u/SolfirePhoenix

omorrow night, May 21st, the official Red Raptor Solo Cup Competition Kits go live.

🦖 Phoenix Club Early Access: 8PM PST
🦖 Public Access: 9PM PST

Each official Competition Kit is $50 and serves as your entry into the 2026 Red Raptor Solo Cup Competition.

Competitors may purchase up to 2 kits per person.

Growers from far and wide and from every level of skill are about to step into one of the most unforgiving grow formats there is.

Tiny container. Limited root space. No excuses.

Just skill, discipline and creativity.

Every competitor will be battling it out using unreleased Red Raptor genetics in a true solo cup format where every decision matters.

Once the kits are gone, they’re gone.

🎂 Solfire Birthday Surprise
The first 100 contestants will receive a special “Bile Driver” (Barf Breath × Black Banana) 6pc Reg. bonus.

🏆 One grower will take home the 2026 Championship Belt and claim the Solo Cup King or Solo Cup Queen Discord title.

Will it be you?

Before entering, make sure you carefully read all official rules, timelines, entry requirements and competition guidelines listed on the Solfire website.

Prepare your setup.
Get your cameras ready.
The Raptor Cup is almost here.

Rise With The Phoenix

🔥 THE 2026 RAPTOR SOLO CUP GROW OFF IS COMING 🔥

Think you can survive and grow absolute heat in a solo cup? Time to prove it.

The official Red Raptor Competition Pack (Last Supper × Trich Beast) drops May 21st and every competitor will battle it out using the same unreleased Solfire genetics in one of the most unforgiving grow formats there is.

🦖 Pack purchase window: May 21 through May 28

Competitors will receive access to a private Grow Off Discord channel, special roles, community checkpoints and a shot at being crowned the official Raptor Cup King or Queen 🏆

🔥 Prize Pool 🔥

🥇 1st Place
• Championship Solo Cup Title Belt
• Gold Loot Crate Box Set
• Special Solo Cup King or Queen Discord Title
• AC Infinity 4x4 Grow Tent
• Large “Don Mega” Skunk Bag Backpack
• Optic Foliar “Switch” 1 Gallon
• Silicore 1L
• Solfire Nitrile Gloves
• Solfire Measuring Shot Glass
• $500 Solfire Store Credit

🥈 2nd Place
• Custom Medal
• Silver Loot Crate Box Set
• Optic Foliar “Switch” 1 Gallon
• Silicore 1L
• Solfire Nitrile Gloves
• Solfire Measuring Shot Glass
• $300 Solfire Store Credit

🥉 3rd Place
• Custom Medal
• Optic Foliar “Switch” 1 Gallon
• Silicore 1L
• Solfire Nitrile Gloves
• Solfire Measuring Shot Glass
• $200 Solfire Store Credit

Full competition details, rules, timeline and entry information are now live on the Solfiregardens.com website.

Rise With The Phoenix.

Solfire Rust Server wipe!!

Thursday, May 7

Fresh map. Clean start. Everyone back to zero.

We’re running a wipe day event. Seed packs + in game prizes on the line..

Survive... Slay Nerds... Win Seed Pack...

Search “Solfire” in Rust

or quick connect: connect 15.204.44.102:60402

Pull up.

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If you grabbed an order in March, and received a ticket

We’re running the Lucky Ticket Raffle drawing tomorrow at 1PM PST live in the Solfire Discord on the Phoenix Nest Stage.

🎟️ This is for March ticket holders only
📍 Must be present in the stage to win
🔥 No exceptions, if you are not there we move on to the next until a winner is called

We’re giving away some heat! Gear, nutrients, merch, everything you see above.

This is one of those events where being plugged into the Solfire community matters. Pull up, be there, and see if you got the Lucky ticket!

See you Tomorrow !

Rise With The Phoenix

Over the past few months we’ve been working on something behind the scenes, and it’s finally about ready.

We now have a fully functional tissue culture lab. We start initiation this week 🤓

This has been a long time coming. My first real exposure to tissue culture was during my undergrad in Takato Imaizumi’s lab at University of Washington. That experience changed the way I looked at plants in vitro. His work focuses on how plants respond to environmental changes, especially seasonal and daily timekeeping, and being around that kind of thinking stuck with me. Back then it wasn’t widely applied to cannabis, I actually asked if I could bring some plants in the lab and the response from the lead graduate student was "are you insane we would lose our funding!" although I think they were generally curious. Protocols didn’t really exist back then and if they did they were gatekept hard, but I always wanted to bring it into Solfire because I see the value.

The goal here is simple: preserve our genetics properly, keep them clean, and maintain consistency over time.

Tissue culture allows us to:

• Store genetics long term in a stable state
• Clean up and reset plant material
• Protect the library from loss or drift
• Scale select cultivars with more control

It’s a different approach than traditional cloning, and it gives us more precision in how we handle our work here.

Right now we’re focused on dialing in our protocols, refining the workflow, and putting everything through real testing before expanding it further. Same approach we’ve always taken, do it right first.

We’re building this out step by step and sharing what actually works. If you’ve been down this road, I’m open to any solid advice.

The long term goal is to build a substantial library of genetics not just our own work, but cuts we respect and phenos we select, along with some fun house plants that deserve to be preserved the same way.

If you’re already running TC, drop what’s working for you. Media tweaks, contamination control, multiplication tricks, YT videos that helped, anything. If you’re curious about it, ask questions.

We’ll share what works, what doesn’t, and what we learn along the way.

More updates soon.

Rise With The Phoenix 🔥

Quick update on the Big Pulp Energy (The Pulp × Black Banana F2) dry weight contest.

Big Pulp Energy came in at 244.6 which is 8.7 oz dry weight !!!

When we posted this, we said “down to the gram” and we stayed true to that.

After going through all the guesses, we ended up with a unique situation:

• One person hit it exactly to the gram based on the rules as written
• Another guess was technically closer to the exact final weight when factoring in decimals

Instead of overcomplicating it or splitting hairs, we’re keeping it simple and doing what feels right.

🏆 We’ve got 2 winners on this one
u/billp0nder0sa with 244G straight up
and u/DirtyPnix who was technically closer to the true weight with 245
Both are getting the full prize of 10 packs of BPE!!! 🤯

📦 Shipping is on us guys I'll be DM'ing you each shortly for your information.

For those curious, this BPE was grown by me in a 3 gallon pot, using House and Garden Nutrients and supplemented with Silicore.

Appreciate everyone who jumped in and took a shot. This is exactly the kind of fun we like to have with the community.

More contests and chaos coming soon.

Please congratulate the winners! 🎉

If you enjoyed this contest let us know below!

Rise With The Phoenix 🔥