Wild hops on the balcony?

[Miraculix]

Is this little fellow wild hop? I live in Bremen and wild hops are literally everywhere here, so it wouldn't be too surprising.

 

[B-Hoppy]

It sure looks like it is. Maybe a seed ended up in your planter and just started growing? One characteristic of hops is that they have little barbs along their stem so if you run your finger lightly up the stem, you should feel like it's running up a dull hacksaw blade.

 

[Miraculix]

It sure looks like it is. Maybe a seed ended up in your planter and just started growing? One characteristic of hops is that they have little barbs along their stem so if you run your finger lightly up the stem, you should feel like it's running up a dull hacksaw blade.

Ok, that's definitely the case, this thing has a very scratchy stem . I will transfer that one into it's own designated pot and hope that it's going to be a female plant.

 

[Miraculix]

Bob the hop moved houses today. I hope Bob is a girl.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Bob the hop moved houses today. I hope Bob is a girl.

In which case you can call her Kate.

 

[B-Hoppy]

Don't get it but I'm a fan of dry humor!!

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It's a Blackadder thing, riffing off Shakespeare's love of cross-dressing. Kate is a woman who dresses as a man called Bob, first as a servant during the reign of Elizabeth I in Blackadder 2, then as a WWI soldier in Blackadder 4. The same actress also turns up in another Ben Elton sitcom, Upstart Crow, playing an older character in Elizabethan times called Robert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_(Blackadder)
Those who can get iPlayer can see the full thing : Blackadder - Blackadder II: 1. Bells
There's a few snippets on Youtube eg :

 

[B-Hoppy]

Is this the same series? Blackadder Complete Series : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

The bines, at least to me, also smell like hops.

 

[Miraculix]

I bought some new soil for Bob the Kate. The previous one was mediocre at best. Now he/she is getting full on s(p)oiled.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Is this the same series? Blackadder Complete Series : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Yep, that's the one - you want to start with 201 as that's the first appearance of Bob, but also it was notorious for taking a series to find its feet, the first series is almost a different show. Mid 80s, so kinda dated, but still funny.

 

[Kaz15]

Nice find! I have never in my life come across a wild hop plant. Supposedly they do grow natively here in Colorado.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Oh lord, British humor.

 

[Miraculix]

Bob the hop survived the winter and is showing it's first signs of life this year. After not flowering last year at all, I hope I will find out this year that Bob is actually a Kate.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

 

[Miraculix]

I'm Dying

 

[Miraculix]

Bob the hopefully Kate.

 

[NitrogenWidget]

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[Miraculix]

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I'll make a photo on the weekend!

 

[Miraculix]

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Bob the Kate is going strong! The little green plants with the partly purple leafs are spreen (German, tree spinach n English?) They were planted in the next pot last year and spread by themselves.

 

[McMullan]

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Bob the Kate is going strong! The little green plants with the partly purple leafs are spreen (German, tree spinach n English?) They were planted in the next pot last year and spread by themselves.

I'd pick out those little competitors.

 

[Miraculix]

I'd pick out those little competitors.

I'm waiting till they have enough leaves to be harvested and then I'll eat them. I don't want the hops to get too big anyway, they are on the balcony and I'd like them to stay on my balcony.