Gold from the 1970's

[Underthunder]

Acapulco gold from 1978 I got a good laugh when i found some old photos from the 70's
Well we have come along way from this strain. Back in the 70's we thought this was the bomb
today i would probably throw it in the garbage......no i wouldn't i would probably try to smoke
it and then throw it in the garbage.

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• Underthunder
• Mar 23, 2018

Acapulco Gold from 1978

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• Underthunder
• Mar 23, 2018

Acapulco Gold from 1978

 

[DrDoob]

Lol, now people would pay more for a single seed then a pound of that stuff cost in the 70s.

 

[Jackalope]

I remember the gold weeds. Lucky to have grown up on the west cost in a world full of stoners. Both the Columbian and the Acapulco gold's came through at times. Getting the truly yellow gold weed was great. The fact that the were select genetics that were used when they grew it made it so much better then others. Seeing the Purple craze of today. A guy would make a killing if he produced a strain that could consistently produce that yellow color. The process is redo able. Back then they thought it produced more THC. Probably not but who knows in that climate. As long as it didn't reduce THC it would work. Purple was hard to get super high THC at first. Yellow comes from the green side so strength wouldn't be a problem. Even strong enough to loose a percent or 2 for bag appeal. Anyone that has ever been to a dispensary knows how much a jar of golden buds would sell. I have seen a Cat Piss grown outdoors in Oregon that cured a nice light golden color so I know its possible. Probably going to need the great outdoors to do it. That leaves it to all you warm weather growers.

 

[yesum]

Real Acapulco Gold would never be thrown in the garbage. No telling what the gold colored buds are. Just leave any buds or dying plant out in the sun to bleach and it will turn gold.

 

[Jackalope]

Doing it right is was more then just left out to turn yellow. These were healthy plants harvested at the peak of resin production just like any other. They just disrupted the flow of nutrients to the top of the plants. With no chlorophyll they yellowed. By doing this they also created a flush type reaction from the plant that no other people were doing. This created better flavors and smells. Making it stand out even more from the others. Those who never had it or seen it don't understand. Not all plants will turn yellow. Lack of chlorophyll creates color in leaves. What is under the chlorophyll could be anything from purple to yellow.

 

[yesum]

Unless the plant is purple, to begin with it will not turn purple when dried. The Colombian Gold I got in '79 was picked early. Immature seeds. Not great stuff. Poor farmers doing what they could to survive. Not great growers carefully tending the plant. 90% of pot will turn yellow or brownish yellow if you leave it in the sun or just in a jar long enough. I have seen both so I know.

Cutting the stalk, girdling, or lack of fertilizer is not great farming practice. Easy and common. Most stuff from 70's was poorly grown and handled after.

I am growing real Colombian Gold now. The fan leaves turn yellow with no lack of nutrients or girdling. Buds in the jar get yellower,brownish by the day.

 

[Jackalope]

No use agreeing the point. It does not exist anymore. I just want to clarify a few things. The reason you got bad Colombian Gold is because you got Columbian not the real Columbian Gold. As with today just because someone says its something does not make it true. Columbian and Acapulco Gold were regional strains with limited supply. Lots of trash weed was sold under those names. While the scraping of the stalks making the weed better may be a myth. The fact that they came up with it shows they were finding ways to make their weed better. Yes you are right. There are lots of places where non caring people are growing massive amounts of weed only for profit with no cares of the outcome. That does not mean that there were regions that took a lot of pride in their product. As I remember it most Pure golds that I got were actually lightly seeded. They were not so much growing just females they were protecting their genetics. They removed most of but not all the males. They still needed to replace seed stock for the next year. In turn that may have help those plants produce more crystal by not having easy access to pollen. Those genetics stayed in their regions because it was their own and they protected it. The fact that people are talking about their marijuana 40+ years later proves they were right. Thinking that just because someone is a poor dirt farmer that they do not also have pride in their product is just arrogant.

 

[yesum]

Yeah, thinking a poor farmer does not care is arrogant. Not what I said. I said crap or average weed was sold by poor farmers fro the most part, not that everyone of them was that way. Reading is fundamental

I got average Colombian Gold. Decent but not great. I make better buds in my closet so they failed big time having equatorial sun and up in the high mountains to boot. They made money and most did not know or care about the difference in primo weed. Everyone wins except me I guess.

There was maybe 10% that produced primo highland gold and red. Maybe not that much. Panama Red was very scare too.

 

[angelass]

Real Acapulco Gold would never be thrown in the garbage. No telling what the gold colored buds are....

Agreed entirely! I was very fortunate to have had the connect for some fine gold & red that was comparable to some of today's best. Colombian or Mexican, who knows (mine came through Jamaica). It was even better than the Sensimilla or Thai available in the day and with unique energy & superb tastes too. Unfortunately, there was allot of bogus gold around (NYC), usually blonder and less dense. Although many paid for it. not everybody knew the real deal.

 

[Advocate420]

I think I’m glad I didn’t have to smoke in the 70s. Course I wasn’t an accident until years later

 

[yesum]

angelass, you got it right. The best was available IF, you had the connection and the money. I usually lacked one or the other. You could have been getting Lambsbread from Jamaica. I have not heard of Jamaica being a place that distributed other countries weed. The best Lambsbread was as good as anything or so I heard. Never had it. Excited to be growing it now. Legit old time Lambsbread is rare in Jamaica now.

