Here's a pic of what rhizomes forming on a dormant hop crown look like. There seems to be some confusion out there about Hop plants, crowns, roots , rhizomes and how they all relate. A pic is worth a thousand words.
These are dormant crowns - a complete hop plant with dormant buds and root system. You can see the rhizomes forming horizontally- these runner underground and periodically send up shoots. The new shoots are still attached to the mother plant via the rhizome stem. They are easy to tell from the roots because rhizomes have a budded growing tip with buds along the stem. If rhizomes are cut from the mother plant, they have to re-form a new root system and crown structure. This takes time, and is why rhizomes don't typically produce cones the first year like a hop plant with a crown and roots. Most rhizomes sold on the Internet come from annual spring hop yard cultivations that remove them to keep the mother plants trimmed and in the trellis rows. Questions?
Hop plant rhizome formation
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