RingtailCanyon
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How’s it going? Have you been sampling these? Any favorites?
Punto rojo selection and repro
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Alpenglow
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Read #7 please before you get in trouble at one point here
Read #7 please before you get in trouble at one point here
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Thanks @Alpenglow. I must have missed that one. I saw other people talking about seeds in this or another Punto Rojo thread, so I thought it was ok. Sorry, won't happen again.
RingtailCanyon
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Colombian Punto Rojo
Colombia is a green, lush, beautiful country located in northwestern South America. Colombia borders Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and has a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and one on the Caribbean Sea. It is a land of extreme landscapes and high mountains, and has lots of different micro climates. There are over 45 million people living in the country, mostly natives. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of colonization, taking as slaves or killing most of the local population. After centuries of colonization, independence from Spain came in 1819, and after a period of transition the country took the shape it has still today, when Venezuela became an independent country as well. The independent Republic of Colombia was declared in 1886. Since the 1960s, government forces, left-wing insurgents and right-wing paramilitary forces have been involved in one of the continent's longest-running conflicts. Fuelled by cocaine and cannabis trade, the violence escalated in the 1970s and 1980s but in more recent times the fighting has steadily decreased. Many paramilitary groups have disappeared or surrendered to the government, and the guerrillas have lost control of many rural areas. Economical progress has helped a lot in this sense. Colombia is now a very powerful economy in Latin America, trading coffee and minerals and boosting a very diversified economy.
Colombia is ethnically diverse, with many cultures integrating together: original native inhabitants, Spanish colonists, Africans brought as slaves and twentieth-century immigrants from Europe and the Middle East, all call themselves Colombians. The majority of the cities are in the highlands of the Andes mountains, but Colombian territory also includes the Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and the long Caribbean and Pacific coastlines
The history of Punto Rojo goes back thousands of years, and it is almost impossible to trace the origins of the landrace.
Colombian cannabis became famous for the first time during the 1970s, when large crops were planted to satisfy the growing demand from the United States and Canada. At the time the cocaine trade was already booming, and the same cartels that controlled the cocaine production started getting involved with the production of cannabis on a large scale. The local population used cannabis since before the arrival of the Spanish in the fifteenth century. Seeds arrived on the American continent from Asia through migrations and animal propagation, and the favorable climate produced many landraces all over the continent. In Colombia there are several different landraces but they all can be grouped in two separate categories: highland and lowland cannabis. Highland landraces grow at altitude, in cooler and less humid areas, and are more potent and psychedelic; the most famous are Punto Rojo and Colombian Gold. Lowlands landraces are less powerful and more commercial (for example, Colombian Red), and they are cultivated in the grassland or near the coastlines.
Punto Rojo is considered the highest grade cannabis in the country, a slim sativa that grows above 800 meters on the sea level, and up to 2000 meters. The plants are tall, slender, with long branches growing almost horizontally, parallel to the ground. The internode is long and stretchy, but stalks are thick and capable of supporting heavy weights. The leaves are lime-green, with long non-overlapping leaflets and very sharp edges. The flowering time is quite long, but the tropical location allows multiple crops per year. Buds start forming as the plants reach the meter of size, and continue to develop and ripe for 10-12 weeks. The resin is produced in large amounts and has a typical thickness, forming a uniform coating all over the buds. The Punto Rojo smells fruity, like lime and mango, and has a very distinct woody background like most highland sativas from the south American continent. Smoking the Punto Rojo is a unique experience, even for the experienced stoner. Already at the second or third puff the creeping effect starts, delivering a powerful psychedelic high, fast hitting and long-lasting. It is a rush-high that has a very social side to it, stimulating and very funny. It is considered unrivalled in quality by many artists and by more mature smokers.
Many people tried to grow the Punto Rojo indoors after collecting seeds and bringing them abroad, but the potency can never be replicated. There is something in the sun that activates a whole different range of terpenes and cannabinoids in the resin, and in combination with the rich Colombian soil it is a very powerful cocktail. It is a combination of natural factors that ensures the top potency.
The fields of Punto Rojo are often hidden deep into the forest, in remote rural areas, directly under the control of the cartels or the guerrilla troops. Seeds are planted during the wet season by the farmers. Each square meter of field is planted with hundreds of seedlings, so nature selects the strongest ones. At the end of the crop there will be only 4-6 plants per square meter, sometimes less. They grow very dense, branching into each other and forming thick bushes, sometimes reaching 3 meters of height or more. The total production of Punto Rojo represents a small part of the cannabis coming out of Colombia, and it is considered the top of the line when it comes to quality. The price per kilogram on the market is higher than any other local strain, and fluctuates according to the production and the availability.