Advocate420, you are right too but some of the sativas you missed out on were something special. Most was not that great though, and dry spells with nothing or crap. No nostalgia here just the reality that yesterday's weed had advantages along with the bad.

I am in California and went to a pot shop. The SSH I got was like 2 cups of coffee, no trip, no euphoria. That is the best 'sativa' they had, strong enough but lacking. I have Colombian Gold '72, Michoacan, Oaxacan, Guerrero that I grew. They all beat the shit out of that SSH. Panama Red, Jamaican Lambsbread x Original Haze, Cambodian x Thai, Acapulco Gold are coming up, all real not fakes.

 

[The Marijuana kid]

Well I was the guy got only the best Columbia weed lower Brownhill weed and gold Colombian weed with real honey oil in the 70s 1977 to 1980 the one and only Marijuana kid or I was a man then put a kid at heart!!! And why did you laugh on the Colombian gold and with the honey oil you smoked a half a joint with four people and sat there for an hour do you want any more no I’m good you’re real marijuana not this chemically grown cloned crap they grow today I’m one of the few left

 

[yesum]

I remember honey oil. Only oil I smoked was just so so. I wish they had never started doing extracts from buds, other than kief. Not sure what Brownhill weed is. Since the last post I have grown many old heirloom lines. Currently growing Indian lines and soon some Laos.

Tripped hard the other day on Mullumbimby Madness x Oaxacan. Mullumbimby is a city in Australia and Madness is a really old Thai line that they grew there. The Oaxacan is thin leaved and I think an old heirloom line. Great stuff.

 

[The Marijuana kid]

Well I was the guy got only the best Columbia weed lower Brownhill weed and gold Colombian weed with real honey oil in the 70s 1977 to 1980 the one and only Marijuana kid or I was a man then put a kid at heart!!! And why did you laugh on the Colombian gold and with the honey oil you smoked a half a joint with four people and sat there for an hour do you want any more no I’m good you’re real marijuana not this chemically grown cloned crap they grow today I’m one of the few left

That’s The brown weed Colombian weed with the lower hills where it was growing then you had up for upper hill marijuana which was Colombian gold your lower hill upper hill the better higher in the mountains now do you understand what I’m talking about had a lot of seed stems with the Colombian gold was the best shit around if you got the good shit real shit for me and my associates

 

[The Marijuana kid]

Tie stick was really good Then came out humble county skunk Bud

 

[The Marijuana kid]

Or The red hair assess came out from Fallbrook no Seeds then the Humboldt County bud skunk bud yeah I’ve had the best from all over the world and now this crap they grow today with chemicals no I need to smoke and chemical specialist stuff they call oil with Turpines added pureHoney oil is made with the secret recipe that only a few know how to do

 

[Phytoplankton]

"Or The red hair assess came out from Fallbrook no Seeds then the Humboldt County bud skunk bud yeah I’ve had the best from all over the world and now this crap they grow today with chemicals no I need to smoke and chemical specialist stuff they call oil with Turpines added pureHoney oil is made with the secret recipe that only a few know how to do"

Lived in Humboldt Co. in the mid 70-through early 80's. The stuff they (I) grew was incredible. It was the begining of the "Sinsemilla" days. I remember when Indica and Indica crosses first arrived on the HumboCo scene, it was a game changer. I actually had a Botany professor that was called as an expert defense witness in a growing case. At that time in CA only cannabis sativa was illegal. Guy got busted for growing, but they only kept a small dried portion of the crop as evience. His claim was that it was cannabis Indica, not Sativa, i.e., "species defense". The professor was about to testify that once it's dried and crushed in a baggie you cannot tell with reasonable certainty if it's Sativa or Indica. DA saw the writting on the walls, that this could make legal precidence, looked like the prosecution was going to lose the case, so the DA dropped the charges midway through the trial. Two weeks later the legislature change the law to make all "cannabis" species illegal.

 

[The Marijuana kid]

Yeah they got all kinds of rules don’t they and they change them for their benefit to make things illegal well I don’t bow down to man and many movie stars musician truck driver bikers are for mothers fathers brothers and sisters do something to relax or enjoyed and I was the one that got it for him but I’m not gonna let man tell me what I canning can’t do I answer to God And anyway the people that make all these laws and rules are the biggest customers they buy women they molest kids they do drugs they drink they steal they hate they kill oh I’m getting a little sidetracked here but a plant of any kind you use for your health your enjoyment is our blessings for our destruction in our choice OK thank you

 

[The Marijuana kid]

Yeah and I used to be $10 a Lid weed AAA Mexican and than Spears of Michoacan Mexico on $15 a lid than Colombian brown for 25 a lid to 35 than Colombian gold but we had Thai stick for $10 a stick or 15 at hash we’re hash oil black But overseas in Germany we had a lot of hash we have black bubblegum lace with the opium we had choking red and read trip green Blonde Lebanese Back to California we got to Colombian gold yeah with Acapulco gold Panama red we had Alaskan thunder fuck weed we had Jamaican had a Hawaiian tie stick in a test tube Maui Wowie Humboldt County sticky Skunky red hair But the Colombian gold is going up to $50 an ounce 28 g we called it some people still called it a lid then Humboldt County weed hundred dollars an ounce then the in The 80s $600 or more an ounceNo we go to marijuana stores and let strangers grow at for it and put anything on it best to grow your own from Seeds y’all have a great day

 

[ResinSaurusRex]

What about color like this?