moldy rhizomes?

[HughBrooks]

My friend that I brew with got his brother to order some hops to grow for us....nice right.... Well he ordered 3 centennial and 3 nuggets. I am not sure wich ones have the mold but I heared that 2 of the rhizomes were kind of moldy. One only had a little and the other was considerably more I guess. Has any one ever had somthin like this?Are they ok or should he try to contact the place he ordered to see about some sort of reimbursment? I think he said they were ordered from ebrew.com. Anybody ever deal with them? Sorry for the lack of info but I am working with third party information. I am hoping to contact the "brother" directly to get a little more thorough info.But thanks for any advice

 

[stale]

don't know for sure but mold on anything is not good IMHO! I'd at least call the people/place you ordered them from and talk to them about Replacemnts.

 

[chefmike]

You can always ask about replacements, but I will say that I had one rhizome that looked mushy, moldy and dead (they came about 4 days before my wife went into labor with our first and spent a few weeks in the fridge). That plant took a while to come up, but is doing as well as the others in the second year.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Both my rhizomes this year were moldy, and even though one's doing better than the other, they both started off fine.

 

[bob1852]

I've heard you can use a brush and little bit of vinegar/water mix and scrub off the mold and you'll be fine....

although I ordered my rhizomes this year from NikoBrew on this site and they showed up mold free (shameless plug for niko!)

 

[Homercidal]

Carefully wipe them off and plant them. I had some ordered from Freshops last year that were moldy and I emailed them and they sent replacements. However, they grew anyway.

 

[HughBrooks]

Thanks for all the info!