's" genetics FYI

 

[Fenderbender]

What about 79 Florida Skunk (heirloom) by Katsu's skunk they also have Trinity Skunk and also a 81 Florida Skunk ?? have their 79 skunk at day 76 - skunk has arrived !!! in 5 more days at 75yrs this might be a keeper and search might be over (for a while) have never hear anything bad about "Katsu's" genetics FYI

Yeah I went to take a look but they are out.. I dunno, I'd love to try. Get some bud to Mota & Lucifer to see if it's skunk,
if it is then I'll get some seeds and grow it here.. and then I can compare if there was something similar around here.

 

[Fenderbender]

finding something truly pungent like the old Citral or genuine skunk notes is hard nowadays. Commercial lines have shifted to sweeter aromas that are more accessible.

I think the Citral I knew has to be very close related to the skunk if not it.. and probably the same happened to it. If I read the strain described now it's citrus and refreshing.. but that's not what I tasted before, There's something citrus in there but there's a citrus type of smell in cat spray as well, refreshing it is not, it was aggressive sour, tart, musky and very gassy on the nose, if skunk was a 1 for 1 smell of skunk stink, this one was a 1 for 1 smell of big fricking cat that sprayed all over your weed.
Now I'm wondering of course how those two compare, they do seem to be very similar as cat spray breaking down releases mercaptans which makes it smell like skunk, and the anal glands of the cat are similar to the defence of the skunk. So if not exactly it, a very close variation to it.

I'll put it on my list to try out to grow, but I'll probably be greeted with a nice sweet lemony weed.