I checked last weekend and one of my Cascade plants has sprouted. Last night I checked again and I have 8 plants with sprouts above ground, but all are Cascade. The Northern brewer and other variety(have to look it up) have not yet sprouted at all.
a few of mine have just barely started. the shoots on my columbus and sterling are emerging from the crown, maybe a 1/16 or an 1/8 of an inch long. today's cold snap will probably slow down, if not kill off, those early bull shoots.
1.5"? Wow lucky mine are under about 6" of snow still... I hope they survived. I covered em in leaves and took all measures in fall to hope they survive.
I won't grow 'em cause I'm afraid my beagle will smell them, think it's a good beer and eat them. He's a lush, and loves to drink my beers, so I'm kinda of afraid he would eat some hops and die.
I have about 8 shoots just popping up on my Chinook, and 1 on my Blisk. Need to dig up my Brewer's Gold and Shinsuwase to make room for some Columbus and Centennial.
Your dog would have to be tall to eat the cones off the bines, which you can always pick off and discard the low ones.
Our horses would always try to drink my beer, but like the dogs it's the malt they go for, not the hops. I seriously doubt dogs would eat anything as bitter as a green hop flower
I wish that were the case. My beagle will eat dirt, shit, sticks, leaves, any wild animal he catches, and anything from the garbage can. He loves hoppy beers, so that is what scares me a bit. He loves sours though.. I never have to clean out my drip tray or dump bucket on the keezer. He keeps it up.
Canines do like malt. We have seen foxes and coyotes chowing down on my spent grain piles several times. The grain is well sparged and not sweet at all but they still seem to like it, as do horses (if one of ours gets loose it goes straight to the pile, even though it's surrounded by lots of lush grass). The horses will not drink beer but our donkeys will - no idea why. The donkeys will also eat any hop leaves that stray over the fence (they grow up the west side of the barn).
We still have feet of snow... Sigh. And not a single day above 0C on the 7 day. Thank God I'm off to Florida for the first week of April.
