I don't see anyone really claiming the pure. Even
@jimihendrix1 . Skunky but not straight roadkill.
oh I misunderstood what you were looking for. Honestly, i think "RKS" is just old timers rememering skunky weed with rose tinted glasses. I took what I read about it to mean it was quite skunky. sorry for the confusion.
Just finished my cup of coffee and had to jump in on this. Few things:
1 - really nice grow and set up Kona!
2 - I'm 39 and a half so I'm a little young for the old timers "rks" so prevalent in the 80's time to witness the "real rks" so I can't really comment and am starting to lean towards what RBJesusFreak said that it might just be an oldtimers hazey recollection phenomenon.
3 - I live in the country and drive by dead skunks all the time, so I'm really familiar with the real smell. In my opinion, skunks on the side of road only emit a "skunk" spray smell, unless the car didn't hit the scent gland where the "skunk" smell is. If the car misses the gland, the smell will be a common decomposing animal smell once decomposition sets in (depending on the weather).
Number 3 is why I am leaning towards what RBJF said. If not, oldtimers at
@jimihendrix1 , please chime in on what is the difference between a "skunk spray" smell and what you consider rks smell.
I think the skunk spray smell is truly what everyone is after.
That being said, I'm on the hunt too and would love to find a skunk line or pheno to grow. I posted in another thread about searching for rks, but I'm running the following strains looking for it:
- Blue Orca x rks (swami)
- Stonemason (nature farm)
- DLA5 (bodhi)
I'm still in veg on all these and try to give a stem rub as much as possible and always jot down the smells I find if they're strong and I identify them. Funny enough, so far the strain I'm getting the most skunk spray smell from is Bodhi's '89 Northern Lights Noof cut x BCSC NL5 f2's I made a few years ago. One of the females (#5) I seeded had a skunk smell to her. One of her offspring I'm growing now, #18 now has a really strong skunk spray smell on the stem rub. Way more of a skunk smell than what I have recorded on the others mentioned above.
I'm guessing the smells will change during flower, but I thought I'd mention it.
BOHxrks is also giving a little skunk smell on a couple plants so far, but not as strong/pungent as the NL. Stonemason hasn't shown any skunk like smells yet that I've noticed but a more subdued sweet like smell. DLA5, a few have a really unique dead animal smell to them. Like a decomposing animal/beef jerky like smell but it's more acrid and nasty/funky smelling.