The documented half of Sterling Skunk IBL is Sterling Skunk, an heirloom indica kept alive for decades around Sterling, Massachusetts.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother and Father: Sterling Skunk. An heirloom indica kept alive for decades around Sterling, Massachusetts. Also known as Sterling Green. Two things about it are worth knowing before you buy. The first is how it was preserved: CSI made this generation by open pollination across a hundred and sixty-eight plants. That is a very large run by seed-company standards, and the point of it is breadth - a big open pollination keeps the variation that a small selected cross would quietly throw away, which is what preservation actually requires. The second is where it belongs. It has been bred and kept almost entirely outdoors for decades, and it does not show the same stability under lights. Outdoors it behaved; indoors it is not recommended, and that is the breeder's own assessment rather than a general caution.
• Why it exists as seed at all. Clone-only cuts travel as cuttings, which means they survive only as long as somebody keeps them alive. Reversing one onto itself is how a plant like this stops depending on a single grower's luck.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

• The Aroma. Skunk, which is the whole reason it was kept.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. It leans skunky, and sometimes heavily so - that is the trait the line was kept for.
• Vegetative Phase. Top or train before you flip rather than chasing the canopy afterwards.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Humboldt CSI are preservationists before they are breeders - most of what they release is a clone somebody has kept alive by hand for years, put into seed so it stops depending on one grower staying in the game. That is what you are buying into here. Authentic Humboldt CSI genetics.