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I can't tell if you are trying to be sarcastic/funny - but I find that core sentiment is deeply misguided. The entire point of science is to test new theories and constantly reevaluate "facts". Personally, I have produced viable seeds with pollen derived from a female hops plant - something...

Depends what you mean by legit? Their target audience is clearly for growers of another plant, but the company is solid and offers great products, good prices and fast shipping. I've orders fertilizers for my hops, iron sulfate for the blueberries, and even a few items for the lawn. Every...

Nope. That is not hops. Male flowers would form on the laterals - the same general location where you would find cones on the female plant.

Nope. Hops did back to the crown each year. I mostly tried it, just to see if it was possible. We didn't even bother harvesting the "crop", since it had gotten a touch of mold.

So, I did the opposite last year. Cannabis grafts just fine onto hops. Yes, both are legal where I live. However, seeing that cannabis is an annual - I don't see how grafting hops onto the root stock would have any lasting effect. That said, I'd love to be proven wrong. Please give it a try...

The experimental hops in the 2nd yard are out of control. As I mentioned before, we're opting to make clones for the interesting varieties (rather than digging out rhizomes). So far, sticking cuttings in an old beer bottle full of tap water has worked, but is slow. This weekend, I'm planning...

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to update - just in case anyone is looking for twine this season. I purchased two boxes of "Sisal Tying Twine Rope 3000', 1 ply - 200 lb tensile" off of ebay a few years back. The stuff works great. I finally ran out and had to reorder. About $20 a...

I've used both with success, but prefer fine vermiculite. As @ffaoe mentioned, the dark seeds show up better on perlite - however, I find that the fresh white roots show up better on the dark vermiculite. Not holding much water is the point. It is very easy to drown the seeds - especially over...

In that case, I'd ditch the seeds and pick up a rhizome/start from a known variety you like. You are in Wa correct? That is the #1 place to grow hops. You can probably pick up a rhizome at any local nursery or brew store. Where I live in Or, orders for hops are just starting and they should...

@AE7XQ, What's your plan/goal? There are plethora of difficulties when starting from seed, but it can be exciting. If you are starting a breeding program - or just looking for something to brew with - I would start quite a few more seeds. Even with the best luck, germination rates can be quite...

Sprouting in water was one of the first things I tried a few years back. Figured that it worked well enough for hops' well-known cousin... Unfortunatly, the results weren't promising. This doesn't mean that it won't work - I just never have any luck. Cold stratifying in damp vermiculite, on...

Can you describe what you mean by "cold soaking". In practice, I have had the best results stratifying hop seeds in damp perlite for 3+ months at refrigerator temps.

> dig up all the root wads and see if I can ID them compared to the rhizome picture Nope. By this point, the rhizomes will have changed drastically. > make a "mystery" pale ale with a mixture of the hops Sure, but it doesn't help you moving forward. > send the hop cones away for testing...

Not necessarily... As others have mentioned, hops are extremely heterozygous - meaning that the offspring are, almost always, quite different than their parents. I have sprouted over 500 seeds so far looking for new flavors. Were now down to the flavor testing the final few dozen. Very...

Wow - sounds like you are way more lucky than I am. I brew consistently with whole cone hops and have never found fully developed seeds. Regardless, this sounds like a great way to go. You will at least know the mother of each cross. Let us all know how it goes.

Yes. There are also wild yeast cells on the hops you buy at the store. Commercially grown hops are not sterilized in any way. So... there is always a chance on infection, but as mentioned above, the chance is lower once the beer is fermented.

Interesting. Can you point me to towards a source to verify this? I have sprouted hundreds of seeds from this experiment (over the course of 3 generations) and the germination rates haven't seemed any lower. This is contrary to crosses I have attempted with true triploids, like Mt Hood - where...

Sorry - yes, the crowns were ripped out and replanted last spring. The yard is a combination of 2nd and 3rd year crowns that were all transplanted.

Finally bagged and tagged the cones from our experimental hop yard. They were all picked by hand (it took forever!). Learn more about our homebrew hop breeding program 371.3oz (23lbs) of experimental = 1401.8 Might be time for a bigger freezer :P

Hop breeding update! Sorry that it has been so long, but I have been really busy harvesting the experimental hop yard by hand. Now that everything is dried and bagged, I can post some results. We harvested 31 of the 42 plants in the experimental yard. Any plants that failed to show...