I just read this:

"Some claim that the famous gold color of Acapulco Gold came from a technique of "girdling" the plants, or cutting through the xylem and phloem layers of the stalk, before harvest. This supposedly would cut off the flow of nutrients to the plant, leaving the stalks and buds a blanched golden color at harvest time. Many techniques such as this are used by traditional growers to shock or stress the plant during flowering, in the belief that the plants will respond to stress by producing more of the active (THC-containing) resins responsible for the plants' medicinal potency. This theory has been refuted by people who have grown Acapulco Gold outside of Mexico. The gold coloring is the natural coloring of this plant. More specifically, when grown under normal conditions, Acapulco Gold will cure with golden pistils and yellow to pale green leaves which makes for an overall golden appearance. This is the same with Santa Marta Colombian Gold. Another theory suggests that Acapulco Gold's potency and hue was a result of short-day parthenocarpy which can occur naturally in Mexico due to 11 hour photoperiods and high levels of UVB radiation and the plant's heterozygous genome. However, this theory would imply that only Acapulco Gold grown and harvested in it's native regions in Mexico would live up to the strain's legendary potency."

lol. you totally copied and pasted that from wiki!

i just read this same article yesterday in there

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yes i did thats why i used the quotations

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What can you grow today that has the same taste and high as the colombia of the 70's?

there are a couple of seed companies that offer "colombian red" but as i understand it, acapulco gold for the most part is non existent except for a few growers hanging on to their plants and seeds of old. i have yet to see a seed bank that offers the A.G.

of course then there is maui wowie which is still around. and you can make your own thai sticks just for fun

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just like colombian gold , mexican gold is a blond plant, meaning light green as compare to the red colombian witch is very dark green , if your growing gold and red colombian side by side you will easyly see the diferance between the two, even in veg. Stage of growing , i grow both gold and red colombian and mexican gold for many years out doors in greece and the gold looks gold and the red looks red, even there so its not just in mexico or colombia, i went there in 1973 and was growin colombians till 1994 ,its in the plant not the manipulating some people talk about, yes sure deat buds on a plant will turn yellow but they dont have potency lol , you dont kill the buds on a plant to turn its color lol
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I'm currently growing 'Colombian Gold' from World of Seeds. They do several landrace strains. I'm not sure how close to the 'gold of old' others seem to mention, as it is now 75/25 sativa/indica whereas I believe proper CG is 100% sativa? But what I suspect is that a Santa Marta CG was crossed with an Indica to get the shorter flowering times that people demand these days.

Either way I'm looking bloody forward to smoking it, several people have mentioned how good that stuff was and how hard it is to find anything like it with modern hybrids dominating the banks.

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