Well, my cascades are starting to sprout. And it’s just mid-February. Pretty shocked.
And now Chinook is sprouting.
Nothing on the Fuggles or Centennial.
How much of your hop usage for the 1bbl brewhouse(I think) are home grown?
Oughta go see what’s left of mine. I tore them out last year, but I suspect it’ll be a while before they’re really gone.
Still too cold in Indiana for anything to sprout for me. I am looking forward to building a trelis for them to climb on vs. the chain link fence I tried training them on. I got a whole dried ounce of Cacade and nothing from my Centennial last year.
Zero. We have them in half barrels in front of the brewery for landscaping only. Every other year we have to dump the barrels, cut the crown up, and replant a few rhizomes. I give the rest to local homebrewers and such.
Although we are considering a fresh hop beer in the fall for (big surprise) the Fresh Hop festival in Yakima.
Several years ago at a different place, I grew them on chain link fence. It worked great, except fall clean-up was a PITA.
thanks, the fresh hop craze is pretty big out there, good brewing
… and the fuggles are up. Good deal, all four. I was worried maybe we cut that crown up a bit to much last fall.
I have a blackberry plant like this. It’s been 2 years and I still pull out shoots every few days all summer long.
Even though I know it’s going to hurt my yield, I have my hops in containers for just this reason.
Mine are starting to sprout. I plan on repotting all my hops this year, figure after two years in pots they could stand to have the crowns broken up and start fresh.
Yep, I do that every other year. A PITA sometimes, but the half barrels keep them contained.
I hate this time of year. I’ve got all four hop hills (half whiskey barrels) with lots of little 6-8 inch sprouts. Tonight, they all get cut down. It’ll be a few weeks before they re-emerge. Maybe I’ll pickle them like HopsDirect does.
This year I’m keeping mine hacked down till mid June, then let them do their thing. Mine are only for decoration, conversation peice while sharing beer on the deck and BBQing. So I might not even trellis them this time, or just short trellis
Hops are already getting some height on them. Cascade and Mt. Hood started peaking out late February and they are both already close to six feet tall. Nugget is out and about two feet tall. Sterling slow to appear and about a foot tall now.
We’re getting some rain this weekend so I’ll probably see several more feet over the next week.
I just got an email from Farmhouse saying that my rhizomes have shipped. It’s a couple of weeks earlier than expected, but makes sense given the warm winter and spring we’re having. Ordered a crown of Pacific Gem from Great Lakes Hops to complete my set.
My Perle has woken up: saw this morning those reddish tips–just a day after the last of the April snow melted here in Western Massachusetts. Waiting to see if the EKG and Northern Brewer rise and shine soon, too.
I dug a couple of rhizomes last week for couple of coworkers. I had no visual growth. We had snow on the ground this week in NE Ohio with 2-4" expected tonight. I checked the hops yesterday. I have visual growth on all 9 plants with magnum and chinook with 12-18" shooters.
FWIW, the Thyme Garden always sent me my rhizomes the second or third week of March. They are out of Oregon I believe. The first year (2012) was the warmest March on record here, so I planted the day I got them. The next year, different story. They stayed in the fridge for almost a month before I could put a shovel in the ground.
All four varieties have bines at least six feet tall.
Sadly the rest of my garden I overwintered is looking kinda crappy right now.
I have nearly succeeded in wiping mine out. Hopefully I can finish them off this year.