Even feral hops growing now wild on old farms can produce cones- and they are well over 100 years old.
For hops under cultivation with someone cutting the new rhizomes each year, preventing the plant to "regenarate" the crown ?!?
No. You can try all you like to trim the crown- hops are invasive and you'll never be able to get it all, let it alone cut all the new rhizomes. Once you plant hops, you own them forever, and so do succeeding generations because you will never get rid of them without something like round-up (and even then, probably not).
Perhaps I should clarify that the plants would be on a farm in a commercial operation and would not be left to wander.
We have a hops plant that has been growing at our family farm for well over 100 years.I'm wondering how long a hop plant will produce and when it peaks. I have read that it establishes itself in 3-5 years. When does production start to decline?
Thanks!
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