Vintage Colombian

[red rider]

That smell

That smell

I had a nice conversation with my longtime friend and Colombian operative George. We met again at the café and this time I showed him pictures on my phone of the Punto Rojo and Gold he had obtained for me over a decade before. You see George is an ex-smoker alcoholic coke head that went from selling nickel bags in the Bronx (a really bad barrio in Bogota) to owning a profitable art store in the chic part of town. This guy’s like an inspiration, pulling himself up like he did. But really George has no real interest in cannabis and really doesn’t know much about it even after decades of dealing with it. The great thing about George is he goes around the country (mostly to see family) buying stuff to sell at his store. Wherever he goes he makes friends and can often find the best cannabis locally. So I asked him a while back to find me the best non crippy he could find. It’s called “coriente” or regular cannabis. George knows potent weed and always gets something good but he really likes the crippy the best, the afghan terpene. But now he seems to understand that I want good non afghan type cannabis and as long as the heads right seeds are insignificant. So anyway he’s going to have something special for me when he gets back next week. I got this from him while I wait.

This is a fresh batch of quality non crippy buds. The smell is spicy citrus with a sandy hashish overtone.

A strong uplifting high that finishes clean.

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[red rider]

New kid in town

New kid in town

Well I saw George yesterday after he returned from Manizales visiting some for his family there. He brought me some of the local non crippy bud from the area. George wasn’t sure about details of exactly where the strain originated but assured me it was pure Colombian. Anyway George gave me about a pound of weed, it was fresh and bright green lightly seeded. It really looked good considering it’s like whole plant not just buds. It smells like green herb with a very distinct “Colombian” heaviness, but not like a red or a gold. That sweet Colombian smell carries through to the taste and is delightful on exhale. The smoke expands in the lungs making big hits undoable but the taste makes me keep trying. Now I just got this sample yesterday afternoon so I haven’t lived with it for a while yet. I’ve been smoking some really nice Crippa for the past few weeks and I have a high tolerance to it. But yesterday when I got home with the new stuff and smoked a couple hits, that’s when I knew I had some really good non Afghan pure Colombian. I felt the first hit with a warm comforting sensation that with the next hit turned into a powerful uplifting pull. So much different that the Crippa hybrid effect, this made me feel up not down. After 3 good hits I felt it full force and was able to enjoy the full duration in a pleasant atmosphere. Unlike the powerful Crippa the effect didn’t last as long but it didn’t burn me out mentally or physically and I was able to re up with only two hits. About an hour of intense effects and a half hour of clean side effects. George told me it was good and he was correct but the first few “encounters” with a sample don’t give me the whole picture on its effects. I like to live with it for a little bit to really get to know how she is and with over a pound to consume by myself I think I’ll get to know her well. I’ll put up some pictures of this new find as well as the name of the town it came from. George told me the little towns name but I have to find out how to spell it. This was cultivated a high altitude and has the soaring type high as such. I’m very excited about this and will post more info. ASAP.

red rider

 

[bombadil.360]

Oh man, this just keeps getting better... Soon Jorge will score some arco iris buds and I'll drool all over...

 

[red rider]

Lumbo

Lumbo

Yes bombadil.360 George is pretty cool and I’ve known him forever. I’ve been cleaning this new sample up and found some nice surprises. After removing lots of leaf and leaf stems, stems and funky larffy buds, I came up with a fair amount of top quality smoking buds. There are some seeds but not too many, each bud has a few. I’ve never come across this type of Colombian, it has the distinct “Colombian” smell and taste but not earthy like the darker Colombians or soapy incense like quality gold. This has a “greener” taste to it and could just be that it’s very fresh. I like it and the effect is much better than I thought it would be. To be honest this is just as potent as the Cali Crippa I have, it’s a different effect but equally strong. Just like the Crippa this stuff doesn’t motivate me too much, the euphoria is pretty intense for the first 30 minutes making me just enjoy being wherever I am at the time. It’s a good high but nonproductive, in fact I would say this makes me lazy. This morning’s wake and bake was fantastic and I was filled with inspiring ideas but was late getting up and really not motivated to do normal activities.

Here’s some pics, I really didn’t get any good shots but this will give you an idea of how it looks.

red rider

 

[Betterhaff]

Hi red…loving the buds shots and descriptions. Just curious, what’s the going rate for bud down there, I know it will vary by type but what’s the range. Sorry if this has been asked before.

 

[7thson]

I'd like to get my hands on some of that.

