Found my first wild hop!!

[LoneTreeFarms]

While I was working today I noticed a mysterious vine climbing up a power pole. Upon further inspection I noticed that it is a dormant hop vine. I'd like to take and harvest the thing and take it back to my place and replant it but I have no idea on how to do this. I've read about crowns and rhizomes but not about cuttings. Any suggestions?

 

[fizgig]

Just dig it up, the root crown and rhizomes should be giant and pretty resilient, looks like a bunch of thin parsnips.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hop....ca%2Fgrowing-hops-on-a-balcony.html;1024;768

 

[feinbera]

If for whatever reason it's not feasible to dig up the rhizomes, hops are super-easy to grow from clippings. You'll have to make note of the spot and come back when this year's bines start climbing; everything above ground dies back over the winter. I don't know what your yield will look like, but, a shoot with three or four pairs of leaves on it left in a little jar of water on a sunny windowsill will root in two or three weeks, no problem, and start growing like crazy once transferred to soil.

 

[OleBrewing]

Cool, I found a couple of hop plants last year along the river that had cones. My plan this spring is to dig up a root and transplant to my yard. Hopefully I will get a good yield from them in a couple of years.

 

[LoneTreeFarms]

Holy coz fizgig that thing is huge!! So basically every root is a rhizome and the crown is the entire rootball?