Emerald Cup 2016 Results Are In

For instance the winning grower, Jason “Dookie,” has more than a couple decades worth of grow experience. After winning best flowers at the Cup he told us that he’s been growing for 25 years. He also said that he’s only entered one other event aside from this one.

“This was only our second event. It’s all kind of surreal,” he laughed.

On Sunday we ran into our buds from Maui’s Sticky Finger Seeds who have been collecting and breeding killer cannabis genetics for over 45 years all up in Hawaii. These guys are onto something big—combining old school landrace sativas—think Maui Wowie—with Indica genetics that are completely mold resistant. Maui is constantly raining so it’s a perfect testing ground for surfacing mold and mildew resistant strains, says their main-man, Will. Below is a li’l video of our bud, Ua blessing the Sticky Fingers booth at the Emerald Cup. This guy rips on the ukulele with a voice that’s like Brad from Sublime.

We did a little strain hunting with the Sticky Fingers crew, Will and Harper. We hit up a few of our fave cannabis seeds companies including BushyOldGrower aka BOG Seeds. This mom and pop op began in 2000 and is comprised of two high school sweethearts who love cannabis. Together they’ve been growing weed since the early 70s. And they were some of the first people to ever grow weed indoors. They wrote about it in a book titled, Bonanza of Green. It’s one of our faves. So are their genetics like Sour Bubble and of course BOGglegum. We also hit up the DVG aka Dungeons Vault Genetics dudes. They’ve got a lock on the famous Gorilla Glue #4 genetics and so many other dank varieties. We also really dug the magic beans over at Humboldt CSI—Cannabis Sativa Investigators. Their Mendo Purple Cheddar smelled off the hook and looks dark and dank AF. We had to take home a few seeds but somehow lost ’em. Fuck.

One thing that’s cool about the Emerald Cup is their focus on purity. So you won’t find any solvent-saturated concentrates here, man. What you will find is lots of killer rosin. Rosin, like hash, is a concentrate but instead of being sifted it’s heat pressed. Above is a pic of our bud Harper from Sticky Finger seeds sampling some Pez-Bro rosin. Sure people were smoking joints all over the Emerald Cup, but if you really want to taste a strain and quickly feel it’s effects, a dab of rosin is the way to go. That device he’s using is a Nectar Collector, basically a glass straw with a heating element at the end. On the right is rosin available for sale.

Above is our bud Dan who owns and operates Dark Heart Nursery, the biggest provider of cuttings in the Bay and masters of branding. He’s proudly showing off some of the DHN’s tissue cultured clones at the 2016 Emerald Cup. These guys are pioneering a whole new way to produce and distribute pot plants. Earlier in the year we helped them name their new tissue culture product, Lablets.

We also ran into one of our fave peeps on the planet, comic extraordinaire and element #103 on the Periodic Table of STUFF STONERS LIKE, Ngaio Bealum, who was a judge at the Emerald Cup. He was a finalist on the 1st Last Comic Standing—by the way. We’ll let ya know next time he’s playing in town so you can check him out. He’s F-ing highlarious.

In the end there were 1,200 total entries in the Emerald Cup 2016. It all looked awesome. We were able sample some of the goods backstage and at various booths. So tasty. Anyhow here is the full list of Emerald Cup 2016 winners…

Emerald Cup 2016 Winners