What a wonderfully educational video, thank you for imparting your knowledge on this hop newbie. I only have one hop bine now but this is my first year and thanks to you I feel a bit more prepared.
Congratulations on bring hops into your life! They are such monsters, once they are established. You will have plenty of hop shoots to enjoy before too long. And those hop cones are so pretty and fragrant. Enjoy watching your hop bine grow this summer!
I've been growing hops for more than a decade for homebrewing/meade making and but had never heard about these bines. LOADS of valuable info in your movie! Thanks for that. Just subscribed.😁
Another very interesting video. Thanks to you my friend, I just got done picking my first ever 'fiddleheads'. Your help and inspiration has motivated me to not pass up a day without checking my wild edibles on my property. I loved the fiddleheads with just salt, pepper and BUTTER. Grass fed of course. Also picked violets, wild onions, dandelions and some garlic mustard for our salad. YUMMY.
Hey, Lark, it's so good to hear from you! I'm glad you are enjoying your wild plants. You have so many good ones. And such beautiful gardens. It sounds like spring is well underway in your area -- finally! Happy foraging!
Plants have so many ways of climbing -- thorns, sticky pads, grip strength like the hops, tendrils. And it's interesting how some like to go clockwise, but others go counter-clockwise (like Runner beans versus pole beans). There's so much going on with plants, out in the garden and in the wild!
Thank you so much for this video. We started growing hops last year and your video has been very helpful. This was the first Spring we've had them, since we purchased established plants last year.
I’m growing my Hops in a hanging basket on my balcony pergola, it’s finally vining out, I started with two root bundles from a nursery. I appreciate your videos so much and I’m excited to see my first flowers and cones. Any advice for overwintering hanging plants would be welcomed! I think I’m going to cut back the vines and bring it inside for the winter and treat it like a house plant… mmm. Thanks again for your informative videos!!🎉
Thanks, Peaches. Hops are fun to grow. They grow so fast and so far. I don't know how they can go 20 feet in one season, but they do! And the springtime shoots are worth eating.
Hi, thanks for the tips on pruning hop plants. I was wondering if growing hops along a wire fence, rather than in a vertical fashion would affect hop yield? Guessing there would be an ongoing training of the plant throughout the season as well? Thanks!
Holly, when pruning the shoots, do you always prune the purple bull shoots and just let the green shoot grow? Also, you pruned the green shoots here too. What’s your decision to cut the greens or keep them growing? Thank you!
Thanks so much for the instructional video. I have planted several varieties of hops in Ohio. They are doing well, but I've never really been sure how to care for them. I have been culling each spring, but just one time to select the strongest two or three vines. I hadn't realized that I should be trimming the shoots multiple times each spring. Do you think that it is too late to get started now? The hops have come up and sprouted leaves; the bines are about 8-10" high. It's May 11 and location is North Central Ohio.
Very nice that you have hops, Rob Garverick. There isn't a lot of information easily available about growing hops in Ohio, although there is an Ohio Hops Growing Guild and a research program through the OSU Extension. I found a research report from OSU extension that has some description of pruning and training. Here's an piece that might help you: Pruning: "...the first growth was cut back to ground level. After training of the bines was completed the remaining untrained bines were pruned back to ground level. At the Wooster site this began on June, 17th and on May 22nd in Piketon. Pruning back excess bines continued throughout the growing season as needed. " So it looks like you are at a good time to pick out the bines you want to train up, and cut the rest back. Typically, the last complete pruning is about 1 month before your training. so you can backdate from the Wooster example, and it looks like you could do a complete pruning now (May 11). But you could pick a couple bines for training now, and clear out everything else, too. It is better to train to early and have lower production, rather than too late and have a crop that doesn't mature. Hope that helps! And I hope you eat your hop shoots, too, if you are not spraying your plants. Pruning keeps disease down and makes for good eating! Happy hop growing!