 

[red rider]

Cheap weed

Cheap weed

Hi red…loving the buds shots and descriptions. Just curious, what’s the going rate for bud down there, I know it will vary by type but what’s the range. Sorry if this has been asked before.

Hello my friend, the cannabis in Colombia is still really cheap. Crippa is the most common now and is most times top quality. In Bogota Crippa cost no less than 5,000 COP a gram or $1.80 a gram. But you have to buy a minimum of 10 grams to get that price and know somebody here. Quality is not price dependent and the really good goes for the same price as the ok stuff. On the streets of Bogota today most tourist will find low quality crippa for about 10,000 a gram. Also you can still find great non crippa weed that's some times dirt cheap like $15 a LB. I don't know many smokers here but there's no shortage of variety here or abundance.

Cali Crippa 2015


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[red rider]

Purple Corinto

Purple Corinto

Well I found out a few details about my recent sample from George. This was cultivated on a private finca south east of Manizales right in the middle of the one of the best coffee growing regions.

It’s been so long since I’ve seen any purple Corinto I had all but for gotten the taste and trippy effect.

This although it looks green, it is the purple Corinto and a damn fine example too.

On me it out performs the Crippa by a long shot except in duration, the Crippa seems to stick to me longer. Except for a few hits to compare I haven’t touched the Crippa, instead reaching for the Corinto. This Corinto has made the finca list!

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[red rider]

Deep Purple

Deep Purple

Here's a few more pictures of some of the more spectacular looking Corinto buds. There was a ton of leaf and under developed flowers, the only thing missing was the roots. The best buds in the sample are covered in green leaves hiding the purple inside.

Cali (Colombia) Crippa

The is probably the best "Corinto" I've seen to date. Very different than the Golden Corinto I had a few years back. The effect works well with me and I've yet to tire of it. The QWISO I made for testing it concentrated was excellent and beyond expectation. I'm going to make some butter with all the popcorn buds this weekend as not to waste it. I haven't had a good mediable for awhile.

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[red rider]

Finca#1

Finca#1

A few more pictures of finca#1. We will be going out there for Easter week since there's no school. This time I'm planting.

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[7thson]

Thanks for posting all these pics,it's nice seeing rare bud,at least rare here in the states.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]

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[red rider]

Red neck red

Red neck red

Thanks for posting all these pics,it's nice seeing rare bud,at least rare here in the states.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]View Image[/FONT]

You are very welcome and thank you for reminding me of something. Back in 07 when I knew I was returning to the USA to live, I sent my brother some of my seeds I had collected in case I couldn’t return to Colombia.

NE GA grown Punto Rojo 2009


I had forgotten all about it and in 2009 my brother mentioned the seeds and I got excited till he said he had given them away a year or so ago. I was slightly pissed about it but I couldn’t grow them where I was living anyway. Then in early November of 2009 this old beat up pick up pulls in my drive and my brother gets out with this huge hillbilly looking guy. My brother is drunk as a skunk and introduced me to the big guy.

Little Roy….sounds like their saying lee Roy but anyway this is the guy my brother gave my seeds to. Little Roy lived up in far north Georgia near the beautiful mountains of Blue Ridge and he was 100% redneck mountain man.

Grew his own food, hunter, fishermen a real outdoorsman. Anyway this guy grew my 2005 Punto Rojo seeds out and brought me a few early rojo buds in appreciation for the seed. He also brought me some homemade “sippin” whiskey that he called blue flame because it was so pure it burned a blue flame. My chronically alcoholic older brother had a couple shots reducing him to a babbling drunk.

I declined a shot of the whiskey but quickly rolled a joint of the rojo flowers. It was nothing like the Colombian seed bud of course and it was a little under ripe but still had a district Colombian flavor. Might have been the company but the effect hit me hard, I got to talking with this huge little Roy guy and his Appalachian dialect. We started laughing and really got “high” from the joint. Little Roy said he’d been growing on and off since the sixties and he grew anything but skunk saying he didn’t care for its effect. He only grows outdoor organic the same as he grows his food crops. He told me back in the day his favorite smoke was Colombian and he thought it was cool that I went there and grew (I showed him the pics). Anyway before he left he gave me some honey and deer jerky and some wine as well as four mason (quart) jars of white lighting. I poured my brother into little Roy’s truck and shook little Roy’s hand goodbye and never seen or heard from him since. My brother says little Roy is still up there growing. So I think there might be some Colombian growing up north (I hope).

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[ThaiBliss]

Cool story man!


