2015 : Anyone have their hops growing yet?

[corkybstewart]

I've got Cascades just barely breaking ground.

 

[mr_rogers]

It was a raspberry sprout! I think I've been thinking about hop season so much I fooled myself... There is a raspberry patch directly across from my hops. I guess I'm playing the waiting game like everyone else..

 

[ardyexfor]

Here's mine. Debating cutting them back for a bit, but they have been surviving the overnight low temps just fine..

 

[kilohertz]

Here's my situation....

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f92/come-spring-helping-hops-along-bobcat-519481/

Cheers

 

[DurtyChemist]

Looks like a good drip watering plan. Slow release.

 

[SPR-GRN]

In CT I've got about 2 feet of standing snow over my hops, maybe I should move to the PNW; wonder if I can convince the wife... doubt it.

 

[kilohertz]

Down to the dirt a few days ago (forced) and here is the result. Ya baby...let's go! All 30 plants survived and are sprouting little shoots. One of the new last year Chinooks has a huge root about 1.5" diameter. Amazing how fast these grow.

Cheers

 

[BrasilCerveja]

Just breaking through the ground in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

 

[Rock_Toy]

I am in San Francisco. Don't expect to ever be able to harvest Hops but I'm growing on the off chance that I might.

This is year #2 for me and here are the Cascade Hops. Looks healthy but very different from last years. Anyone have any thoughts on what is going on here?

 

[Rock_Toy]

And here are the Nugget Hops in the next bucket over....

 

[AndytheBeave]

My willamettes are about 6" with 4 sprouts coming up. My magnums have 3 sprouts coming up but are only around 3" right now.
The willamettes already have some leaves forming

 

[sablesurfer]

All plants seem to have made it through winter, colder here in midwest than their first year and they are in pots outside. But as of this weekend everything has little purple shoots.

Now I have probably WAY too many multiples of hop plants...LOL anyone want to start a farm?

 

[huckbof]

purple heads on cascade, chinook and nugget popping up so I covered them with soil to keep them safe

 

[TrickyDick]

Mine have erupted within the last week here in Florida. Need to get some fertilizer for them.

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

Went outside this afternoon and saw my Mt. Hoods poking through the ground! Spring is here! Still waiting on my Cascades and Nuggets to make an appearance.

 

[sablesurfer]

So, comparing my grow notes from last year, these ones about same time. 1.5 weeks ahead of last year, but I figure that is well within variability??

 

[corkybstewart]

All my Cascades are up and growing fast, still waiting on the Centennials.

 

[beernutz]

I planted 3 centennial rhizomes last Saturday and this morning, 4 days later, one of their sprouts just appeared above the surface. Needless to say I was pumped since these are my first hop plants. The weather has been incredible all week, dry and sunny in the high 60s to low 70s whereas right before I planted it had rained every day for a week.

 

[MrSnacks]

Anyone know how cold too cold is for new crowns? It's been up to the 70s here in Minnesota and down to the 30s at night, ground is thawed. Talk of snow next week but not huge temperature plunges.

 

[CarbonTom]

My rhizomes for this year just shipped, so I am thinking about starting them in pots indoors. We're having a lot of melt here in MA currently, but I am sure I wont be planting them in the ground for quite a while. How early is too early to start in pots, and also is there any detriment for transferring them to the ground too early in the development process?

 

[lstrowge]

Mild winter here in Wa state too.

I have several shoots about 1" long already on my Cascade and Centennial and about 1/4" for the Willamette. I thought abut trimming back but am unsure that I would get the results I've heard of. Has anyone had good experiences cutting back the first shoots and getting a good yield from the secondary ones?

Centennials are 3rd year and the other are 4th year.

 

[MrSnacks]

My rhizomes for this year just shipped, so I am thinking about starting them in pots indoors. We're having a lot of melt here in MA currently, but I am sure I wont be planting them in the ground for quite a while. How early is too early to start in pots, and also is there any detriment for transferring them to the ground too early in the development process?

Curious about this too

 

[swmalone]

So any suggestions on when I should put the rhizomes in the pots? I looked up the climate data and the typical last freeze date is May 9th. Right now I have a Cascade and Centennial Rhizome in the fridge.

 

[BrotherGrim]

I am in Mississippi and my hops are just now breaking through. I have about 8 shoots from 4 different plants. I will have to build a trellis of some sort this year. The little posts I used last year will not be enough to support what I am hoping to get this year.

 

[ardyexfor]

So any suggestions on when I should put the rhizomes in the pots? I looked up the climate data and the typical last freeze date is May 9th. Right now I have a Cascade and Centennial Rhizome in the fridge.

Wait until the snow is gone and the ground is thawed and just put them in the ground. IMO you will do more damage transferring them around after planting then them being in the ground with some overnight lows.

 

[AngryMonk]

California weather helps, until we run out of water...

 

[NathPowe]

I'm in NC and I've got a few little Chinook buds peaking out as of yesterday evening. Second year plant.

Cheers.

 

[swmalone]

Wait until the snow is gone and the ground is thawed and just put them in the ground. IMO you will do more damage transferring them around after planting then them being in the ground with some overnight lows.

Where I am positioning they are not going in the ground. The snow is already gone and it has been freakishly warm the last several weeks. They are going into whiskey barrels positioned on the south side of the house.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Checked on my only plant (second year cascade) it had 2 small leafs and a third shoot breaking ground.

 

[sablesurfer]

Curious about this too

So, I was a new hop grower three years ago. Two years ago my hops came back and I was amazed. I must have done everything right! Then I cut them back and put the cuttings in root stimulant. Holey crud if 99% of them didn't root and all of a sudden I had to find homes for four cuttings out of five of all my hop plants.

Now, three years later and they are all sprouting and waking up and getting ready and I realized....

....yes, they really are a weed. It wasn't anything I did, these things, in pots, moved up against house and buried in leaves have survived both a warmish winter and a winter will lots of very cold snaps. LOL...they don't need me.

I would say, put them in pots, grow em up till you can dig a hole. Or put them in really big pots so no holes, whatever. These things kinda like to grow.

Once in the ground, they will only sprout next year according to your weather. Here in the middle of midwest the sun has been out for a while and ground unfrozen for over a month. They are up a bit early.