Interesting you choose C99 over Sweet Skunk for a sativa, having grown C99 and SS x C99 I always wondered if I should have ordered the Sweet Skunk instead, since Peakseeds website description says SS is "very potent" as opposed to SS x C99 being just "potent".
I bought 2 packs of c99 before he had this new packaging and he sent me like 30+ beans but many were crushed or damaged, probably had about 20-25 beans in good condition.
Looks like a trimming will be painless.
Exactly my experience, the original was scary racy, the mind shooting thousand ideas per second and rather paranoid. Nothing like the current C99 from Peak or Female Seeds (ironically, the least similar to the original is Brothers Grimm's new version) and very aromatic, most of the time a strong pineapple, some more like grapefruit and still others rotten meat. The C88 was offered for $75 via Heaven's Stairway, so if you remember paying $150 it was C99.
What did it look like in terms of phenotype? Because Mike originally had different batches of C99 with different parents, perhaps yours came from an early batch different from the one being distributed today.
The description of Sweet Skunk used to have a warning "height can be a problem", Mike J from PeakSeedsBC recommends flowering Sweet Skunk the earliest / shortest you can. You can get some shorter phenos (that amazingly can be the most sativa in effect!) but generally speaking SS is a stretcher, induced at one ft it can easily reach 4ft if they are seedlings (from clones they stretch less).
Good to know. I plan on doing some LST to help promote a lot of side branching..... make them grow out rather than tall. Plus their clones so that should help.
Only 1 out of 3 of my c99s stretched on me, the other 2 were nice and manageable.
I cant really comment on the cbd content of peak strains. But I can say I grabbed 2 packs of Candida through East coast seeds and Mothers Little Helper for CBD. I will be popping them come september.I e-mailed Mike to ask this question and he was nice enough to answer, but he also suggested I reach out to people who have grown lots of his gear, because he has not tested for CBD yet.
I just stumbled on this thread and am very glad I did.
Which Peak IBLs or F1s produce the most CBD, or have the potential as breeding stock with other medium to high CBD strains?
I know there are lots of "high CBD strains" out there these days (and I have some of them) but I do want to try some Peak gear and I really do like to have a good dose of CBD in my weed. I get anxious/paranoid very easily otherwise.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. (I like Indicas and Sativas equally well for different reasons).
EDIT: Oh, one other thing - I'll be setting up to test CBD content at home soon - so if worse comes to worst (come to think of it, this is a bad choice of words), I will grow all Peak strains and test them myself. It'll just take a while.
I do recall him mentioning having a few different c99 offerings. Asked if I would prefer a more fruity terp profile over the rotten meat/pineapple.
I had both the SS and the Pineapple c99 stretch X2 roughly during flower. Nothing I would call crazy height wise though. Even with long veg.
