Does Acapulco,Colombian Gold Cure to a Yellow golden color???? I came into contact with this strain in early 80's. I was told it was Acapulco Gold
Acapulco Gold Q
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Ya thats not what im taling about. This strain was a 100% sativa and cured a golden yellow color it was fantastic. I want it again
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Very low nitrogen when growing will turn the plant golden, including the buds.
I had some Sensi Northern Lights growing outdoors one year, and one plant, I don't know if I missed out fertelizing it or the roots got attacked be termites and so it couldn't access nutrients in the soil, but anyway the whole plant turned a golden colour.
I had some Sensi Northern Lights growing outdoors one year, and one plant, I don't know if I missed out fertelizing it or the roots got attacked be termites and so it couldn't access nutrients in the soil, but anyway the whole plant turned a golden colour.
Well you know what they do to make it gold in Colombia? They girdle the trunk, cut a circle of bark off around the trunk and let it cure on the vine. Look at my sig. that is '76 Santa Marta Gold Colombian.
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desi
OH YAH thats the stuff there .....
Ganjarishi
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I've worked with a pure sativa Acapulco Gold hybrid for years. I've opened many many seeds of this and never had any sort of gold pheno. I seem to remember that the name and color came from sun curing.
none is ever gold while its growing. after cure it was gold,yellow,light brown. This was 1980
i had read in 1 of the many weed books that the columbian gold acupulco gold were gold in color because they dried the harvested plants right in the sun
I forgot about 'sun curing', that's right. For Landraces back in the day, for instance, regular and even Punta Rojo was stacked in a pile and turned to cure and that darkened it's color and brought out more earthy tones. Well as 'sun cured' was drying the buds in the sun to cure them and turn them a goldish color like Acapulco Gold. The Acalulco Gold I had the stems looked bleached white, I will never forget that. It was the best high.
Ganjarishi
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Pure sativas like the Acapulco Gold have a heart thumping high! Taking a puff and clutching your chest with eyes waterin type of high! I find that most people have never truely puffed pure sativas in this day of the quick finish bulky kushes.
I remember the acapulco gold from then ...late 70's to very early 80's . it was truley a golden color & what i remember most was it was sticky as hell ... it stuck to the bag it was so sticky . memorable cuz most of the stuff we smoked then wasn't like that .what i miss the most was the skunk being grown then ... that was some tasty & potent stuff , not like i've had recently .
good luck on your hunt hammer .
good luck on your hunt hammer .
Ganjarishi
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It is way to harsh. Especially if you are trying to produce TopShelf goods. That is for mass produced third world herbs. If you really want "golden" buds you can just leve your jars exposed to the sunlight while jar curing.
Or you can get a very potent narcotic high by leaving them to cure on the vine still under lights 14 off/10 on. It has turned Sour Diesel, Schroomy-Deez, and my Durban Poison Skunk all gold like 14 weeks or more. Of course I lost 'some' of the ripe flavors and smell, but it makes them real potent. I had no reason to cut them early, i was being alittle lazy then...it happens to old farts.
I wont be holding my breath to locate it.... Seems most strian today are not what they use to be. Most say today weed is stronger I disagree with that 100%...Back then we never had any paranoid feelings or speedy weed. I was allot younger maybe that makes a diferance?
I've had various opinions on this through the years. But what I have come to figure is a bit less exciting than some of the nostalgia we think of today in retrospect.
First I would like to say I have on numerous occasions sun dried marijuana I've grown, and it DOES NOT turn it a golden color under any circumstances I've ever encountered. In fact some times it makes the bud quite a bit darker. I'm personally convinced that the sun drying doesn't have anything to do with the golden color.
Second I've read about the girdling, but never personally tried it. While it may work the sheer volume of product moved during the 70's would have made it almost impossible to do such a labor intensive procedure to the incredible amount of plants being grown at the time. So I doubt that was the method that produced the Gold grass we remember, though the process very well may work.
What I have noticed, is that when grass is seeded the seeded pods often take on a very light color, which can turn bright yellow during curing. Also of course when leaves lose their cholophyll they also turn quite a golden color.
Now this brings me to my final point, for the sake of brevity. My father was in a biker gang during the 60s and owned a motorcycle shop in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Some of the people he was close to were involved in smuggling Mexican grass between California and the Gulf Coast from Texas. What one of his old friends told me made a lot of sense. Bear in mind he is not a grower, and doesn't know anything about strains. Just grass. But what he said makes sense.
He said in those days there were no strain names. Nothing like that. Grass was grass. There were only two types available when you went to the Mexican border towns and asked for grass.
There was regular green commercial weed, which was produced by being "picked green". Once the seeds were ripe, the main colas were harvested.
The problem is that seeds get ripe after only 50-60 days. Sativas we now know today take 3-5 months to finish. Not two months. So almost all of the weed being sold back then was quite immature by todays standards. Stuff that was left out in the field to mature, eventually turned gold as the plant ate up its own nutrients.
