First time hop grower - this was exactly the explanation I was looking for. Thank you, sir. Cheers.

@RichardCockerill

4 жыл бұрын

why is it great?we need a answer....

@Luke-xx1ri

4 жыл бұрын

I concur this was the help I needed video better in this case.Even though I’m a horticulturist😂books don’t cut it when you get a practical on KZread but granted that fact cheers 🍻

First-time hops grower here and I'm growing Cascade too! I bought a rhizome last year and I have a bunch of flower cones now. Your helpful video showed me exactly how/when to harvest. Thanks very much!

Thank You! This is the most useful video on when to harvest hops I've seen thus far.

Thanks for taking the time to make this - it was exactly what I needed as a first time grower - I was ready to pick some immature cones based on what I had read - so much more comes across in the video. I think it's the papery feel that is most significant. The only problem I have is that I grew 6 different varieties and they are obviously all different, so it's kinda hard to tell in some cases

Very helpful! This is my first year to try harvesting hops--now I have to find out about the next step. Thank you!

Thanks for the thorough and detailed examples of the hops! I just harvested a bunch of wild hops, which mostly fit your mentioned criteria, but I’ll be more vigilant on the next round of collection.

Bobby another new hop grower, and I have to thank you immensely

Thanks for the detailed explanation - I found a couple of wild hop plants today, and this video was immensely helpful!

Super helpful. Thank you. Got some fresh hops heading to a local brewery and i didn't want to miss the right spot.

Great info! I have 4 first year plants and this was very informative. Thank you!

very helpful...as a first time hop grower, your video has helped me understand what I am looking for in a hop that is ready to be picked. Thank you.

Great video @BobbyFromNJ. Just the info I needed.

Much appreciated, sir! Thank you for posting!

Very helpful - thank you. I've been growing hops in Morris County NJ for 4 years now and have had great success with Nugget, Cascade, and, to a lesser degree, Magnum and Willamette. Looks to be the same this year as many other varieties seem to stall on me. I can also see from this video I've been harvesting maybe a few days too early. Feels very close to harvest time now but it's so different from top to bottom of a single bine.

Great video! Very informative and helpful! Thank you! We just recently harvested our first ever crop, about a week ago. Should have watched this before, but I think we did well & harvested at the right time.

Great video mate. Everything I needed to know about when to pick!

Perfect timing I was getting ready to do my first harvest. Now I have a better idea of what I'm doing. Great video and thanks.

Very informative! i would have never realized to wait for minor browning like that. Cheers!

GREAT video, Bobby. Very helpful! Well done...

Hi Bobby I just linked this vid to a Polish HB forum ;P Sooo glad, that you've returned on KZread!! Excellent, informative vid. Thanks!!

Very helpful. Thanks for takng the time to post this.

I am new to growing hops I will use your advice. Thanks for posting your video.

Thanks for the info my first cascade harvest this year.

Thanks, Bobby, that ws very helpful. Now I kknow my hops are still maybe a week away frm ready. We have hot unusul weather up here in the NW corner of the nation. Thanks again.

Thanks for posting this video. Growing my 1st batch of cascade and hallertau this year and these tips are helpful :-)

This is excellent instruction! Just what I was looking for. Thanks

Thanks very much- I have watched this before a few years ago and its still helpful as a n aid memoire! need to harvest my Yeoman hops before my holiday and I am leaving it until the last moment- worried if I leave them for an extra 9 days they will go over...

Thanks for the info Bobby. I haven't harvested my plants yet and now know what to look for.

Thank you for the info. This is exactly what I needed to know.

Thanks for the video. First year hop grower and this video will come in handy in the fall.

Exceptionally helpful video. Thank you verily for this!

Excellent! Very helpful. A lot of the tutorials i've read are pretty vague and err on the side of picking too soon, imo. I've only got 2 plants, and nowhere near the amount per plant that you have. I'm hoping my centennial gives me at least one batch this year. I think i was a little behind on fertilization too.

