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first season crown of plant from top cutting taken in April. Pic taken in mid October. Reddish buds.

first season crown of plant from top cutting taken in April. Pic taken in mid October. Pink buds.

first season crown of plant from top cutting taken in April. Pic taken in mid October. Reddish buds.

Crown bud formation is a great way to tell how healthy your hop plant is and how it is going to perform next year. Here is a pic of crown buds on a typical 5 month old hop plant. Show us yours! [/IMG] I posted more pics in my gallery to the left < :)

For those of you who are thinking about going beyond growing hops for yourself and as a great hobby- here is a well done feasibilty study done by Vermont Ag. It has a ton of good info, studies, and strategies to growing hops for profit. http://docs.com/FG2S

Found several helpful growing guides from cooperative extensions. Unfortunately, the files are too big to attach directly to this post. So I am posting my URL -www.greatlakeshops.com If you Look under the "Docs" in the left margin, you'll find them there. If you scroll down the posts a ways...

There is a slim chance they are native - which would be the Brewers Gold family. More likely they are a remnant of the Detroit brewery heydays. Think Tivoli, Ames, Stroh,Von Beer, Cadillac, Banner, Fritz, Pfeiffers, Goebels, etc.- all had growers in the region. There were no high alpha types...

pics of the crown bud formation on Newport. Pic taken oct. 14, 2001. Plant shown is approximately 5 months old. White ring of buds encircle the stem just below the soil surface.

pics of first year growth from meristem cuttings. Same planting schedule, trialled 22 varieties.

pics of first year growth from meristem cuttings. Tip cuttings taken April, 2011, rooted and set out in container growing system June, 2011; pic taken October 14, 2011

We propagate a lot of hops and Kent Golding was one of the "dirtiest" varieities we have ever cleaned up. It has a big inherent virus load that inhibits vigor and yield. If you are going to try more Goldings, I would suggest straight GoldingsUS - they have nearly double the yield in our...

Now we're talkin'! If your cones have a distinct elongated square shape with flat sides that stayed pretty much closed - probably Cascade. If you rub out a Cascade cone, the lupulin is in unique little kernels or balls (Magnum is the only other one that does this). But I suspect you have...

If you have Chinook; it is a strong dual purpose hop with a strong aroma and bittering. ( in fact, it is primarily used for bittering) It has a very distinct grapefruit peel smell when you rub out a cone. Faint & Earthy? The only one I know that falls into that profile is Saaz and possibly...

From a grower - Since your plants do not go through a true dormancy period you need to force new growth that is not flower initiated. You can do this by cutting the bines back to near ground level about 6 weeks before whenever your "Spring" starts. This will force new shoots from the crown...

From the perspective of a grower. Perle, good dual purpose hop - pale ales, porter,stout, lager weizen, alt, kolsch- alpha7-9.5 Santiam, Spalter select, Tettnanger, Crystal. Look for aroma hybrids with Fuggle and /or Hallertauer breeding. Try to select dual purpose hops with an alpha between...

This thread got me curious, so I went out to the test plot where I have 22 varieties in growing trials and took a close look and compared. Out of the Fuggle types (Tettnanger, Santiam, Fuggle H, Glacier, Willamette) Willamette had the smallest cones and crown structure. Fuggle H surprised me...

Pappers, The Willamette plant grows well but it has smaller cones, so its yield is poor compared to Glacier and others. Chinook and Nugget have cones double the size - so even though the cone count is about the same per plant ; the weight adds up a lot faster. A lot of Michigan growers are...

Hate to say it but your Cascade problem might be linked to a story I heard- A large western grower with a virus infected field plowed it out and sold all the rhizomes to a mail order - no names.

Duly noted and received! Tarheel Gold it is - and who is DUKE? Go Spartans!

Hey guys, If Willamette isn't getting the job done, I've got a couple of suggestions. If you want to stay with a "Fuggle" variant like Willamette, Check out Glacier - great brew composition and high yielding (2400 lbs/acre plus) or Tettnanger. Both do well in our trials. If you want to...