“It’s incredible to watch these farmers and the genetics get better every year”
At a boutique hemp farm in deep East Austin, I’m sitting around a conference table with Liz Grow and Geremy Greens hitting a glass bong loaded with some freshly cured Lava Cake , which is a hemp strain high in THCA., where the Lone Star State’s legal, licensed cultivars compete in categories like Best Hemp Flower, Best Hemp Concentrate, and Most Pungent.
But Greens is not competing in October, instead taking a more involved approach and as an expert judge at TTHC’s main event, which will be held Oct. 19 at the Far Out Lounge. He sees the Cup as a way for cultivators to connect with each other and exchange notes and experiences that will continue to raise the quality of Texas-grown smokable hemp.
Speaking of new hemp strains, Texas A&M has invested their resources into a hemp breeding team aiming to suss out the genetics needed to cultivate a strain that’s heat-resistant enough to emerge as a profitable industrial crop in Texas. Those researchers are an official judging partner at the Hemp Cup. Along with expert judges like Greens, local superstoners are invited to become judges as well.
“My goal is to provide healing cannabis medicine to the people who need it,” she says. “Not just to have fun, but for their health.”
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