🏆 Calling All Atlas Seed Growers – American Autoflower Cup 2027 🏆

We're looking for growers to represent Atlas Seed at the American Autoflower Cup this January!

This year our friend u/CartersCrud won 2nd place Best Overall Auto and Best Smoking Auto. For the next competition, we want to see even more Atlas genetics on the winners' podium.

To celebrate our community, we're introducing the Atlas Winner's Rewards.

If you place with an Atlas Seed variety, we'll reward you with free seeds for your next grow.

🌱 Atlas Winner's Rewards

🥇 1st Place Trophy: 1,000 FREE Atlas seeds

🥈 2nd Place Trophy: 500 FREE Atlas seeds

🥉 3rd Place Trophy: 250 FREE Atlas seeds

Applies to any 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place trophy earned with Atlas Seed genetics.

How to Qualify

• Grow Atlas Seed genetics. Any Atlas autoflower variety is eligible.

• Register your own entry. Competitors are responsible for signing up and submitting entries to the American Autoflower Cup. Be sure to review the official competition rules when registration opens.

• Compete with integrity. The American Autoflower Cup is about celebrating exceptional autoflowers and the growers behind them. Support your fellow competitors and help make the event a great experience for everyone.

https://americanautoflowercup.com/

u/andredeblu — 7 days ago

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Sour Cindy On Harvest Day!

u/BlurryCity — 16 days ago

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Cannabis Beyond Earth: What Happens When You Send Seeds to Space? An Atlas Seed Webinar with Martian Grow

Our next webinar is scheduled for next Friday June 12, at 10 am Pacific. We hope you can join us!

Here is the link for registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_ZhJEaL\_rTCuTbj802t-PRQ

Most cannabis breeding projects happen in greenhouses, fields, and grow rooms.

This one starts in orbit.

Join us for a fascinating conversation with John McQueeney, Will Jasper, and Božidar Radišič of the Martian Grow team, alongside Atlas Seed's Charlie Dubbe and Andy Wright, as we explore one of the most ambitious and far-out breeding projects in modern cannabis.

The Martian Grow project is investigating a simple but profound question:

What happens when cannabis genetics are exposed to the unique conditions of space? Microgravity, elevated radiation, and the extreme stresses of orbit have been used for decades in agricultural research, helping create hundreds of new crop varieties around the world. Soon, this same process will be applied to cannabis genetics.

Could space exposure unlock new expressions of traits already hidden within a plant's genetics? Could it accelerate adaptation, resilience, or entirely new breeding possibilities? Or will it teach us something equally valuable about the limits of genetics and the remarkable stability of the cannabis plant itself?

We'll dive into the origins of the Martian Grow project, the science behind space breeding, the challenges of launching cannabis seeds beyond Earth's atmosphere, and what the team hopes to discover as these genetics return home for evaluation. We'll also explore the bigger questions:

How do extreme environments shape plant evolution?

Can stress reveal hidden genetic potential?

What traits might become increasingly valuable as cultivation environments become more challenging?

And what role could cannabis play in humanity's future beyond Earth?

Whether you're a breeder, grower, space enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates radical and bold projects, this promises to be one of the more unique conversations we've hosted.

The future of cannabis breeding may not happen in California, Canada, or Colombia.

It may happen somewhere far above... in space!

u/andredeblu — 3 months ago

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Upcoming Seed Law Change & Atlas Seed R&D Collection Updates

Hello Folks!
Ryan here sending out a public service announcement. Two things - the pending November law change and the R&D collection on our website. Both of which are related.

Seems there has been some confusion about what the R&D collection on our website is and why we released it. Some of the more, shall we say, excitable commenters on Reddit have cooked up interesting theories which are, I’m sorry to report, inaccurate.

First - the law change:
Many growers and members of the public are unaware that in November, most if not all US seed banks are de facto illegal. Having spoken with everyone we know, this means they will be shuttering. Atlas included.

Second - R&D collection:
For years, our breeding runs and production runs have yielded small lots of random crosses and S1s. We never did anything with them and didn’t put them for sale on the website. We decided to do that this year because these are actually very interesting crosses or Self 1s that some home growers may be excited to work with. It’s not for everyone. But it’s this grass roots breeding that is the very reason we love working in this industry and with homegrowers. In many ways, it’s more important than the highly uniform F1 hybrid work we’ve endeavored. This retains diversity and resiliency and is the actual primordial mud from which awesome strains are found.
So order a few of these and hold on to them, because coming up, they and everything else won’t be available to you.

We advise folks to get their collective heads out of the sand on the coming law change. It will be back to Dutch seedbanks and questionable seed providence - most likely bulk indoor Spanish seed producers. If you want to get the best of the best American genetics, the time to buy is now. That’s why we built the value ladder in our cart and launched the R&D collection.

Hopefully, policy will change. At this time, we have Mitch McConnell to thank for the law change and all reports indicate he won’t back down. He is retiring, but that’s after the law change takes effect. Stay tuned. Of course, we want to stay open if we can.

I hope everyone has their backyard grows started strong and wish you a successful season.

Ryan

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