As the hops grow, you'll need to keep an eye on them to make sure they're climbing where you want them to. It's amazing how quickly they can grow during the peak season-sometimes several inches a day!

Hops may look like buds, but they are actually small flowers that grow vertically on bines. A perennial plant, they thrive between the 50th and 40th parallels, but can grow as low as the 30th ...

The hop plant is a fast-growing, herbaceous perennial, native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Only the female plants produce cones for use as hops (the male plants are the pollinators).

Hops grow best when given a minimum of 16 hours of sunlight, which is available at latitudes of 35 degrees and above. Florida’s uppermost latitude reaches just 31 degrees, UF/IFAS said.

Hops require more work than many other crops. “Where we used to grow hops, we grow cut flowers,” said Jordan Brownwood, co-owner of Nopalito Farm in Valley Center. “It takes much less labor.” ...

McWhirt has been growing hops at the Fruit Research Station in Clarksville since 2019. She's now testing hop cone quality and yield with varying numbers of hop bines per plant.

Hop farming first came to the Sauk County area around 1842, but it wasn’t until after the Civil War, with soldiers returning home, that growing hops took over farms.

PARMA, Idaho — Idaho’s oldest hops grower just celebrated his 100th birthday. Ray Obendorf was born on June 24, 1923, in Caldwell, Idaho, and an estimated 200 family members and […] ...