HOP CROWNS

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN MATURE HOP CROWNS
FAST TRACK YOUR HARVEST WITH A MATURE PLANT

INFO VARIETIES AVAILABLE PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS

3, 4 & 5 YEAR OLD HOP CROWNS FOR SALE

  • This is a unique opportunity to buy 5 year old advanced hop crowns.
  • Why would you want them? These plants have already been growing in our hop garden nursery for 5 years so you don't need to wait the 3 years for your hop plant to mature. Hop crowns will allow you to fast track and get a mature hop plant with large crops of hop cones in the first season.
  • Why are we selling them? We have found we need 5 plants of each variety to provide us with enough propagation material and hops to brew with throughout the year. We need room to plant several new varieties so those in excess to our requirements have to go to a new home.
  • What varieties do we have? See below. 
  • Availability is limited.

- HOP CROWN VARIETIES /  5 YEAR OLD -
contact us for an invoice

Because the postage on these plants can vary wildly, depending on whereabouts in NZ you live, these plants can only be sold by invoice. We will have a limited amount of hop crowns of Tangerine Dream, Halla, Colegate, Kortegast's Hokitika available in August/Spring 2022

TANGERINE DREAM

A NZ cultivar with a complex flavour and a large yield of hop cones early in the harvest season. By far the best hop we grow for yield and flavour.

TANGERINE / STRAWBERRY /
HONEYDEW MELON / STONE FRUIT 

THIS HOP CROWN WILL ESTABLISH IN ONE YEAR INSTEAD OF THREE

RARE 5 YEAR OLD CROWNS FRESHLY DUG AVAILABLE ON INVOICE ONLY.

10 AVAILABLE AUGUST 2022

POSTAGE WEIGHT IS APPROXIMATELY 16 KG

PRICE $100 (+ GST + POST & PACKING)

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HOKITIKA

In the 1860s Kortegast's Brewery opened on the banks of the Hokitika River brewing porter, ale and cordials. In the 1880's WCJ Kortegast established his own hop gardens with a variety imported from Europe.

WOODY / FLORAL / EARTHY

THIS HOP CROWN WILL ESTABLISH IN ONE YEAR INSTEAD OF THREE

RARE 5 YEAR OLD CROWNS FRESHLY DUG AVAILABLE ON INVOICE ONLY.

7 AVAILABLE AUGUST 2022

POSTAGE WEIGHT IS APPROXIMATELY 16 KG

PRICE $100 (+ GST + POST & PACKING)

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COLEGATE

Colegate is an English brewing hop highly prized for decorative & ornamental purposes being a vigorous grower and having the ability to do well on any soil type.

WOODY / SPICE / HERBAL

THIS HOP CROWN WILL ESTABLISH IN ONE YEAR INSTEAD OF THREE

RARE 5 YEAR OLD CROWNS FRESHLY DUG AVAILABLE ON INVOICE ONLY.

4 AVAILABLE AUGUST 2022

POSTAGE WEIGHT IS APPROXIMATELY 16 KG

PRICE $100 (+ GST + POST & PACKING)

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HALLA

Grown from seed from an open pollination between a Hallertau Mittelfrüher female and a European male. Hardy grower used for brewing & decorative purposes.

FLORAL / SPICE / HERBAL

THIS HOP CROWN WILL ESTABLISH IN ONE YEAR INSTEAD OF THREE

RARE 5 YEAR OLD CROWNS FRESHLY DUG AVAILABLE ON INVOICE ONLY.

4 AVAILABLE AUGUST 2022

POSTAGE WEIGHT IS APPROXIMATELY 16 KG

PRICE $100 (+ GST + POST & PACKING)

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PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOP CROWNS

  • Dig hole 500mm across & around 350mm deep for 5 YO hop crowns, smaller for 4YO & 3YO hop crowns and add fertiliser and bio fungicide crystals in the bottom of the hole and cover with a small amount of soil so the roots have to grow into the fertiliser.
  • 4YO ONLY: Make a small pyramid mound of dirt in the middle of the hole to facilitate even distribution of the roots around the hole and to raise the crown near but just below the top of the soil. Place roots (they look like a skinny parsnips) in a circle evenly distributed around the hole.
  • Backfill with soil and lift the top of the crown up just slightly above the soil (if it's not already) so it makes a small hill.
  • Water in - you can add liquid Fish, Seaweed, Yates Flower & Fruit to the water if desired to give growth a boost. Firm soil or add more if required.
  • Any hop shoots should now be at surrounding soil level with the white roots below soil level.

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