Colombian Gold technique?

[Medical Marijuana]

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[Frog]

Males were removed after they pollenated the females so there were nurts for the females to develope and finish.
At least thats what I understood from Jeffersons notes:
hemp. plough the ground for it early in the fall & very deep, if possible
plough it again in Feb. before you sow it, which should be in March.
a hand can tend 3. acres of hemp a year.
tolerable ground yields 500. lb to the acre. you may generally count on
100 lb for every foot the hemp is over 4. f. high.
a hand will break 60. or 70. lb a day, and even to 150. lb.
if it is divided with an overseer, divide it as it is prepared.
seed. to make hemp seed, make hills of the form & size of cucumber hills, from 4. to
6. f. apart, in proportion to the strength of the ground. prick about a dozen
seeds into each hill, in different parts of it. when they come up thin them
to two. as soon as the male plants have shed their farina, cut them up that
the whole nourishment may go to the female plants. every plant thus
ended will yield a quart of seed. a bushel of good brown seed is enough for an acre.

You really have to search and read, they don't make it easy:
Thomas Jefferson Papers : An Electronic Archive

[FreakNature]

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[mr.mike]

I'll just say this:

If Washington was growing fiber hemp that he was separating the males from, how come he wasn't working in the fields, and made a special entry about his planting at the "muddy hole by the swamp?"

Then he goes back to the muddy hole and removes the males! Do you think the "muddy hole" was a few hectares? He obviously wasn't breeding anything, as he didn't want seeds, and obviously wanted it way away from his normal hemp.

Also, the first post is a little off here. It mentions that HPS is the same spectrum as the sun, which is untrue. The spectrum of HPS is often said to be like the autumn sun (which it really isn't). Colombia is so close to the equator that it really has NO autumn, and the sun's spectrum there year-round would be much better approximated by a MH lamp.

Another question that would have to answered in the pursuit of the technique of the Gold Weed would be to know where in Colombia it was grown, as the country is quite diverse in terms of landscape, elevation and precipitation and relative humidity throughout the year.

I believe the weed harvest season in Colombia is in January.

[Urdedpal]

It would be more like using both lights. You really can't compete with equatorial sunlight. As for when its harvest in that region, I have no clue. I do know that Jamaica has 3 harvest per year. I never followed up how that was done though.

I am not going to argue friend, I just go by the info that I have found and what I believe to be reliable. I can tell you this, one of the reasons sensamilla was discovered so late was because of indoor growing. With out artificial light, there was no ability to clone or keep a plant from flowering. So seed was the only way people in the past can obtain a harvest for next season. There were no hybrids, just selective breeding by taking seeds from the strongest of plants to sow for the following season. I really think you would like that book I mentioned before, has alot of factual info with acurate historical data. Very nice chatting with ya.

[mr.mike]

I've seen the Clarke book. Admitting having read a couple of his books makes me feel as dated as some of the information in them.

There is a book - Sinsemilla: Marijuana Flowers (1976), by Jim Richardson and Arik Woods from And/Or press. It pretty much goes over sinsemilla in detail, from the nature, to the then-current outdoor cultivation of seedless pot, which had obviously been going on for a few years, outdoors, before the authors had collected the photos and information used in it.

People just weren't going to do the work to clear the field of the males - it was only ever done on a small-scale level up until the late sixties/early seventies.

Bhang, from India, is preferentially made from leaves and flowers of unseeded cannabis.

People have known about sinsemilla longer than english has been spoken. We humans have been growing cannabis for more than 5,000 years. If we could breed different varieties of dogs and food crops, know well that the basic nature of cannabis and it's preparations have been known for millennia.

[Urdedpal]

Seen the book but never picked it up, not even sure if its in print anymore. I have been watching this thread in hopes of seeing you pop up. Always enjoyed talking to people who backs up there arguments. This debation is over for me, it would be very close minded to think nobody ever found a way to make seedless potent bud since mj has been with humans for so long. Too much history of the plant was never recorded or was destroyed over the course of time.
Besides, I ain't no historian. I am a gardener lol. A gardener who smokes too much to boot.

[Medical Marijuana]

^ya gotta love the gardeners.