Multiple Rhizomes

[bellecitybrewer]

I am completely new to HBT and am not sure if there's already a thread about this, but anyway, here goes. I am going to purchase some hop rhizomes this week and i had a few questions. What i was wondering is if i should by 2 or 3 rhizomes of each variety in order to have a huge harvest after a few years, or if i would get plenty of hops with just one rhizome of each. I tend to brew a lot of English ales, so i definitely want a ton of fuggles at harvest time. So if anyone out there has planted multiple rhizomes of the same variety, I'd love to hear your results!

 

[Retrofit]

Various points to hit.

Typically people start with 2 in a hill. This betters the odds of the hill surviving. Likely, in a year they will twist together and make one larger crown. With a single, you still have a chance, but you've got a smaller plant to work with- you'll need more time to produce.

Year one, likely little to nothing. Year two, something. Year three, now your brewing.

Fuggle is hard to grow. My first year was very interesting, it grew first and fastest and not a single cone.

Willamette was developed to be similar to Fuggle, but less difficult to grown. Having said that, my 1 year old Willamette has also never produced.

This year, I got my hands on a 4 year old Willamette. SCORE! So I'll have me some 'English' hops.

I'm in Aurora IL, I have family in Milwaukee WI. I plan to expand my micro farm to Milwaukee. Our weather is similar, so based on my experience- Fuggle may be hard for you to grow.

Any more questions? Keep them coming...

 

[Sdragon980]

I grew a few different kinds here in Ohio.

Cascade seemed to be the best first year and I was able to brew one batch with it.
Centennial gave me little to nothing the first year.
Nugget was also pretty much nothing.
I'm going into my second year this year so I'm hoping that I get a better yield.

 

[Hopfarmer]

If you have your soil prepared well you only need 1 pr hill.The 1st year I started I put 5000 in 6 inch pots as it was to wet to get my fields ready.4900+ came up and the ones that did not were in a corner that was not getting water .I put some soil prep instructions up a while ago.We are starting to ship rhizomes,Very few Chinooks left,plenty of Cascades,Nuggets,Willammette and Magmum coloradoorganichops.com Cheers Glen