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B-Hoppy, No, I don't grow them in a container. I have the 3 varieties spaced around my yard. It'd be interesting if they'd even grow in containers since they have such a big root system.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a try.

This is my 4th year of growing hops. I plant Cascade, Centennial and Williamette here in New England. In years past the Centennial have been the most robust followed by the Cascade with the Williamette the less of the three. This year both the Centennial and the Cascade did very poorly. They...

I always thought that the AA% would be less too but now I'm not so sure. I've brewed several batches using a combination of pellet and my own homegrown hops and when compared to batches I've brewed of the same beer in the past the ones with my own hops seem to have more of a bite to them. Just...

This is what many of my cones looked like. Some are/were worse. They still smelled good. Are these ok to use?

I have some 2nd year centennial hops that did fantastic this year. I was thinking of harvesting them but didn't think they were quite ready about 2 weeks ago. We went on vacation for a week and a half and now the cone leave tips have turned pretty brown on most. It it too late? Have they gone...

I harvested what hops I could awhile back. I thought I'd read somewhere to let the bines lay on the ground for awhile after harvesting before cutting them off. They've been on the ground for quite awhile now but I haven't cut them off yet. Is that the right way to go?

This was my first time trying to grow hops this year. I tried 3 different varieties (Cascade, Centennial and Willamette) and just put them in 3 different locations to see what happened. I think I only used Miracle Grow on them once and that was about it yet they did fairly well. So now next year...

I took mine off the screen after about 5 days with the fan on low blowing on them. I think they felt pretty good. I don't have a vacuum sealer so I just weighed them out, put them in ziplock baggies and squished the air out of them the best I could and put them into the freezer. Boy did they...

OK, so I've had my hops on an elevated screen with a fan on low blowing over them for about 4 days now. The weather here has been cool and cloudy with showers so not alot of heat and not the driest conditions. There's not alot of them as this is my first year trying this. The hops feel light and...

This is my first time trying to grow hops. It's a pretty neat plant to grow. I did 2 rhizomes of Cascade, Centennial and Willamette. The Willamette started out gang busters then faded off and didn't really produce and cones. My Cascade did really well and my Centennial did pretty good for the...

Just for the heck of it I planted 3 different varieties. Since I didn't have a specific spot selected and this is the first time trying it, I just planted them near our basketball hoop that doesn't get used anymore and also near a building. I staked them all out and ran twine up as far as I...