*Where do you live? What Zone are you in?* _Trying to get a gist of difference of your season to ours...._ *BTW-- Can plants be moved? I planted some years ago (and of course they "took over"!) But woukd like to move some.* _Also had hops come up way, way far away from my original planting. Could roots have traveled that far?_
Iv pickled cascade/crystal/Columbus like ur other vlogs said to they are delicious! I just put 2nd year nugget/centennial/Golding in the ground yesterday! I have 4 other varieties on my property. Keep the info coming... I use coffee grounds in my soil to get PH up! BrewDudes here on Utube have a vlog about Hop plants & they recommend checking the ph of soil? Cheers
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying you're pickled hop shoots! With all your hop plants, you will have plenty of springtime shoots, for sure. And some nice variety in the aromatics and bitterness of your hop cones.That's interesting about the pH. Here in Oregon's Willamette Valley, there are a lot of commercial hop farms. According to Cooperative Extension at Oregon State University, there doesn't seem to be a connection between pH and yield, as long as the pH is between 5.0 and 7.0. From what I see, it seems like good drainage is really important. Enjoy growing your hops! They are so impressive with how much they can grow in a season!
I've grown a hop plant for ornamental screening. I believe I got a male plant (flowers the first summer). This is fine as I don't want to harvest anything. I cannot find an answer as to what would happen if I don't cut back the hop bine. Do you know 🤷🏼♀️
Holly I keep my cascade and brewers best hop in large flowerpots, as am afraid they might be invasive like spearmint. Today i was moving my pot and noticed a hug 1 foot root growing out the bottom. Maybe my hops would be happier if their roots had mode room to grow. Raspberries are invasive, but I can control them, just not mint. In summary do you think I should plant my hops directly in the ground?
Hops can be monsters! Those early bull shoots run and can show up 2-3 feet away, easy. If you keep the shoots pruned back (and eat them as a bonus), you can keep them in check. Or if you mow around your hop patch. Raspberries are a good comparison, I think. Mint is harder to control, I think, because every little bit of stem puts off roots and they grow deep in the grass, rather from deeper roots like the hops or raspberries. And you can always dig them out and given rhizomes to your buddies! I'm posting a video tomorrow and you will be able to see how far from my trellis some of the hop shoots are.
Hey! I just found you. I have a hops bush that is huge and not been pruned in maybe 40 years! Is there any hope? Should I try and cut it back fully at the end of fall? If so, cut it back like straight to the ground?
I ordered two kinds of rzomes. Never tried to grow the stuff before. I also ordered four kinds of tobacco. I don't drink or smoke but I know people that do. I got some and planted it a week ago. Too cold in Maryland right now. I also planted some vegetable seeds. Some grew but because almost see through. haha I am just learning to farm so if I fail it's ok. My grandfather is 80 and has been doing it his entire life. I guess it skipped my genes.
What a great video! I really appreciate your enthusiasm!! I have a question or two... I am just starting out on the journey of hop growing and am wanting to grow a few different varieties. Im concerned about the hops going too crazy with their root system. Not only am I worried about intermixing underground and having them come up as shoots in another variety's area, but I live in an urban setting and my hops will be grown within 5-6' of my neighbor's fence. Some would say lucky him and her, but I don't want to cause problems if they don't want them. What are your thoughts about growing each hop plant in its own 3'wide x 3'long x 12" deep cedar boxes, either raised or fully buried in the ground. Will the boxes encourage roots to go deeper since rhizomes will be limited laterally? Am I over thinking this? Will my neighbors' normal mowing/weed-whipping routine keep the shoots and bines at bay in yard and along his side of fence? If boxes are a problem, or if my yields will be greatly hurt by the limiting of the boxes, how far away from my neighbors' fence should I plant the hop plants? Thanks for your help
Hops can be monsters after a few years. You're a thoughtful and considerate neighbor in being cautious about putting your plants too close to the fence. I've seen hops popping up in the grass 6 feet from the original plant. Sure, mowing will keep them down. But let that go, or if there's a flower bed on the other side of the fence rather than grass, and there can be problems. It's the shallow rooted stems that run (in the top 1 foot or so), not so much the deep ones (hop roots can go 10-12 feet deep). So your box idea is a good one. Commercially, growers till between their rows, so no plants of any sort are growing there. The rows are pretty wide - wide enough for a tractor pulling a cultivator to keep all the vegetation gone between the rows. Within the row, they let the later-season shoots run over the ground. But anything that tries to cross over to another row, gets cultivated out of there. The boxes should help keep your varieties separated, too. You could prune and cultivate hard between the plants. But let that go a year or two, and they will be mixing together. I'm excited for you to enjoy growing hops. They are such enthusiastic growers once they are established. You will be eating a lot of springtime shoots, just to keep the monsters in check!
