Terpnami Warning: 2027’s genetics surge in the Bay Area December 5 and 6 🌊

The highest-level genetics conversation in the world returns to the Bay Area this December to help growers worldwide garden harder, better, faster, and stronger. 

Over 1,000 growers big and small from around the world interact with 30 of the world’s top breeders over two days December 5 and 6 in a private Bay Area venue for TERPNAMI. Guests can RSVP today to get ticketing and event details.

The world’s first only ‘seed rave,’ Terpnami runs 12 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6, with live DJs, visuals, local food, drink, and creative art and merch collabs; plus pre and after-parties, dinners and meetups.

“Terpnami is the most important seed show in the world,” said California breeder Purple Caper. 

Why Terpnami 2026?

California remains the global cannabis epicenter for genetic innovation. Virtually every hot strain in the $60 billion U.S. market, and the global cannabis market beyond, traces its roots to genetics bred or popularized in California. Lemon Cherry Gelato, Z, GSC, OG Kush, and GDP are just few California creations.

Terpnami keeps the Bay Area cannabis genetics beacon lit every December, a time of year when the full-sun harvest seeds are shucked and packaged, and folks are flush with cash for Christmas and thinking about what to grow in 2027.

Terpnami 2026

For year three, Terpnami again shifts to a new venue with historic, theatrical features, crucial mass transit access, and more amenities for guests including off-street parking, and a dedicated restaurant.  Our guests include:

Rebel Grown, Freeborn Selections, Biovortex, Mountaintop Seeds, Grove Bags, Maine Trees, Voyage Bloom, Grandiflora, Zeed Vault, 20 Chromosomes, Equilibrium Genetics, Purple Caper Seeds, Exotic Genetix, DNA Genetics, Community Select Seeds, First Cut Farms, Umami Seeds, Tangled Roots Seedbank featuring Ridgeline, Huckleberry Hill and Mendo Dope, plus Greenshock Farms, CHA Genetics, Ziplock Seeds, Subcool’s the Dank, Bosky, Kounter Kulture, Happy Dreams, Higher Ground, Umma Sonoma and more.

This year, Terpnami is also producing 100 custom-designed VIP boxes featuring sponsor giveaways for $100.

Who produces Terpnami?

Terpnami is a public-spirited project from the California cannabis community, catalyzed by award-winning journalist and best-selling author David Downs. Downs writes a flower column for High Times, a genetics column for Leaf Magazine, news stories for GreenState, Cannabis Now, and Cannabis Business Times. He publishes the Fire Follower genetics newsletter each week with a free excerpt on Substack and a paid ‘PRO‘ version sold directly.

Since 2024, David Downs Presents, LLC has produced over 75 world-class events including SF’s weed week, called SF Space Walk, as well as SF Hash Week, Clonetopia, and art shows like ‘Get to the Bag’, and ‘Macro:Dose.’ Key David Downs Presents personnel include: artists Conor Buckley and Eric Lister, and technologist Keith Woody.

Get involved with Terpnami 2026

Sponsors can connect with this highly targeted, hyper-engaged global audience through event activations, and an omni-channel campaign that includes:

• custom posters, and flyers across the Bay Area
• email blasts to an eventgoing audience of over 3,500
• plus an event web site, social media, and online calendar cross-posting
• Terpnami’s earned media campaign receives coverage from most major cannabis outlets including High Times, and Leaf Magazine.

Email us for a more info and a rate card.