Outsidepride Hops Seeds - 200 Pcs. Perennial, Low Maintenance & Pollinator Friendly, Flower Seeds for Planting Aromatic, Cone-Shaped Green Blooms, Great for Trellises, Fences, & Summer Gardens

Will further update as growing progresses.Update 4/2/21: Plants have been successfully transplanted to trellis/planter. I have the healthiest 11 hops plants growing in there currently with an additional 10 or so under the grow lights still. I still intend to cull the males so roughly half of the plants will be removed as soon as identified. After moving these plants outside, they have grown relatively well, however they have been susceptible to pests (earwigs?) and a portion of the leaves are showing significant damage. Hopefully these plants can outpace the damage with new growth, and i am using a mild insecticide in the meantime.Update 3/16/21: I've transplanted about half of the viable seedlings to larger containers with rudimentary trellises for them to continue growing. Pictured are the 4 plants with the most growth. They're currently growing at 1-2" per day and will require more permanent (taller) transplanting right away. I do have most of the plants now under full-spectrum grow lights 12-24h/day in order to encourage more growth prior to their final outdoor transplanting.Update 3/4/21: Had some less than ideal weather and a few sprouts did not survive. Of the 31 or so successfully germinated cells, about 23 continue to survive with about 16 thriving better than the others. I have had to move the tray from the outdoor sunlight to a greenhouse with artificial lights, and have just removed the humidity cover to begin to acclimate them to the environment. I plan to transplant the survivors to larger containers in 1-3 weeks.Update 2/1/21: So far I'm seeing about a 66% germination rate. The seeds are just beginning to sprout so I will keep checking to see if I get more. (For further clarification/reference: I began the 'cold scarification' process on 11/20/20, planted on 1/20/21, and began seeing sprouts on ~1/28/21. The earlier of the photos shown is from about 2/1/21.)Base review: Hops seeds require 'cold scarification' in order to germinate. Look up the process online, but it required about 2 months and a refrigerator. I strongly suspect most (all?) of the negative reviews of this product just stuck the seeds in some dirt and hoped for the best. FYI, hops seeds are a bit of a roll of the dice. Hops are normally propagated from rhizomes which give an identical plant to the donor, seeds will combine 2 plants for something completely new and unproven, so you may get something good, or bad, or in between. Also, males are undesirable as they will corrupt the females cones, so therefore they should be discarded, so half of your seeds are to be expected to be male and should be terminated as soon as it can be determined.

None of them germinated. Half were cold stratified and a few opened up then immediately died.

I have grown hops before, using root cuttings (rhizomes), and wanted to try my hand at growing hops from seed. This stems (get it) from my desire to try to breed a warmer-climate tolerant variant. As root cuttings are exclusively female, males must be spawned from seed.Read the bad reviews and the good reviews. Antidotal evidence suggested that those who ‘cold stratified’ their hop seeds were statistically more successful with germination. So, I ‘cold stratified’ half my seeds, around 50ish, in a wet paper towel, stuffed in an open sandwich bag which I place in the fridge.After three weeks, I pulled out the seeds, replaced the paper towel, changed the water, and left in my room. Something neat I noticed when looking at the still ungerminated seeds was the pollen dusted over the seeds: it looked strikingly similar to the pollen that I found in the hops cones of vines (maybe bines) that I have grown previously. That was very promising.Anyways, after allowing to germinate for a few days at room temperature I had 4 seeds sprout; the next day about 20 sprouted. Transferred to peat pellets and will transplant in the spring.If I don’t edit this review, expect that this all worked and I was, in fact, sold hops seeds.

Your better off buying a hops plant

These must go under cold stratification in moist soil for a good few months . I did mine in the fridge . Plant in spring and watch them grow.

Stratified in frig then planted, but nothing at all, even in good soil.

Arrived much earlier than expected I am looking forward to growing it

Not a single seed sprouted. HUGE waste of money. I am an experienced gardener and even have my own fairly large greenhouse with a yard full of gorgeous flowers started from seed. I know about cold stratification and have done it successfully many times. These seeds were just not any good. Do yourself a favor and buy from someone else. I know I will in the future.