Firstly, Part of the Reason of the Sprout Thread, was to help get the verificaton it is what i say it is. its going to take more than my word for it. If i were Jack H, or Neville, or this Shanti i hear of, and i said this, it would be assumed GOLD Info (pardon the pun). but im unknown, and im an oldy on forums, so really RELATE with this type of claim (to which my response would be similar to yours honestly). But it is what it is. and DONT FLATTER Yourself in thinking it was YOUR POST that INSPIRED me to do whatever you think it did.
Fuck If all it takes is for a guy to sign up on a forum say hes got a Pure Peruvian Cocaine Pot plants, and can sell it for 300.00 a gram, then youd have it already.
am i interested possibly selling a few girls or a few drams of pollen? Fuck yea, who the hell wouldnt be? but before that happens, a more MAJOR milestones need to be finished, tested and completed first.
Point is< NOTHING wil be coming off this plant for a while. The thing has to grow, and survive first. 2ndly, i have to find out what sex it is. then move forward from there, if it lives that long> yes it is a 30 yr old seed, and Yes it was in the statefarm insul mug. check it those were given away by state farm agents in the late 70s early 80s. if you read my threads, you ll see they were stuck in a closet probably for the majority of 30 yrs. I was barely 15 or 16, when i got these seeds, and they were packed up since around HS. which is 82/84. and i know its a CG stash, cuz i only had 2 stashes of seeds. this one with the CG and HB seeds, and one more in a small hand carved wooden box, that has some Orig Pinny Paralyzer seeds, and a couple Early Pearl seeds in it from the mid 80s. not found this stash yet, but hope i can, both the Pinny and EP were steller pain meds.
dont mean to be a dick, but you are jumping to ASSUMPTIONS off of half understood and skewed interpritations a willingness to have a pretty closed mind.
now, the reason nothing will be going away, is, If its a Girl, i can keep it vegged, cut a couple clones to grow to term. this way i can note the veg time and bud time. this can help me verify not only the flowering length< a true CG is a minimum 12 to 14week flower, Most were in the 18week area, and as noted above, certain strains were longer, like the Original Accupulco Gold. i think this was a 20 plus week plant. SO by taking a few cuts and growing them out, I should be able to, verify health and viability of the plant (being 30 yrs old, i have NO Idea of the genetic effecsts of such an old seed. I didnt even expect it would of sprouted, solely becuz the other 12 didnt, and this was REALLY the LAST CG seed i had. so it was do or die.
2nd, i ll be able to see the flowers, before, during, and after the grow. i ll be able to see the dried product, and make MAMMORY comparrisons. and Lastly between now and that time, i ll be able to find 3 to 5 people around the area (WWW area) that have a CLUE, and can honestly verify the strain. Idealy a botenist can preform a series of tests on it, including all the TCH and other tests need to find out how it compares to the original. but any True Old Salt that was around and KNEW CG well, will be able to tell by looking at the plant as it grows.
Now if its a male, i can keep it in veg, take a cut, and send it out for analsyes of the pollen. send it off to a lab (if i can do this with a female cool ) and hope they can genetically identify the pollen that way.
Fact is, should i get Verification it is indeed what i say it is. then i can take the steps needed to keep the strain PURE. that would be includeing VERY SELECTED offerings to Breaders who have the ability, the means and, like myself, the motive to keep this elegant nastalgic put your dick in the dirt smoke alive, pure and propigation.
As mentioned above maybe ONE Seed wont re supply the CG strain to the world, but imagine if im not the only one that has old seeds stashed away, and try to finially grow them some 30 or 35 yrs later? If its Possilbe, would you be EAGER to see the Old Strain live again in its Purity?
i know i sure as hell do.
again, dont mean to be a dick, but this wont be going NOWHERE, until its growing healty, and i can atleast take a cut to maturity and see if its even worth further work. but as long as the plant is viable, and has lost nothing over the lase 3 decades, its gonna make alot of old guys like myself HAP HAP HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
and if in the end, no one can or is willing to, or able to verify my claim, then i ll decide how to move forward from that point.
id of been able to get a couple girls to grow, tested, smoked and overall evaluated and no harm no foul.
But WHEN it is Verified to be a True 70s/early 80s CG plant, and the smoke is EXCELLENT< i wont be a Schmuck, i ll gladly send you a few photos of me smoking a fatty the size of my arm. lol
i hope it lives, i hope its not lost anything over the last 30 yrs. and yes, i hope i can find a few guys that can vouch for the plants strain. As i said, its about the purity of the strain. but anything that does leave the plant in a growable status, will be highly scrutinized, as anyone getting a cut/pollen, will have to have a sincere desire to maintian the purity/strain, unless that is just not an option, and it becomes a Use it or Lose it situation.
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