Of all the names of landraces that became popular in the 1970s, Punto Rojo is surely one of the few that survived untouched, unspoiled, and still thriving on the international markets. The quality has been preserved, the flavor is still the same, as many old-school smoker can tell. Perhaps the fact that the genetics are in the hands of real guerrilla growers helped.
Franco Green House Seed Co.
Colombia is a green, lush, beautiful country located in northwestern South America. Colombia borders Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and has a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and one on the Caribbean Sea. It is a land of extreme landscapes and high mountains, and has lots of different micro climates. There are over 45 million people living in the country, mostly natives. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of colonization, taking as slaves or killing most of the local population. After centuries of colonization, independence from Spain came in 1819, and after a period of transition the country took the shape it has still today, when Venezuela became an independent country as well. The independent Republic of Colombia was declared in 1886. Since the 1960s, government forces, left-wing insurgents and right-wing paramilitary forces have been involved in one of the continent's longest-running conflicts. Fuelled by cocaine and cannabis trade, the violence escalated in the 1970s and 1980s but in more recent times the fighting has steadily decreased. Many paramilitary groups have disappeared or surrendered to the government, and the guerrillas have lost control of many rural areas. Economical progress has helped a lot in this sense. Colombia is now a very powerful economy in Latin America, trading coffee and minerals and boosting a very diversified economy.
Colombia is ethnically diverse, with many cultures integrating together: original native inhabitants, Spanish colonists, Africans brought as slaves and twentieth-century immigrants from Europe and the Middle East, all call themselves Colombians. The majority of the cities are in the highlands of the Andes mountains, but Colombian territory also includes the Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and the long Caribbean and Pacific coastlines
The history of Punto Rojo goes back thousands of years, and it is almost impossible to trace the origins of the landrace.
Colombian cannabis became famous for the first time during the 1970s, when large crops were planted to satisfy the growing demand from the United States and Canada. At the time the cocaine trade was already booming, and the same cartels that controlled the cocaine production started getting involved with the production of cannabis on a large scale. The local population used cannabis since before the arrival of the Spanish in the fifteenth century. Seeds arrived on the American continent from Asia through migrations and animal propagation, and the favorable climate produced many landraces all over the continent. In Colombia there are several different landraces but they all can be grouped in two separate categories: highland and lowland cannabis. Highland landraces grow at altitude, in cooler and less humid areas, and are more potent and psychedelic; the most famous are Punto Rojo and Colombian Gold. Lowlands landraces are less powerful and more commercial (for example, Colombian Red), and they are cultivated in the grassland or near the coastlines.
Punto Rojo is considered the highest grade cannabis in the country, a slim sativa that grows above 800 meters on the sea level, and up to 2000 meters. The plants are tall, slender, with long branches growing almost horizontally, parallel to the ground. The internode is long and stretchy, but stalks are thick and capable of supporting heavy weights. The leaves are lime-green, with long non-overlapping leaflets and very sharp edges. The flowering time is quite long, but the tropical location allows multiple crops per year. Buds start forming as the plants reach the meter of size, and continue to develop and ripe for 10-12 weeks. The resin is produced in large amounts and has a typical thickness, forming a uniform coating all over the buds. The Punto Rojo smells fruity, like lime and mango, and has a very distinct woody background like most highland sativas from the south American continent. Smoking the Punto Rojo is a unique experience, even for the experienced stoner. Already at the second or third puff the creeping effect starts, delivering a powerful psychedelic high, fast hitting and long-lasting. It is a rush-high that has a very social side to it, stimulating and very funny. It is considered unrivalled in quality by many artists and by more mature smokers.
Many people tried to grow the Punto Rojo indoors after collecting seeds and bringing them abroad, but the potency can never be replicated. There is something in the sun that activates a whole different range of terpenes and cannabinoids in the resin, and in combination with the rich Colombian soil it is a very powerful cocktail. It is a combination of natural factors that ensures the top potency.
The fields of Punto Rojo are often hidden deep into the forest, in remote rural areas, directly under the control of the cartels or the guerrilla troops. Seeds are planted during the wet season by the farmers. Each square meter of field is planted with hundreds of seedlings, so nature selects the strongest ones. At the end of the crop there will be only 4-6 plants per square meter, sometimes less. They grow very dense, branching into each other and forming thick bushes, sometimes reaching 3 meters of height or more. The total production of Punto Rojo represents a small part of the cannabis coming out of Colombia, and it is considered the top of the line when it comes to quality. The price per kilogram on the market is higher than any other local strain, and fluctuates according to the production and the availability.
