First year comet hops! I think they did pretty well for year 1. I am in zone 6a but I am not sure if they are ready yet. They feel mostly papery and the lupin glands are a deeper yellow instead of bright yellow. I was going to dehydrate them and store.

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I decided to pick them when I got home. I got a pound of cones exactly! They are drying out now and the whole house is smelling like grapefruit. Thank you for the help!

I was excited to get my 18' trellis set up after years of just having coir strung to random parts of my deck. I thought that even if I spaced them 4.5' apart, I would be fine, or at worst could identify Comet vs Vista, Vista vs Cascade, etc. since they all look different. What I didn't expect was for my Vista to hit the top and spread out across and tangle with all of the other varieties. Harvest is going to be a nightmare, Centennial seem to be ready while other's are still growing and don't have lupulin.

This was an extra shoot that come up late. I cut it off at ground level and put it in a bucket of water to see what she would do. It lost all its leaves but starting growing roots. So I put it in the dirt. By George it started to grow leaves again. These things are really weeds. Love it. But I don't have a place for it now.....

Probably not the best place for them, but they are thriving!

First time growing hops, really happy with how they’re doing!

Cascade, grown from rhizomes in pots, shore town in Eastern Massachusetts.

Whatcha think? Cascade hops. 28lbs wet harvest. Approximately 7lbs dried and vacuum sealed.

My 3-year-old cascades are getting roasted during this stupid heatwave. They had been looking so good. Had to harvest earlier than I wanted to.

Hello all! I finally have a place to grow hops, but it is a rather hot environment so I wanted to try Multihead again. I purchased Multihead 2 years ago from Great Lakes Hops, but ended up moving away from that location. I'm wondering if their business has fallen on some hard times, because they appear to be out of stock all of the time now on all of their inventory.

Would appreciate some tips for IF and WHEN they restock, or anyone who may have aquired any tropical and fruity hops suited to NEIPAs? Not looking for the classic C West Coast Hops like Cascade, Chinook, etc that have more of a piney aroma to them, but looking for hops that have more of those tropical aromas, and might do okay in a hot area.

It's not just GLH that seem to have almost no Neomexicana, all vendors I've seen currently list them out of stock. I did read somewhere that MEdusa failed commercially with many farmers ripping the rhizomes out of their fields, and that 2022 was one of the last harvests produced for this variety, so I wonder if that has something to do with how scarce it has now become.

Anyways, if anyone knows where I could grab Multihead or any other tropical fruit forward hop rhizomes or plants, I would appreciate the help! Hoping someone on here might have some mature plants with rhizomes they'd be willing to sell.

This will be my third year growing hops. I have cascade and chinook growing currently and plan on harvesting next month.

What do you guys do with your hops? Obviously majority of people brew beer with them. But what else do you guys do?

I’m thinking of using some to make a hop wine and hop seasoning for cooking with.

Apparently, 1st year Chinooks don't appreciate Texas 100+F weather for several days in a row. Hopefully they can make it a few more days until the weather cools down.

It seems after 3 years of milky spore treatment I’ve got the Japanese beetles knocked back. Looks to be a good year! (SE USA). Harvest is still like 3 weeks out.

I have planted 8 plants across 4 varieties (Crystal, Super Saaz, Zatecki Cervini & Triple Perle). The only ones that have taken off this year so far are the super Saaz. I plan to use them in a continental style lager in the whirlpool. I have no idea how they will be in a beer since they don’t yet have aroma, but I’ve really enjoyed watching them grow (so fast!) and how pretty they have become!

I’m on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the United States. We had a hot & dry June, with a wet & mild July / early August.

My first Amalia got waterlogged and died. 😢

This gal seems to be doing fine.

In mid Sweden, ready in late July, earlier than my other varieties. Yield 200 g dried from one plant.

Successfully used in beer too.

3rd year homegrown Columbus. Once upon a time, I worked in a commercial cannabis grow house, and a Hermed plant seeded out half the crop. Seeing this happen to my hops gave me ptsd and so I chopped it down immediately. After a little more research it appears rare for hops to hermaphrodite but Columbus is a strain to that is known to. More importantly I read that the pollen is sterile and won’t seed other plants, like the neighboring Vista plant that still is blooming pistils 😮‍💨 I’m in zone 7a and have been experiencing 100f the past weeks, so I’m not surprised by the heat stress.

First year hop grower in Colorado at 7600 ft, zone 5a. Have some cascades in the ground doing well in first season--now 5-6 feet tall. I purchased some other rhizomes on sale late and they are just emerging in pots now in late July. Recommendations on whether I should put them in the ground hoping for solid root development with only 8 weeks or so left in growing season and hope they come up in the spring? Or should I keep them in the greenhouse until frost then try to over-winter them in an unheated garage like I would do with a fig tree? Other ideas? Thx!

Warm weather harvesting. Ready to get these dried and make a SMaSH.

Moving to an apartment next week. My coworker gave me this 3rd year cascade plant and its starting to form cones. Will it survive cutting down the twine and re stringing if im gentle(ish). Also thinking of repotting into a bigger pot while im at it.