Pagoda Seeds has built their program around exactly this kind of cross — old-school skunk and cheese genetics worked together without apology, without modernization, without any concession to the fruit and dessert profiles that have dominated the market for the last decade. This cross puts three of the foulest, most historically significant skunk cuts in circulation into a single population and lets the genetics do what they do.
Cheeba RKS traces directly to Heime Cheeba — James Schenk, a biker and breeder from Ketchikan, Alaska who received the original Roadkill Skunk clone from a hippie couple out of the Mendocino County commune scene in the 1970s and spent the next four decades preserving and open-pollinating it while the War on Drugs made growing something that smelled this strongly a genuine liability. Most cuts with this kind of sulfuric, burnt-rubber, dead-animal character were abandoned after Operation Green Merchant shut down the outdoor scene in the early 1980s. Heime held on. The Roadkill Skunk he preserved is a pre-standardization cut — aggressive, raw, funky in a way that has nothing to do with the Dutch-commercialized Skunk #1 lineage that most people associate with the name. Heime passed away in a motorcycle accident in June 2022 at age 63. The line continues through the breeders he trusted with it.
The ’89 UK Cheese is the other anchor of this cross — the single Skunk #1 phenotype that emerged from a Chiltern Hills grow in 1988 or 1989 and smelled so distinctly of sour mature cheese that growers who found it knew immediately it was different from everything around it. By 1995 a clone had reached the Exodus community in Luton, and from there it spread through the British underground as the most recognizable and widely circulated clone-only cut in UK cannabis history. The sharp, sour, dairy-forward character layered over classic skunk musk was unlike anything else the skunk family was producing, and it hasn’t been replicated convincingly since.
Skunkbud #18 is Pagoda’s own old-school skunk selection — a numbered pheno chosen for the deep skunk backbone, vigorous structure, and strong lateral branching that stabilizes the cross and keeps the funk running consistently through the population.
The pheno hunted from this pack is a specific selection from that population — the plant that expressed the full convergence of the Roadkill Skunk’s American funk tradition and the Exodus Cheese’s British sour-dairy character most completely, with the Skunkbud #18 providing the structural foundation underneath both. The terpene profile sits at the intersection of burnt rubber, sharp ammonia, and sour cheese — three distinct expressions of what skunk genetics smell like when they haven’t been softened by modern breeding. Resin production is solid throughout the pack, structure is classic skunk, and the effect is potent and long-lasting with the heavy body character that the indica heritage in all three lines contributes.
This is the Pagoda Seeds ethos expressed in a single cross: loud, funky, historically grounded, and completely uninterested in being approachable.
