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Thanks Toadhall, As soon as it stops raining...arg 3 days now...I will go out and make a closer assessment of each plant and either train a few more of the shorter ones, or just cut all the ground shoots right back. Agree that the ones on the ground are probably drawing away resources that...

Well here we are nearing the solstice and I have noticed very slow growth on some of my plants, probably 1/3 of the 135. I haven't had the time to tend to the yard in the last month and as a result, there are lots of new shoots that have grown out from the crown and laying on the ground, some of...

A month later and here they are. Kind of hard to see the hops for all the weeds...lots of rain this past week. Going to be a busy weekend. All of them are up, one variety is climbing, some to 6' already, others just slowly moving towards the string but all 36 are doing well. One of the...

I would say "yes", but that's just me. I planted 5 Galenas on Monday and on my evening weeding last night I noticed 3 of them already up. I put them in about 1" under, and horizontal, but that is how I have done most of mine. Interesting Bob about vertical vs horizontal. Would explain why I...

Thanks Bob! Appreciate all the help here and the forums in general. I'll try your suggestions....as I now have 135 plants to play with. :ban: Planted the last 5 Galenas on Monday and now all the holes are filled and rows are complete. As I was walking around the hop yard last night, I had a...

OKay, so I have cut them back, and now the stems that have been cut back, have sprouted double new shoots out of the nodes where the leaves are..and they are growing. Can these be considered viable shoots to train or will they be weak, or have the same traits of the bull shoot, if they were a...

Thanks for all the info everyone...I decided to go for it and went out with the hedge trimmers to do more trimming and didn't take them to the ground, but took off everything that was over 12" tall, leaving the small shoots that were already poking out. I reviewed my pictures from past 2 years...

Wow! Excellent discussion! I have about 100 second year plants...and they are shooting up like crazy...some over 3' long...some have 5-6 shoots, others have over 20...all look healthy...so my question is, and I have already cut back the bull shoots, which were very obvious....is it okay to...

Hi Dan, Did you make any progress on this topic? If you check out my thread about 1900 Hops, you will see I am heading down the same road. Be curious to see what you come up with. Thanks

So I got out the Bobcat and loaded up the auger and dug 31 holes for the new (old) rhizomes, and my son and I planted them Wed/Thurs and went out to check them today, and bloody hell, 6 or 8 of them have sprouted already!! Wow! That old horse poop is great! The rhizomes were very fresh and kept...

Finally finished downloading the book, and started reading...cool book and lots of interesting info. Thanks!!

It's very rewarding, finding a bit of history of your area, and getting to propagate it too. You probably already know what to look for, but at this time of year, I was chasing a lot of "Creeping Virginia" which looks a lot like hops until you get up close, and find no shoots or rhizomes. :D I...

I did some more research and found the location of several more hop yards in BC from the 30's-40's, of course they are long gone and now have neighborhoods on them, but driving thru the streets I found hops growing along fences and back alleys up power poles and such. Dug up many rhizomes from...

Spent several days looking through some archives to learn more about the history of BC hops. Here are a few pics of some hop yards back in the day, think this was around early 1900's and about 200 acres. Middle picture shows an oast house. Found out that there were many, many hop yards in BC...

So I just spoke with the ag manager of 50 years or so (retired) who is now over 80, and he can't recall ever hearing what variety were grown. All of the ancestors have long passed so he has no further connection. He took my name/number and said he would call if he ever finds out, or finds old...

Sounds interesting, could you provide a little more detail, authors and/or ~date published? Would make the google search a little easier. Please and thanks.

Thanks for the links guys, it will be good reading. I went and dug up about 30 rhizomes today, some of the plants had trunks over 2" in diameter above the ground, huge monsters. I gave up on those big ones and moved to some of the smaller ones and got some nice fresh rhizomes. Found out also...

Hi guys, Just curious if anybody has done any research on what variety of hops would have been available worldwide around late 1800's-1900. I imagine it wouldn't be that many. I have located an old hop yard that was planted in the late 1890's and there are still plants growing along the fences...

Still no sign of any shoots here.... :D (southern interior BC)

So after about 5 days the snow is about half the original depth....a few more days of sun and the dirt should be showing. Worked pretty well. :ban: Cheers