Hop vines die back every winter, so it's OK to cut the plant back and then pick the hop cones off while you sit in the shade. You can cut the plants off 2-3 feet above ground level, so the plant can still die back naturally. Or you can cut them off at ground level.
Get some strains that will do well in your weather. If you have long and hot summers with moderate rain then you will want to get some varieties that engineered to grow in that weather. There are numerous strains that were developed by the University of Florida which work very nicely in hot and humid climates.
One more question, I love the aromatic genetically engineered hops like Mosaic & Amarillo. I cant buy those rhizones as they are not available for sale, and was wondering if you knew which hops might be similar to those? Your videos are the best, thank you so much, will be trimming my purple hop shoots next weekend Maybe sooner as the grey from 3inches to 6 inches over Easter Sunday..
I am not so familiar with lots of hop varieties. But when we get out of this lockdown in Oregon, I'll see what I can find out from some of our Willamette Valley growers and brewers. Enjoy your hop shoots. They can grow so fast. If those purple shoots start to leaf out, cut them back anyway. I'll have a video posted on Monday about how to use those young hop leaves to make a quiche. Happy hop growing!
I love your videos. I am about to set up a hop trellis in my raised bed but I like the idea of growing them up against my fence. How tall are the poles you are using?
Thanks, Benjamin R! I'm excited that you are getting set up for hops. They are worth growing for a lot of reasons. My trellis only goes about 7-1/2 feet high and still works fine. The hops just cluster at the top, or start running along twine that I have going to a nearby outbuilding. I've seen a nice system along a 7-foot fence, where they put screws and twine along the face of the fence and have the hops run horizontal, like arms off the center group of hops. It looks really nice with the hop cones hanging off those horizontal arms. The nice thing about hops is once you have established plants, you will have plenty of rhizomes to try both ways. Happy hop growing!
you just blew my hoppin mind
What a wonderfully educational video, thank you for imparting your knowledge on this hop newbie. I only have one hop bine now but this is my first year and thanks to you I feel a bit more prepared.
Congratulations on bring hops into your life! They are such monsters, once they are established. You will have plenty of hop shoots to enjoy before too long. And those hop cones are so pretty and fragrant. Enjoy watching your hop bine grow this summer!
I've been growing hops for more than a decade for homebrewing/meade making and but had never heard about these bines.
LOADS of valuable info in your movie!
Thanks for that.
Just subscribed.😁
Eating hops shoots, madness!! :D I must try this!
Another very interesting video. Thanks to you my friend, I just got done picking my first ever 'fiddleheads'. Your help and inspiration has motivated me to not pass up a day without checking my wild edibles on my property. I loved the fiddleheads with just salt, pepper and BUTTER. Grass fed of course. Also picked violets, wild onions, dandelions and some garlic mustard for our salad. YUMMY.
Hey, Lark, it's so good to hear from you! I'm glad you are enjoying your wild plants. You have so many good ones. And such beautiful gardens. It sounds like spring is well underway in your area -- finally! Happy foraging!
