Acapulco Gold Q

[motaco]

Fair enough. That is a blonde enough color to be considered gold. Especially in contrast to the cupboard cured sample.

But honestly the color I have in mind is very specific. But you have a point. What gold is really gold? And who decides that?

The pic I posted of Banana is pretty gold, so is yours. Though two very different hues. The gold of actual examples I've seen in pictures of Acapulco Gold though is a very bright color. More yellow than gold really. Most of what is called "gold" today (your example and mine) is really more an olive hue than what would be called a bright yellow.

 

[Ganjarishi]

And I promise it is even more golden/yellow in person and the only difference is light exposure. I thought that banana looked golden too, but can understand it being a more olive. Shoot, I know people that think Crayola Yellow is the color gold...

The bottom line is I'm just trying to share personally acquired information.

 

[Desiderata]

I'll wait for your photos before passing judgement. I agree I have seen many acapulco gold plants, as well as Colombian gold plants, grown from gold weed, and when grown and cured properly they did not produce gold buds. But I have seen vintage pics of VERY distinctly gold South American varieties before. Though I can't currently locate where I have the pics saved to prove it.

I've also seen vintage photos of Gold weed grown properly that was also not gold in color, so that would deter any idea of the genetics changing in those thirty or so years since then.

This is "Santa Marta Gold". Which by all accounts is the original Colombian Gold. Its grown in the states, by a more proficient grower, but still in the very early 80s. You can see the buds are a more green color when fed properly for the entirety of its life.

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mataco, those are some nice looking SMCG buds. Looks pretty tight. I wonder if the high was very similar to the landrace? I have some of British Hempire's Santa Marta Gold seeds,...I just found them recently. Here's what was said about BH's SMCG:

I found the Colombian Gold to be an interesting plant, she takes 21 days to form pistils and a further 84 to flower, the smell when flowering is light odour of cat piss, when you rub the stems it smells like lemons, but when the buds are cured the smell and taste is very spicy.....definately incence.
The buzz is nice, all in the head as would be expected, it is very clear with no paranioa, anxiety or raciness more conversational, thought provoking and euphoric. a nice long cruisy mellow ride. for me it is a feel good strain!
It was grown under 600w lighting and consistantly produces 1lb, after the cross with C99 she now produces 18-19 oz per plant per 600watt light.
This plant needs a huge amount of space as she has extremely long side branches with very few leaves, the main fan leaves are quite small allowing good light penetration to the lower branches.
I think she is ideal for outdoors or scrog indoors

BH said:
Outside she gets huge and I mean HUGE. Indoors she also gets rather big but is controllable. The longish flower time is made up for with the big yield, all in all, she's a bit of a beast.

 

[Hammerhead]

The gold buds from curing in the light I have seen this many times. All of this bud is left out exposed to light and air. This bud is what we all call schwag. Cut early and left in very hot barns to dry and then compressed. Not the same as the columbain gold of the 80's.

 

[the gnome]

oh yeah disiderata
thats the real gold we got back in the 70s!
you could smoke a pin joint with 4 peeps and get plastered

thats when prices on lids went from 20 to $35oz.
soon after the redbud came in.
the hi grade columbian was the game changer.

 

[Raco]

Thai grown outdoors in Spain below 40ºN

Malawi

TomHill´s Haze outdoors @ 43ºN

 

[Hammerhead]

Raco do you know how thta was cured harvested ?? Love that first pic

 

[yourbuddy]

Certain strains (Usually sativa dominant)that are acclimatized and vine ripened will turn gold. KC33 here does this if left longer. Also plant's grown in watery holes either stagnant or not? produces more yellow-gold plants.

