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hitransplant, your plant has shifted gear into " form crown bud mode". The purple buds are crown buds that are forming high - check lower- just below the surface you should see more white buds forming. The plant is still pulling the remaining sugars out of the bine; so don't cut it yet if you...

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Hey Retro -"Hallertau ZERO (The nobles don't grow for me)" What is your soil type (at a depth of at least 1 foot) and any idea of where your soil pH is? All your german type hops and hybrids are lacking something - I know they are cranky about heavy wet soils. If your pH is below 6.5, I would...

Our test plot got frosted last week- within 2 days the cones started turning brown. I would pick what you have - if it is that cool they aren't developing much and in fact may be losing losing their kick. The plants start pulling all the nutrients out of the leaves, bines, and cones and sending...

Check into Teamaker and Crystal- both very low bittering. Tettnanger and Saaz are right behind those.

Sashurlow, I don't know your exact soil conditions, but hops seem to like that soil out your way. I have several customers in Mass. who have great results with even fussy hops like Sterling. I would not worry too much about the crowns freezing - I have thousands of containerized hops that...

Could not say it any better, Hethen!

Pic of crown bud formation on 3 month old "Newport" from meristem cutting. Buds encircle the stems just below the soil surface.

6 month old "Newport" grown in container system Source: single meristem cutting (not rhizomes) Knife is 3/4" wide

6 month old "Nugget" grown in container system. Source: single meristem cutting (not rhizomes) Knife is 3/4" wide.

The "6-pack" that keeps on givin'!!

I think you will find that any of the hybrids (diploids & triploids) do well. Most people think that they are having trouble with the old standards like Golding, Saaz, & Fuggle; when actually they are trying to compare them to a hybrid like Chinook or Perle. It is like comparing a pony to a...

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BC2, Buy Plants - they are available year around. Try greatlakeshops.com or search the net. Hops initiate flowering under long day accumulation, so producing some cones indoors is possible under 14+ hours light of sufficient strength. I also have some hops still on the vine that you could...

I would love to know where Gurney and Jung are sourcing these hops. (Notice both places cover their A---s by saying "Novelty" and "ornamental"). Do you realize how easy it is to "create" a new hop? I could take any one of the 33 varieties I propagate and call it "Scoobie Doo" or what ever- Who...

Hate to say it, but in the interests of discussion . . . . 1.) Goldings are ENGLISH heritage 2.) There were no Nugget type varieties 100 years ago (Nugget is a high alpha hybrid released in 1982) Nugget came from Brewers Gold (which is a wild American hop) I can't find any source of...

You do have a curiously named Hop. Goldings is the female English Aroma Hop and Nugget is a cross of Brewer's Gold x high alpha male. Nugget, I believe, is a sterile female hybrid; so cross breeding it would be near impossible. Female x female? (I don't think so:)) I suspect these seed...

Bully, The top bine will freeze off but the crown will sit dormant thru winter. Great hop harvests are all about soil prep. Work the soil deep (these things have big root systems) and incorporate a lot of organic matter like leaf compost and manures. If you prep this fall and wait to plant...

I guess that depends if you live in Alaska or Alabama:). Here in Michigan, we plant Hops outside right through Mid-late October. They set roots underground even though they don't look like they are doing much above the ground. I don't recommend trying to grow hops all winter indoors in pots...

I read through a lot of posts on many sites. There is some suspicion that Neo may have been a Cluster type that went feral from pioneer days. However, The New Mexico source claims to have collected them from arroyos and canyons that were never settled. (That doesn't mean a bird could not have...