Island Sweet Skunk

Island Sweet Skunk, or ISS, is a strain AllBud calls a Canadian original, grown for decades on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and this flower takes its name from it. Leafly puts the strain in the sativa group, while AllBud’s label is sativa dominant, 80% sativa to 20% indica.

Sweet Pink Grapefruit, Skunk #1 and a California Sweet Skunk

Leafly names Sweet Pink Grapefruit and Skunk #1 as the parents and says growers give the flowering time as 7 to 8 weeks. AllBud’s version is original Skunk #1 crossed with Sweet Skunk, which it calls a local California strain, plus a sativa. Our Island Sweet Skunk guide cites the Leafly cross.

Grapefruit and tropical fruit over the skunk

According to Leafly, the flavour is sweet and skunky with grapefruit undertones, and its flavour tags are skunk, tropical and grapefruit. AllBud reports a sweet, skunky smell and taste with aromatic hints of the tropics; its flavour tags add citrus and fruity, and its aroma tags are fruity, grapefruit, skunky and sweet. Leafly describes the buds as green with vivid yellow and orange hairs.

In the tip Steven De Guzman gives in the Island Sweet Skunk guide, pink grapefruit, or mango with pineapple, is a fitting side for the skunky, tropical sweetness.

Myrcene first in the lab data, THC at 18% on Leafly

Myrcene (tagged herbal) tops the terpene list in Leafly Certified lab data, ahead of terpinolene and pinene; our terpinolene guide is about the second of those. Leafly’s THC reading is 18%, with CBG at 1%, while the potency gauge reads above the Leafly average; AllBud’s info box gives a range of 16% to 25%.

Energetic and uplifted in the reports

On Leafly, reviewers lean on energetic, focused and uplifted, and the effects meter points to energizing. AllBud’s write-up goes for a cerebral high: a mood boost, happiness and euphoria that tends toward energy and creativity, with a mellow body feel. Its tags are creative, euphoria, happy and uplifting.