Colombian Gold.... compared to modern hybrids... meh. We used to get Colombian Gold for $30 a zip with seeds. We got pissed when the price went up tho $35. That was 1970s prices... so yeah todays dollar prolly $100 a zip, thats about right. Nothing special. But back in the day it was Mexican Ragweed.. or Colombian Gold for the regs.. then we could get Maui Wowi and Thai Stick. Those 2 strains changed everything from then on.
Then Nixon/Ray-gun happened and good weed was hard to come by. But we could get coke by the buckets full.... crazy. Oh that's right we needed a reason for a war on drugs (and those dangerous hippies).
The cool thing about hybrids is we get to breed the best of each different strain and come up with a killer strain. Problem now is the genetics are getting sooo watered down. Why I like SnowHigh gear. He's into keeping those landrace genetics intact and not inbreeding so much that we loose the goodness.
Many of his selections were made for breeders and not really the actual final product.
Snow is still at it, there was a recent refresh and some new selections I think at Oregon Elite... maybe it was SHN. I got me some.
I've recently sprouted some Snow gear - Purple Monkey Balls... HUGE disappointment, only 5 of 10 seeds popped and the ones that are growing are s l o w to get going ... I would have tossed the lot by now if it were from any other breeder. Likely my fault tho!
Still that hurt...my wallet!
On the DT - I let this round go longer, over 70+ days comparo to chopping at 56-60 days first few rounds. Wow huge difference, still a rocket shot out of the gate with glitter, but a much longer level flight down to earth and I can get a good nights sleep after.
Stretch on the DT is almost never ending.. 3x stretch while the flowers set, @ 10 days they just start to flower and the plants are still stretching. They keep getting taller all the way to buds which takes a while, then the gold shows and the buds start getting fatter @ 25 days. Then just a waiting game, water FTW.
It was a PITA growing out 10 REG seeds and selecting clones .. having to select clones before any flowers on a plant that takes 20+ days to really show her stuff.... guess work at best. I just took clones from each female at switch and kept the clones from the most vigorous fastest growing mother. At that point, the mother was soo big, no way to keep her. I think I smoked the last buds of her yesterday!
I've been looking at Mycotek and anything with the 3 Chems in it. They are readily available and the 3 Chems is basically NYCD... The original breeder says he traded for the original mother from Chemdog and back-crossed it and called it Diesel because the name "Chem" along with the smell, people thought it was tainted with chemicals... go figure.
What's really cool, is that what we do now right here; back in the early 2000s there were very few of us doing this. Now with all the forums and everyone sharing how to grow cannabis the final product keeps getting better and better and a lot more folks are hitting it. That will only help the emerging tide of acceptance by our society for legal cannabis.
Keep on growing... do what you do and share with others. Pass it on, side to side!
Good job buddy!
(it's actually not that mellow).
