Skelly Hash Plant: The Puck Before the Hype
The story of an elusive Colorado Hash Plant cut, the mountain network that kept it alive & the nickname that became part of its legacy.
1986: The Holland Connection
According to the story passed down through the Colorado growing community, friends from Leadville traveled to Holland in 1986 looking for Hash Plant seeds.
They returned to Colorado, grew the seed batch & selected a keeper that became known as the Leadville Hash Plant.
The exact Dutch source, original seed line & earliest chain of custody have not been documented and remain part of the strain’s oral history.
1990–91: Skelly’s Cut
By 1990–91, the cut had reached Crested Butte after Skelly brought it from Fort Collins.
According to Mike’s firsthand account, Skelly became the first person in their circle to grow the plant at commercial scale. That association eventually helped give the cut one of its lasting names: Skelly Hash Plant.
A Difficult Keeper
Skelly Hash Plant was remembered as squat, slow in vegetative growth & notoriously difficult to clone.
When grown well, it reportedly produced heavy yields, huge leaves & rounded flowers described as being as dense as rocks. The cut finished in roughly 50–55 days.
Its difficulty likely helped keep it confined to relatively small circles.
The Roadkill Profile
Growers & smokers from the period remember a profile dominated by roadkill skunk, putrid funk & a distinct goat-like smell.
According to those accounts, even small amounts could fill a gas station or surrounding neighborhood with odor.
The effect was also remembered as unusually intense. Mike says some smokers even suspected the flower had been laced because of how strongly it hit.
How “The Puck” Got Its Name
One buyer regularly received the flower in small, clear containers normally used to hold flies for fly fishing.
Over time, resin reportedly stained the containers dark, while their short, round shape began to resemble hockey pucks.
According to Mike, Tommy Phillips helped spread the nickname “The Puck.”
Surviving in the Gunnison Valley
As some of the original Leadville growers moved away, the cut largely disappeared outside its Colorado network.
Mike says it continued circulating quietly through the Gunnison Valley for roughly a decade, passed among a small group of growers despite its reputation for being difficult to preserve.
That survival story comes primarily from firsthand accounts rather than a documented public record.
Around 2000: The Return
Around 2000, Mike & Rob reportedly recovered the cut from a friend who had continued holding it.
They rebuilt plant numbers & later connected with JJ of Top Dawg and Adam Dunn, helping move the genetics back into a wider cannabis network.
The cut was also entered into the 1st Adam Dunn Invitational. According to Mike’s account, hash made from the plant placed 3rd, despite part of the entry being consumed before the final judging round.
The Genetics Travel
The cut later reached breeders connected to Lucky Dog Seeds, while Grahm & Darcy of Cricket & Cicada became particularly associated with Puck-based crosses.
Those later breeding connections helped carry the profile forward even as the original clone remained difficult to find.
The precise Dutch seed source, original breeder & complete early custody chain remain unconfirmed.
Legacy
Skelly Hash Plant survived because a small Colorado mountain network kept passing it forward.
It was difficult to grow, difficult to clone, intensely potent & never widely available. That scarcity became part of its identity.
More importantly, The Puck preserved a distinctly old-school Hash Plant profile from a period before commercial cannabis branding, widespread testing & modern strain marketing. Its history is partly documented through the people who held it, and partly preserved through oral history, but the cut’s survival remains its real legacy.
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