Oaky
Well-Known Member
We must have photos of this alien invasion.
Not going to harvest this crop this year. They are far from mature and bloomed too late in the season. Hell, they bloomed in the wrong season. Hopefully next year I will get it blooming early so I may finally get some fuggles to brew our pumpkin ale since we can't find anyone selling them anywhere.
Oh, it had better be fuggles since it is what I paid for and the rhizome package said fuggles.
My Willamette only seeded this year and grew late also. Think I have to just cross my fingers for next year.
Is Humulus lupulus an invasive species? If I plant these will they eventually spread and start to take out the native plant life? I love home brewing but I also love keeping an ecosystem running properly.
I'm not talking about the Japanese Hops, I asking about the hops rhizomes you can buy on the internet (Casscase, Nugget, etc...)
You can expect that it will behave like most rhizomes - so it will pop out new shoots a short distance from the root crown. What many people do is to shovel around the plant seasonally to cut the further roots and dig the out (you can "clone" that way). Also - and perhaps easier, contain them with bricks, wood or some other underground barrier. they mostly go horizontal so cutting bands out of a garbage can that are 15" deep circles would likely prevent them from going beyond that.
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