The above photo is a picture of a Male Hop plant before I cut it down. It shows the hop pods that are in the middle of releasing their pollen which can travel 10 miles to pollinate the female hop plant. I was laid up after and auto accident this year and my Hop Garden was unattended for a couple of months. When I finally was up and around, I found this huge Male Hop. I got covered in Hop pollen while cutting it down.
The last time I had a male hop plant, my harvested hop cones had huge seeds in them. I am raising one of the hops from seed. It is a cross between an EKG and a Sunbeam. I use the hops to my my Irish Red....
Which of the two is it that you believe is a male plant, because both of those are female cultivars (i.e. any male flowers produced by either cultivar are likely to be sterile, which means one is not what you were told it was.)
The above photo is a picture of a Male Hop plant before I cut it down. It shows the hop pods that are in the middle of releasing their pollen which can travel 10 miles to pollinate the female hop plant. I was laid up after and auto accident this year and my Hop Garden was unattended for a couple of months. When I finally was up and around, I found this huge Male Hop. I got covered in Hop pollen while cutting it down.
The last time I had a male hop plant, my harvested hop cones had huge seeds in them. I am raising one of the hops from seed. It is a cross between an EKG and a Sunbeam. I use the hops to my my Irish Red....
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