Cinderella 99 (the original)

Cinderella 99 - C99 - Brothers Grimm Seeds

Cinderella 99 aka C99 de la maison des frères Grimm, produit par le légendaire éleveur Mr Soul. Après de nombreuses années, la plante la plus noble des Sativas est à nouveau utilisée comme plante de base. Cinderella 99 est l'une des Sativas les plus légendaires de notre planète. Elle offre un rendement exceptionnel, elle est facile à cultiver et elle est si puissante après une consommation intensive que n'importe quelle autre variété. Cette variété est très facile à cultiver, elle offre à chaque cultivateur des résultats exceptionnels et peut être cultivée à l'intérieur, dans les restaurants et même à l'extérieur, dans des régions très éloignées. Cela fait plus de trois ans que le projet a été mené à bien, mais cette fois-ci, il a atteint sa fin : C99 est de retour et nous, de Cannapot, sommes très heureux de pouvoir offrir à nos clients cette merveilleuse Sativa.

Genetique: Princess x P 94
Composition: mostly Sativa
Temps de floraison: 7 - 8 semaines
Odeur: extrêmement fruité, citron vert, agrumes
Hauteur: 180 - 200 cm

L'histoire de Cinderella 99 par Mr Soul en version originale:
In 1996, I discovered a few seeds in a bud of Jack Herer I bought @ “Sensi Smile” coffeeshop in Amsterdam while there to buy seeds. I didn’t expect much when I grew them, but one of those seeds from the JH bud produced a very special female that I call “Princess”. She had devastatingly psychoactive resin and stayed short, compact and had a heavenly aroma of tropical fruit and rotten meat. The scent given off by Princess, was unusual in the late 90’s - not at all skunky - she’s sweet and fruity. Someone passing by the flowering room MIGHT not recognize the scent as pot and mistake it for tropical flowers. When you rub the resin you can definitely smell it. The high of Princess is also more “psychedelic” or “trippy” compared to the strains like Skunk #1 that were popular. I always advised friends to smoke a LITTLE, wait 10 minutes, then think about whether or not you need any more…it’s easy to over-indulge and become paranoid. We can assume Princess’ mother was a Jack Herer not only because Sensi Smile printed it on the package, but also because I’ve smoked verified Jack Herer since then. So Princess’ father is a totally unidentified mystery plant – his pollen somehow got in Sensi’s growroom. Princess had two sisters join her from that same bud. I called them Genius & Café Girl. There were also 3 males from those seeds which regrettably, I didn’t preserve. Genius became the mother of the Brothers Grimm Apollo lines, while Café Girl gave us Rosetta Stone. I wanted to create a strain that would allow me to share Princess with others, but I wanted this incredible “Holy Grail” of indoor clones available to the world in SEED form. I decided to use a technique called “cubing” (because there are 3 backcrosses involved) to create the seeds. (See the FAQ for an overview of how the cubing process works) In the process of “cubing” Princess I wanted to add a little strength to her branches because the buds were always so heavy at harvest that the branches flopped over. To do that, I crossed a heavy-yielding, dense, resinous Sensi Shiva Skunk female with one of the males grown from same group of seeds that produced Princess (i.e., her brother). I then grew the resulting seeds to select a male to pollenate Princess to begin the cubing process. That select male was then crossed to Princess, creating “P.50” (using the shorthand notation I developed to indicate the fraction of Princess genes in the cross). Each generation is the result of crossing a male from the previous generation to Princess herself.

Here’s a blow-by-blow description of the generations:
P.50 = Heavy, single-cola type plants with mellow high (too much influence from the Shiva Skunk) Sweet fruity scent/flavor. Unstable in most traits – for example, 10 days’ difference in fastest/slowest maturation period in a group of 20 seedlings.
P.75 = Princess floral cluster and bud structure, scent/flavor turned more “tropical” like pineapple. The stability was becoming better – two major phenotypes; short & dense (potent too) or tall/HUGE (less potent).
P.88 = Renamed Cinderella 88 when first released on the market. It grows fast and produces excellent yields of FROSTY buds in 7 weeks! Generally uniform seedlings with minor differences in floral formation and some height variance, but the smoke is quite consistent from all plants – Dense, heavy nuggets of fruity scented & flavored (like wild berries) and covered in resin glands, the dried buds have distinctly ORANGE pistils.
And finally P.94 = Cinderella 99. The name “Cinderella” was chosen because of the parallels between this story and the well-known fairy tale in which Cinderella becomes a Princess despite her humble beginning.

Each generation exhibited a MAJOR jump in potency: P.50 was rather mellow, P.75 has a well-balanced body/mind high with a citrus flavor, Cinderella 88 is cerebral and paralyzing with a tropical fruit flavor, and Cinderella 99 is of course renowned for the fruity flavor and speedy, scary high inherited from Princess. Cinderella 99 yields are highly dependent on the methods used. Pruning style and number of plants/area make a BIG difference. Generally 1-2 lbs/kW depending on the grower’s style. This project clearly became a huge success. The strain has been embraced by the cannabis growing community. The smokers gave rave reviews & the breeders elevated Cinderella 99 to cult status. It’s extremely gratifying to me, MrSoul that so many hybrids were created by breeders who recognized C99 as a stable parental stock from which to build or tweak another variety. It’s a big compliment to me as the breeder, and a huge testament to the enduring quality of Cinderella 99.

Brothers Grimm Seeds : comment un classique a réussi son retour

Brothers Grimm Seeds existe en réalité depuis 1996. À l’époque, Mr Soul et son ami Sly ont lancé leurs variétés de cannabis sélectionnées avec soin et se sont rapidement fait un nom dans la scène, surtout grâce à leurs hybrides stables et leur génétique travaillée. En 2002, ils ont d’abord arrêté. Mais ils ont conservé les graines originales et les cuttings pendant de nombreuses années. Puis, en 2015, ils sont revenus – cette fois avec Duke Diamond. Les nouvelles graines ont repris exactement là où tout s’était arrêté. Beaucoup de variétés sont fruitées, tropicales ou sucrées, avec une vraie profondeur clairement reconnaissable dans la génétique.

Infos rapides
Localisation : États-Unis
Focus : Lignes hybrides classiques avec une génétique éprouvée
Types disponibles : Régulières et féminisées, photopériodiques
Connu pour : Cinderella 99, Rosetta Stone, Apollo, Queen of Soul, Killer Queen
Idéal pour : Home-grows, petits setups commerciaux ou collectionneurs

Des variétés comme Grimm Glue ou Princess Haze apparaissent dans énormément de grow-logs. Et Original Cinderella 99 reste encore aujourd’hui un vrai sujet de discussion après toutes ces années – goût, rapidité, production de résine, tout y est. Beaucoup de leurs plantes sont aussi accessibles aux débutants et possèdent une structure robuste.