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[Deerslyr]

A friend just sent me this link of a picture of hops of the Sierra Nevada Hop Field...Ah... a thing of beauty!

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

A friend just sent me this link of a picture of hops of the Sierra Nevada Hop Field...Ah... a thing of beauty!

Indeed!

[stellarbrew]

Definitely a field of dreams.

[BarelyBrews]

I hope mine look that good later this year.

[ncbeerbrewer]

What a sight. I wish I could be there right now. Must be heavenly for sure

[MolBasser]

That had to be from last year.They better have not even thrown the flowers yet....I haven't been to the hop field lately, but they just got to the top of the twine last I looked.We did harvest our barley though....BrewBasser

[stellarbrew]

That had to be from last year.They better have not even thrown the flowers yet....I haven't been to the hop field lately, but they just got to the top of the twine last I looked.We did harvest our barley though....BrewBasser

Does Sierra Nevada do their own malting?

[Deerslyr]

That had to be from last year.They better have not even thrown the flowers yet....I haven't been to the hop field lately, but they just got to the top of the twine last I looked.We did harvest our barley though....BrewBasser

Now there ya go ruining the dream...Actually, my Mt. Hood has the cones that look pretty good... I'll try to get some pics of them.

[MolBasser]

Cones in June is REALLY early....And no, we don't malt barley, we are shipping our barley off to get malted.BrewBasser

[Deerslyr]

Cones in June is REALLY early....And no, we don't malt barley, we are shipping our barley off to get malted.BrewBasser

Just took these pics a few minutes ago... Central Valley of CA! Second year Mt. Hood Hops.

[MolBasser]

Interesting. Well they look good!BrewBasser

[Deerslyr]

Interesting. Well they look good!BrewBasser

Thank's! I don't have much of a green thumb so I'm glad that they are pretty much an "aggressive" plant. They grew more than I had expected this year, but hopefully the harvest will be good... as long as nothing gets to them first. I've got several other first year rhizomes going as well.

[Kremer]

I've got cones all over my Chinook, similar to Deerslyr's pics. I picked one of the larger cones yesterday and opened it up to see lots of yellow sticky goodness inside. seems pretty early in the season to me also, but I'm not arguing.

[MolBasser]

I guess I was wrong. I just checked out the field and there are some cones on the bines....BrewBasser

[wengared]

O.K. hop fans , i have a question, can you plant different hops next to each other or will they cross polinate and become hybrid? how much room do you need between them? the reason i asked is the power company replaced all the poles around here so i got 4 20-24 footers i can set and string wire between to to hold the hop strings, want to have 4 varieties i use all the time.

[JReigle]

O.K. hop fans , i have a question, can you plant different hops next to each other or will they cross polinate and become hybrid? how much room do you need between them? the reason i asked is the power company replaced all the poles around here so i got 4 20-24 footers i can set and string wire between to to hold the hop strings, want to have 4 varieties i use all the time.

Depending on the space you have, I would do 3-5 feet apart. They shouldn't cross pollenate and hybridize (or pollenate at all) since all the rhizomes you're likely to purchase are female hop plants.