 

[djonkoman]

I recently found a small zipbaggie with some of my first harvest from 3 years ago, this had also gotten a yellow/lightbrown/golden color.
I can't compare it to columbian gold since I wasn't around yet back then, but it does make me think letting it turn golden with a cure should be possible, if the cure is long enough and doesn't even have to be under good conditions

 

[homebrew420]

I grew a variety called NL Special, KC Brains. It dropped pollen like a true male, sad really. She/it dusted a Master Kush. That herb, The Accident, produces golden flowers when dry. Grapefruit explosion and so much resin. I also found a number of "males,(was following your other thread about reversed males)" out of these seeds. Made some truly impressive hybrids from these. But the Accident was all gold. Dried and cured in optimal conditions..
I should grow some more of those, haha

Peace

 

[BlueJayWay]

Not to thread jack - but this seems to be the most informative thread on A. gold - there's a cut of A. Gold going around SoCal, or at least parts of it, wondering if anyone's got a clue to how it is and what exactly it is lol, otherwise we'll wait a couple months and ill report back

 

[browntrout]

More often than not the golden color comes from the lack of nutrients, I've had many strains grown in natural soil that are gold/yellow/orange while they were growing, while the same strain grown in amended soil produces such green bud that it will never yellow with any amount of cure. The plants grown in natural soil are almost always stronger in high and potency while lacking in yield/vigor.

- A decade old KC33 clone - completely gold after drying

 

[BlueJayWay]

A few months later, but finally into flower - here's the cut I was mentioning above - Acapulco Gold - 30 days from flip - took a couple weeks longer to show budset than I'm used to so I fully expect it to take 80++ days. Wasn't expecting much but it's frosting up nicely and has a sweet citrus type smell (?) but i'm horrible with describing how these plants smell....

Unless someone recognizes some distinct trait, I doubt I'll ever really know it's origins..

 

[krompir]

Here is mine AG bud grown under 250W HPS. Its form Barneys. Mine needed 13 weeks of 12/12 to finish.Nice smoke ,with strong taste makes me caugh every time i smoke it hhh .

 

[igrowone]

love the thread, as for AG never had the luck, but the CG did cross my path back in the 70's
that was nice stuff, and gone way too fast, and the color was incredible
never seen the lies of it again, is it some lost secret maybe? hard to account for
what i saw i wouldn't think it got its color from nute deprivation, or if it was maybe there was something else in the mix
i don't recall a harsh taste, was a good taste best i remember, and a very, very nice effect

 

[GoodyTwoShoes]

More often than not the golden color comes from the lack of nutrients, I've had many strains grown in natural soil that are gold/yellow/orange while they were growing,

This is true; those "golds", eg. colombian, mexican, were probably grown in poor soil with no fertilizer, and that's why they turned gold.
Sensi Northern Lights can turn very golden, not yellow but bright golden, with low nitrogen.
I had one that must have gotten attacked by termites, termites attack the roots and without a good root system the plant can't get the nutrients it needs, or it missed out on fertilizer, anyway the whole plant at harvest was bright golden.
The rest probably didn't get quite enough nitrogen leading up to flowering, and I went to visit the spot and the fan leaves were all bright golden, I thought shit, this is a security issue, because they would have stood out from the air, there were 50 plants, so I had to spend some time pulling off the golden fan leaves so they didn't stand out so much.

 

[bigherb]

Old thread but common topic

IMO/E Genetics are the number one reason that Strains turn Golden


Hammerhead

To all just a word of warning atleast from the info in that im sure quoted post/description Kaliman seeds should not be trusted . The descriptions an pics Dont match an are inaccurate

The first pic was from Snowcap an stock from HHF via Aldous it is a Colombian hybrid of a Highland Gold type an Mota strain possibly a rainbow type

The Second pic im pretty sure was as Motaco said Purple Afghani from BH



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[GoodyTwoShoes]

Old thread but common topic

IMO/E Genetics are the number one reason that Strains turn Golden

Partly, for example sativas are more likely to turn golden than indicas.
But mainly it's lack of nitrogen in the soil.

 

[festerous]

I've heard that the high amounts of sulfur present in the local soil had some influence on producing those elusive gold hues.

 

[bigherb]

Partly, for example sativas are more likely to turn golden than indicas.
But mainly it's lack of nitrogen in the soil.

I do believe that there are several factors which can contribute to Final product turning Gold/Golden/yellow .

As you said yourself Sativas are more likely to turn than indicas Which supports my opinion that Genetics are Number one factor

IME ive grown a NH clone in str8 soil next to a NH which i amended the soil an both were identical in finish product an had a Golden hue . So i dont believe plain soil poor nutirents or lack of nitrogen is the key .


A Bud of Nevilles haze Grown outdoor in NYC amended soil an not nitrogen starved 1st pic

Aswell as a Hillbilly Haze Nug Grown same conditions next to NH 2nd Pic



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