What can YOU tell me about WOS Columbian Gold?

I always hear about how back in the day columbian gold was one of (if not THEE) best strains available. much more heady/trippy than your avg indica stone. something special and unique.

well im curious to know how WOS' version compares to the "real thing" or what the differences are in terms of the actual HIGH. i could care less about how it grows or flowering time. im concerned with comparisons of the actual HIGH.

well, i would expect it to be at least a LITTLE stonier along the lines of skunk #1 as it's 25% indica as is senior garcia which i've heard isn't bad. i've also heard that WoSs is a decent breeder.

i haven't been able to try any IBLs other than real CG except licorice tasting durban poison, but even that couldn't quite compare to the AWESOME elevated senses you get out of gold. did you read my smoke report?

the next best thing to it that i've smoked so far is high quality seeds' haze x skunk. it isn't as visual or sensual as gold, but it's actually more potent. it's not a shabby buzz by any stretch, but yeah, gold had a really fun buzz that NOTHING i've smoked since has beaten.

if you can do outdoor growing, your best bet to match it would be to try and find an IBL, but they're getting rarer & rarer. you can't get afropips' real deal malawi gold anymore. that one should be as trippy as gold. i couldn't get supposedly extra trippy mekong haze to pop along with another member here i see. the best bet might be trying sativa seeds' full moon (highland thai). it's a really fussy bitch that you'd need to dedicate your entire room & lights to, but it's delicious tutti fruity scent tell it's the real deal though mine, once it FINALLY started to flower & turn hermie was REALLY stony. i don't know if it was stressed, light starved or just stony at the start of flowering, but it's growth habits were pure IBL and their sister label (nirvana's) H19 skunk looked more IBL than HQS's one which is still awesome.

trying to find good IBLs SUCKS! i got nothing but mutants from VISC and have heard bad reports for reeferman & seedsman gear too.

if you did grow WOSs gold, i'd definitely love to hear a report on that.

you might also like mandala's 8 miles high or short stuff's super cali haze. those are really nice too with the 8MH being super indoor friendly.

i can't tell you how WOS seeds are, or any of the other current breeders
i can tell you about the CG that was around back in 1975, and that was some fine weed indeed
perhaps not the powerhouse like the indica's of today, but very potent in its own right
but for a niceness of effect, well, i'd take that old CG over any of the hybrids i've run so far
quality is what it had, small buds, very pretty, and it was gold
there was nothing like it at the time(that i had seen), but i was never lucky enough to taste the acalpulco gold
but recreating that today? probably no way, some weed you probably can not reproduce
there are other excellent strains out there, but i think some are lost to history

that's why it's so important to preserve what's left of good gear and why i always get pissed when someone catches an attitude over my utter contempt for indicas and how they're all greedy bastids will grow with absolutely NO CONCERN as to whether their customers are happy or not. i always wanted to grow IBLs just so i could give bud away to undermine the greedy NY market

Im aware you all say nothing compares to the real deal CG but if you had to pick whats at least in the same ballpark.

I too have smoked and grown TONS of indica but not too many special sativas and when i did i didnt know the strain.

Check this out and then compare to what World of Seeds says, and the picture of their Colombian Gold they use, and see if you believe the World of Seeds Colombian Gold is the real deal.

I grew it back in the olden days, in the 70's, and what can be found following the link looks just like what I used to grow, and the flowering time given is about what I remember mine took.

Both the looks of and flowering time of World of Seeds Colombian Gold is different from what I remember and what can be read and seen following this link.

http://www.mrnice.nl/forum/14-indoor/5690-colombian-gold.html

I've always heard Brazill seed co has real Colombian gold.
But they are shutting down business this month.
Saddens me not to try their Santa Maria an the Colombian gold.

SCARHOLE said:

I've always heard Brazill seed co has real Colombian gold.
But they are shutting down business this month.
Saddens me not to try their Santa Maria an the Colombian gold.

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wtf!? why? ugh i just googled them and found a site hosted on tripod dot com looks to be their site. Hmm...ive heard of them before but never knew they had a site of their own! man. have you ordered from them before? how was it if you did?

EDIT: damn i just looked they are out of stock on the CG -_-

from some of the posts i've exchanged with others on this topic
the 1st wave of the CG in the USA was Santa Marta gold
i do see various sources of Santa Marta genetics, tough to say just how they would turn out
the environment for sativas is not so simple, at least from experiences i've seen

i don't particularly trust any site where IBLs are concerned having gottewn nothing but mutants & aborts from my vancouver island seedbank burmese, 0% viability from my delta 9 labs' mekong haze (along with someone else here), and have heard grumblings about seedsman & reeferman gear. i've always been interested in world of seeds & ace, but only recently heard anything good for either.

if you want something THAT does smoke like an IBL, i'm telling you, high quality seeds' haze x skunk is no joke! the only thing i've smoked i'd say is better is columbian gold, and not by much as HS has sick potency levels and maybe higher levels of euphoria. not a fan of the yucky tobacco leaf with hints of ashtray flavor, but i've eaten foods that taste worse. LOL until i find something either faster, tastier or more visual, it's my go to girl for IBL type buzzes and for that, it's buds are pretty sticky compared to fluffy gold. that's probably where at least part of the potency comes from. surprisingly, it's not as expansive & lung busting as you'd expect from a potent IBL though i never cleared a chamber of it.

hazey grapes said:

i don't particularly trust any site where IBLs are concerned having gottewn nothing but mutants & aborts from my vancouver island seedbank burmese, 0% viability from my delta 9 labs' mekong haze (along with someone else here), and have heard grumblings about seedsman & reeferman gear. i've always been interested in world of seeds & ace, but only recently heard anything good for either.

if you want something THAT does smoke like an IBL, i'm telling you, high quality seeds' haze x skunk is no joke! the only thing i've smoked i'd say is better is columbian gold, and not by much as HS has sick potency levels and maybe higher levels of euphoria. not a fan of the yucky tobacco leaf with hints of ashtray flavor, but i've eaten foods that taste worse. LOL until i find something either faster, tastier or more visual, it's my go to girl for IBL type buzzes and for that, it's buds are pretty sticky compared to fluffy gold. that's probably where at least part of the potency comes from. surprisingly, it's not as expansive & lung busting as you'd expect from a potent IBL though i never cleared a chamber of it.

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awesome. other than the fact they only come in reg's im very excited. i think i'll grab a pack and work them into my new style of growing (independent veg and bloom areas). i was planning on running 8wk strains but will make an exception for something that appears to be so awesome.

THANK YOU btw. you've been extremely helpful in this thread.

hey no prob. glad to steer anyone to gear that will get them high and undermine the greed weed that is my enemy. i have an agenda... you've just been recruited! LOL

do me a favor though, when you harvest it, please do share a smoke report. the only way to preserve strains that get you high is to promote them & share them & create more of a demand.

trust me, HS will be well worth the wait. it will freak out any friends of yours that have never gotten high before or remind them of those foggy "good old days" they've forgotten.

i really want to test my C99xHS to see if the flowering time gets shortened without losing much in the way of psychoactivity and possibly getting a better flavor too.

i can't wait to try other "12 week strains" as almost anything that sounds choice takes that long like the laughing buddha i want to test.