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[Triker]

I'm new to growing hops. My plant is around six feet tall at the moment and looks healthy. I just have a couple of questions:

What should I feed it with?

At the end of the season what do I do with it?

thanks

 

[McMullan]

If it's looking healthy, keep doing whatever it is you're doing. I found this article a while back when I was researching hop growing at home:

https://byo.com/hops/item/13-10-tips-for-hop-growers

A cup of tea (cooled of course) every few weeks is what I give all my plants. Just soak (cold steep) a used teabag in water overnight :thumb: They seem to like it.

 

[TheRedDarren]

A cup of tea?! Really ?!

 

[Tony1951]

If it's looking healthy, keep doing whatever it is you're doing. I found this article a while back when I was researching hop growing at home:

https://byo.com/hops/item/13-10-tips-for-hop-growers

A cup of tea (cooled of course) every few weeks is what I give all my plants. Just soak (cold steep) a used teabag in water overnight :thumb: They seem to like it.

What kind of crop could you expect to harvest from a few vines? I could plant a couple of rhyzomes if I was likely to get a decent weight of hops to make it worthwhile.

What citrusy hop types can you get? I heard that citra isn't available outside the USA.

 

[ManseMasher]

What kind of crop could you expect to harvest from a few vines? I could plant a couple of rhyzomes if I was likely to get a decent weight of hops to make it worthwhile.

What citrusy hop types can you get? I heard that citra isn't available outside the USA.

http://www.hopunion.com/aroma-wheel/?aroma=Citrus

Have a play with this, and see if you can get rhizomes of any that are listed. FYI Citra rhizomes are propiatory, so can't be bought without a licence, apparently!

 

[Tony1951]

http://www.hopunion.com/aroma-wheel/?aroma=Citrus

Have a play with this, and see if you can get rhizomes of any that are listed. FYI Citra rhizomes are propiatory, so can't be bought without a licence, apparently!

Thanks. Good info there.

Still need to know what kind of crop to expect. If it is only a couple of hundred grams, it wouldn't be worth doing as I can get 100g for about a fiver online even of expensive hops. If there's a good weight likely from a couple of rhyzomes, that would be a different matter.

 

[ManseMasher]

Typically 1.5 to 2lbs per vine in a good season, so a kilo roughly.

 

[Tony1951]

Typically 1.5 to 2lbs per vine in a good season, so a kilo roughly.

That's quite a lot and would make it worth the effort. Thanks for the info. I have a pole at the bottom of the garden so I could run a string back to the house with vine strings hanging down to train them up.

'thinks....... new crazy hobby possibility here.....'

It all depends how available the good hops are and where you get them from.

EDIT:

Just found this link....

http://hoprhizomesuk.blogspot.co.uk/


and this one....

http://www.willingham-nurseries.co.uk/hop.html

 

[Triker]

Ok thanks for the replies but I'm confused :/

At the moment the vine is around six feet high and there's no way its going to flower this season. What do I do at the end of the season?




Am I missing something obvious here because I always thought that hop were an annual plant that is rotated? So will this plant withstand the winter?
I'm reading about digging up the rhyzomes and 'separating' them into smaller pieces? Does that mean they will come back stronger next season?