Hybrid / STRAIN PROFILE
Skunk #1
The cultivar that made stable hybrids possible, and the ancestor of most European commercial lines.
Reported effects
Potential downsides
Commonly reported by consumers, not measured. Effects vary with the person, the batch and its chemistry — the link between terpene profile and effect remains clinically unproven.
THE FLAVOUR PROFILE
Flavour & aroma.
LINEAGE
The family tree
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SkThis strainSkunk #1
About Skunk #1
The cultivar that made stable hybrids possible, and the ancestor of most European commercial lines.
Skunk #1 was stabilised in California in the 1970s and brought to the Netherlands shortly after. Its importance is structural rather than sensory: it was among the first hybrids reliable enough to breed from, and it sits behind an enormous number of later cultivars.
The pungent character it is named for became a defining commercial trait, for better and worse.
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