Peak Seeds Cinderella 99 (C99) Grow

[Crazy Chester]

Hi all - I wanted post the results of my Peak Seeds C99 grow. I got 20 seeds, all of which sprouted, which I put in knock off rapid rooter plugs having very tight holes. Due to the tightness of the plugs, only one plant emerged without assistance by me - it actually ripped half a cotyldon off in the process (the plant was badass - I actually dropped it when it was at the first set of single-bladers and it broke in two. I simply placed it back into the plug where it rapidly grew new roots without even showing any outward signs of stress).

Peak Seeds C99 seeds contain vigorous plants, for sure!

Due to various practical constraints and concerns, the eight plants spent their whole lives in their eight ounce starter cups - over 5 months!

I was able to clone all of them before flowering for testing and use later.





I ended up getting four females and four males. They looked good in veg, having slightly narrower leaves than my old original Bros. Grimm C99 grapefruit pheno clone had.

In flower, #1 had barely perceptible orange terps and the least amount of trics. #2 and #4 had moderate pineapple terps and #3 had moderate grapefruit terps.

 

[Crazy Chester]

Flowering proceeded nicely, with close to 10% amber trics showing by day 50, the day I decided to harvest.

I found #2 to be the best of the four females. She has a moderate pineapple smell and has a tart taste. She has a similar up high as my old original clone, but not as strong. However, she is the closest to the original I've been able to find so far.

I don't think I had enough plants grown out to find the best Peak C99 has to offer, so I may end up getting more of those seeds to grow out. However, I may just switch to FDM instead (or in addition) after seeing LostTribe's grow.

Here's #2 and #4 at harvest:

 

[LostTribe]

I like that last pic you can tell they have that Cindy trichome coverage. I also have a couple of these I just popped.

 

[Crazy Chester]

Thanks, LostTribe. Yes, the trichome coverage is solid. Also the short flower time is similar to the original. I really do think Peak has direct descendants of original parents and that there are examples in their seeds that are better than what I found. Hopefully the ones you popped show Peaks highest potential.

 

[LostTribe]

I found a post on another forum stating that Peak got his seeds from frost brothers who made their version of cinderella with just 1 pack of Joey Weed c99. Of course that was the earlier release of JW c99 so who knows.

All 3 of my seedlings made it through transplanting. I think I had PM'd you 2 weeks back that to me they looked a lot like JW. I meant the current JW.

The post I found also said that MikeJ from Peak started out with 3 different mom's or lines and initially sent out different sets to different people for feed back. The seeds I got were simply labeled c99.

At what point do I end my obsession? I may be close if the Peak don't beat out the keeper I have now that might be it. I like the floral tropical fruitiness combined with a little spicy haze.

 

[Crazy Chester]

Thanks for the heads up about a possible Joey Weed connection to the Peak C99 seeds. As an aside, I heard that the current Peak C99 seeds are descendant to the F7 generation.

I agree that, if they are from Joey Weed plants, they are from his original seed runs. While I'm not convinced the current Joey Weed seeds aren't from the same parents as before, I acknowledge that it is very hard to keep plants for 10+ years - especially males.

With the Peak C99 males, I cloned them all from the seed plants when they barely showed sex. So far so good - no problem rooting them. But, those first sets of clones were growing major league balls and were starting to drop pollen within a month under 18 hours of light - I'm glad I made another clone generation from them before they started getting horny, otherwise, they probably wouldn't have rooted. From there, I've had to clone them pretty much continuously - as soon as there's enough new veg growth, I take a clone and replace my father with it as soon as it gets solid roots.

You asked at what point do you end your obsession?

Well, I have a feeling you are going to get a clone of the original at some point.

What would really be funny is if you like it less than an FDM or Peak keeper!

 

[LostTribe]

Thanks for the heads up about a possible Joey Weed connection to the Peak C99 seeds. As an aside, I heard that the current Peak C99 seeds are descendant to the F7 generation.

I agree that, if they are from Joey Weed plants, they are from his original seed runs. While I'm not convinced the current Joey Weed seeds aren't from the same parents as before, I acknowledge that it is very hard to keep plants for 10+ years - especially males.

With the Peak C99 males, I cloned them all from the seed plants when they barely showed sex. So far so good - no problem rooting them. But, those first sets of clones were growing major league balls and were starting to drop pollen within a month under 18 hours of light - I'm glad I made another clone generation from them before they started getting horny, otherwise, they probably wouldn't have rooted. From there, I've had to clone them pretty much continuously - as soon as there's enough new veg growth, I take a clone and replace my father with it as soon as it gets solid roots.

You asked at what point do you end your obsession?

Well, I have a feeling you are going to get a clone of the original at some point.

What would really be funny is if you like it less than an FDM or Peak keeper!

You sure you don't have a light leak? Never seen a male drop pollen under 18/6 but I normally run 24/7.

The newest release of the JW c99 gave me all grapefruit from 5 plants all looked identical. Maybe the aero set up threw it off but I ran a bunch of others in the same system and most turned out as expected. The high also wasn't very strong. I smoked some as recently as last month before turning the rest into hash. The fdm was compared at the same time and had a stronger effect.

 

[KP Sunshine]

You sure you don't have a light leak? Never seen a male drop pollen under 18/6 but I normally run 24/7.

