Hop Breeding / Crossbreeding

[Bender_Braus_Brewing]

Has anyone tried this? Is it possible to do on a 'home-scale' level? How does one cross-breed hops?

 

[Apimyces]

There's a number of threads on this, one still active. Basically, you can use any cultivar as a mother plant, but you'll need to pollinate it with a male, which are not commercially available. Either you find someone who has one to trade, find one yourself, or grow one from seed.

 

[Bender_Braus_Brewing]

There's a number of threads on this, one still active. Basically, you can use any cultivar as a mother plant, but you'll need to pollinate it with a male, which are not commercially available. Either you find someone who has one to trade, find one yourself, or grow one from seed.

Ok, thanks for all the info. Whats the thread by any chance? I tried doing a search before starting my thread and didn't find anything saying 'crossbreeding' in the search other than off-hand references.

Thanks!

 

[Sylvain]

Regardez ici https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/growing-hops-from-seed.397219/page-13#post-8551998

 

[Apimyces]

"seed" would be the best keyword to search for. Any production of new cultivars either comes from seed or somaclonal selection, the latter of which not being available to the layman and being rather limited in potential.

 

[Bender_Braus_Brewing]

Ok thanks guys, you've been very helpful.