QWETminus60
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Interesting…I’m 62, & started toking in 1972 when my brother Tom came home from 3 tours in Vietnam (my 1st high Vietnamese he had in his wallet!)
Columbian, my favorite of the Colombian strains I was privy to was the
Colombian Gold (unless u were lucky enough to get opium laced Thai stick-obviously very potent)
Colombian Gold was the best as far as simply saying “”I’m Stoned Man””, she had great bag appeal nice strong bold in your face incense peppery very strong odor…this was the only strain that I almost got caught by my dad smoking—
I waked & baked a small bowl, blew it out the window, Dad told Me to not
burn “”incense”” in the morning anymore while he was eating breakfast !!!
Columbian Red was very rare for us in the Chicago area, but I was lucky enough to get it several times. It had a sweeter taste than the gold, but a more subdued high almost more like creeper weed…but much better than the Col brown…
And least, but not last Columbian brown much better than the brown Mexican.
It was available everywhere, we’d smoke several bowls or jays while going to see a movie & get a good buzz on & then smoke several more on the way home…My point is compared to now…that much of any of my current stash would floor me, no don’t really want to drive that high!!!
((I have read that the Colombians would plunge a wood stake Through the mountain sativa stock splitting it & then let the plants Sun dry/cure —this was the Gold strain. I would have to agree with this article, most potent Sativa strains are mountain above ~2700ft or equatorial, & plants that are stressed tend to produce high amount of resins as death nears…not to mention the higher UVB high altitude exposure.
I’d think the Volcanic mountain area of
Cordillera Central Columbia (pic attached) would possibly be ground zero.
Another note about the gold, was that the buds were somewhat dryer the more I think about it when breaking them up (that I know we didn’t have grinders back then just scissors or our hands), this could be possibly due to the plants drying curing right on the staked stock in the mountain Sun ???
Well that’s my Columbian experience best I remember (But old school Jamaican, Acapulco gold, moroccan, red Vietnamese, Thai stick, Gold/Red Colombians, “Rest In Peace”…
My experiment Sun drying:
At 1st after drying & trimming & cooler curing I thought I’d lost the Terps, BUT now 40 days later & finally jared the Terps just shout out…!!!
Some pics of my Gangster Girl plants SunDrrying for 10 days, then 4 wk cure in food cooler @ 60% humidity & jared.
((Odor of fruity-lemony-vanilla vodka-sage/cardamom spice, per my wife))
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Note: above plants were exposed to 300 watts UVB from day 55-95, late blooming hybrids GSC/OGK = Gangster Girl, Est Thc ~ 22-25%