The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 4 - Time to Make Some Hop Cuttings.
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In this video I am cutting back the bull shoots of my hops, and am going to use the larger ones as hop cuttings. These hop cuttings will be rooted and used to plant new redvine hops.
Bull shoots are the first shoots which emerge from hop plants in the spring. They are typically cut back in late April for a few reasons. Firstly, the bull shoots tend to have larger spacing between leaves than non-bull shoots. Since the hops grow off of the leaf-bine junction, this reduces the number of hops made per plant. Secondly, bull shoots are often hollow, and as such are weaker and more prone to breaking. So by cutting back the bull shoots we get stronger, higher-yielding plants.
Normally you split the rhizome (roots) of a hop plant to propagate the plant. But today I am using hop cuttings to propagate the plants. The reason for this is that this hop plant is only a year old, so its not big enough for a rhizome split - typically you wait until year 3 to do this.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Taking the Cuttings
2:30 - Cutting Back the Crown
3:02 - Our Little Grow-Op
3:18 - Outro
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Fun project! Thanks for doing this
I came here from your blog .... I commented on the cultivation of your barley. I have some hop plants, generally cut the first shoots ..... I read that some cut the side branches (on the already high plant) because this would favor the "bifurcation" with consequent greater production ..... it is something useful? Forgive my English ... a greeting from Italy!
temperature is finally starting to stabilise here in sweden. We have the benefit of the gulf stream though.This is going to be relly interesting. Do you think we can hope for nice farmhouse flavours on account of the animals? In the past my favourite lambics used to have a hint of barn which i like but they dont seem to have that anymore.
@SuiGenerisBrewing
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I hope so. I'll be capturing wild yeast, so I'm definitely shooting for a rustic, farmhouse-style ale. The compost I used is 99% goat manure, so I'm really hoping that isn't a dominant flavour!
@rimmersbryggeri
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@@SuiGenerisBrewing The aroma Im talking about I think comes from the lactic acid that i spresent around cows and cow manure. In the local dialect where I'm from they call it barn tea. It is also present in some health tincture that is based on whey. Doesnt smell like shit smells like barn.
Wow that is a good temperature swing. What sort of climate are you in? I am guessing not sub tropical. :)
@SuiGenerisBrewing
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I'm a 30 minute drive away from Michigan; our climates are pretty much identical.
How will the snow affect the barley sprouts?
@SuiGenerisBrewing
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It won't. Barley is a hardy crop and isn't affected by short freezing periods. I was much more worried about the hot weather earlier in the week, which can be quite hard on young plants.