How Sacred Seeds Skunk #1 Really Looked Like!
Skunk #1 is a three way cross of Colombian Gold x Afghan Kush x Acapulco Gold, created in mid 70's by David Watson aka. Sam The Skunkman, and propagated with the help of Sacred Seeds collective
Skunk #1 seeds went on sale for the first time around 1978-1979 through Homegrown catalogue, and became an instant hit in US due to shorter flowering time and bigger yield in comparison to prior available, and widely popular, equatorial sativa or narrow-leaf drug cultivars.
But after a few decades of inbreeding the word skunk became a generic name after it crossed the Atlantic, and every Dutch seed bank had it in possession.
In the meantime Skunk #1 underwent heavy outcrossing to Northern Lights #5, and other Afgani cultivars, to up the yield and cut the flowering time even more.
By mid 90's it was a much different plant, and only few growers remembered how it looked originally! One of them was an Arizonian grower going under a nick Madjag, who published pics of Skunk #1 he cultivated in 1979 from the original Sacred Seeds stock on ICMAG.
Looking at these vintage photos we can actually see, that original Skunk #1 leaned heavily on Colombian/Mexican side with long, spearheaded colas and long, narrow leaves! It was also rather stretchy in comparison to stocky nowadays skunks, and had much wider terpenoid expression on the top of that.
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I have a big books of strain and its clear all the best strains worldwide are landrace crosses.
You need to smoke landraces to understand it, but these are the very best buds in this world! Well sometimes they're not, but very often they are. It's such a shame, that I can't get my hands on all these vintage seeds although I know people, who successfully germinated their stuff from the 70's. I smoked through a lot of top hybrids in my life grown in every possible way, but landrace bud is something completely different... but I wasted my youth on Skunk #1 basically :)
Ive had buds from an old cut of acapulco gold. That's my landrace claim to fame. Never grew it though.
If they were stored in the freezer, you might try to germinate them. But if they are dry, they're probably past their viability.
Thanks for the great time-capsule treasure trove! It's wonderful to see these pictures and learn the back story @conradino23.
I agree...land race strains are special and we need to protect them.
My treat ;)
lovely post.. inbreeding has changed the way we smoke now...
In India you should have a steady pipeline of landrace-derived charas!
yes we do, we get some crazy varieties of it, different land different hash, infact thats the only thing we smoke here, hydro weed has just starting coming into the market now, but is very expensive...
Defnitely. I actually grew a North Indian landrace once and although it was a charas variety, so flower had a very harsh taste, I loved the smoke!
yeah here we pay for not only the high but the taste too, like in weed, we have a different taste & high with the different kinds of lands used to grow it in.. when you youll plan a trip to india next?
You have a lot of landraces in India and Nepal, from Nepalese Highland through Manipuri to Kerala, and they all have something interesting going on. I don't really know if I'm ready for India, just not in my mind so far... but maybe one day :)
Very true... idiki gold from kerala is one of the favourites here...
India is a good place to visit, i think a couple of months here & you taste everything the land has to offer..
It's nice to see you so much information in this post! It's good for everyone to know where their genetics come from. As you saw for my post a while back we are lucky enough to have a cutting of the original skunk 1. Really interested in doing breeding with landrace strains in the future. Either way great content, amazing looking plants! Happy steeming!
Yeah these days it's difficult to figure what you're dealing with, which is why I'm trying to get to the bottom of things and give some basic answers! Thx for looking, man!