[Snype]

I enjoy hearing about the CG's. I've never smoked it but my old mentor used to tell me it was the best bud he ever smoked. Specifically 1973 Santa Marta Columbian Gold. He kept thousands of seeds and had them all labeled. He gave me thousands of the best batch but they are very old and were not stored properly. I keep trying to germinate them but once the tap root comes out it turns to mush. I'm hoping that one day I'll get a seed to germinate.

He has talked to me for many hours about the Columbian Gold. Over and over and over many times. He said most people never got to really get to see what he saw because he took seed with him to Greece and grew females with no seed in the intense sun. He said it was so Electric and compared it to cocaine. He said when he would smoke people up with a joint, that they would think it was laced with some other drug. He would crack up laughing every time he told me that. He was a real character.

He said when it wasn't seeded, it was more potent. The seed was kept in an attic for many years. I have a feeling that one day I'll find a way to make a seed sprout and hopefully be able to see what you guys are talking about. He said it was the best bud he's ever smoked. The best bud that I ever smoked in my life was strains that he created in the 90's so I take what he says very seriously. Any time I bring up an "Elite Clone Only" he laughs and says they'll never compare to the stock that he has. He was kind of right though because his stuff was more potent than most of my Clone Only's. Last time I talked to him he was growing out his old Thai stock which is what most of his stuff is based on.

[420somewhere]

Back in the day...let's say 1973...

We were not hip about the differences between the males and females.

We got our Kilos in bricks for $90. We would break them down and take out the loose seeds a remove the big stems and we were ready.

I remember thinking how much better the heavily seeded pot was compared to pot without many seeds.

We went through 3 or 4 kilos a month. We used to keep our seeds in Fruit Cake tins, each holding thousands of seeds.

We grew plants by the thousands....

We would till the soil and spread a tin of seeds. The result was a backyard of 7 foot plants.

Oh those were the days.

Then I bought a Phototron 3000 and learned about Females.

I haven't looked back since, but wish I'd run into some Gold.

[El Gato]

On June 17th 1975 I bought a QP of some of the best weed I ever put my hands on, threw it in my van and we hit the road for Uniondale, New York and the Nassau Coliseum to see PINK FLOYD (wish you were here tour) What a fricken show....rolled back in to town 4 days latter on Saturday morning, 3 joints to spare!

[MelloYello]

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[Cool Moe]

The very best Colombian gold I ever smoked was circa 1979-1980. The buds were smaller than usual and rock-solid and like an earlier poster said, the bag seemed small for that reason. Color was a reddish-gold hue that was very unique. But the trait I remember most was that it immediately blew up in your lungs, it just couldn't be held in. We called it "Expando Bo." Smell was the super-sweet hashy catpiss, and it made your eyes redder than a fire engine. Dealer charged $45 per zip instead of the usual $40--it was THAT good!

One of the top 3 strains ever from my youth that I still daydream about today, even though it was 35 years ago. Hawaiian weed in a sealed coffee can was my favorite flavor ever, Jamaican weed with long colas the size of your forearms and a high more like mushrooms than herb, and the Colombian gold that just blew the fuck up, painted the eyes red and stoned you to the absolute bone. Those were the good ol' days.

[oldgangster]

It was in the 70s. Cerebral giggly mind expanding high.....expanded immensely in your lungs when toked. I still have original seed stock from then. Also old seed stock of panama and lambsbread. Going to germinate some this year.....it has been 7 years since I grew any.....Got caught up with the connoisseur breeds for years plus a strain of cross breed that I have been working on for 5 seasons.

[stop the madnes]

Happy 420...stay safe.

'75. Had been smoking lots of good to excellent quality Mexican, with the rare Panama Red. Oaxaca Tops (1 ft. long+) wrapped in loose paper, in 1/4 lb. bundles were there then and before, as well. Even the brick weed was from honorable and connected Mexican folks, and it was good.

The first Colombian Gold had a slightly hash-meets-wispy flavor, far superior to the Mexican commercial decent brick, and six of us smoked a pin joint in a basement. The littlest fellow with us was sitting on a Triumph 650 chopper with a springer front-end against a wall. We're all talking, amazingly high from what we'd just inhaled (maybe 2-3 tokes each of modest proportion), when some startled sound abruptly emerges from the shadows near where the Triumph was stored in the basement.

Poor little feller sitting on the bike, with his feet barely touching, was apparently falling over. A testament to the experience.

A much deeper and brighter effect than most other versions back then, including the exceptional Oaxaca Tops.

Probably comparable to the incredible true Panama Red, though -that- was also in a genre of its own.

These days when the gummint cites the BS put out by the Mississippi Monitoring Project from back in those days, claiming the average weed folks smoked was about 1%-3% THC content, those of us who experienced that transition, just look at each other and either get irritated at the propaganda machine, or grin a big cynical smile.

[hayday]

it was about 74 or so.
i got a whitie and threw up.i was just a kid at the speedway races
killer weed

[RoostaPhish]

Not as old as some. But back in the late 90's early 00's. We used to get gold by the truck load. Went under the name Sexy Mexy. Sometimes thick gold Columbian, other times thinner yet still dense and gold Acapulco. Large latino population in our area. But came from a serious old head with locks to the ground. My mom and uncle flipped the first time I brought some home. Strong, earthy sweet taste, red eyed high. Squinty! Always had a few seeds. Some of the best genetics I ever grew. Easy to tell it was the precursor to Skunk.