You should have your brother hunt him down, and speak with him. He may have some northern acclimated Punto Rojo. It would be interesting to know if he is still growing it, or growing a cross from it.

ThaiBliss

 

[red rider]

Yes it was strange, but my brother finally took his last drink in 2013, so I got no connection to that old hillbilly but I'll bet him or somebody up there in them mountains is growing it.

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[ThaiBliss]

Yes it was strange, but my brother finally took his last drink in 2013, so I got no connection to that old hillbilly but I'll bet him or somebody up there in them mountains is growing it.

red

Sorry to hear about your brother. It's cool to think you and him contributed to the local culture there. We all live on in some way or another. That is one to be proud of.

 

[Chunkypigs]

I'd love to see some pics and a good explanation of what the harvest, dry, cure, and packing techniques that are used on that classic looking stuff you are getting.

you got my mind back in high school with all these pictures…

 

[genedigger]

those are amazing pics!!!!

 

[J-Icky]

Those Corinto purple pics look like some stuff I got up here in northern indiana last summer. The green leaves, the purple/black bud, the smell its almost the exact same. Mine had a very unique high, very heart pounding, heavy thinking, but the energy seemed to stay in the head as the body just didn't want to get up and do all the things my head was thinking of, lol. Honestly it was a very unique find as most of the compressed commercial that is to be found here is obviously indica dominant these days.

After haven take almost a decade break from smoking it was quite a shock to see what "brick" weed had turned into,a t least in my area. Back in the late 90's it was all heavy sativa dom, brown, golden, or bright or dark green bricks that would break apart in thin flakes that were the actual buds. Now its all green and the bricks break much easier and the buds are more ball like with much more visible crystals. The old stuff was also much more "up" and we'd smoke and walk all over, now its much more sedate and I only smoke at night as the few times I tried during the day, it pretty much ruined my plans as all I wanted to do was sit or nap.

So getting that old style brick was nice and the coloring was something I had never seen even back in the late 90's. Sadly thats tuff went fast as it was something I could enjoy all day and even after much trying all that can be found is the new indica stuff. Its very sad actually.

 

[red rider]

Sweat cured

Sweat cured

I'd love to see some pics and a good explanation of what the harvest, dry, cure, and packing techniques that are used on that classic looking stuff you are getting.

you got my mind back in high school with all these pictures…

That is a very good question my friend and I once saw a video (YouTube) showing this poor Colombian peasant bricking some up in a vice like contraption. I myself don't know any commercial growers here and for security reasons couldn't really do a field investigation. But my understanding is that the plants are cut and left flat on the ground to dry in the elements. What I get sometimes isn't "bricked" hard compressed like Mexican up North, this is more lightly flattened.
Whatever process is applied it changes the terpene and the plants I grow out and cure here taste very little like the seed bud. But yes it's "just" like your high school weed, the smell, the taste and especially the high. Yeah you got to clean a few seeds but it's rewarding work.

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[red rider]

Good find

Good find

Those Corinto purple pics look like some stuff I got up here in northern indiana last summer. The green leaves, the purple/black bud, the smell its almost the exact same. Mine had a very unique high, very heart pounding, heavy thinking, but the energy seemed to stay in the head as the body just didn't want to get up and do all the things my head was thinking of, lol. Honestly it was a very unique find as most of the compressed commercial that is to be found here is obviously indica dominant these days.

After haven take almost a decade break from smoking it was quite a shock to see what "brick" weed had turned into,a t least in my area. Back in the late 90's it was all heavy sativa dom, brown, golden, or bright or dark green bricks that would break apart in thin flakes that were the actual buds. Now its all green and the bricks break much easier and the buds are more ball like with much more visible crystals. The old stuff was also much more "up" and we'd smoke and walk all over, now its much more sedate and I only smoke at night as the few times I tried during the day, it pretty much ruined my plans as all I wanted to do was sit or nap.

So getting that old style brick was nice and the coloring was something I had never seen even back in the late 90's. Sadly thats tuff went fast as it was something I could enjoy all day and even after much trying all that can be found is the new indica stuff. Its very sad actually.

Hi J-Icky
It would not surprise me one bit if you did get some Colombian up there. They still grow a bunch of it here and some must make it up north. I'm happy you got to try Colombian and I hope you found some seed in it. Even in Bogota now it's hard for me to find seeded bud, even the so so weed here is seedless now. 10 years ago I'd buy a pound of Corinto and a QP of it was seeds, in this purple lb I've only for a couple hundred. But my perspective is only a tiny slice of the pie.

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