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Those are most likely rhizomes, underground vegetative stems that contain buds. Those buds will sprout next spring and grow up a support and produce your hops. Depending on how vigorous the plant was that they were taken from, they may be anywhere from the diameter of a pencil lead to the...

A dozen or so years ago I began seeing catnip in different locations growing on my property. It's kind of hard to get rid of if you don't keep up with it and finally I gave up and just let a few clumps continue to grow. As I think back, I haven't had any issues with aphids in quite a while and...

You can just blast them with a dish soap/water mixture now or something like a safer soap spray and get rid of them (probably have to do a couple sprays) and that should take care of them. All that sticky honeydew attracts sooty mold and all the leaves and wherever else it has accumulated will...

Sticky appearance, like do the leaves look glossy? If so, it's most likely covered with honeydew from aphids. Check the upper portions of the plant for little green bugs about 1/4 the size of a match tip. They can multiply exponentially and create problems in a very short amount of time.

Fermented fruit wines back in '79 in college and switched to beer after finding some Telfords & Edme canned extract at a cider mill in Webster, NY somewhere around '86 or '87. Ironically, a year later found some wild hops growing along the side of the road and the obsession was on! Breeding...

Take a look at this, and make sure any youngsters are away from the screen before the 1:50 mark, gets a little steamy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zrDGh2DIRU

He does have a breeding program in the works but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for anything to be released for homebrewers as he's having issues with commercial growers who signed contracts to grow some of their Michigan varieties. Seems they're renaming them? Also, the samples they...

I've had 100% success rate moving plants once they die back in the fall for about 20 years now (in NE Ohio I should say). Internally, the plants have a mechanism(s) that trigger them to start shutting down after the days begin to get shorter so I don't know if you'd get much additional growth...

Depending on what exactly it is, it may be a nice hop to brew with. https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/2450/hopcultivars/21697.html. I'm not sure about the parentage of say, 'Summer Shandy' or others?

Haha, very nice! You aren't affiliated with Faram are you?

Mine are about half the size of the one pictured, needless to say I have something other than a kitchen scale!!

I guess it would depend on your location. Todd Bates began collecting native hops where he lived down in NM quite a while ago at about 9000ft and brought them back to grow at his elevation, about 6000ft. This paper discusses how some USDA folks went about collecting wild germplasm but doesn't...

I stumbled on my first sighting in about '88 a few miles west of Rochester. It was probably late Sept early Oct as everything was brown and toasty by then. Just followed one of the vines back to the ground and got as much of a chunk of rhizome as I could (trying to minimize damage). A shallow...

Pretty much, and I'm glad to see that the naming rights were awarded a year or so ago. I seem to recall reading that they were designated Golding (which could be grown anywhere), Kent Golding (which were grown in Kent), and EKG which were grown in East Kent. Germany is pretty similar as they...

CTZ is notorious for this. Some years there may be little to no male bloom, but other years they look like the pics. Supposedly there is some sort of stress that induces this but from growing Zeus for over 10 years, it pretty much happens when it happens as I've had almost 100% cones in some...

The females are receptive to pollen when they are in burr. What I've seen done is that the breeders will sometimes place some sort of plastic bag over the entire male sidearm once the inflorescence are opening up to discharge the pollen. This can be kept refrigerated for a length of time...

By the looks of it, you can use 100w bulbs for the job: https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/2450/hopcultivars/21187.html

Go out and pick one of the cones from the middle portion of the plant and feel it, tear it apart and rub it between your palms and note the feel and smell. Do this every few days to get a feel for them drying down. Also, as they get to maturity, the petals of the cones (bracts/bracteoles) will...

Second paragraph mentions about poor yields when grown close to the equator: http://faculty.agron.iastate.edu/fehr/HOCP/27HOCP.pdf. Maybe you can get some SA germplasm. They've been using some day-neutral plants to come up with varieties that will do better in short day length scenarios.

There are definitely many factors that have a bearing on how they will grow, but when you realize that about 75% of the US hop crop is grown in the Yakima valley, which is a desert, I don't think the temperatures are a big factor in your situation. Here's the type of weather they've had over...