Hops Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Humulus lupulus

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Planting Hop Rhizomes: Site, Spacing and the First Season
• Training Hop Bines: Which Way They Twine and How to String Them
• Hop Plant Care: Watering, Feeding and Keeping the Canopy Open
• When to Pick Hops: The Papery Rustle Test and How to Dry Cones
• Hop Growing Calendar: What to Do From Shoots to Harvest
• Hop Pests and Diseases: Aphids, Spider Mite, Mildew and Wilt

Pests and diseases (0)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.