1st year hop harvest potency

[schmeek]

First year chinook in eastern Washington state, wondering if they are approaching harvest or if I should give them more time?

I planted the rhizomes late, around the end of May so they may be a bit premature.

I picked one and rubbed it in my hands... it didn't have a lot of aroma and was still pretty grassy but it was fairly sticky and I could see the yellow resin in the lupulin glands.

Sorry, I'm sure this is asked all the time, but I didn't find a whole lot of info on my searches.

Thanks!

 

[Bilsch]

They don't look quite ripe to me yet but it's hard to tell just looking at a few cones. When getting close they will start to brown just a little on the tips of the bracts, lose a lot of the grassy aroma, feel more like tissue paper and the lupulin will be more of a gold then bright yellow.