ElevenBrewCo
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I know these are not the most popular hop, but i use them a lot and would like to start growing them. Ive checked a lot of stores and unable to find them. Know anywhere i can get ahold of some?
Someone should stake out the hop farm that grows it. At the end of the season, after the hops are harvested I'm sure they just dump the leftover vines. Maybe you can get a piece and get it to root?
Someone should stake out the hop farm that grows it. At the end of the season, after the hops are harvested I'm sure they just dump the leftover vines. Maybe you can get a piece and get it to root?
I thought Sierra Nevada has the proprietary rights to that hop. I could be wrong but if that's the case all you would need to do is go to Chico with a shovel and be able to jump high and run really fast.
Try propagation from bine tips in wet hops order, I got a Simcoe to root that way last year.
Actually, the fence isn't that tall. Rather flimsy too if you ask me. Though, after meeting the owner, he almost seems like the guy who would let you have a rhizome or two for "homebrew" purposes only. He's a huge supporter in home brewing. Heck, he started his brewery in a 600sq ft apartment above a law firm in down town chico. worth a shot at least
Can you explain how you did this? I have a good plant/gardening/horticulture background but don't know what the wet hops look like? Do they just have pieces of wet bine floating around in the packages? Did you use rooting hormones?
LeSinge said:yeah, get your wet hop order in, a couple pounds worth, pick it up the instant it arrives...go through it collecting any bine tips, use some rooting powder, moist towel, keep warm and misted, pray for the best...do not over-fertilize until well established...I killed my first few attempts that way=sux.
That's awesome. I'm impressed that works. Hops really are pretty much weeds so I guess it's not so surprising. Simcoes growing fine with good yield? What climate are you in? I'm gonna have to blow a bunch of money on wet hops now...
yeah, get your wet hop order in, a couple pounds worth, pick it up the instant it arrives...go through it collecting any bine tips, use some rooting powder, moist towel, keep warm and misted, pray for the best...do not over-fertilize until well established...I killed my first few attempts that way=sux.
LeSinge said:No apparent yield on my plant yet this year, just a couple sidearms so far, everything else I've got has burrs & hops, so maybe still getting established.
Used rooting powder and moist napkin until roots formed, then light soil mix with some perlite, misting often. Did this in a temp-controlled fishtank: 10gal tank, a couple bricks, water heater, and floated the containers on the heated water...got the setup help from a cousin-grower...well, up 'til he started talking about photo-periods and all that crap. I had several of three varieties rooted, but got only one plant at the end, I think I over-fertilized too early and killed them.
I never froze the plant this winter, and maybe that's why it seems 'confused' - I read somewhere they need a cold cycle...so ???
Yeah, $20+/# is a little much, but it's the only way to get 'em this decade.
The price isn't too bad to me because you get awesome hops out of the deal. The bonus of possible hop plants made it even better.
TyTanium said:Very cool. Not sure I'd advertise this on a public internet forum though. Proprietary is still proprietary.
As long as you aren't selling plants or any of your harvest I think it should be legal. Usually the royalties are charged to the sellers and harvesters. Could be wrong...
I think you are wrong, based upon the precedent set my Monsanto who have sued farmers for saving propriety seed strains for replanting. If they can sue based on this, I don't see why you can't sue you for propagating a proprietary hop strain that you didn't purchase in the first place.
You probably should have kept your mouth shut on this one, as they'll be coming for you if Citra ever gets out in the wild....
In the case of cloning plants from other plants, proprietary or not, 'fair use' rules would seem to apply, same as our ability to make digital copies of CDs and DVDs we have purchased For Our Own Use.
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