East Coast Canna Cup 2024
Three days at Wacky Woods, and the year's indoor category went to a White Widow — a cultivar older than most of the people judging it.
East Coast Canna Cup, 2024 · 26–28 April 2024 · Wacky Woods, Eastern Cape
The East Coast cup runs as a weekend rather than an afternoon, camped at Wacky Woods in the Eastern Cape, which gives judging the thing most cups lack: time. Samples are assessed over days rather than in one sitting at the end of a long afternoon, and the difference shows in how seriously growers take entering it.
The 2024 indoor result is a quiet argument against novelty. White Widow has been in circulation since the 1990s, and it took a category full of modern crosses — a reminder that a cup rewards how well something was grown at least as much as what it was.
Results
Indoor
| Place | Cultivar | Grown by |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | White Widow | Tubby |
| 2nd | Dead Pirate Roberts | East Cape Craft Canna |
Third place in the indoor category, and the other categories judged that weekend, are not in any source we could find.
What a placing here is worth
A cup result describes one batch, judged once, by the people who happened to be judging. It is a good reason to look at what a grower is doing now; it is not a promise about a jar in front of you today, which may be a different season, a different cut and a different cure.
If you want the fuller version of that argument, see Cannabis cups, and what a win actually means — and if you would rather learn to score a jar yourself, the five-minute method is the place to start.
Sources
This archive records what has been published, with its sources, and says so plainly where a result is missing rather than guessing at it. If you have results we do not, tell the club and they will be added.
