New York Growers Cup
A growers' awards weekend in New York, known to us through one personal account of its December 2024 edition, with plenty left undocumented.
- 40results on record
- 2022–2024years in our data
- 3editions
- 22matched to strains
- Warsaw Concerts in Brooklyn, New Yorklatest location
01Beginnings
The New York Grower's Cup is an awards event for cannabis growers in New York, and our clearest window onto it is a single source: a Substack post by Kaisha-Dyan McMillan, dated 3 January 20251. She writes that she was surprised to learn the December 2024 gathering was already in its third year, which suggests roughly three editions had run by then1. Beyond that, the founder, the exact founding date, the organiser and an official website are not documented in the material we have.
The 2024 edition opened on Friday 13 December 2024 with a networking evening at Worknroll, a cannabis-friendly co-work and event space in Chelsea, Manhattan1. Those dates are worked out from the post's references to Friday the 13th and to the month before its publication, rather than stated outright. The awards themselves followed the next day1.
02The story so far
The writer sets the event against New York's 2021 move to legalize adult-use cannabis1. In her telling, the rollout since then has reportedly involved lawsuits, missteps and a strong illicit market1. That is her backdrop for the scene rather than a documented history of the Cup itself, so treat it as context, not as the event's origin story.
She also notes that cultivation licenses are difficult to obtain in New York, and in her view that leaves legacy growers carrying much of the scene and putting serious effort into research and development1. The 2024 programme sorted entries into five judging categories: Gas, Sour, Haze, Sweet, and Exotic/Rare1. On the night, the awards moved along briskly; speeches were brief, and each winner still got a warm reception from the room1. Who actually won is not named in the sources we hold.
03Culture and community
The awards show and reception took place on Saturday 14 December 2024 at The Warsaw, a Polish community centre that also hosts concerts, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where the writer also found time for pierogies1. The trophies were handmade art pieces by The GAK Crew, and they sat on display at the networking night before being handed out the next day1. Attendees at the awards night went home with goody bags that included three samples from Cup entrants1.
The networking night, as she describes it, had two rooms: one built around a dab station as long as a picnic table, the other lined with sponsor tables, with jazz playing in the background1. The crowd was mostly male, which she says is typical of grower events, and guests chatted eagerly, swapping handshakes, hugs and jars of flower to show off1. She singles out hash as a highlight of the evening and suggests New Yorkers are especially keen on it1.
Her broader observation is that every cannabis scene she has visited shows deep appreciation for the grower, and this Cup fit that pattern1. It is one writer's impression rather than a survey.
04Where it stands now
The most recent edition covered in our sources is the one held on 13 and 14 December 2024, described in a post published on 3 January 20251. Nothing later is documented in the material we have. That means we cannot say whether the event is still running as of 29 October 2026, whether a 2025 edition took place, or whether the format, venues or categories changed. If you have a reliable later account or an official announcement, it would be a welcome addition to this page.
05What comes next
No announced plans for future editions were found in the sources behind this page. Dates, venues, categories and organiser statements for any later Cup are not documented here, and we would rather say so plainly than guess. Because we also could not confirm an official website or organiser for the event, we have no primary channel to point to for updates.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 40 results from this cup across 3 years (2022 to 2024), 22 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Capjunky | Exotic/Rare | ODee Trees |
| 2022 | Super Boof | Fruit | Epiphany NY |
| 2022 | Super Lemon Haze | Haze | Buds and Such |
| 2022 | Pure Michigan | Gas | Godmothers Garden |
Editions on record
- 2022
- 2023 · MetroBud Cannabis Club in New York, NY
- 2024 · Warsaw Concerts in Brooklyn, New York
Sources
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