Could these shots be hops?

[badlee]

My son and I were in the garden this morning,saying goodbye to my homebrew tree.

Over the past few years the tree has been fed all hops from the boil,dry hops and unwanted yeast cakes.

My wife came out and remarked that the old hops were rotten. I moved a few to show her they were infact just dry,when these little babies showed through.

Could it be possible that some seeds made it unscathed and managed to germinate?

 

[badlee]

Pics

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[ong]

Doesn't really look like hops seedlings to me, although I've only grown them from rhizomes. I suppose it's possible for some dry hops seeds to have survived the kilning and alcohol immersion, although not anything that was boiled. If you did get a plant, it probably wouldn't be true to the original variety, and might be a male.

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Does not look like it to me. they usually start like a spear tip.

 

[badlee]

Thanks.
I shall untwist my knickers

 

[nagmay]

Hard to tell from the pics, but don't pull them yet!

I have actually grown hops from seed and want to correct some of the misinformation above: 1) hop seeds are tough and can sometimes survive a boil. 2) Sprouts from seed do not look like spears.

B-hoppy just posted some hop sprout pics:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=397219&page=24

 

[badlee]

Thank you for that.
The tree will be "gone" by the end of the week due ti construction,so if they are worth saving,then save I shall

 

[JohnSand]

I didn't think that brewing hops contain any seeds.

 

[badlee]

Man! I have had a few packs chock full of seeds and bits of bine

 

[JohnSand]

Interesting.

 

[mnm6677]

I planted a couple rhizomes two weeks ago. The shoots look very similar to have you have posted in the picture. Good luck! Keep us posted.

 

[badlee]

I will have them up today before the builders turn up

 

[badlee]

had as many out as I could manage.
Nothing to loose as they say. And in my son's words" flippin' 'eck we will be the first hop growers in Thailand"

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[FatDragon]

I didn't think that brewing hops contain any seeds.

I've only bought whole-leaf hops twice because they're harder to get and more expensive in China. The ounce of HopUnion EKG was loaded with seeds, some of which even made it into some of the bottles because I dumped all the trub into the fermenter with that batch. The 100g of Summer I bought from an online brew shop were not so heartily-endowed, but I've got about 50-100 of them in a pot in the hopes that my brown thumb might coax a couple of them into life and I might be able to grow some mutts.

@badlee - My best bet would be that if those are hops, they would be from the dry hops. I'm rooting for you! or would that be rhizoming for you? Yeah, I said it.

 

[feinbera]

Chalk another one up for "not hops."

The leaves are all wrong. As HALIFAXHOPS mentioned, they usually lead with a pointy spear-shaped shoot, with little flaps where leaves will eventually develop, but leaves only growing enough to escape the flaps several pairs of flaps back from the tip, where whatever you've got has leaves right up at the tip of the shoot. Whatever you've got also looks to have smooth-edged leaves, while hops leaves will have a serrated edge right from the get-go, even if they have to grow quite a bit before they start showing the stereotypical five-lobed serrated-edge shape.

 

[DarkCoder]

Definitely not hops. Believe me, I grow a lot of hops seedling.

 

[badlee]

Looks like a summer project for my 6 year old then.
Cheers