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Right, which, in my mind, likely means "these are widely available cultivars that would otherwise be known by other names. I could be wrong, though, the odds of some of those being novel/rare is non-negligible, but it's almost certain that at least some of them are just stuff like Fuggles or...

"seed" would be the best keyword to search for. Any production of new cultivars either comes from seed or somaclonal selection, the latter of which not being available to the layman and being rather limited in potential.

From memory, no, their pedigrees are unknown.

I've got a few far-south neomexes that started germinating, so I pulled my whole lot out of the fridge a bit earlier than expected. These buggers just couldn't wait like normal hops. ;)

There's a number of threads on this, one still active. Basically, you can use any cultivar as a mother plant, but you'll need to pollinate it with a male, which are not commercially available. Either you find someone who has one to trade, find one yourself, or grow one from seed.

I'd say cold and dark until they start growing, which they likely will if kept for a long time, at which point you may as well put them out into the sun as much as possible because they'll be draining their reserves by then for that new growth.

Personally, I think I'd be tempted to go with more herbal/tea/floral hops. Heck, clitoria tea is said to taste herbal, no? I was thinking to go with very little bitterness, only a dry hop addition.

Pils LME is pretty light-colored as well. That's what I plan to use for my trial. http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Assets/PDFs/Briess_PISB_CBWPilsenLightLME.pdf Perhaps with the addition of sucrose. Might offend some purists, but, to me, those remain fairly "natural" ingredients. Corn syrup...

Hops are pretty distinctive to the trained eye. You could always share some pictures here and folks will be able to help out. Dry hopping would probably be the best use of them. Identifying their origins is pretty much impossible to the layman.

Still many feets of snow outside, here.

Common hops: Higher resolution english hops:

And then again, maybe they are. XD https://www.canr.msu.edu/uploads/235/92786/Rohwer_Charlie_Hop_breeding_MSU45.pdf

Yes I can be peculiar in many ways. Liking beer that tastes like beer, instead of tasting like fruit juice. ;)

Yea, breeding for dwarf hops makes little economic sense in the United States, where production is dominated by huge hopyards that are already all equipped for conventional trellis hops, especially given that low trellis grants less yield, and the economic arguments for it were irrelevant to...

I absolutely loathe Citra, and am relatively irate that it is in almost every craft brew product I pick up. Incidentally, I agree that it is like saying one "does not like tropical fruits like Mango": I despise tropical fruits like mango. Given how I'm not overly fond of actual tropical fruit...

Nice. If that's true, then it suggests that homozygosity for those alleles is not lethal. Nobody had implied it was, but, you know, you never know. ;)

Age of the plants is one potential factor. Ripeness at harvest is another. As is fertilization.

I greatly respect Peter, but in these proceedings, he's changed his mind in one to another about the number of genes involved for aphid resistance, so it's not unreasonable to believe there's a chance this one might be slightly off as well. As you said, though, whether it's 2:1, 5:3, one gene...

Yes, I'm familiar with that publication (now, I wasn't at the time of the other thread). I do find it rather lacking in detail, though. It's a good baseline, given that the authors presumably know a thing or two about dwarf hops, and given they are the only ones that really seem interested by...

The American Dwarf Hop Breeding Association (or whatever it was called) changed its name and largely abandoned dwarfs. The dwarfs they did make, though, are patented, and restricted. Though there was an issue with Summit being sold to the public, efforts were made to track them down and...