Hop seeds must be stratified
If you have harvested hop seeds from your own hop plants, you must have them before the sowing stratify. Put the seeds in the refrigerator for a few weeks. The inhibition of germs is overcome by the cold.
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This is how you sow hops
- Prepare the seed box
- Scatter hop seeds
- cover lightly with soil
- Water carefully or, better, spray
- place warm but not too sunny
Spring is the best time to plant hops. Fill the seed box or small pots with looser Potting soil.
After emergence, isolate the plants and continue to cultivate them in individual pots. You can plant the hops out from May. You can put the hops directly in the field or as a privacy screen for the balcony or in the bucket keep.
Whether a hop plant is male or female can only be determined when it develops flowers. The sexes can only be distinguished based on the shape of the flower. You should therefore only sow hops if you are using them exclusively as an ornamental plant, privacy screen or for greening one
pergola want to pull.It is better to propagate hops vegetatively
Sowing is not the best way to propagate hops. You don't know beforehand whether it is female or not male plants develop. Only female plants carry the coveted hop fruits with the lupulin powder.
Propagate hops Instead of sowing, it is better to cut cuttings or to split roots in autumn. Only with vegetative propagation is it ensured that the properties of the mother plant one hundred percent, both in terms of gender and in terms of Flavors.
In commercial cultivation, propagation is exclusively vegetative in order to obtain female plants of particularly high quality.
Tips
If you live in an area where hops are grown on a commercial basis, it is better not to sow hops. If male plants develop from it, you have to destroy them, as they could fertilize female flowers and thereby the quality of the Hops fruits affect.