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Looks like California and Idaho have similar harvest seasons. This is my first hop pole....16 feet high with Galena, Columbus and Centennial Hops hitting the top with hundreds of burrs. Each plant will give me around 25 ounces dry.

Where do you live that you can harvest hops this early? I am still getting sidearms and first burrs. My normal harvest runs from mid August to the end of September.

I found HomebrewTalk.com on this webpage: BoiseBeerCulture and Idaho Craft Beer Links It has been on there for a couple of years now.:mug:

Any Idaho Hop Growers out there? I live 15 miles from 3 major hop farms near Wilder Idaho. In fact, some of my original rhizomes came from one of those hop farms. I have been growing hops for 12 years now. Belong to Snake River Brewers Homebrew Club. Any other Idahoans out there?:mug:

Drip Systems are optimal for Hop Gardens. Also....Your Hops will stop growing when they hit their full height and start putting out sidebars.

Here are a couple of photos of the baby hops (seedlings):

Interesting. I ordered 2 EKG rhizomes about 8 years ago. One of the 2 was male...... I was advised that it was simply a female in trauma and would return to female the next year....it did not. In fact, after three years, I had all these little baby hops coming up from seed. I destroyed...

My Galena/Centennial/Columbus Hop Pole......

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...