I learned something today. bines vs vines
Plants have so many ways of climbing -- thorns, sticky pads, grip strength like the hops, tendrils. And it's interesting how some like to go clockwise, but others go counter-clockwise (like Runner beans versus pole beans). There's so much going on with plants, out in the garden and in the wild!
Hey! Love your channel, nice to see you here
Thank you so much for this video. We started growing hops last year and your video has been very helpful. This was the first Spring we've had them, since we purchased established plants last year.
Great video! NOW i know what those things growing on my fence line are!!
I’m growing my Hops in a hanging basket on my balcony pergola, it’s finally vining out, I started with two root bundles from a nursery.
I appreciate your videos so much and I’m excited to see my first flowers and cones. Any advice for overwintering hanging plants would be welcomed! I think I’m going to cut back the vines and bring it inside for the winter and treat it like a house plant… mmm. Thanks again for your informative videos!!🎉
This was interesting and very informative as all your videos...
Thanks, Peaches. Hops are fun to grow. They grow so fast and so far. I don't know how they can go 20 feet in one season, but they do! And the springtime shoots are worth eating.
First! Thank you for the sensational video!
Yay for being first! :D Glad you enjoyed the video. Hops are such cool plants!
Haphazard Homestead I love your videos and knowledge. Thank you for being a great person.
Thanks for your appreciation!
This is a great video, informative and well put together, thank you.
Nice i start just now in the Netherlands, i bought some Chinook, hallertau tradition, hallertau mittelfruh, hersbrucker🌱📈🇪🇺
great video thank you for the upload!
Glad it was helpfui, Justin. I hope you enjoy eating your hop shoots that you prune, too.
Hi, thanks for the tips on pruning hop plants. I was wondering if growing hops along a wire fence, rather than in a vertical fashion would affect hop yield? Guessing there would be an ongoing training of the plant throughout the season as well? Thanks!
great video i learnt alot
Holly, when pruning the shoots, do you always prune the purple bull shoots and just let the green shoot grow?
Also, you pruned the green shoots here too. What’s your decision to cut the greens or keep them growing?
Thank you!
My first year I have 2 hops now just going about a foot I looking forward to how they grow
First time. Will grill some tomorrow.
Nice video!
Thanks so much for the instructional video. I have planted several varieties of hops in Ohio. They are doing well, but I've never really been sure how to care for them. I have been culling each spring, but just one time to select the strongest two or three vines. I hadn't realized that I should be trimming the shoots multiple times each spring. Do you think that it is too late to get started now? The hops have come up and sprouted leaves; the bines are about 8-10" high. It's May 11 and location is North Central Ohio.
Very nice that you have hops, Rob Garverick. There isn't a lot of information easily available about growing hops in Ohio, although there is an Ohio Hops Growing Guild and a research program through the OSU Extension. I found a research report from OSU extension that has some description of pruning and training. Here's an piece that might help you:
Pruning: "...the first growth was cut back to ground level. After training of the bines was completed
the remaining untrained bines were pruned back to ground level. At the Wooster site this began on June, 17th and on May 22nd in Piketon. Pruning back excess bines continued throughout the growing season as needed. " So it looks like you are at a good time to pick out the bines you want to train up, and cut the rest back.
Typically, the last complete pruning is about 1 month before your training. so you can backdate from the Wooster example, and it looks like you could do a complete pruning now (May 11). But you could pick a couple bines for training now, and clear out everything else, too. It is better to train to early and have lower production, rather than too late and have a crop that doesn't mature.
Hope that helps! And I hope you eat your hop shoots, too, if you are not spraying your plants. Pruning keeps disease down and makes for good eating! Happy hop growing!
@@HaphazardHomestead Thanks so much! Very helpful. I'll give it a try and see how things turn out.
This makes me Hoppy!
haha! Hop plants are so great. I hope you enjoy eating their spring shoots, too!
Haphazard Homestead - Never tried them. I'm a brewer so I enjoy em.