The newest release of the JW c99 gave me all grapefruit from 5 plants all looked identical. Maybe the aero set up threw it off but I ran a bunch of others in the same system and most turned out as expected. The high also wasn't very strong. I smoked some as recently as last month before turning the rest into hash. The fdm was compared at the same time and had a stronger effect.

Once the males go into flower they will continue to flower unless you have a hard re-veg, even under 18/6. It's a great way to collect pollen.

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Beautiful plants man! I just received some c99 from Peak and went looking for threads, and found this one. Never have grown or felt the effects of a real Sativa in my life, so I'm very excited!

 

[Crazy Chester]

"[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]You sure you don't have a light leak? Never seen a male drop pollen under 18/6 but I normally run 24/7."[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I even upped it to 19.25/4.75. From now on I'm doing 24 hour light for males.[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The newest release of the JW c99 gave me all grapefruit from 5 plants all looked identical...The high also wasn't very strong."[/FONT][/FONT]
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[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The high is the main thing. My original BG grapefruit pheno was strong as hell, but I haven't heard anyone for a while talk about having a strong grapefruit pheno. That's fine with me, but only if a strong pineapple version is available.[/FONT][/FONT]

 

[Crazy Chester]

Once the males go into flower they will continue to flower unless you have a hard re-veg, even under 18/6. It's a great way to collect pollen.

Not mine - they had only pre-flowered, were cloned as soon as they showed male and flowered about a month after being placed in the mother/father room.

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

How were they in terms of their feeding requirements? Was the high the "soaring" Sativa high people talk about?.

 

[Crazy Chester]

Beautiful plants man! I just received some c99 from Peak and went looking for threads, and found this one. Never have grown or felt the effects of a real Sativa in my life, so I'm very excited!

Thanks for the compliment, JustSumTomatoes! I'm hoping Peak Seeds C99 works out for you. Although I didn't find a female as strong as the original, it does have some terps that the original had and all my females had a sativa up high. None of them had any indica like couch lock effect whatsoever and they were all nice plants from fresh seeds - nothing bad in the bunch.

 

[Crazy Chester]

How were they in terms of their feeding requirements? Was the high the "soaring" Sativa high people talk about?.

Nothing abnormal about feeding. Lucas 5/10 worked for me with them. As far as "soaring", I definitely had an effect reminiscent of that in my #2 pheno - it was like my original clone dialed back a notch. My original BG C99 clone was a good approximation of a pure sativa high. However, keep in mind, there's a whole sub-culture around here that are big into sativas - the best C99 ever made is not as strong as the large variety of the pure sativas they are working with. Nonetheless, the soaring effect of the original was a bit scary - I would think I was losing control some of the time - which was part of its fun. #2 pheno had me thinking, "ah, I remember something feeling like this", but it didn't get to that fear stage. If you are susceptible to sativas at all (it appears some people aren't - a friend who smoked my original BG clone that I KNOW had a very strong sativa effect on everyone else was completely un-effected by it). But, that's a rare person who doesn't feel a sativa effect, so I think you are in for something different - hopefully you'll like it.

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Thanks, yeah the effect will hopefully be a memorable experience. The seeds I got were the smallest I've ever seen, they were a unique shape as well. I've heard Sativas have small seeds but it caught me by suprise as I'm used to seeing big dark Indica seeds.

 

[Crazy Chester]

Thanks, yeah the effect will hopefully be a memorable experience. The seeds I got were the smallest I've ever seen, they were a unique shape as well. I've heard Sativas have small seeds but it caught me by suprise as I'm used to seeing big dark Indica seeds.

The seeds I got were about half the size of some of the indica seeds out there and grayish in color, with some having faint tiger striping. Generally, the more sativa that is in a plant, the smaller the seeds. The smallest seeds are from pure sativas. So, they should pop fine for you

 

[Fitzera]

The seeds I got were about half the size of some of the indica seeds out there and grayish in color, with some having faint tiger striping. Generally, the more sativa that is in a plant, the smaller the seeds. The smallest seeds are from pure sativas. So, they should pop fine for you

So strange, the seeds I got from my zamaldelica and destroyer are huge. Bigger than most of the indica seeds I've bought.

 

[Crazy Chester]

So strange, the seeds I got from my zamaldelica and destroyer are huge. Bigger than most of the indica seeds I've bought.

Hmmm, maybe seed size is simply a function of whether a sativa/indica hybrid like zamaldelica, destroyer or C99 expresses indica seed size or sativa seed size.

The seeds I've seen from pure indicas have always been huge and the seeds I've seen from pure sativas have always been small.

Maybe seed size is not so cut and dried when it comes to plants that have both sativa and indica in them.

 

[Fitzera]

Hmmm, maybe seed size is simply a function of whether a sativa/indica hybrid like zamaldelica, destroyer or C99 expresses indica seed size or sativa seed size.

The seeds I've seen from pure indicas have always been huge and the seeds I've seen from pure sativas have always been small.

Maybe seed size is not so cut and dried when it comes to plants that have both sativa and indica in them.

From my own personal experience I cant categorize them via size. Currently. But I'm going to begin delving into seed production myself in 2020, so I'll be noting this in the back of my mind as I progress.

 

[Crazy Chester]

After finally getting an indoor flowering room set up, I'm having another go at my Peak Seeds C99 #2 - the keeper female I chose from the pack. Here she is at day 7 of flowering:

I've got her in there with Gelato #33:

And FireOG: