i STARTED OUT smoking california grown lightly pinecone smelling trippy as a mofo columbian gold and to this day, it's STILL the best i've ever smoked. there's just much emphasis on afghani traits. those trippy ass $40 a quarter gold buds (pale green... they weren't girdled and were sold as thai which they weren't) weren't at all sticky. the resin glands on them were more like insect fur than today's "crystal mushrooms". not only that, but the buds were light & fluffy and REALLY EASY to break apart with your fingers, but eff ANYONE who says they were low potency! one time i got REALLY fucked up on 4 straight bong hits of that and literally started tripping a little after the room started spinning in the worst kind of nausea way immaginable, but the buzz was much more laugh your ass off trippy at sane dosages.
i've smoked a lot of strains that actually DO get you high and even a few that have psychoactivity in them, but they just didn't have all of the qualities that made gold in particular so special
- the light floaty feeling you get that starts a couple minutes after your first hit that tells you you're going to get high. actually though, 8 miles high had some of that going on, but maybe with more clear headed euphoria in early harvest. with a good high though, it didn't just end there. the lightness would travel to your legs and feet so that you often felt like you were walking downhill or even that your feet were helium balloons trying to fly out from under you & take you with them or that you were marching like a high stepping russian soldier as you walked
- it was super visual & affected pretty much ALL of your senses in a way i can only described as "heightening reality". TV could look 3D, movies & music felt more real, munchies induced junk food could be nearly orgasmic & basically anything fun was even funner
the next best thing i've smoked that i can put a name to is haze x skunk. i did smoke something whose hard to describe minty straw grass taste reminded me of gold and whose nausea after clearing a 3 foot chamber combined with the "i gotta get the fuck outta here" feeling from having to listen to one of my hosts playing intolerable heavy metal on guitar hero was very similar to gold and possibly some california import from a pocket where it's still grown.
haze skunk is much more potent and probably long lasting, but it just didn't have the same sensual trippiness, but it is psychoactive and euphoric too. it's my old school go to favorite for it's buzz if not it's cigar wrapper flavor, but 8 miles high & super cali haze are really nice too with their different flavors & personalities.
from everything i've read about OTHER mexican strains like acapulco gold & panama red is that they're more about energy & euphoria than trippiness and that columbian gold is "the gold standard" in that department without looking the info up in cannabible or marijuana botany. i think that's why hazes don't feel as trippy as gold even when they're more potent. it's that panama red clearing up some of the trippiness.
i've decided i want to give
world of seeds' 25% indica
columbian gold a test spin to see if it's anywhere near the original in it's buzz. i'd expect it to be trippier than the hazes i've tried, but also more couchlocking than anything but skunk #1 which isn't really trippy at all, just euphoric & stony. i wist WoSs would at the very least make their gold a regular strain so you could inbreed it and select out as much of the indica as possible, but i'm sure there's a strain along the lines of haze skunk that could do the job possibly even better having less afghani pollution in them.
if no one else does, i'll try to get a smoke report on that strain by summer and see how it compares to other old school leaning strains. it might not be shabby "as/is" if the indica that was used had more of a neutral than stony THC profile.
STOP RAVING ABOUT THE HAZES... THERE NOT ALL THAT.. THERE NOT ALL PSYCHEDELIC
absolutely true, the best THC profiles are the rarest, but ANY haze beats the living crap out of the cash crapper strains on the street! even 25% not at all trippy, but at least euphoric skunk 1 is still way better than almost ANYTHING i've bought in the past 25 years though there's a lot more variety around on the west coast. it's also true that some have been improved with careful breeding. i tried some real grape pheno haze and it was really nice and very much like super cali haze, but high quality seed's haze x skunk was not only more potent, but trippier too. it's even more potent than gold was but just a little more clearheaded.
it's hard to find ANY good IBL leaning gear. so many breeders that push it are a little sketchy. i got nothing out of either my 5 mekong hazes or 10 VISC burmese and have heard similar stories from other "IBL breeders' "gear. then there's the whole extinction aspect as indicas continue to pollute everything they touch. the late afropips (+REP in peace) had REAL legit malawi gold, but now that's gone along with a few other breeders that had pure bred durban poison and the big 3 old school mexicans, columbian gold, acapulco gold & panama red have pretty much been extinct in buyable pure form since the original afghani invasion in the late 80s.
hazes are the next best thing to thai, malawi, burmese, vitenamese, & cambodian blackseed in a market where you just can't get IBLs anymore. i will say that sativa seeds' full moon highland thai definitely lived up to it's fussy personality and off the charts sexy tutti fruity rep, but didn't get to sample the goods indoors. it would be nice to see some quality breeder like TGA put something fast and non-stony like a lowryding C99 up in that to shrink it down to a doable size without diluting it's canniboid profile.
columbian gold is "the best", but haze x skunk, super cali haze & 8 miles high are anything but shabby and all have their own tricks they do better than gold
haze skunk = more potent & long lasting
super cali haze = more euphoric & way more delicious with it's authentic grapey flavor
8 miles high = perfectly neutral energy profile, precise body control & higher euphoria level
anyone that would turn their nose up to that gear is even more of a pot snob than me and i compare EVERYTHING i smoke to gold.
