Acapulco Gold

[centr1fuge]

Just checking in again, to follow up. I have never grown OG, or seen the plant in real life for that matter, but I have smoked it (supposedly, of course). As far as this plant goes, I have cuttings successfully revegged, and moreover, I now have a small handful of original sibling seeds to this plant. I’ll document what pops up. I don’t have any stakes in the game of claiming this critter to be the real deal; you all know as much as I know about its origins.

 

[centr1fuge]

Just checking in again, to follow up. I have never grown OG, or seen the plant in real life for that matter, but I have smoked it (supposedly, of course). As far as this plant goes, I have cuttings successfully revegged, and moreover, I now have a small handful of original sibling seeds to this plant. I’ll document what pops up. I don’t have any stakes in the game of claiming this critter to be the real deal; you all know as much as I know about its origins.

I posted this in the breeding forum:

Here is what I do know about the provenance. A person lived in Acapulco. Bagseed from the dregs of their personal Acapulco Gold stash were planted more than 30 years later. Two germinated, and this seed is a descendant. Before that, I know nothing else about the material.

 

[Hempy McNoodle]

I posted this in the breeding forum:

Here is what I do know about the provenance. A person lived in Acapulco. Bagseed from the dregs of their personal Acapulco Gold stash were planted more than 30 years later. Two germinated, and this seed is a descendant. Before that, I know nothing else about the material.

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The only way to know for sure is to send a sample with some rolling papers to my lab for analysis.

 

[Katanaking4165]

I posted this in the breeding forum:

Here is what I do know about the provenance. A person lived in Acapulco. Bagseed from the dregs of their personal Acapulco Gold stash were planted more than 30 years later. Two germinated, and this seed is a descendant. Before that, I know nothing else about the material.

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Looks awesome bro! Did they get seeded?

 

[Treevly]

There is probably enough pot growing in Mexico to cover Chicago three feet deep in buds. There are climate zones there to grow jungle pot, highland pot, and mountain pot. Mind you, you wouldn't want to grow there without at least a couple of armoured vehicles or tanks for cover.

 

[pinkus]

Acapulco Gold #1@21 weeks

Acapulco Gold #1@21 weeks

Here are the same two small plants at 21 weeks of flowering @10/14. They started at an inch and an inch and a half. Of course, I have removed all of the bottom branches. In fact, they've been severly pruned all over. I wasn't even planning on finishing them for smoking, but I like the way I managed to get a couple of colas set in the SCROG screen that will soon be filled with a HMxBB F2. I think I can even see some swelling of some unpollinated bracts.

You can see residual flour/pollen on the buds here. Still a few more weeks it looks like for close to mature buds, but there are seeds starting to fall out of their bracts already. They were pollinated with the last two HMxBB F1s I had, the majority of the pollen was from the plant that showed flowers first. I did a few pollination events with the male that took longer to flower. The offspring from that cross could take a LONG time to show sex. LOL (They are not segregated, the specific X will be the luck of the draw. )

 

[pinkus]

...and it continues

...and it continues

Acapulco Gold 23+ weeks

 

[bestothebest]

beautiful!

 

[pinkus]

Sloooooooooooowly she turns

Sloooooooooooowly she turns

Here she is, getting close at 26 weeks@10/14

 

[f-e]

I didn't read 40 pages, but my search didn't find the appropriate words.

Before the internet, we believed Acapulco Gold was a technique. Later that it became a strain name because newbies knew the name. It's interesting to hear stories from the 70s where it's seen as a strain. Until now I believed a story about them restricting the stem in order to dry the plant where it stood. Techniques such as cutting the main stem vertically were reported. So the plant would fight to survive, but go golden and dry where it stood.

I have seen hydro weed sold as such following pump failures.

I'm nowhere near Acapulco, but it was a common enough story to of accepted it.

 

[pinkus]

27 weeks... only 10 more to go he he

 

[harvestreaper]

I didn't read 40 pages, but my search didn't find the appropriate words.

Before the internet, we believed Acapulco Gold was a technique. Later that it became a strain name because newbies knew the name. It's interesting to hear stories from the 70s where it's seen as a strain. Until now I believed a story about them restricting the stem in order to dry the plant where it stood. Techniques such as cutting the main stem vertically were reported. So the plant would fight to survive, but go golden and dry where it stood.

I have seen hydro weed sold as such following pump failures.

I'm nowhere near Acapulco, but it was a common enough story to of accepted it.

i heard stories of that tekneek to in mexico athough not in relation to acapulco gold had a friend in usa used to do similar to his outdoor plants banging stakes thru stem etc i seem to remember him hitting the roots with boiling water too just before chop he believed they throw out some kinda desperate shock surge lol cant speak for the boiling water but he did show me pics of what appeared to be a resin increase short while afrer puttng stake thru stem ,,im not condoning or suggesting it btw as i dont do it myself your post just reminded me

 

[harvestreaper]

@ pinkus ..wow 27 weeks thats extreme the ag ive tried were 12 to 16 ,,,of a skunk haze type ilk ,,you must have found the el dorado pheno lol i hope shes a winner

 

[pinkus]

I cut down one of the plants. It's interesting that the portion under the hot pink/blurple LED finished before the portion under the "white" COB LED portion. Still some fresh pistils under the COBs.

 

[pinkus]

So close

So close

I already cut down the other plant which really was in ugly shape at the end. She was mostly under the hot pink Illumitex. She finished earlier, if you could call it that. this girl is prettier in my opinion.

 

[@hempy]

Acapulco Gold growing in the US in 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zs0e6Y1gpA




Acapulco Gold grown in Mexico and smuggled into the US $40 us a KG start at 55 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDAK8lL0WYU

 

[ahortator]

 

[yesum]

I have doubts the pot shown in the movie Acapulco Gold, is in fact the real thing. Could be of course. Lots of pretenders and that started in mid 70's or before.

Was talking last night to a guy that smoked AG back in '77. He said it made things bright and happy but not a real trip. I think he had the Guerrero Gold. I gave him some of my Acapulco Gold from Snow. I bet it is gonna be about the same as what he had back then.

He smokes modern strains like Gorilla Glue and has a strong tolerance. He smoked some of my Blue Orca Haze and got pretty high from two hits. That is some strong smoke but not sativa enough for me, or at least the phenos I have gotten.

satva said that real AG was all but dead after about '72 or so.

 

[yesum]

Should have said Gorilla Glue. ^^

 

[ahortator]

I guess the plants in the first hour of the movie, the ones they use to make bricks, could be ditch weed.

Some filming locations are known to have feral ditch weed. As Kentucky, Kansas or Missouri. As far as I know.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002579/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt

Later in the movie they show some huge plants, when the starring walks among them and collects only fan leaves. Those could be the real Acapulco Gold if the secene was filmed in the mountains sorrounding Acapulco. But we don't know the actual location of that scene.

https://youtu.be/JDAK8lL0WYU?t=3780

Made in 1973, this independently produced time capsule documentary deals with the subject of marijuana harvesting, cultivation, transportation, distribution and finally inhalation in the United States. The bulk of the film is constructed as a series of adventures by a group of college boys, using cameras to document their investigations into how to secure a large supply of marijuana. They interview various American growers ('experts'), test 'wild' marijuana in the American mid-West, then travel to Mexico to seek out the 'super weed' cultivated in the hills outside of Acapulco, and eventually smuggle it into the States.

I have read after the "drought" due to paraquat spraying (about 1974 or so I am not sure of the actual date, as I wasn't there), any yellow buds were sold as Acapulco Gold due to the higher prices.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/19/...llout-from-the-war-on-marijuana-paraquat.html