anyone here tried this out?

i hear its an old strain from the times of cheech and chong and would also like to try it and find out more about it

My hazey memory says to me that Columbian Gold pretty much vanished in commercial ammounts around the mid-eighties, as farmers went for the qucker flowering varieties flooding the market. They went for cash-yielding, bag-appeal buds over the quality of generations. It is a tragedy. This is what the explosion in "Skunk" varieties has done.
Columbian Gold was grown in the highlands. Its "Gold" character was the result of interesting flowering techniques. As the plants reached maturity, the farmer would either strip a band off the main stem, or tie and extremely tight tourniquet around it. The aim was to cut off the flow of water and nutrients, effectively drying the plant in the ground. Without nutrients, the chlorophyl naturally broke down leaving yellow/gold leaves and buds.

This is all from very hazey memory and should be taken with a pinch of salt. I may be recalling wrong, I may have been misinformed originally. But that is what I recollect.

I did once try "Banding" a Skunk in my grow. It didn't work, as far as I coud see. But that was years ago and I probably did it wrong, or failed to tie the tourniquet tight enough. Maybe I should have tried cutting a band off instead? Meh, can't see me botherin'

is this the same strain that is sold by spam?

As Arnold says the true columbian lines of yesteryear were replaced in many cases with hybrid faster flowering genetics. the last weed i smoked that i know for a fact was from columbia smelled very hashy with a hint of affie id say and that was back in 1990.
The effect of using hybrid genetics not only increases their yield but also has the knock on effect of pollinating the landrace plants and more traditional lines in the area, a good example of this is a story i heard about a blueberry crop in the 90s that pollinated all the Jamaican highgrade fields in jamaica thus destroying the jamaican gene pool. ( thankfully i have some jamaican beans from before that happened
I dont know about spam columbia gold it states that it is a sativa indica cross if i remember rightly and although some landraces can in fact be sat/indica from what i remember columbian landraces are all sats and have ridiculously long flower periods.
But i may be wrong.. when i was searching a columbian strain to run i chose the columbian red haze, which isnt a landrace its columbian red x nevilles haze.
But with all beans theres only one way to found out eh..

You're probably more likely to find a pure land race in peru, which has always been the more isolated and less commercial neighbour of colombia. I doubt it's a pure land race but Celestial Temple Sativa from Colombia's neighbouring Ecuador sounds very nice.

Growing the CTS now I have two phenos one tall and one short, both look sat but the taller moreso however the short one smells amazing. They are only 4 weeks in flower but I'll let you know how they turn out.

cheers for the info lads

any more info is very welcome