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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malted" data-source="post: 740967" data-attributes="member: 15891">From what I have seen so far: It was my experience that when I cut (or they snapped off) bines or laterals, that they just shot even more new shoots from lower down (a bit like Medusa). The thing about cutting thinner bines off to focus on more robust ones would appear to be more of a commercial thing to make flowering and harvest more uniform. You could try it, it couldn't hurt. Personally i'd just let them do their thing. My gut feeling is that if you get flowers they will be in late March/April. The burrs just appear from no where all of a sudden. My Chinook was the last to form burrs but is first to be almost ready to harvest, it does not appear to have much in the way of yellow/orange lupulin in the flowers. The Hersbrucker is a bit behind but has more lupulin in the flowers. PoR and Saaz are still in small burrs stage so they will be quite a while yet. There are early varieties and later varieties, this could be a factor on top of when you planted yours.My hops do not seem to have produced many burrs/flowers below the 1.5 - 2.0m mark. They are all in the top section so don't be in a rush to nip the ends off (to limit height and spread) of the exploratory shoots and laterals.</blockquote>