How many hop vines per string

Bull shoots are characterized by having greater internode spacing, hollow stems, and are often purple in color. These shoots will be less productive and more brittle in the wind. The bull shoots do not yield well and should not be trained. Think about leaving some shoots as backups during training. In general, early harvested hops will have higher yields when trained earlier, whereas late harvested hop will have higher yields if trained later.

We look to start training by mid to late May for our early maturing varieties but postponing another week can be beneficial for late maturing varieties depending on growing conditions. I have heard to trim them down to 3 vines. I use one string for all 3. Post 3. Post 4. I just got done setting up the strings for my 3rd year hop plats. I have 4 runs for each plant. I let vines run up each piece of string so I am looking at total vines per plant.

This post has been edited by Coiz : May 2 , PM. Post 5. If this is the first year just let them all grow. This will help them develop bigger root systems for next year. You won't get many if any cones this year anyway.

A good trellis system will give the hops as much exposure to the sun as possible. The system of wires and poles we use at the Rogue Farms Hopyard was developed in California in the late s. Some early growers experimented with trellises that resembled what you see in vineyards. But the California system was better suited to Pacific Northwest hops. Thread starter jheist Start date Apr 25, Help Support Homebrew Talk:. Joined Mar 25, Messages 80 Reaction score 1.

Probably already been asked but I was looking around and didn't see anything. Trained my first hop shoot up the twine and another one is coming up and will soon be big enough to begin training. Do people usually train only one bine per twine or ? Suthrncomfrt Well-Known Member. You won't grow very many in the first year. Train them all. The second year, you'll want to cut the weaker bines and keep it to bines per rhizome or bines per rope. The pros used to run more, but most places today, it's one twine and bines per plant.

Like Suthurn said, I trained all mine the first year last year to try and maximize the root production. This year I'm doing as david says keeping it to per line. You can do as you like, either way they will grow just fine. This year, year 3, I'm running 2 lines with 3 bines each per root head. The reason I chose 3 is in case I screw up and nick a bine or otherwise lose it in a storm..

Thanks for all the replies!