Monstrously helpful, thank you!

Spot on fella! Just what I needed! Thanks :)

I have a Columbus with hop conditions all over the map. I have about an ounce of cones that look ready according to your description, but it also has lots of baby cones. It's weird, because my Willamette and my Cascade both only have little baby cones. I was going to wait until the whole Columbus bine had mature cones, but this makes me feel like I should harvest what's ready, and just let the bine keep going, and harvest more hops in the coming weeks.

Thank you so much for the video. I almost harvested too soon!

Great hop video man. This was my first harvest and I shoulda probably waited another week or so. Live and learn. Cheers!

Thanks for sharing! Second year growing 1st harvest.

great vid, Bobby, thank you!

very helpful indeed, thanks for posting.

Excellent description! Thanks.

Excellent video!

Thanks for clarifying this!!! I've always wanted to know when the RIGHT time was!! Hopefully I didn't pick a bunch of young hops already!

thanks for the video, i've got a seriusly good yield from a first year columbus plant and have been looking for a good video like this describe in depth when to harvest. Also yay for no shakey camera!!

Nice job - thanks Bobby!

Excellent information and post!

The definitive way, other than making it an 'art', is to take an ocular or under 10-50/100 power scope, and look at the glands. If they at all look greenish, and uninflated (like a donut, or a healthy red blood cell [not red, but shaped like a red blood cell]) then they are not ready for harvest. When the glands are full, and yellow/gold colored they are ready. This is when the cones are ready. The 'art' is the openness of the cone, the time for the cone (average considering weather of course), the smell, the rub or the snap of the brack. The science is how full the glands are, since that is what you are after. If the glands look to be ready to rupture, its time to harvest.

Mega-useful :). Thanks for posting.

Great video, very informative. Thanks

Great info. Thank you for sharing.

this is great! I was just outside looking at my plants. As far as fertilizer....I recommend that everyone have your soil tested. Mine needed some nutrients and not others so a 10-10-10 wouldn't be the best choice.

Exceedingly informative video - thanks a lot!

Thanks for the vid. Great looking hops.

Thanks Bobby, very helpful!

Thank you. Video was a little out of focus but you made your point

very helpful. first year to harvest... I know quite a bit more now. thanks.

very helpful video! Thank you

Very informative. Thank you

Thank you. Very good guilde

good info. just what I needed Thanks

Thanks for the great info! Now I know mine are not quite ready.

Very informative thank you

Very helpful.. thank you!

Great explanation

Great info Bobby...Cheers!

Thx helpful My plants are covered in hops Such a scratchy plant to handle

thank you ....very helpful!

do you recommend separate harvests, if the plant has different maturity levels from top to bottom? On my centennial this year, i finally have a lot of cones, the ones towards the bottom are still too young, but the ones at the top are all just starting to turn a little brown. My plan was to cut the bines and pick the cones, but i guess i'll have to lower them to pick, then raise them back up again?

Thanks for this video!

Thanks for the video, very helpful!

Nice description, thanks

Great video thanks a ton.

thank you, I just brougth in my handful of hops. mine are growing in pots right now. how old are yours? This is mine first year.

Thanks mate

I throw a few handfuls of all purpose granulated plant food down the row in the spring.

Great info here. CheerZ

interesting harvest tips

Excellent, thanks.

Thanks for the video, looks like i got my magnum picked right by pure luck (i was on vacation and couldnt harvest too early) and now i know what to look for when picking from two cascade plants. Can we get video like that on hops drying now :)

I'm starting my hops this year and was wondering what fertilizer to use if any for them?

Hey Bobby, thanks for the vid. Queston: When you pick for harvest do you take the time to seperate the brown cones from the ripe ones for the boil or does it NOT matter? If a relatively few brown cones got in the boil does it add a flavor? JohhnyGlaze

Hello there! I live in Panama Central America. I have a plant in my yard, more like a shrub. It looks like hops but hops are generally not grown here. Can I send you photos of the shrub to get your opinion? Thank you!

thanks!

