ClarnoBrewer

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Jagdad, you're pretty much right on. Normal yield would be about 1#/string, but this year was a little better. 1500 strings per acre gives us 8 or 9 200# bales/acre. Roughly 120 acres. So yeah, you nailed it. There are 10 varieties, 6 aroma and 4 bittering. I just live here and do other things, so the hops aren't mine. But as I said, I was able to glean some "waste" hops from the process, enough to keep me brewing through the winter. I don't have the breakdown on actual pounds/variety, but I suppose I could find out.

shuckit

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2.5lbs of cascade

51+2.5=53.5lbs. I'm counting the ones ClarnoBrewer scrounged.

Retrofit

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I'm suprised to learn a pro on average grows 1.3 # per string. I have hops that give me 5 lbs per plant. I have plants that give me zero, but I thought the average would be higher.

ClarnoBrewer

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It's not quite that simple. 1 string doesn't necessarily equal 1 plant. There is a huge tangle of rhizomes. Once the strings are up, the strongest 2 or 3 bines at that string are selected and trained up the string. In a home setting, it's easier to train more bines, let them spread more, and get more output. In a hopyard, it's more a factor of yield per acre, rather than hoping for maximum output per plant.

edsrockin

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i got a yield of 15 oz. of nugget for my first year of growth sooo ...

53.5 + 0.94 = 54.4 lbs

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heathsw

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Intersting thread. I have never weighed my green hops and just measured by volume----5 gallon bucket loads.

Dried weight:
Cascade 36 oz
Centennial 28 oz
Chinook 26 oz
Fuggle 12 oz
Goldening 12 oz
Mt. Hood 15 oz
Nugget 12 oz
Williamett 18 oz

Plus my local brew club members carried away 3 or 4 buckets more.