Anyone have any Male Hop Plants?

[BRONCOBREW]

 

[BRONCOBREW]

I thought I killed it last year, but it is back!!!
If it gets old enough to pollinate my female hops, the cones will have big round brown seeds that end up in my brew kettle.

 

[nagmay]

Would be interested to know where you got it. Was it from seed?

 

[BRONCOBREW]

Here is the one from last year, it is in the process of pollinating....

 

[day_trippr]

Any idea at all what strain?

Cheers!

 

[BRONCOBREW]

Would be interested to know where you got it. Was it from seed?

I got my first one about 7 years ago from HopTech. It was an EKG rhizome. Evenyone kept telling me that it was just a female that was stressed. So I raised it 3 years before I convinced everyone that it really was a male. My Hop cones from all my other plants had seeds.

Then I got all these little baby hops all over. I finally killed the male, but I raised 12 little hops....7 turned out male, so I killed them. Then I did taste tests on the cones from the remaining 5. Finally ended up with one that I liked......now it is 4 plants that I used in place of Noble Hops in all my recipes.

 

[BRONCOBREW]

Any idea at all what strain?

Cheers!

All I know is that it is half EKG. The mother was probably a Tett or Fuggles or maybe a Sunbeam.

 

[nagmay]

So... a prolific male, of noble English descent... seven gone, making him the 8th...

Can I name him Henry?

 

[BRONCOBREW]

So... a prolific male, of noble English descent... seven gone, making him the 8th...

Can I name him Henry?

Funny.....I should, but I named him Hubler Hop.....my family name....

 

[sandyeggoxj]

Yep. I have a male growing. Plucked a rhizome from the wild.