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If you're serious about this project I would suggest doing a business plan first and talking to some established growers in your region. There's a specialty crops program at a university somewhere in Ontario that just recently did a zoom program a week or so ago and I would imagine that would...

When you're at a larger scale the price per rhizome comes way down so it's very common to plant multiple per hill in case you have some duds in the lot:

It's been done both ways- cannabis on humulus rootstock and humulus on cannabis rootstock. Originally it was done to try to produce a perennial source of hemp to make rope with back during WWI era and they also looked at the chemical composition of the flowers on these grafted plants and found...

There's many different ways to make cuttings other than through rhizomes. One of the simplest is to layer, which basically involves throwing compost or soil or leaves or whatever on top of the first new growth in the spring (the stuff you will be cutting back anyway). By doing this, you're...

Hop tea and boiling the hops will basically just add a little more bitterness but it will be diluted down or ameliorated by the additional water so it may be a moot point? The act of moving the beer to a secondary, or bottling or kegging for that matter, always carries some risk of infection...

Zach does a good job and have used him before: AAR Lab - Testing Hops, Beer & Wine – It’s What We Do!. There are others out there but cannot vouch for them.

Traditionally they are picked, dried down to about 8-10% moisture and then baled and kept close to freezing. I've been packing them into pint mason jars using an old flashlight as a ram for probably 20+ years and can generally get about 100-120g (about 4 ounces) and then into the freezer. If...

Ideally, it would be beneficial to keep them up and let them die back naturally after harvest rather than to transplant them immediately. By leaving them in place until they die off from the frost they'll still be making simple carbs through photosynthesis, but being that they're not actively...

I've always found that the benefit of fall planting is that being the soil is still warm, the plant ends up having the luxury of making new roots in that location until the soil freezes. Replanting in the spring is just the opposite as the plant will have to wait until the soils warm up enough...

Commercially out West they used to push stuff through at like 140-150F, then once the craft brewers went hop crazy they decided to do a little research and got many to reduce it to something like 125F. Not to be outdone, some of the newer growers in the Midwest were claiming that even 125 was...

That looks fine but I can tell you from experience, before the hops are at the correct moisture content they get light enough that they'll begin to levitate and end up all over your cellar (or wherever you're drying them). All you have to do is direct the airflow from the open end of the box so...

Scoby actually refers to the organisms in the starter solution and not the biofilm that forms on top. Yes everyone thinks the 'blob' is the scoby and yes it contains the microbes to make your tea turn into kombucha, but if you didn't use any starter tea (about 20% already finished booch) you...

You're golden man! If the compost utilizes a good bit of woody material as a base, you'll generally end up with more fungi than bacteria in the finished product. Certain types of fungi form associations with plant roots and are able to help the plants out by acting as sort of an extended root...

I've heard a lot of "I uses this" or "I do that" when the plant changes gears from vegetative to reproductive growth from many small growers outside the PNW, but none of their programs are found in any sort of literature or research that I've seen. And all of the commercial growers I've...

All the info I've seen points to the fact that the pollen isn't viable. Even if it was viable, the female flowers are beyond being receptive. https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/springfever/Hops.pdf

Plant stress is a relative term, actually this could probably be applied to humans also. Some people would stress out under conditions that others may thrive on. What I've seen with Zeus is that when the season is moderate, ample amounts of rainfall and mild /normal summer temps, there's a ton...

Those aren't seeds, they form at the base of the bracteoles right where they attach to the strig inside the cones. What you're seeing is actually male flowers that sometimes are produced on female plants and it's said to happen when the plants are stressed for one reason or another. CTZ all...

Not on the market yet and may never be but here are a few new ones that came from seeds. In the middle "twin towers" are what I'm calling Baby-E (daughter of E'Desem - another one grown from seed), it's one crown that I ran a few shoots up two different 18 foot poles. To the right is a Chinook...

If there aren't any cones on that plant, only the structures your picture shows, you most likely have a male plant. Sometimes a true female plant will throw out a few smatterings of male bloom throughout the plant but it's usually due to some sort of stress that plant has encountered. The pic...

Even if those were to produce viable pollen, their female counterparts are WAY beyond being receptive to the pollen. Sometimes at this point of the year, some sucker growth from the bottom of the plants may begin to make some late burrs so it would be interesting to see if those would form...