If you're keeping up with things you know I bought some little hop plants a while back....
Well they ain't so little any more! They started outgrowing the little stake I put in their SmartPots so I had to build a trellis for each plant. Well sort of... living in SoCal we are a little restricted as to how much space we have so I built temporary poles for them to climb... and up up up they go...
There are actually 5 varieties growing... Tettnanger (3.5-4.5%), Sterling (4.5-5.0%), Willamette (4.0-6.0%), Centennial (9.5-11.5%), and Zeus (13-17%). They were chosen for their specific alpha acids in an attempt to cover the spectrum.