What happened to the REAL Skunk?

lusidghost

lusidghost

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RKS is a Shangri-La of strains. Ponce De Leon fell into the grip of madness searching for it. Cortez wiped out an entire continent during his fruitless quest for that mid-July festering dead skunk aroma. They smelled the foreign scent wafting from the natives, who called it Aniwye, when they first arrived in the Americas. They were never able to score a bag, let alone pull off their own copycat strain. Countless men have given their lives seeking out just one lungful of RKS, yet there isn't a shred of evidence to separate fact from fiction.
 
PopAndSonGrows

PopAndSonGrows

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lusidghost said:
RKS is a Shangri-La of strains. Ponce De Leon fell into the grip of madness searching for it. Cortez wiped out an entire continent during his fruitless quest for that mid-July festering dead skunk aroma. They smelled the foreign scent wafting from the natives, who called it Aniwye, when they first arrived in the Americas. They were never able to score a bag, let alone pull off their own copycat strain. Countless men have given their lives seeking out just one lungful of RKS, yet there isn't a shred of evidence to separate fact from fiction.
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My grandpa used to tell that story :lol:
 
BigSco508

BigSco508

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It's dead and gone the RKS traits where bred away from although i doubt that many really even know what they are talking about on the subject of the True RKS .
If you happen to be under 40 yrs old any and all info given by said person is suspect to begin with and even at 40 to 45 yrs old you only caught the tail end of it's run.
I'll put this way if you ever had it you would know everyone would know that is how loud it was even seeded .
 
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Nope_49595933949

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BigSco508 said:
It's dead and gone the RKS traits where bred away from although i doubt that many really even know what they are talking about on the subject of the True RKS .
If you happen to be under 40 yrs old any and all info given by said person is suspect to begin with and even at 40 to 45 yrs old you only caught the tail end of it's run.
I'll put this way if you ever had it you would know everyone would know that is how loud it was even seeded .
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For me no one told me it was skunk, we were young, but I remember the smell distinctly, and after that a dead skunk sitting out in the sun never made me wretch again.
 
Bongoloid

Bongoloid

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lusidghost said:
RKS is a Shangri-La of strains. Ponce De Leon fell into the grip of madness searching for it. Cortez wiped out an entire continent during his fruitless quest for that mid-July festering dead skunk aroma. They smelled the foreign scent wafting from the natives, who called it Aniwye, when they first arrived in the Americas. They were never able to score a bag, let alone pull off their own copycat strain. Countless men have given their lives seeking out just one lungful of RKS, yet there isn't a shred of evidence to separate fact from fiction.
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The Incas and Aztecs all died from it,2 hits, I shit you not..
 
PopAndSonGrows

PopAndSonGrows

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Admittedly I've never personally had RKS, but I pretty much cut my teeth on Skunk, it was a main staple where I grew up. I do miss it but I've had insanely better stuff since those days.
 
aBowlOfWhat?

aBowlOfWhat?

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Every now and then I can pick up heavy deadskunk from someone’s bag. It’s out there, but I feel like the “community “ just can’t accept that’s it. Even if found the doubters, like the ones here, won’t accept it and want stronger skunk terps. Seems like a common theme that we all remember the “high school” bud as the best.
Take a nice stinky bud to a non weed friendly spot, you’ll hear random people say “did a skunk just die?”
 
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Bongoloid

Bongoloid

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aBowlOfWhat? said:
Every now and then I can pick up heavy deadskunk from someone’s bag. It’s out there, but I feel like the “community “ just can’t except that’s it. Even if found the doubters, like the ones here, won’t accept it and want stronger skunk terps. Seems like a common theme that we all remember the “high school” bud as the best.
Take a nice stinky bud to a non weed friendly spot, you’ll hear random people say “did a skunk just die?”
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Maybe the smell isn't dominant or does not pass along easily to offspring and it left on its own. People who breed roses run across loss of aroma all the time.
 
Nizza

Nizza

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I have smelled it before, and now I can't find it but I'm only 31. The only thing that comes to mind is the mandala effect, it's hard to believe noone can find this trait everyone remembers right??
 
SFnone

SFnone

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GrownAtHighAltitude said:
Thanks! I look forward to seeing your pics.

Yes, I appreciate your details and agree that ILE should have done more testing. I guess it is what it is... I'm still looking forward to going through them all. The farmers there wouldn't like the large, dense flower buds as it would be more work for them to loosen and separate the trichomes for hash production. By having a looser structure, they can just beat the plants, or crumble them easily.

Any of those selections will have to be hybridized with western genetics to improve the bud structure radically. It's possible those intense rotten protein smells they selected in the field was a genetic outlier in a field of thousands of plants. They did say the Red Maruf was the rarest of the selections, and it would make sense that it might be a recessive, or non-dominant trait and only coincidentally unlocked through generational breeding.

I have considered that the loud expressions we're looking for in a Real Skunk are these rare traits that only pop up occasionally in various lineages and this is why it is hard to breed out the correct terpene chemistry we're looking for.

Those genetic potentials are likely still in the few seeds in our packs, but perhaps only reachable in the F2/F3 and beyond, and dependent on suitable parental input and good selection work.



If you have more info on Iranian strains you've encountered, that would be awesome too. The only thing I have is this Iranian Fast Flower I bought a few years ago. I'm guessing it came from Dr Greenthumb originally. The bank I got it from sent me a dead pack of BOGs BMR in the same order, so I'm not exactly sure they are going to grow out anyway.
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It could still be in the Marufs... I just think ILE overstated it's presence. For Iranians, look for "landrace", or stuff that's coming direct... and look to the Eastern side.
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MRGudTimez

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does anyone have experience with "preservation genetics"? Has anyone heard of them or dealt with them? Is there shoreline legit?
 
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