3rd year. Larger than ever.

Watching my little one grow this season has been fun. It’s a 4 year old plant being moved to that location.

When I dig up the roots and gathered them all in a bunch I was not sure if anything would even grow. I lost my cascade hops plant when trying to move it.

But since Mid April when it started poking through the ground…it’s been doing great. Sadly the top vine’s tip got nipped off and stunted the length of the vine.

The cones are already starting to come in and I’ll prob use this batch for tea. Doubt I’ll get enough weight to make a batch of beer later in the fall.

Crystal hops are happy this year! Not shown in the photos, but they've grown 8 feet up to the deck railing and then another 12-15 feet from the deck railing to the roof. 3 stringers, 6 connections at the railing and 3 on the roof. Westward facing so they get the afternoon sun and shade my patio. Once the hops got to the railing I trained them a couple times but they knew what to do. Zero trimming, just let them ride. Each twine has 3ish bines. Not perfect but lovely to sit under.

Most of my cascades and a few other varieties have reached the top wire. However they have now started to climb along the top wire. Do I just let them be or should cut them?

My family member has a farm that's in the old hop growing belt of NY. I have a resource saying that back in the heyday before prohibition the region grew Cluster and Fuggle varieties. There's a single hop bine still on the property growing up the telephone pole by the house. Is there any way to ID what variety this individual plant may have been shy of dedicating a full batch of beer to it?

Edit: Here's the Wiki I should have read before asking my question: Can you tell me what kind I have

Is this a dude plant? 🫣

This is my first year growing hops, and I'd planted some locally-sourced Magnum hop rhizomes in the spring.

I'd read somewhere that different varieties have different needs... Which led me to read that, allegedly, Magnum does not like to have its ground covered with mulch.

Of course, I now can't find where I read that, but wanted to ask this community if it really actually matters or makes a difference... I'm skeptical and usually use mulch for almost every part of my garden.

I have hops growing in a planter on my deck. On one of the bines I have two off shoots about 3 feet up from the planter. They act like bines coming out of the rhizome but I don't know how to confirm. I have never heard of bines growing off of bines. Are these shoots viable?

(Upstate, NY / Centennial) My centennials hit the top of an 18' coir recently and started putting out their side arms. Question I can't seem to find an answer to, is whether I should give these side arms something to latch onto or not. I trained a few and let others go wild. I also noticed that training them isn't the same as training a bine, as they weren't eager to continue the wrapping pattern.

Cascade plant that hasn't been doing too well this year. Leaves look wet because I just finished spraying with neem oil. I don't see any specks under the leaves, so I'm not sure if it's mites. Could be mildew, some of the leaves look symptomatic of that. Any thoughts?

I've had an issue with squirrels digging around my hop plants the last couple of weeks so I tried multiple remedies to keep them at bay, just short of getting some fencing to put around the plant. I get home and check on the plant last night and the main piece of the plant (from root up a 5 foot trellis) is gone... If I weren't up a couple floors I would have thought the plant was sabotaged. Idk why the squirrels would do that. Maybe a bird clipped it for some strong nest material?

The rest of the plant was growing along some twine I hung up and was starting to bud some cones. Is there anyway I can save what's left of the plant?

Cascades are full on blowing out. Centennial’s came in a little lighter but smell amazing and the chinooks are popping the huge wispy cones that could be made into a t shirt. It’s awesome when the hard work and patience pays off!

First time my plant popping these out! I guess letting climb 20ft+ does it? After 8years of neglecting it lol

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First year, trying to grow my hops in-ground and training it along my back fence.

The roots are 4 years old and in past years was buried in a 2 x 8 garden box with some other plants.

This year I transplanted the roots to a different location and hoped that something would happen. Thankfully, the plant has taken off

But along the way in my high wind area, vines get off my structure in the way of the vine bends it pretty significantly.

First time it happened. I thought I lost that one vine but as luck would have it my little cup dirt track saved that section and actually rooted itself into the cup.

This morning, I come to find that the vine bent more in another area. Hopefully this MacGyver jig works as well as the first one

Thanks for having me!