CHEM91 SKVA

Chem 91 Sk Va

Also known as Chem 91 SKVA

Genetics

Chem 91 Skunk VaChem 91 BX1

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Breeder: No breeder · parent of 3 strains

Genetics

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Chem 91 Sk Va
  • Verified
  • Well-supported
  • Reported
  • Folklore
  • Disputed

Offspring

Bred from Chem 91 Sk Va

Lab data

Cannabinoids

No lab data yet.

Bar = median; line = lowest to highest test. Values vary by grower and lab.

Lab data

Terpenes

No lab data yet.

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Use cases

Not enough data yet.

Ranked against other strains from user reports and lab terpenes.

All reported crosses & sources (1 cross)

  1. Chem 91 Skunk Va × Chem 91 BX1

    Reported

    Stated by The Cali Connection

🧬 Look for DNA test reports on Kannapedia ↗

Type (Type not reported) is a reported label, not chemistry.

Full history

1. Summary

"Chem 91 SKVA" is the Chem 91 (Chemdog) clone as kept by Skunk VA (Jason; later Lucky Dog Seed Co. and Lucky Dog Cannabis, Bozeman, Montana). It is widely regarded as the Chem 91 cut with the best provenance.123 Skunk VA's own account (Pot Cast, 2016) is the primary source and is verified as his statement:

  • He received "the chem dog" in Sonoma County in summer 1995, "a few days before Jerry Garcia died", from a close friend of Chemdog.
  • He found Chemdog on Overgrow in December 2005.
  • In February 2006 he flew Chem Dog cuttings to New York and returned them to Chemdog. In exchange he received Chem D and a plant later identified as Mass Super Skunk; Chemdog's "number six somehow got turned into the mass super skunk".14

High Times (2016) credits Skunk VA with keeping the Chem strains alive through Chemdog's 2011 legal trouble.5 High Times (2012) printed Cali Connection's Dead Head OG lineage as "Chem Dog 91 (a.k.a. the Skunk VA cut) × SFV OGK F4". So the SKVA cut was the Chem 91 used by at least one major seed company.6 Forum disputes about "SKVA vs original 91" exist (THCFarmer). A forum post read on a podcast holds that "skunk VA cut is the original Chem 91, it's got the best provenance". Tucson Weekly gives a different trade story (Chem's Sister for Chem 91, early 2000s), which is disputed.378

2. Identity

  • Names/aliases: Chem 91 SKVA, Chemdawg 91 SKVA, Chem 91 (Skunk VA cut), SkVA cut, "91 Chem VA Skunk"? (a Nevada lab name of uncertain meaning).39
  • Keeper: Skunk VA (Jason), from Virginia; later California, then Montana.12
  • Propagation: clone-only (Lucky Dog makes Chem-line seeds).2
  • Region: Massachusetts (origin) → Sonoma County, CA (1995) → Montana (2020s).

3. Claims

  • 3a. The SKVA cut is the original 1991 Chem 91 clone, received in 1995 — verified (Skunk VA's statement).1
  • 3b. Skunk VA returned Chem 91 to Chemdog in February 2006, receiving Chem D and "Mass Super Skunk" — verified (Skunk VA, 2016 and James Loud podcast).14
  • 3c. Krzanowski lost Chem 91 in the early 2000s and traded Chem's Sister to Skunk VA for it — reported, competing with 3b.8
  • 3d. "SKVA vs original Chem 91" differ — reported (forum; thread not opened).7
  • 3e. SKVA cut has the best provenance of any Chem 91 cut — reported (forum opinion read on a podcast).3

4. Timeline

  • 1995-07/08 — Skunk VA receives Chem Dog in Sonoma County.1
  • 1997–98 — Chemdog's friend sends "Chemdog since 91" / "Super Skunk since 1993" t-shirts.1
  • 2005-12 — Contact with Chemdog on Overgrow; Skunk VA takes the handle from "Super Skunk Virginia".1
  • 2006-02 — Cuttings returned to Chemdog in NYC (Phil Lesh's run).1
  • 2011–2016 — Keeps the Chem lines alive during Chemdog's legal trouble.5
  • 2012 — Cali Connection's Dead Head OG uses "Chem Dog 91 (a.k.a. the Skunk VA cut)".6
  • 2021-02 — Lucky Dog Cannabis dispensary opens in Bozeman, Montana.2
  • 2024 — Skunk VA joins The Grateful Head, a clone bank and genetic repository.10

5. Cannabinoid & terpene profile

Caveat: strain names are not reliable chemotype identifiers.

DatasetNameTHC avgnTerpenes
WA I-50211"Chem 91 Sk Va"20.8%1—
Current records9"91 Chem VA Skunk" (NV; whether this is the SKVA cut or a Chem 91 × VA Skunk cross is unknown)24.3%48limonene 0.65, linalool 0.28 (n=48)

See chemdawg for the label-wide Chem 91 data.

6. Community sentiment

Reverence for the SKVA cut as the "real 91" is common among Chem collectors (Overgrow/THCFarmer).37 No score (insufficient direct reviews).

7. Open questions

  • Genotype comparison of SKVA vs other "Chem 91" cuts (none found).
  • The meaning of the Nevada "91 Chem VA Skunk" product name.

8. Sources

Footnotes

  1. The Pot Cast, "Episode 2 – SkunkVA of Lucky Dog Seed Co", 2016-09-01. ASR transcript: https://github.com/muf4/canna-transcripts (transcriptions/The Pot Cast) — podcast. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. The Pot Cast, "Episode 82 ft SkunkVA of Lucky Dog Seed Co", 2023-04-25 (recorded at Lucky Dog Dispensary, Bozeman). ASR transcript in muf4/canna-transcripts — podcast. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. The Breeders Syndicate, "Researching Cannabis Provenance via Forums — Original Diesel" (reads forum posts on air). ASR transcript in muf4/canna-transcripts — podcast. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. James Loud Podcast EP #16, "Jason 'SkunkVA' with Lucky Dog Seed Company". ASR transcript in muf4/canna-transcripts — podcast. ↩ ↩2

  5. High Times, Danny Danko, "25 Years of Chem Dog", 2016-09-07. https://hightimes.com/?p=160919 — news. ↩ ↩2

  6. High Times #443, Dec 2012, seed review (Lineage: Chem Dog 91 (a.k.a. the Skunk VA cut) × SFV OGK F4). Internet Archive OCR, item hightimes1974-2018 (Public Domain Mark). https://archive.org/details/hightimes1974-2018 — news. ↩ ↩2

  7. THCFarmer, "chem skva91 vs original chem 91?" and "Skunk VA cut of chem 91". https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/chem-skva91-vs-original-chem-91.59280/ ; https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/skunk-va-cut-of-chem-91.16976/ — forum_post — unverified_url: true (HTTP 403). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Tucson Weekly, Eva Halvax, "Chemdog, Deadheads and a man named Greg", 2024-01-18. https://www.tucsonweekly.com/?p=91722 — news. ↩ ↩2

  9. Cannlytics + CT DCP, _computed_current_lab_stats.json — lab_dataset. ↩ ↩2

  10. The Pot Cast, "Episode 98 ft SkunkVa of Lucky Dog Seed Co / Grateful Head", 2024-09-09. ASR transcript in muf4/canna-transcripts — podcast. ↩

  11. WA I-502 (src-chem-wa-i502-jikomes2018). ↩