You grew these in New Jersey, dumb question but i don't want to plant then have them fail.

A good video.

What do you do with your bine after you harvest? Do you cut it down or just leave it? How do you preserve the rhizome for next year?

@BobbyFromNJ

9 жыл бұрын

I cut them down at the base. The main root ball is called "the crown" and it just winters over fine on its own, but it wouldn't hurt to add some extra compost or mulch on top.

The browning of bracts in this is not directly coming from over-ripeness, it is botrytis. This fungus is everywhere and when the cones get wet they can get infected within hours. The longer they are on the bine, the more like this is going to happen. I found this article quite useful: www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/how-to-radar-prepare-and-store-homegrown-hops/

@HB-iq6bl

6 жыл бұрын

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Hooah thanks!

I don't agree that the best time to pick when the hops are starting to turn brown. Some brown is acceptable, but that means the hop oils are going bad. You want them green and dry.

Hi very nice :-) enjoyed, greetings

There's an abandoned factory not far way from my house completely overrun by wild hops.. It's been abandoned for over 30 years and there's no poisoning or anything like that. I've been told these hops are perfectly fine to use in my brewing. What do you guys think?

@spencerpace8313

8 жыл бұрын

Sounds good to me. What you could do is make a tea with the hops first and see if you like them. The AA percentage might be a bit hard to gauge though, so maybe bitter with a predictable neutral hop and finish with flavor additions of the wild if you like it?

@XaverScharwenka

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the advice. I must add that I now have 7 hop varieties growing successfully in my yard (it's a big yard)...I have Citra, Hallertau Mittlefruh, Opal, Perle, Target, Northern Brewer and Cascade.

@spencerpace8313

8 жыл бұрын

+XaverScharwenka Nice. I myself am growing Cascade, Chinook, Magnum, and Columbus. Although down here in Southern California some varieties definitely do better than others.

@XaverScharwenka

8 жыл бұрын

All grow fine here in my Mediterranean climate (Cape Sounion, Attica, Greece). I'm thinking of expanding with more US hops but it's almost impossible to get Chinook and Columbus rhizomes around here. I'll try importing them from the UK.

@frankz.9332

8 жыл бұрын

Nice. Where did you get Citra rhizomes? I would love to have them too. I got other varieties as pottet plants from Eickelmann in Germany.

To me, the "too far gone hops" look more like they are damaged by downy mildew.

Based on the hop article in the may/june 2014 Zymurgy, going by feel is not a good way to decide when to harvest. You are looking for a dry weight between 20 and 25%. Here's how to determine dry weight: www.uvm.edu/extension/agriculture/engineering/?Page=hopscalc.html

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@BobbyFromNJ

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making me Google that ;-)

Hops like manure the best.

Bro your video is super blurry. I would love to see what you're showing more clearly. Great information tho! 👍✌

@BobbyFromNJ

2 жыл бұрын

Get your eyes checked or maybe look up depth of field. The subject is clear and in focus.

@TheElitesRdividingUs

2 жыл бұрын

@@BobbyFromNJ my vision is 20/10 i have no vision problems. Seems like youre the one with the oroblem mate. 👎

First!

BobbyFromNJ Sorry, but.... these brown hops are not over-ripe, overmature, they are simply full of disease......probably downey mildew. Over-ripe hops get completely yellow and almost fallof the bine, not brown like on this video ! Before you give advice, make sure you know what your talking about ! shame, shame, shame....

been looking to all these reactions: wow, great, fantastic video, etc.... but you should be ashamed to show these awfull, full of disease hops. How can people learn when you show this ? This is just so wrong ! When people will see a few cones getting some downey, they will think the hops are ripe and ready to pick !?! How can on the same hopvine cones be imature and then some "over ripe, brown" .

Very informative! Thanks for the vid!