Yes. I've been doing it with all my cuttings this summer. It's called propagation I believe. You can buy hormones from garden stores to help it root. I'm having trouble with centennial but Chinook have taken off...
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Yes. I've been doing it with all my cuttings this summer. It's called propagation I believe. You can buy hormones from garden stores to help it root. I'm having trouble with centennial but Chinook have taken off...
newtonjason
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Hey Everyone, great posts here. looks like a lot of nice hop growing out there.
I figured i'd post what I have to inspire anyone with limited or no soil to plant in. I plant mine in some sub-irrigated planters (planters with water space at bottom) on my balcony / roof top
I planted 12 plants and they all did really well. this year I harvested about 16 pounds dried weight between the 12 of them (8 x 2nd year plants and 4 x 1st years)
Anyway here are a few pics and a link to my writeup
http://brewbot.ca/growing-hops-on-a-balcony.html
I figured i'd post what I have to inspire anyone with limited or no soil to plant in. I plant mine in some sub-irrigated planters (planters with water space at bottom) on my balcony / roof top
I planted 12 plants and they all did really well. this year I harvested about 16 pounds dried weight between the 12 of them (8 x 2nd year plants and 4 x 1st years)
Anyway here are a few pics and a link to my writeup
http://brewbot.ca/growing-hops-on-a-balcony.html
kenglish427
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Second harvest on first year Florida plants. back are centennial, front are cascade. not bad for the location in my opinion.
mattmmille
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So, a friend had a bunch of Cascade hops. First harvest, I picked some beauties and vacuum sealed them in canning jars, fresh, and put them in the freezer. I have heard this is not good. Opinions? I was invited back again, but the hops were mostly dried on the vine and brown, They still smell great, some I brought a bunch home. There was some morning dew, so I'm making sure they are completely dry before I do anything with them. Then what? Vacuum seal in bags and leave at room temp?
If there are still leaves let it go until it dies. Once everything has turned brown, cut it back to a few inches above the soil.
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Only magnum didn't reroot for some reason. I put root stimulator in all my bottles and they went to town. Had to give away all the extras I made 'just in case'.
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You don't have too. I assume you are in an area with longer growing season that we have in middle of country. So you could leave them so they put some nutrients away in roots for winter. I cut my down to about 5-6ft with leaves and draped those around. (Had to take down my growing set up as we left town for a while and I wouldn't have been able to water to keep 18ft bines happy.)
bristela
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I have successfully stored my hops in the freezer without drying. As long as they go directly into the boiling wort (don't thaw before hand) I don't see that you should have any problems. I recorded my efforts for posterity here: http://hopstarter.blogspot.com/2013/09/brewing-pt2.html. This was easily the best beer I'd made up to that point, even if I do say so myself (actually lots of other people told me too).
Have frozen this year's harvest too. Haven't gotten around to using it yet. Just got a delivery of ingredients today so hopefully soon.
mattmmille
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Hey! That's good to know! I'm going to go read your blog entry in just a minute. So, now I have the vac sealed frozen ones and I have some that are dried. Do you think the frozen ones would do better as early/bittering additions and the dried ones for the late additions and dry hopping?
