Ahoy hoi peeps, I want to have a go at growing one of these strains colombian gold (most probably) or Kwazulu, has anybody grown these? I know they are old strains but well wicked I am told, so if anybody has any experience growing them are they easy or difficult? I have grown for 1 1/2 years, 4 crops. I grow in soil and use BioBizz or Bio Canna for ferts.Much appreciated.
https://www.seedboutique.com/store/index.php?manufacturers_id=84 they have a hybrid of two different panamanian (is that a word?) strains. guatemala sativa is supposedly a close relative to panama red as well. you didnt say, but im guessing youre going with the World of Seeds offerings? ive heard more bad than good about them, unfortunately.....some people liked the colombian, but that was seedstock from several years ago. recent reports are that, as a company, WoS has no idea what theyre doing anymore... but, it may be worth the risk. the last few good reports I saw were on some of their landrace offerings, so they may still be the same.
My WOS Kwazulu seeds arived today. This is a hydro grow and a first with Kwazulu, will let you know how it goes.
Interesting indica Landrace Crossback 25/75 sativa from Colombia giving as result a mixture of pure lines come zone.High Santamarta, vigorous and branched, its smell is sweet and intense, is distinguished by its taste and potent effects psicodelic.
if there's just 75% columbian gold in that gear, man get ready for a wild fucking ride that will jump on you and kick your ass umercifally with a pleasant pine cone odor if you don't respect it. it will probably be the best shit you and everyone you know put together has ever smoked. i love me the columbian gold more than ANYTHING EVER! it's what i started out smoking and when you start with "the best" (malawi gold, thai, vietnamese, & cambodian a heavyweights i've never tried too though) in the mid 80s and was only fucking paying $40 for a fucking QUARTER of that shit! it's almost as trippy as LSD which didn't impress me except for a couple brief flashes of pattern & a wierd helicopter spotlight glow knee deep in swamp trying to prove to your crackhead cousin who'll later turn on you when you tell his ignant ass that his indicrap can't even come CLOSE to comparing to the gold that you can in fact find his redneck 4 wheeler and fuck you i ain't no city boy bitch i grew up biking to your sorry house most my life and get a bit paranoid about frogs jumping in imagining wild dogs you don't want to be playing fetch with at night coming for the new meal on the block and navigate back out by marking the moon's position finding later that i'd was just 100 feet west and 50 south of it from the other side of the woods than i went in and out because the fiel was easier terrain. (longest run on sentence ever?) gold is the trippy buzz i've wanted to get back to after it vanished around '85 to be replaced by the same fucking $50 an eighth shit that $50 an eight today! i despise indicas because my $40 a quarter lovelies were replaced by the "red hairs" at first and then the skunks and all of the other stony shit that earns any provider who gives me a HINT of grief the fuck you very much because their greedy grubby fucking $100 a quarter beasters ain't doin' me the slightest fucking favor. if the genes are righteous and you can give the gold an insane amount of patience and soil to, you will have bud i would beg you to sell me for $100 an eighth just once, but i'm on the hazes & other sativas now. when you do a deep in the lungs one hitter on gold, your lungs will explode and you will hack and hack, get dry heaves, even puke and if you push 4 quickies with the final being a lung buster, you will get the worst kind of dizzy and nauseaus with room spinning feeling that makes you want to just get to sleep immediately and not do that again ever! LOL (i'm not good at taking lung busters now with any bud, though i encountered something gold level a couple years ago that spanked me a little on the last hit & took 20 minutes or so to settle. just before the killer hit lullabyes your ass, you WILL start literally seeing shit. i saw swirling internally glowing frosted spheres flying by me just barely like a ghost image when i closed my eyes. were it not for the overpowering sickness made WORSE by chugging just 1 can of beer (don't mix potent sativas with alcohol!) the experience would have been awesome. at sane dosages, gold's trippy effects are subtler, but much funner. EVERYTHING gets a fresh feeling like you're doing it for the first time. you find that suddlenly, that crumpled styrofoam bun conveyor belt burger you eat after work tastes like the most delicious gourmet smokehouse state fair winnin' steak you ever had. you get insane munchies