Island Sweet Skunk
Sativa
Sweet Skunk × White Widow
No alternate names recorded
- Sourced
- Cannabinoids: Sourced
- Effects: Sourced
- Review date not recorded
Review date not recorded
At a glance
- Type
- Sativa
- High
- Head and Body
- Genetics
- Sweet Skunk × White Widow
- Flowering
- 55–65 d
- THC Range
- 16% – 25%
- CBD Range
- 0.2% – 0.33%
- Dominant Terpenes
- Terpinolene, Caryophyllene, Myrcene
Effect Profile
Reported by the community and curated from multiple sources.
- Reported
- Reported Negatives
Frequency not recorded
Creative
Reported
Energetic
Reported
Euphoric
Reported
Happy
Reported
Uplifted
Reported
- Dizzy
- Dry Eyes
- Dry Mouth
- Headache
- The Scaries
Plant Profile
Cannabinoid Profile (As Reported)
View methodology- THC16% – 25%
- CBD0.2% – 0.33%
- CBG1%
- CBN0.1% – 0.22%
- THCV0.36% – 1.57%
Ranges reflect legacy lab reports and aggregated user data, as recorded.
Dominant Terpenes (Top 5)
View all terpenes- TerpinoleneHigh
CaryophyllenePeppery, SpicyHigh
MyrceneHerbal, EarthyHigh
HumuleneWoody, HoppyModerate
PinenePine, FreshModerate
Flavor & Aroma
Flavor
Citrus, Fruity, Grapefruit, Skunky, Sweet, Tropical
Aroma
Skunk, Spicy, Sweet
User-Reported Medical Usage New
Community- and source-reported, not medical advice.
5 reported uses
- 1DepressionReported as a reason for use.—
- 2PainReported as a reason for use.—
- 3AnxietyReported as a reason for use.—
- 4Loss Of AppetiteReported as a reason for use.—
- 5NauseaReported as a reason for use.—
Listed by how widely each use is reported across strains. The share of reporters is not recorded for these reports. Not a measure of whether it worked.
View all reported usesGenetics & Origin
Sweet Skunk’s parents not recorded
White Widow’s parents
Sweet Skunk
Type not recorded
Parent Strain
White Widow
Hybrid
Parent Strain
Island Sweet Skunk
Sativa
Origin
Island Sweet Skunk has no verified pedigree. Sources agree it is heavily Skunk number one influenced, with a 1970s California sativa in the mix. Federation Seeds bred the version that spread, but the full cross is not documented. It should not be confused with Sweet Skunk from a different breeder. It has one descendant on file, and the Vancouver Island clone lineage is what people mean by the name.
Federation Seed Company's record agrees with 1 other breeder: Next Generation Seed Company.
2 lineage claim sets recorded. The one shown is attributed to Federation Seed Company; the others are in the tabs above, each with its own source.
Bred from Island Sweet Skunk (2)
The Grow
Best Results
Indoor and Outdoor
Preferred Climate
Warm
Grow Difficulty
- Beginner
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Expert
Easy
Outdoor
- Harvest
- Late September to mid-October
- Height
- 30–80 in
- Yield
- 39oz/ plant
Indoor
- Harvest
- 7–9 wk
- Height
- 30–80 in
- Yield
- 21oz/ m2
- Flowering
- 55–65 d
- Resistance
- Standard
The difficulty to grow Island Sweet Skunk is known for being easy. For growers cultivating indoors, expect 30–80 in height with a 21oz/ m2 yield with in about 7–9 wk. Outdoors, harvest around Late September to mid-October.
Cultivation Notes
Island Sweet Skunk flowers fast, in about six to eight weeks, and yields heavily, with reported figures of 21 ounces per square meter indoors and 39 per plant outdoors. It finishes outdoors between late September and mid-October. The quick finish and the yield are the practical draws, though the smell is hard to hide. Grower and breeder figures.
When To Try It
Best:
Afternoon
Occasions:
- before creating
About
Island Sweet Skunk has Skunk in its name and no matching sedation.
Grown on Vancouver Island for decades and first bred by Federation Seeds, it pairs a pungent skunk smell with a bright, grapefruit-sweet flavor and an energetic sativa high. Its exact genetics are not settled.
What to Expect
Skunk in a strain name usually promises a heavy, funky indica. Island Sweet Skunk delivers the opposite. The associated words are led by uplifted and energetic, and Leafly's breakdown puts happy at 54 percent, then uplifted at 51, energetic at 49 and euphoric at 45, from a large number of reviews. It is a daytime strain for mental work.
At 24 percent, dry mouth leads the complaints, with dry eyes behind it and a paranoid note that a separate reviewer set flags more than usual. Keep the dose modest if that is a concern.
Flavor and Aroma
The smell and the taste pull apart. The aroma is genuinely skunky, pungent and sweet with a spicy edge, loud enough that sources warn to keep it in a sealed jar. The flavor is where the Sweet comes in: grapefruit, sweet citrus and tropical fruit over the skunk. It is one of the better grapefruit strains on the menu.
Terpenes Explained
Island Sweet Skunk has a measured terpene panel in our data, led by Terpinolene at roughly 0.2 to 0.3 percent, with Myrcene, Caryophyllene and Humulene behind around 0.1 to 0.24. Terpinolene-forward strains are relatively uncommon, and it tends to track with bright, sharp, sativa-type smells.
The grapefruit note itself comes from minor compounds outside the panel, so the numbers confirm the sharp brightness and the jar confirms the citrus. Smell before you buy.
Cannabinoids and Potency
Island Sweet Skunk THC is reported from about 16 to 25 percent, with sources clustering near 19 to 23 and the lab sample in our data corrupted. CBD is a trace. Most cuts land in the low twenties.
Expect a strong strain around 20 percent and buy on the batch's current test, since our own figures do not hold together.
Awards & Recognition
Each award is bound to the exact entry that won it. Nothing is inherited by the strain as a whole.
2015 The Karma Cup — entry recorded as “Island Sweet Skunk”
Source: not recorded on this entry
0 verified recognitions. 1 unresolved entry shown but excluded from the count.
Competition historyBusinesses familiar with Island Sweet Skunk 0
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How we verify businessesExperience Evidence & Sources
Where this record’s observations come from, and what each source covers.
Community strain database aggregation (Labster/Blaster/Grower/Writer)
Aggregated from third-party community strain databases — 6 source records.
Ascendancy Drupal preserved public extract
Carried over from the preserved Ascendancy archive — 1 source record.
One recorded conflict
2 lineage claim sets disagree. All are retained with their sources; none is presented as settled.
Source summaries only. Evidence bodies are not published on this page.
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