Yes ..Also hang drying and sun bleaching after harvest can turn marijuana yellow ..in that hot Mexican sun 
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I guess I will have to grow a bunch of my mexico seed collection and find out if it changes color in the Sun dried or if the color comes with dark drying. The stuff I get often comes with gold resin like the picture of the bud I have in my name
How much did this stuff actually circulate back in the day ..like up into the early 70s?
I was around for some of the earlier imports but can’t say I was ever able to smoke the legendary Acapulco gold
I've read that. Also that they fermented it, sort of like Tobacco or the Malawi Cobs. Has anyone thought about fermenting the same as they do tobacco? It reduces or removes the chlorophyll and it tasted so much better back in the day...
Pile it up, let the internal temp of the pile get to 95° or 98°, then break up/re-arrange the pile, and do it again. They do that with some tobacco for a few weeks. Different types of tobacco are curred/fermented in different ways...
daleharris
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Well if you come across any cuts or beans please find a way to spread that stuff around
a team of cultivators could do that.. how long could it have actually taken to do an individual plant?
I wonder is the early legendary Acapulco gold was also seedless sinsemilla?
yeah that! Various shades of gold brown red etc. $40 an ounce incredible marijuana
Green Mexican was $20 an ounce and it was 75% stems and seeds..
I have tried the careful compost cure..it did get rid of the green..
fwiw down there in 1977 I was told they made large pits and used LadyClairol and yeh its a water cure..
I known sun dried will make it all blonde....I cannot see it improving it..
there were" kind of gold" batches of colombian and some real yeller gold ones[one odd batch from who knows where was yellow]..the bright ones were not the“compost method”....
in Colombia the Santa Marta[Rocket weed] was not the yellow weed..but it was a natural blonde with vno green
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xtsho
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I doubt that there was one specific strain being called Acapulco Gold. More than likely it was just cannabis grown somewhere in the region and transported out of the Port of Acapulco on boats up the west coast to California and in some instances farther north and east up the Columbia river to Portland Oregon. Lots of drugs were being smuggled up the Columbia back in the day.
If you look on a map you'll see that Acapulco is the only real port along the Mexican coast until you get much further north. There is also a main road that runs from Acapulco to Guatemala, Honduras, etc... in Central America.
So my theory is that Acapulco Gold is just Mexican weed grown to the north, south, or east of Acapulco, maybe as far away as Central America and then shipped out of Acapulco. I started smoking weed in the mid to late seventies and we got Acapulco Gold, Columbian Gold, Panama Red, etc... here in Portland. Often the weed was different despite having the same name which I attribute to coming from different batches.
So in a nutshell, I doubt there is one specific strain that can be grown and classified as real Acapulco Gold as it was most likely a combination of weed grown in Mexico and maybe as far south as Central America and smuggled out of the Port of Acapulco. Which is where the name originated. "Hey dude, this weed came from Acapulco. Lets call it Acapulco Gold".
This is just a theory I have. I wasn't involved in the growing or transport of weed out of Mexico back then. But I highly doubt that the growers were carefully cultivating a single strain which would have been nearly impossible since it was growing outdoors and pollen can travel a long ways so keeping a strain pure under those conditions would be nearly impossible. Acapulco Gold was more likely just the name given to cannabis origination from the area which would have encompassed a much wider region than Acapulco.
If you look on a map you'll see that Acapulco is the only real port along the Mexican coast until you get much further north. There is also a main road that runs from Acapulco to Guatemala, Honduras, etc... in Central America.
So my theory is that Acapulco Gold is just Mexican weed grown to the north, south, or east of Acapulco, maybe as far away as Central America and then shipped out of Acapulco. I started smoking weed in the mid to late seventies and we got Acapulco Gold, Columbian Gold, Panama Red, etc... here in Portland. Often the weed was different despite having the same name which I attribute to coming from different batches.
So in a nutshell, I doubt there is one specific strain that can be grown and classified as real Acapulco Gold as it was most likely a combination of weed grown in Mexico and maybe as far south as Central America and smuggled out of the Port of Acapulco. Which is where the name originated. "Hey dude, this weed came from Acapulco. Lets call it Acapulco Gold".
This is just a theory I have. I wasn't involved in the growing or transport of weed out of Mexico back then. But I highly doubt that the growers were carefully cultivating a single strain which would have been nearly impossible since it was growing outdoors and pollen can travel a long ways so keeping a strain pure under those conditions would be nearly impossible. Acapulco Gold was more likely just the name given to cannabis origination from the area which would have encompassed a much wider region than Acapulco.
it was legendary....so all the other not the same varieties were all similar and legendary ?
however ..to support your idea..the two very similar AGs from different sources were the weakest cannabis plants
I ever grew..one was from the same seed bodhi used [not from him]..
same with the old Ag seed my online friend sent me that had been repro’d way back
they looked like that Mass Medical plant
the person who gave me the same seeds stock as bodhi got said he did get one good one
so maybe if I had grown out a pile I could have maybe found one
the Ag I smoked in the late 60’s was rocket fuel..and I only ever saw its once
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daleharris
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Well I’m not sure but if I grow out a some of these MOB AC gold beans the Cannatrol will be doing the dry and cure not the sunYes ..Also hang drying and sun bleaching after harvest can turn marijuana yellow ..in that hot Mexican sun
xtsho
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It's basically just a theory as I can't prove anything. I do remember back when the Acapulco Golds, Columbian Golds, Panama Reds, etc... were available that there was significant differences In what you would get despite being called the same. It's also possible that people were just using the Acapulco Gold name to charge higher prices. It's not as if there was any standard code of conduct followed by cannabis smugglers and dealers. Just as there isn't much today in the cannabis world.
I do remember smoking some really good weed back in the day. Although these days with the focus mainly on high THC content many would pass on what was smoked back then. Some of us however miss the old stuff that you'd share a joint of with a friend and then go toss the frisbee, play foosball, or many other types of recreation rather than sitting on the couch baked with little motivation to do anything.
I've only grown Barney's Farm Acapulco Gold and while it was decent weed it definitely wasn't the real thing and they even list it as 70% sativa 30% indica on their website.
