Anyone have leftover Rhizomes?

[boilmeimirish]

I'm trying to start some hops for next year, even though we are well into summer here in sunny Long Beach, CA.

Does anyone have any rhizomes locally that I can pick up or pay for shipping? I know it's late, but I'd like to get any experience starting hops up in my garden that I can before next year, so that I get it right when it's time.

Thanks for any help!

~Mike

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

It's slim pickings by this time of year. Try here:

http://www.freshops.com/cgi-bin/sho...s=all&template=PDGCommTemplates/rhizomes.html

or here:

http://www.highhops.net/

or here:

http://www.bcrosbyhops.com/hop-rhizomes-categories-1.html?osCsid=5ed3d695bbaef6baff339865429eb4d4

 

[jeepinjeepin]

I'd just wait til next march and order from freshops. It's gonna be a lot of stress on them going in the ground in this weather.

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

I planted some in mid-summer a couple of years ago. I put them in 5 gallon buckets, but they might as well have gone into the ground. They did okay, except the ones that I brought inside and tried to keep growing under grow lights during the winter. Even then, they died from drowning. I was giving them too much attention. The ones I left outside did okay through our winter, which is a bit different from yours, I understand. I'd like to think they did better for the late season head start on next year. Realistically, there is enough variation between my plants that I can't see much difference between the ones that got that extra half a growing seasons and the ones that did not. In my experience you neither gain nor lose much by planting now.

 

[boilmeimirish]

I planted some in mid-summer a couple of years ago. I put them in 5 gallon buckets, but they might as well have gone into the ground. They did okay, except the ones that I brought inside and tried to keep growing under grow lights during the winter. Even then, they died from drowning. I was giving them too much attention. The ones I left outside did okay through our winter, which is a bit different from yours, I understand. I'd like to think they did better for the late season head start on next year. Realistically, there is enough variation between my plants that I can't see much difference between the ones that got that extra half a growing seasons and the ones that did not. In my experience you neither gain nor lose much by planting now.

Thanks, that's solid advice. Long Beach is considerably different, though. I can over winter some hot pepper varieties that I know for a fact can't be overwintered nearly anywhere else in the states.