Of all the names of landraces that became popular in the 1970s, Punto Rojo is surely one of the few that survived untouched, unspoiled, and still thriving on the international markets. The quality has been preserved, the flavor is still the same, as many old-school smoker can tell. Perhaps the fact that the genetics are in the hands of real guerrilla growers helped.
Franco Green House Seed Co.
RingtailCanyon
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Colombian ‘Red Bud’
“Californians are very picky about their weed,” he said. “They always want top quality. . . . We decided to import Punta Roja, or ‘Red Bud,’ a highly potent plant grown in the interior of Colombia. . . .
“To get the Red Bud to the coast, we would fly it over three mountain ranges in old planes--DC-3s, DC-4s and DC-6s--and air drop it on a beach. We’d hire an entire fishing village to gather up the bales and store them until we got there.”
Perlowin said his men got there in heavy-duty, long-range fishing boats ranging up to 80 feet in length--craft designed for shrimp, crab, tuna, cod and the like, but equally capable of hauling 15 tons of marijuana apiece. Larger boats--a 124-foot tug and an 85-foot minesweeper--were kept ready in case a breakdown necessitated a tow or offloading at sea.
The ocean trips from Colombia, for the most part, were uneventful--three-week voyages during which the boats were rigged out as though fishing for whatever catch was appropriate for season.
The real trick was to avoid the various federal agencies patrolling the coast near San Francisco by air and sea, and Perlowin said he set up two surveillance sites to keep track of them--one in a mobile home parked off Skyline Boulevard, on the south side of the Golden Gate, the other on a hilltop in San Rafael, north of the Golden Gate.
www.latimes.com
“Californians are very picky about their weed,” he said. “They always want top quality. . . . We decided to import Punta Roja, or ‘Red Bud,’ a highly potent plant grown in the interior of Colombia. . . .
“To get the Red Bud to the coast, we would fly it over three mountain ranges in old planes--DC-3s, DC-4s and DC-6s--and air drop it on a beach. We’d hire an entire fishing village to gather up the bales and store them until we got there.”
Perlowin said his men got there in heavy-duty, long-range fishing boats ranging up to 80 feet in length--craft designed for shrimp, crab, tuna, cod and the like, but equally capable of hauling 15 tons of marijuana apiece. Larger boats--a 124-foot tug and an 85-foot minesweeper--were kept ready in case a breakdown necessitated a tow or offloading at sea.
The ocean trips from Colombia, for the most part, were uneventful--three-week voyages during which the boats were rigged out as though fishing for whatever catch was appropriate for season.
The real trick was to avoid the various federal agencies patrolling the coast near San Francisco by air and sea, and Perlowin said he set up two surveillance sites to keep track of them--one in a mobile home parked off Skyline Boulevard, on the south side of the Golden Gate, the other on a hilltop in San Rafael, north of the Golden Gate.
Drug Entrepreneur Tells His Story From Jail
At first glance, Bruce Perlowin seems rather mousy--slight, bespectacled, soft-spoken, with a scraggly beard and tangled hair tied back in a ponytail--sort of a leftover flower child from the '60s.
www.latimes.com
RingtailCanyon
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- Gig Initiates out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Mid-September, 1972
- By the beginning of October, 6,000 pounds of beautiful, tight red bud, known to Skip and the Crew as Punta Roja was loaded on board the Everglades Lady, a converted 72 foot trawler in Santa Marta, Colombia
- Load is safely off-loaded off the west coast of Florida sometime near the end of October 1972
BOATS USED:
“Everglades Lady” – A 72 foot Desco Converted Wood trawler. Aft deck of trawler had a converted wood room where all 6,000 pounds of Pot were stored on the long journey north. Powered by a single engine Caterpillar Diesel.LOAD SIGNIFICANCE
This was Skip’s first self financed gig. The load was Financed from profits of small time gigs after his return from Europe, Skip and his partner used this beautiful load of 6,000 pounds of Punta Roja to expand their operations in the world of Pot Smuggling.TIMELINE:
After much research, this load seems to be one of the first large-scale loads of sweet Colombian Bud shipped out of Santa Marta in the early days of pot smuggling.
Punta Roja Gig | 70's Cannabis Smuggling Routes | Ganja Outpost
Learn about Skip Steele's first larger scale Colombian Gig of Punta Roja weed with this map of the Gig route from 1970.
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