Anybody wanna sell me some Cascade hop rhizome?

Where do you live? Depending on your growing zone, there may not be enough time for your plants to develop enough to survive the winter.

Brina

Hops grow and flower by the light cycle (the length of the day), so it doesn't matter, if you try and plant a rhizome, you will likely get a messed up plant anyway. You may as well wait to plant first thing in the spring.

Tom Veldhouse

Define "messed up". I live in Zone 8 (Pacific Northwest maritime climate) and have pulled up and transplanted hunks of cascade rhizomes in the late summer and fall. As we don't get much in the way of hard frosts here, the transplants do fine as long as I give them a little time (about a month) before the first light frost. Granted, they don't grow well or produce anything the first season, but they establish themselves nicely thereafter.

If our poster lives in a climate similar to mine, he can transplant away. Otherwise, he should wait until the spring.

Brina

What I mean by messed up is that they will be starting the growth phase very late and then be forced into their flowering phase almost immediately, thus, the plant has all the wrong hormones floating around. Not much of a quality crop there. Since the plant is going to be smaller and their will be appreciable crop this year, you may as well wait until next year to plant a rhizome and just do it right.

Tom Veldhouse

I understand bolting, but I still disagree. The rhizomes I plant this time of year generally get a nice head start on store-bought first year rhizomes (and I've never had one bolt in our relatively cool summers). Again, take the climate into account. If planting now does little or no harm and gives those in temperate climates a head start next spring, there's no good reason not to do so. Yeah, it's not optimal, but who cares? Hops (esp. my cascades) are dandy little weeds and will adapt nicely to many adverse situations.

Brina

Thomas I think that your first year is going to be a bust anyway in the yield department. You get root growth that you need for next years harvest.

__Stephen

Yew. I live in E. Tennessee. Someone sent me a rhizome. We'll see. Like you said in earlier posts here... might as well try to get it in the ground and get some root so nxt year is a productive year.

Thanks,