*Where do you live? What Zone are you in?* _Trying to get a gist of difference of your season to ours...._
*BTW-- Can plants be moved? I planted some years ago (and of course they "took over"!) But woukd like to move some.*
_Also had hops come up way, way far away from my original planting. Could roots have traveled that far?_
Iv pickled cascade/crystal/Columbus like ur other vlogs said to they are delicious! I just put 2nd year nugget/centennial/Golding in the ground yesterday! I have 4 other varieties on my property. Keep the info coming... I use coffee grounds in my soil to get PH up! BrewDudes here on Utube have a vlog about Hop plants & they recommend checking the ph of soil? Cheers
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying you're pickled hop shoots! With all your hop plants, you will have plenty of springtime shoots, for sure. And some nice variety in the aromatics and bitterness of your hop cones.That's interesting about the pH. Here in Oregon's Willamette Valley, there are a lot of commercial hop farms. According to Cooperative Extension at Oregon State University, there doesn't seem to be a connection between pH and yield, as long as the pH is between 5.0 and 7.0. From what I see, it seems like good drainage is really important. Enjoy growing your hops! They are so impressive with how much they can grow in a season!
Bines, nodes, shoots oh my! Once the later stronger bines grow how do you know when to stop pruning?
Sorry! I am totally new to this.
Second year of Mt.Hood hops . Massive growth this year.
This is cool.
How would I know which ones are runners if I've waited to long to prune. I'd like to send some pictures of my hops
thank you good on you
I've grown a hop plant for ornamental screening. I believe I got a male plant (flowers the first summer). This is fine as I don't want to harvest anything.
I cannot find an answer as to what would happen if I don't cut back the hop bine. Do you know 🤷🏼♀️
great video
Holly I keep my cascade and brewers best hop in large flowerpots, as am afraid they might be invasive like spearmint. Today i was moving my pot and noticed a hug 1 foot root growing out the bottom. Maybe my hops would be happier if their roots had mode room to grow. Raspberries are invasive, but I can control them, just not mint. In summary do you think I should plant my hops directly in the ground?
Hops can be monsters! Those early bull shoots run and can show up 2-3 feet away, easy. If you keep the shoots pruned back (and eat them as a bonus), you can keep them in check. Or if you mow around your hop patch. Raspberries are a good comparison, I think. Mint is harder to control, I think, because every little bit of stem puts off roots and they grow deep in the grass, rather from deeper roots like the hops or raspberries. And you can always dig them out and given rhizomes to your buddies! I'm posting a video tomorrow and you will be able to see how far from my trellis some of the hop shoots are.
I have a special feed for my hops I make at home and works for all plants
share please
Great Video!
Do you have a video about your hop supports?
Do you run them 30 feet high to a main wire?...if so how do you get them down.
Hey! I just found you. I have a hops bush that is huge and not been pruned in maybe 40 years! Is there any hope? Should I try and cut it back fully at the end of fall? If so, cut it back like straight to the ground?
Tie em on with a rubber band to start the training wrap! That way they won't fall off or blow off till wrap trained!😁
Also I believe bines twirl clockwise unlike vines which twirl counter clockwise such as morning glory and pole beans.
I cannot find the tea or hop chocolate videos. We’re they ever published?
Hi if you grow hops in a green house could you get more than one cutting of hops
I ordered two kinds of rzomes. Never tried to grow the stuff before. I also ordered four kinds of tobacco. I don't drink or smoke but I know people that do. I got some and planted it a week ago. Too cold in Maryland right now. I also planted some vegetable seeds. Some grew but because almost see through. haha I am just learning to farm so if I fail it's ok. My grandfather is 80 and has been doing it his entire life. I guess it skipped my genes.
