East Coast Cannabis Cup 2022
A Breeders Cup won by a grower's own cross — the result that says most about where South African genetics were heading.
East Coast Cannabis Cup, 2022 · 29 April – 1 May 2022 · Wacky Woods, Eastern Cape
The 2022 East Coast cup ran over the long weekend at the end of April, and its Breeders Cup is the category to look at.
A breeders category judges a grower's own genetics rather than their execution of somebody else's, and the winner — Umthunzi Cake #7 — is a numbered selection, which is breeder's shorthand for "the seventh one of these we kept". That is what a breeding programme looks like from the outside: a lot of numbers, most of them discarded.
South Africa spent decades as a place that imported its genetics. A breeders category with real entries in it is the sound of that changing.
Results
Breeders Cup
| Place | Cultivar | Grown by |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Umthunzi Cake #7 | Umthunzi Garden |
| 2nd | Cyclops | Happy Creek Farm |
Third place in the Breeders Cup, 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.
