Jesús Malverde wrote:Nothing wrong with a C99 "knockoff" whatever that exactly means. This was grown just up the road from me--legally--organically in soil from a C99 cut that smells of guava-pineapple with a musky, almost skunky Saatz hop back end like a Pilsner Urquell that spent too much time on the ship coming over, and you'd have a tough find finding harder hitting flower. And it has that strong heady sativa buzz with just a pleasant floaty body buzz behind it. And it finishes in seven weeks, no bullshit, which is amazing for the type. No wonder people were freaking out about C99 when it first showed up, if you find the right cut it's almost the perfect plant. I've tried just about everything now and this bud is right there with the best.
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No, there's nothing wrong with it at all. It's just that, as you mentioned, C99 finishes in seven weeks or so and has that distinctive pineapple smell and haze-type high, with tight, dense buds.
I've grown out a lot of Swiss Bliss, and there is some variance, but my keep clone had a very branchy structure with somewhat airy, cotton-candy shaped buds. The smell was grape/strawberry bubblegum with an astringent skunkiness and hint of rotting tropical fruit. The buds were very oily and slightly "fuely". The high was the best part: nice and clear and mostly in the head, with relaxing, euphoric properties. It creeped up slowly and had absolutely no paranoia (unlike some C99). It was very functional and a great smoke night or day, which seemed to bend with the mood. It was just excellent, alround smoke.
Just where jesus got the idea that the two varieties were one and the same, I don't know. If I was to have a good guess, I would have said Swiss Bliss was a haze-type (Luc's infamous Swiss haze mother - the one that died) crossed with a Blueberry/White Widow type father. That's just a guess, because while the mother was known, the father was a bit of a mystery. There's definitely a bit of Blue in there, and I know Luc used Ingmar's White Widow genetics in some of his crosses over the years.