What a great video! I really appreciate your enthusiasm!! I have a question or two... I am just starting out on the journey of hop growing and am wanting to grow a few different varieties. Im concerned about the hops going too crazy with their root system. Not only am I worried about intermixing underground and having them come up as shoots in another variety's area, but I live in an urban setting and my hops will be grown within 5-6' of my neighbor's fence. Some would say lucky him and her, but I don't want to cause problems if they don't want them. What are your thoughts about growing each hop plant in its own 3'wide x 3'long x 12" deep cedar boxes, either raised or fully buried in the ground. Will the boxes encourage roots to go deeper since rhizomes will be limited laterally? Am I over thinking this? Will my neighbors' normal mowing/weed-whipping routine keep the shoots and bines at bay in yard and along his side of fence? If boxes are a problem, or if my yields will be greatly hurt by the limiting of the boxes, how far away from my neighbors' fence should I plant the hop plants? Thanks for your help
Hops can be monsters after a few years. You're a thoughtful and considerate neighbor in being cautious about putting your plants too close to the fence. I've seen hops popping up in the grass 6 feet from the original plant. Sure, mowing will keep them down. But let that go, or if there's a flower bed on the other side of the fence rather than grass, and there can be problems. It's the shallow rooted stems that run (in the top 1 foot or so), not so much the deep ones (hop roots can go 10-12 feet deep). So your box idea is a good one. Commercially, growers till between their rows, so no plants of any sort are growing there. The rows are pretty wide - wide enough for a tractor pulling a cultivator to keep all the vegetation gone between the rows. Within the row, they let the later-season shoots run over the ground. But anything that tries to cross over to another row, gets cultivated out of there. The boxes should help keep your varieties separated, too. You could prune and cultivate hard between the plants. But let that go a year or two, and they will be mixing together. I'm excited for you to enjoy growing hops. They are such enthusiastic growers once they are established. You will be eating a lot of springtime shoots, just to keep the monsters in check!
@@HaphazardHomestead Thanks Holly! Keep up the great videos!!
How do you pick the ones so high up?
Hop vines die back every winter, so it's OK to cut the plant back and then pick the hop cones off while you sit in the shade. You can cut the plants off 2-3 feet above ground level, so the plant can still die back naturally. Or you can cut them off at ground level.
Trying to it's my first year so any info is welcome
Hi,
I'm from NE India, a small town. I would like to grow hops too.
But i haven't seen such around anywhere. Can you help?
Get some strains that will do well in your weather. If you have long and hot summers with moderate rain then you will want to get some varieties that engineered to grow in that weather. There are numerous strains that were developed by the University of Florida which work very nicely in hot and humid climates.
One more question, I love the aromatic genetically engineered hops like Mosaic & Amarillo. I cant buy those rhizones as they are not available for sale, and was wondering if you knew which hops might be similar to those? Your videos are the best, thank you so much, will be trimming my purple hop shoots next weekend Maybe sooner as the grey from 3inches to 6 inches over Easter Sunday..
I am not so familiar with lots of hop varieties. But when we get out of this lockdown in Oregon, I'll see what I can find out from some of our Willamette Valley growers and brewers. Enjoy your hop shoots. They can grow so fast. If those purple shoots start to leaf out, cut them back anyway. I'll have a video posted on Monday about how to use those young hop leaves to make a quiche. Happy hop growing!
Hello can we grow in india.
I love your videos. I am about to set up a hop trellis in my raised bed but I like the idea of growing them up against my fence. How tall are the poles you are using?
Thanks, Benjamin R! I'm excited that you are getting set up for hops. They are worth growing for a lot of reasons. My trellis only goes about 7-1/2 feet high and still works fine. The hops just cluster at the top, or start running along twine that I have going to a nearby outbuilding. I've seen a nice system along a 7-foot fence, where they put screws and twine along the face of the fence and have the hops run horizontal, like arms off the center group of hops. It looks really nice with the hop cones hanging off those horizontal arms. The nice thing about hops is once you have established plants, you will have plenty of rhizomes to try both ways. Happy hop growing!
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What the heck did you do to your hat?!
I have just worn it for several decades, working out in my yard. I'm amazed it has lasted this long!