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The issue here is the information you get is lopsided when you don’t control for pollen. If you know who both parents are, it allows you to compare apples to apple across various matings of females and males (which allows you to understand the heritability of various traits and the breeding...

Correct, collecting seeds is not a huge ordeal though once you start aggregating large amounts of them, keeping them sorted and taking notes on all the various families can be arduous. It becomes especially difficult when the females are being grown in close proximity to several males and any...

I actually came across some specimens in the yard recently and examined them underneath the microscope. Hairy little buggers for sure but I found these as well....any ideas?

Utah-542 is a neomexicanus male that produced Chinook....there’s plenty of neomexicanus in there...

Deformed like his too?

No, that growth does not look normal. Take a picture in a week!

B-Hoppy is en pointe! This is also made difficult because each variety requires a different number of nodes for flowering.

Well, you’re definitely outside the normal range for hop production. Cascade is always a useful starting point, it seems to thrive everywhere. Also, you might consider the neomexicanus group (Amalia, Neo-1, Willow Creek, or Medusa). They seem to be more tolerant of the decreased photoperiod...

Actually, Bonners Ferry is a large hop producing area. Well, seeing as how there are quarantine regulations just to get material into the US, I’d say the price is pretty high. In addition to then smuggling it into a quarantined region within the IS. I’d say your chances are pretty slim.

If you want to purchase hop rhizomes in Idaho, you’ll need to find a source from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho. The reason you’re not allowed to order from outside the PNW states is because of quarantine regulations. Certain diseases occur outside the PNW that do not occur inside of it. If...

I agree, except what does yield look like? Oil profiles?

No, they are not. Most are proprietary at this point which makes them difficult to come by.

Japanese hops (Humulus japonicus) is an alien, invasive species. Common hop (Humulus lupulus) has three native subspecies or varieties. One, var. pubescens, is native to the south central US (i.e. Kansas). It should be noted though, that commercial hop cultivation is recorded in almost all 50...

Do you pictures of powdery mildew infested growth? Powdery mildew is commonly misdiagnosed.

B-Hoppy is correct. In Kansas you are far further south than where hops have been grown commercially. Most of the varieties that are available to you are adapted to more northernly latitudes, making it difficult to judge just how much yield you will actually get. I would presume that you have...