on gold. i haven't had the munchies ever really since, although i think i dripped on the floor a little eating a mesquit smoked ham (FUCKIN' A YUMMY!!!) & salami & pepper jack on pumpernickel with gulden's sandwhich on something sativa yesterday though, but i was hungry. tangy cayenne capicola's the shit, but the pacific norrthwest has wussy sweet loving tastebuds and you just can't get it here unless you're in a big city maybe. the very first high i got was on the gold but everyone called it thai. thai can be grapey, but true highland thai has a tutti fruity (juicy fruit) flavor and i can tell you, it's a bit to grow and maddening when you wait 4 months to see it start flowering (halide is probably not helping) and when it does and you think you're golden (pun intended) all of a sudden you lady whips out a dick and you literally have to nip that shit in the bud. the coworkers at my very first job, including the manager, were all partyers and got me to stay after work for beer & blazing though i had no interest in either. i was innocently corrupted by them hopped up druggies (actually, weed & hops are related! if that's the case, then beer is definitely INDICRAP! how cool would that be? a sativa beer that doesn't get you drunk but high? you'd need to boil it though to activate the THC. if you want to eat a bud, bake it 1st. at first i didn't even know i was high as a cousin once gave me hits off a dead bowl once & i got nothing and thought i was a little tipsy from a couple bottles of heiniken i think. when i left, dude loaned me his bowl and a gram while my buzz was still creeping up on me unawares. by the time i passed the semi-truck that was pulled over by something like 8 gumballs i was fully ripped and paranoid out of my fucking mind! "oh shit! you've had two beers, you're drunk! they're gonna see you swerving and find this felony in your pocket and you are gonna be bunkin' with bubba and knuckles the next 20 to life oh shit! oh shit! oh shit! oh shit! oh shit! oh shit! oh shit! oh shit!" fortunately for me, i was driving well enough and not swerving at all and it was raining lightly. i made myself look suspicious i think slowing down to 40 miles per hour only to have 2 fucking cruisers pull up to me on both fucking sides. if there's any time to test if someone can handle sativa paranoia, it's on gold with 2 gumshoes sizing you up while you're trying to keep your hands locked & stay in your lane which you're doing fine, but drinking & driving is fucking stupid nonetheless. "don't look at them! they'll think you have something to hide, stare straight ahead. here comes one on the right, SHIT! you turned youre head & looked! did the car coming up on the left see you? shit, you looked again! eyes on the fucking road! hands at 10 and fucking 2!" and they got bored by my lack of doing anything but driving safely in the rain which by then has picked up and looks like glowing spears of white light or laser blasts in your headlights and only then do you realize you're actually high. after laughing off the the near fingerprinting and hello mr hemrhoid i stopped in a church parking lot in a small town on the way home and by the time i got home with my amped up with 3 bowl hits buzz saw that the newscaster was all of a sudden 3D, much like the flat looking 3D at theaters (they should really do it right and just stream directly into HD video glasses that don't rely on that flat screen for viewmaster quality 3D... pokernaut never learned what was up with that "stupid looking" burned out space capsule no one would talk about until his mid life crisis LOL was, but you can just reach out & touch REAL 3D) then i put some tunes on and my head between my crappy speakers & system and all of a sudden that goofy OMD track that was nothing but a bunch of really big sounding godzilla like roars all of a sudden made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck & trip me out like there was a 200 foot tall something just outside. gold just heightens all of your senses. movies seem more intense & real, music seems cooler & you get into it more, new experiences are much funner, the stupidest shit makes you fall out of your chair laughing, you get a light giddy feeling in your stomach and when you walk, it always feels like you're going downhill & somtimes like your legs are just balloons ready to float away. i have no doubt that the term getting high comes from that light floaty feeling you get off gold or a similar sativa just as getting stoned comes from indicrap's beatdown effect. despite the insane potency, the buds are lighter & fluffier than todays rock nugs and look as though they don't have much resin, but the THC is purer & more concentrated. if you want to grow a sativa, i suggest