Put very simply, "gold" just meant ripe. It meant that the weed had lived long enough for the resin glands to mature into a more psychoactive product than its green counterpart. It got sold for a bit more than the commercial weed.
As growing techniques progressed over the upcoming decades, when grass became an expensive commodity, farmers quite treating marijuana as a wild ditchweed, and began growing patches of more intensely cultivated and fertilized weed. The "gold" disappeared. Quite naturally as those plants were better cared for and simply stopped turning gold when they had enough nutrients in the soil to provide healthy growth.
In summary, similar to "Kush", I'm not necessarily convinced "Acapulco Gold" was ever a strain at all. Rather a slang term for highland sativas of southern Mexico. Which were left to mature,
and were more potent than the lower quality green weed. The areas of Oaxaca, Acapulco, Guerrero, Puebla, etc. Are literally all within a couple hundred miles of one another, and are a similar environment.
Basically I think if you took any pure Mexican sativa, which still freely exists in high numbers in our current era.Simply grew it fully seeded in regular top soil, with no nutrient feedings, and allowed it to ripen, the resulting product would be indistinguishable from what was around in the 60's and 70s as Acapulco Gold. I'm not convinced "Acapulco Gold" is really any different than the Oaxacas and so forth that still exist in the current era. What disappeared I think, isn't the genes, but the growing methods that produced the gold color. And most likely for the better.
Just my .02
First I would like to say I have on numerous occasions sun dried marijuana I've grown, and it DOES NOT turn it a golden color under any circumstances I've ever encountered. In fact some times it makes the bud quite a bit darker. I'm personally convinced that the sun drying doesn't have anything to do with the golden color.
Second I've read about the girdling, but never personally tried it. While it may work the sheer volume of product moved during the 70's would have made it almost impossible to do such a labor intensive procedure to the incredible amount of plants being grown at the time. So I doubt that was the method that produced the Gold grass we remember, though the process very well may work.
What I have noticed, is that when grass is seeded the seeded pods often take on a very light color, which can turn bright yellow during curing. Also of course when leaves lose their cholophyll they also turn quite a golden color.
Now this brings me to my final point, for the sake of brevity. My father was in a biker gang during the 60s and owned a motorcycle shop in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Some of the people he was close to were involved in smuggling Mexican grass between California and the Gulf Coast from Texas. What one of his old friends told me made a lot of sense. Bear in mind he is not a grower, and doesn't know anything about strains. Just grass. But what he said makes sense.
He said in those days there were no strain names. Nothing like that. Grass was grass. There were only two types available when you went to the Mexican border towns and asked for grass.
There was regular green commercial weed, which was produced by being "picked green". Once the seeds were ripe, the main colas were harvested.
The problem is that seeds get ripe after only 50-60 days. Sativas we now know today take 3-5 months to finish. Not two months. So almost all of the weed being sold back then was quite immature by todays standards. Stuff that was left out in the field to mature, eventually turned gold as the plant ate up its own nutrients.
Put very simply, "gold" just meant ripe. It meant that the weed had lived long enough for the resin glands to mature into a more psychoactive product than its green counterpart. It got sold for a bit more than the commercial weed.
As growing techniques progressed over the upcoming decades, when grass became an expensive commodity, farmers quite treating marijuana as a wild ditchweed, and began growing patches of more intensely cultivated and fertilized weed. The "gold" disappeared. Quite naturally as those plants were better cared for and simply stopped turning gold when they had enough nutrients in the soil to provide healthy growth.
In summary, similar to "Kush", I'm not necessarily convinced "Acapulco Gold" was ever a strain at all. Rather a slang term for highland sativas of southern Mexico. Which were left to mature,
and were more potent than the lower quality green weed. The areas of Oaxaca, Acapulco, Guerrero, Puebla, etc. Are literally all within a couple hundred miles of one another, and are a similar environment.
Basically I think if you took any pure Mexican sativa, which still freely exists in high numbers in our current era.Simply grew it fully seeded in regular top soil, with no nutrient feedings, and allowed it to ripen, the resulting product would be indistinguishable from what was around in the 60's and 70s as Acapulco Gold. I'm not convinced "Acapulco Gold" is really any different than the Oaxacas and so forth that still exist in the current era. What disappeared I think, isn't the genes, but the growing methods that produced the gold color. And most likely for the better.
Just my .02
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It was very good expando weed 
For it being poorly grown it was very good if thats how the gold color is achieved ?? Panama red was also similar to this.. it was like smoking OG but it was yellow/gold/light brown in color...The green buds we see today where virtually none existent.
For it being poorly grown it was very good if thats how the gold color is achieved ?? Panama red was also similar to this.. it was like smoking OG but it was yellow/gold/light brown in color...The green buds we see today where virtually none existent.
