Stuff going on

[Beerbelly]

Spring is here, and my Centennial hops are heading up the wire on the front of our deck:

And I'm propagating some Schneider Weisse Tap 7 yeast on my homemade stir plate (and of course, drinking the bottles I harvested from):

 

[Ward Chillington]

Whoaa...you gotta be down south for your hops to be that far along

 

[Dave Y]

I’ve got 2x cascades that have climbed 10’ already and have hop buds, the other 16 are in various stages of turtling. I’m hopeful for a few more bines producing this year. I split off some new rhizomes this year from some of my bigger crowns, I had probably half a dozen I thought I killed by tearing them. Turns out hop rhizomes are tougher than they look. I stuck all of them in soil - about 9 of them. I expected 3 to take off and they did. I planted 2 of them with rhizomes that didn’t do much last year and still having reached a foot this year. They’ve taken to training, but no exceptional growth yet. The remaining 6 rhizomes I pulled, have all broken soil, 3 just this week after about a month. I thought these were goners for sure.

Still waiting on my cashmere rhizomes...