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Most of the sucker growth occurs near the bottom of the plants so you can just pick the upper portion and come back a few weeks later and pick the bottom if it's worth it to you. Alternatively, you can just pick and mix them all in at once. I grow on poles so I start at the top where they...

"During cone formation you can see the relation to cannabis. The white pistils form on the burrs similar to young buds. As they mature to familiar cone shape the white pistils are pushed out by newly forming cone leaves and the hairs turn red orange." Right on, even the male inflorescence! And...

There's plenty of info here: Spotted Lanternfly. It would really help if you could notify your local cooperative extension about this. These things have the potential to put a huge strain on our agricultural community and economy, pretty serious issue.

Probably best to get them in the ground now. There most likely will be somewhat of a setback (some leaves dyeing back and also some of the tender new growth) but if they're growing as well as you say, they've got a decent root system going. After a week or two you should see some new growth...

Pull them off and squish them. Eastern Comma or Question Mark caterpillar, they like hops.

Vertically is how they're traditionally planted but when the hop growing craze hit I noticed lots of folks were apparently having a hard time determining which way the buds were facing so the lowest common denominator was to plant them horizontally. Some rhizomes do have really small buds which...

Skip the middleman and buy direct from someone who knows about hops and actually digs them. My friend Dave at Freshops has been digging them since the 80's, also Ralph at RNV Enterprise up in Yakima is a good dude.

Looks like a hop hornbeam?

Only one way to find out. If you do this, I would suggest getting them in as soon as possible. I've planted as late as early August here in Ohio with no issues the following spring. One thing folks don't take into consideration is that even though the top portion of the plant has died back...

Just cut the sidearms off, bag them for transport and dump the contents out on a big sheet of freezer paper or something like that. You can gently continue tapping them until you don't see any more pollen shedding and roll the paper into a funnel then collect the pollen in some sort of container...

Looks like MSU found some better pictures for their fact sheet. This is why it's suggested to clear out the lower vegetation on the plants as when the disease gets going, the canopy formed near the soil surface helps create a favorable environment for the organism to flourish. Look over the...

Sounds like transplant shock, just a guess as without a picture it could be any number of issues. If it is transplant shock you'll see things picking up in a week or two. After the existing leaves die off there will be some buds coming into action at the base of the petiole (the little stalk...

Were those actually seedlings or rooted cuttings? Up until about 8-10 years ago there weren't really any vendors selling anything other than rhizomes. The hop growing craze has made it economically feasible for some greenhouse growers to begin propagating and selling rooted cuttings...

One factor that helps induce flowering is the shortening of the day length at solstice. Another factor is that a certain number of nodes have to be produced (varies from variety to variety) before flowering is initiated. By growing them more horizontally, the plants tend to produce nodes with...

You can do it either way. If you let them go until fall, they'll harden off (form sort of a bark on the rhizome) over the course of the growing season. Done to make new starts in the spring, you use the advantage of them being very actively growing and can make things happen quickly under the...

When I have to send out germplasm from new varieties for propagation I usually just cover some of the new shoots in the early spring with compost or soil and let them root for a week or two before severing them from the mother plant. Just mark where you want to chop when you first bury them so...

1 Don't plant them too deep and make sure you let the soil dry out quite a bit before you add more water. You can actually plant them with the top set of buds at or above soil level and then throw some additional soil on them once they're up and running. For some reason (I think hormonal)...

Sort of. The bigger issue is that there's this great thing called the world-wide-web where we can all find information on just about anything we're looking for. Much of the time, the information is packaged in a way to make it more appealing to the reader in order to get the reader to feel...

Sorry if you were offended. What I was getting at is that a little more information would have been helpful to give a more informative and helpful answer to your question. Hops have very specific growth requirements and the further away from the ideal situation you get, the less you can...

Where are you located, in the ground or pots, etc? Either way, if you only harvest 3 oz from 8 plants after a few years, I'd seriously consider finding something more productive to invest your time in?