Is 4/18 the new 4/20 this year?
The stoner holiday lands on a Monday, so the party is all weekend.
BY DAVID DOWNS | April 1 | SAN FRANCISCO
Good morning, Fire Followers,
We hung our massive, 1,800-piece mylar art show this week, and the public opening is Friday. Please RSVP and come down—Bosky, Life is Not Grape, and The Pairist are tabling with new flavors.
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In this week’s newsletter free excerpt:
Big new drop from Bodhi Seeds, and Sin City Seeds
The Olympics of Zaza nears
Why 4/18 is the new 4/20 this year
As always, the first hit is free, then I’ll see you in the Pro version. Assuming you’ve got $5 on it.
THE OLYMPICS OF ZAZA: Highly influential LA indoor competition Zalympix is the inheritor to High Times’ Cannabis Cups and The Emerald Cup. The group announced its May 30 event sponsors. Tickets are $44.29.
4/18 IS THE NEW 4/20: Weed rap god Wiz Khalifa, as well as 2Chainz and Berner announced a three-stop Macro Dose Tour before 4/20 which lands on a Monday. Tickets. The Billy’s are April 19 in NYC. Our SF Space Walk Club Party goes down Saturday, April 18.
TOWER OF BABEL RISES: Twitter (aka X) turned on auto-translate for posts and the heavily cloistered Japanese weed Twitter is now communicating directly with balls-out U.S. weed twitter. Capulator is stunned.
MORE CHANGE PLEAS: That Change.org petition to re-legalize seeds is at 2,828 signatures.
3 TOP SEED DROPS
This week, we’d recommend:
Big Bodhi Drop: Bodhi is prepping a big drop on JBC Seeds, including 420 2026 release $100 packs of Snow Lotus F2 (Afgooey x Blockhead), a Neirika educational drop and $50 packs: Thai x NL F2.
More from Bodhi incoming—like $60 packs of limited Le Boof (Super Boof x Lavender Lemonade). Also $100 Yab Yum packs like Santo (Saint Stephen x D’soul) *comes with a special bogo freebie: Z Soul (Get Z x D’soul).
Sticky AF: Sin City Seeds uses Bloom Seed Co Sticky Grapes for the ‘Sticky As Fuck’ line of five new regular seed crosses—offering grape cream toffee terps and insane trichomes. The Sticky As Fuck Box Set is $420. Notable: Sticky Candy (Runtz x Sticky Grapes), Sticky Kush Mints for $50, and Sticky Strawberries (Raskal Berries x Sticky Grapes) is $62.50.
Trop your garden up: Masonic releases “Trop Up” (Lemon Runtz x Trop) for a notable $200 per pack. Also—Strawberry Starburst for $20.
Reminders
Get seeds at SF Space Walk’s Club Party April 18 at a private venue in the SOMA district of SF. Featuring Purple City Genetics, CHA Genetics, Zeed Vault, Arcana, Purple Caper, NorCal Genetics, and many more. Tickets are just $10.
RSVP to Clonetopia 2026 May 16-17: NorCal’s biggest simultaneous clone release ever. With HendRx.Farm, Haze Valley Nursery, Purple City Genetics, Talking Trees, and Phinest. At 7 Stars-Richmond, CA, and Solful SF. Support from Vital Garden Supplies, PowrHouse, United Nutrients, Kaya Coir. Reservations are now open for HendRx.Farm Tire Fire OG selection ($1,000 per cut; only 100 available), and a budget ‘Surprise 6-pack of curated cuts. ($100 per 6-pack).
NEW SUBSCRIBER GIFT
Subscribe to a year of Fire Follower PRO this week and get a special gift from Canna Country. Hint: it involves the CC33 x CC30 strain. Lineage: CC#33 (Ebola #7 x Thin Mint GSC x Purple Haze) x CC 30 (SFV OG x Lemon Kush). Works indoors and outdoors. Solid disease resistance and stability. Earthy, piney, and gassy from the SFV OG genetics with the citrus zest of the Lemon Kush and the herbal, minty, and peppery aromas inherited from the Girl Scout Thin Mint and Purple Haze lineage. Great for both daytime and evening use. Gift value $150.
TOP BUD SHOT OF THE WEEK:
In this week’s Fire Follower Pro for $5:
More top seed drops from Top Dawg, Green Bodhi, Bloom Seed Co, Exotic Genetix, Beleaf, Underworld, Xeno Seed Co, and Mosca.
Where to get the latest Fiya Farmer clones, plus many more.
New autos of note from Mephisto, G.O.A.T. and Anesia
Essential buys from CHA Genetics, Serge, Archive, Offensive Selections, and Tiki Madman
Access to back-issues of Fire Follower Pro, featuring dozens more stellar additions for your grow.
Genetics release and awards Event Calendar
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