ABOUT US
Our Mission
Beacon Hemp is dedicated to providing the farming community with seed from innovative, stabilized and novel high cannabinoid hemp varieties through rigorous breeding and superior seed production practices.
Our History
In 2013, under the provisions of California’s Proposition 215, the founders of Beacon Hemp began breeding photoperiodic high CBD Cannabis cultivars. Informed by rigorous chemotype analysis, in 2016, we choose several lines to grow and select at acreage scale in Oregon under the state’s 2014 Farm Bill pilot industrial hemp program. In addition to our photoperiodic lines, we have been working day neutral (also known as “autoflowering”) hemp lineages since 2016. Our large-scale variety screenings in several different climates in combination with thorough chemotyping have allowed for the selection of superior agronomic traits, such as early flowering and resistance to fungal pathogens, as well as consistent CBD:THC ratios, high cannabinoid content, and a diversity of unique terpene profiles.
Beacon Hemp currently operates breeding and seed production facilities in California and Oregon. We offer feminized seed, along with photoperiodic and day-neutral varieties of hemp.
The Beacon Difference
The founders of Beacon Hemp originally began breeding high CBD varieties in order to gain a competitive farming advantage. Our commitment to developing varieties with superior agronomic traits as well as stellar potency, flower morphology, and terpene profiles was born out of a desire to grow the finest hemp in the world. As extractors and fellow growers continued to express interest in Beacon’s genetics our founders made the decision to release our genetics to the farming community.
Beacon primarily focuses on breeding parental lines and providing farmers with hybrid seed; hybrids tend to have improved vigor and resistance to environmental and biotic stressors. Additionally, Beacon’s photo-auto hybrids demonstrate earlier maturation windows compared their photoperiodic parents and most other high cannabinoid hemp varieties.
Beacon’s rigorous development pipeline has several checkpoints, including multi-region/ climate parental selection, single seed origin selfing and full sibling inbreeding, large scale test crosses and multi-region/climate variety screenings, and unparalleled feminized seed production and seed conditioning practices.
Beacon Hemp
PO Box 7807
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
✆ 707 354 6325
Monday - Friday
9am - 5pm PST