Thats great! Your centennials from this year are doing well?
None of the 3 centennial rhizomes I purchased this year have produced. But, a columbus plant I’ve ignored the past few summers is going strong
Buying rhizomes from Yakima Valley
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Thats great! Your centennials from this year are doing well?
None of the 3 centennial rhizomes I purchased this year have produced. But, a columbus plant I’ve ignored the past few summers is going strong
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Along with the Cascade, both the Centennial and the CTZ are growing, look healthy, and are wrapping themselves around the strings. The CTZ rhizomes had the least sprouts on them of the three varieties I ordered, and were slowest to break ground. But they're now overtaking the Centennial plants. Both are between 2 and 3 feet tall. The Cascade is a little over 6 feet tall as of yesterday.Thats great! Your centennials from this year are doing well?
None of the 3 centennial rhizomes I purchased this year have produced. But, a columbus plant I’ve ignored the past few summers is going strong
Best of luck with them. My CTZs produced enough for a small brew the first year!
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Excellent!!
I don't really know what to expect with these this first year, but I'm tempering my enthusiasm. I'm primarily viewing it as any cones produced this first year will be considered a bonus. I'll actually be thrilled with good healthy plants that are able to come back strong next year, when hopefully the fun really begins!!
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So now, third week of July, the CTZ hops are around 10ft tall with a few dozen cones.
Meanwhile the Cascade hops are growing like mad, well over 20ft with lots of cones. Certainly way more than I expected from first year plants.
Meanwhile the Cascade hops are growing like mad, well over 20ft with lots of cones. Certainly way more than I expected from first year plants.
@BongoYodeler those are looking good especially the cascades. Storms are wreaking havoc on mine this year. Out at the farm wind blew down one on my trellis poles. My three yr old plants there are doing good. But I bought 5 more varities that are struggling. The new ones ordered are plants instead of rhizomes. I now believe the plants from rhizomes take off better than the baby plants. At home I have 3 plants in their second yr. A Nugget that is well over 20 ft, a Cascade about 16 ft and a Saaz that is about 12 ft. They are beginning to make cones but less than I expected. If it turns out like last year they will produce later I. The season and mature at different times.
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Yet another pic of the Cascade hop plants from YVH, planted in mid-April. Now 25ft tall with far more cones than I expected for first year plants. There are many more cones that can't fit in the pic.
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Reviving for 2nd year update on the YVH rhizomes I ordered.
Last year we planted three rhizomes each of Cascade, Centennial, and CTZ. The Centennial grew a few feet but yielded no cones. The CTZ grew about 12 feet and yielded a couple oz (wet weight) cones. And the Cascade grew around 22-25ft and yielded nearly 10 oz of wet weight cones.
So far this year the Centennial plants have not broken ground and likely won't. The CTZ broke ground and then immediately stopped growing. They still look green and healthy, nothing seems to be eating them, but they haven't grown upward after coming out of the ground. The Cascade on the other hand are growing ferociously. They're currently around 15ft tall and looking healthy.
Not the best picture as I was standing too close.
Last year we planted three rhizomes each of Cascade, Centennial, and CTZ. The Centennial grew a few feet but yielded no cones. The CTZ grew about 12 feet and yielded a couple oz (wet weight) cones. And the Cascade grew around 22-25ft and yielded nearly 10 oz of wet weight cones.
So far this year the Centennial plants have not broken ground and likely won't. The CTZ broke ground and then immediately stopped growing. They still look green and healthy, nothing seems to be eating them, but they haven't grown upward after coming out of the ground. The Cascade on the other hand are growing ferociously. They're currently around 15ft tall and looking healthy.
Not the best picture as I was standing too close.
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Sounds like classic spring dormancy - it was warm enough for them to germinate, but once they got to the surface they realised the day length was wrong for the time of year implied by the warmth. At higher latitudes they would pause for a bit until the days were long enough, but it's getting a bit close to midsummer for that...
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I guess that makes sense, although the Cascade plants, which are planted in the same planter box and sprouted about the same time, are thriving. Though I have read that Cascade hops are a very hearty breed, and much easier to grow, so that's probably why.
Northern_Brewer
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Spring dormancy is very variety dependent - Bramling Cross is notoriously bad, and Goldings ancestry in general is not good for it; Cascade of course doesn't have any as she's derived from Fuggles and Serebrianka.
I'm having some crazy issues with my three year old plants. Cascade is about 16 ft with some sprouting cones. My Nugget is a beast. It has taken over 5 of 6 bines and is already producing nice cones. My Saaz that did virtually nothing but survive years 1 and 2, sprouted first this spring, then promptly died. I'm in N Alabama and I also have several plants on my family's farm nearby. And I can't get Saaz, Fuggels or Hallertau to grow here. That's why I just let the Nugget take over. It's over 2- ft tall and reaching out. I will concentrate on the ones that thrive going forward.
Lol, that Nugget is over 20 ft tall.
I currently have 8 varieties and I was worried about when they would sprout up; I thought some were dead (both last year and this year). I was wrong this year (last year I replaced only 1), it's just differences in the plant. The NeoMex is almost 6', but it is shaded by a 10' tall cherry tomato and a host of dragonfruit. The others (Old Mission, Comet, Chinook, Saaz, Cascade, Eroica, Willow Creek) have all finally broken ground, so some are about 1' and the rest are in the inches stage. All of them are @Greatlakeshops, but I have in the past tried other sellers (Armstrong, Thyme Garden, and AIH). The GLH are the only ones that last.
