"For reasons in this thread, is one reason why I am hesitating to release the Kentucky Roadkill Skunk seeds aka "Hillbilly Roadkill". The roots of that strain has been here since the 70's. The old man on the mountain knows nothing of technology, just a straight hermit bound hippie that has kept this strain alive. He got cancer a couple of years ago and has had a very steep uphill battle ever since. What I can say is that he has finally beat the devil beneath his skin and come out in victory, bless his great soul...
He has the Roadkill mother, he has the father. He has been open pollinating these two since he stabilized the Roadkill in the genes back in what he claims to be around the early 90s. I have begged him for cuts back in the day of this infamous plant, yet he never let go of it no matter the offer. When I say its tightly held, it is tightly held. The man has no knowledge of a cell phone, keyboard nor does he know the up to date new knowledge of breeding and the whole cannabis scene. He is just a hillbilly hermit, who stays to himself and his brothers, farming the Roadkill in the heart of the Appalachians, mostly so they can get by and live a comfortable life all while being able to resist and withdrawal from the rest of society that is harming the world today... Good people I tell ya, very very honest and down to earth people.
To make a long story short, when he got well, to the point of being able to get up and walk around and sit and hold something other than delusional conversation I went to visit him. He is a long time friend of mine and back in the 90s and early 2ks he is the oone that gave me at least 75% of the knowledge I know for guerilla growing. I have grown huge patches with these guys and in the perimeter of 3 whole counties combined... I had chances to take cuttings of that roadkill any time I wanted to, but never ceased to even imagine it. No way would I ever do that sort of thing, no matter how bad I wanted it. It was and still is my favorite pot. Not as much has been around in the past 5 years as there was before then, but I can still get my QP to smoke on every year. You will absolutely NEVER find a seed in this stuff, not me, not anyone I have ever spoken with. I would imagine as much as this strain means to him, they likely go through every pound of it in search of seeds.*
Well my last visit with him, maybe a month and a half ago he had spoken about how he was pretty much done growing commercially and that his health would no longer allow him to get out and do the things he wants to do. I thought to myself immediately that now was my chance, that maybe he would at least give me a cutting of the momma and daddy Roadkill... So I brought it up.. I asked him what he would take for a cut or two... His reply was quiet straight forward, as always "ahhh I can't do that, I think I'm gonna hang on to it"... Of course I sunk inside, as always because I really really since the day I tried it wanted that strain. I have grown every thing labeled with skunk and roadkill you could ever imagine. I have went through tons of land race Afghan seeds brought to me by a family member of mine that was in special forces, straight from Afghanistan and the hash plantations, never found anything close to the Roadkill in those... Sure some nauseating odor producers but not that skunk spray odor, never. Once you smell it you will know, what strains you have smelled that you think smell skunky is NOT skunky at all. Speaking of which, I do have a lot of the seeds left that he brought back from Afghanistan. So my point is, I have never been able to find what I was looking for. The closest I had found was back in the early 90s here in Ky when all the Afghan and middle eastern seeds was smuggled in, some were close. For years all that was grown around here was afghani strains. But then that fell out around 2000 and hybrids started taking over. The Roadkill had been around since the 70s though and according to the old man, as far as he knows there is no afghan in the line... I will have to ask him again, but he claimed it coming from some hippies that moved out here from California and I believe Mexico and a biker comes into play as well somewhere in that story. I will confirm when I see him again.
Well back to my point... Before I left his cabin that day, when I got up off the couch and started to go out the door he hollered and said "hang on just a minute I got something for ya", so I stood by the wood stove warming my hands and waited... He come back and threw me a pill bottle... Honestly I firstly thought he was throwing me a bottle of oxycodone or some pain killer that he was threw with as he was never one to want to take pills... Nope, it was a bottle of seeds... He said " those are some of the skunk seeds out of the last batch I bred"(he does not personally refer to it as Roadkill, just "skunk" but believe me... It IS THE Roadkill)... Told me to "do what you want with em, I can't give you a clone but I will give you those seeds"... My heart sunk and In almost collapsed. Ever since I just sometimes pour a few out and just look at them until this day I am still shocked that they are in my possession... From the fucking 1970s, pure roadkill skunk seeds... I used to look through every little piece of bud I could for one damn seed and never had I ever found it...*
I planned on open pollinating these seeds and spreading the love to the people whom have been searching all of this time, to relive that memory they had of skipping school and cruising the back roads while twisting up and burnin that big fat hog leg in their 69 camaro jamming to some 70s or 80s rock n roll... Almost on the verge of a psychedelic induced trip. The skunk does that to you. Your eyes will look like the flames of hell, smoke too much and you'll sweat beads...*
However.... After read in threads like this I don't even know if I want to release them anymore... I just popped my first batch about 6 days ago. I don't know where I'm going with this project yet, so do know they will have heavy dominance in this years guerilla grow and that I will be open pollinating a patch of these to obtain even more seeds. I will post pics on my thread as the time goes....*
He once said their was about 3 or 4 phenos to be found... I had only seen 2 that stood out the most to me when I used to help him grow.
I want to get this out there to the people that really truly are in love with this strain and those that have places in their heart for it. I just don't want it to fall into the wrong hands... I am still debating my final decision... Have a wonderful morning IC