you get started on it yesterday if you're doing the outdoors thing which you have to do or use suppercropping techniques indoors. they're super fussy. they like tons of light and the less there is, the more they'll stretch for it. they take forever to even start flowering and they yield low compared to denser indicas & hybrids for a given space, but i bet a single tree's bud weight is heavy. they also need at least 5 gallons and will not even start cooperating with you until they have at least 2 gallons. i seem to recall seeing some growers giving their IBLs 10 galloins or more of soil. a plant as big as a tree, needs strong roots. if you're looking to grow shit no connouisseur would dare look down their nose at, grow the gold! i'd follow the progress on that grow with interest, but i'm happy with the milder indoor hybrids i'm studying now. try googling the breeder and his gold for grow & smoke reports and check on his other gear to see if he's a good breeder or not. i don't know how much money you have to spend or how much space you have to work with, but if you absoltely want gold instead of a not at all shabby at worst haze etc., world of seeds also carries a gold and senor garcia is 75% gold with G13 i think and has had favorable word of mouth. cannabiogen's destroyer is supposed to be mostly gold too i think, although the reports i've read say it's not as good as pure gold or it's rep. world of seeds claims to have a columbian gold, and i've heard a couple blips that their regular gear at least is legit, but i'm leery of ANY alleged columbian gold as it was never in the seed market and few if any are still growing it for their own consumption. seeing one breeder call something that was either only something like 50% gold or maybe even just a haze based cross that was so far from being actual gold has made me stay away from it until i start seeing raves for any breeder's gold. sativa seeds doesn't have gold, but i have no doubt that their oaxican is at least some sort of mexican sativa, maybe just from leftover commercial bagseeed which is NOT shabby to grow & comes in several great local strains. my full moon thais are the real deal! i'm playing footsie with my full moon hermie under my table right now. i should check it to see if there's and starting bud growth from the plant's reserves. i'd love to keep growing it for bud. shit! that's it! i always talked about scrogging sativas under shopligts, nows my chance to test the theory! i know my orphan is at least mostly female LOL (i think just one shoot flipped to stamens) and as she's a waste for my growroom trying to pollinate everything in there, i should try to milk her for whatever i can get besides the scrawny ass microbud i harvested when i yanked it. just when i get to the point that i see real sativa bud, i have to stop or fuck up my crop. i was just getting ready to build a SCROG table for it too. pure sativas aren't easy to do, but worth the effort if you want the least stepped on high you can get. sativa dominant hybrids cab be pretty darned good too though and are much easier to grow i tell you, if you want one of the best & purest sativas you can get, grab whatever's left of afropip's malawi gold x durban poison! lemony malawi is regarded as one of the trippiest sativas in the world and durban poison has been compared to thai and is either the smallest or second smallest "true" sativa along with burmese (though they both have indica looking traits) and would be an ideal strain for shrinking a larger sativa without fucking it's THC profile up at all. when it's gone, it's gone and i'd say get that. afropips gear was loved by him and he'll be missed by true tokers. i've tried pure durban that i don't know the breeder for that was awesome. i hate licorice and it made me nauseous (probably where the poison name comes from) but would never turn it down unless i had better on hand because it does have a real sativa high. i only had 1 gram to sample, but i'd say that durban is a little milder than gold, but then one was indo and the other cali sunshine grown which probably helped a lot. if my experience with the thai tranny under the table didn't put me off IBLs until i'm ready to tackle them, i'd order it myself, but fear it would be dead by the time i got around to it. i can't tell you how either strain grows or smokes, but there's potential greatness and a lot of work getting to it there. good luck with it and +REP for fighting back for the side of truth, justice and the high flying american way of life, oh, wait... the "american" way of life is about poisoning hippies with paraquat and slipping narcotic G13 in with the crack destined for the ghettos while the powder goes uptown and carries far lower penalties.