Saaz B Rhizome

[Batz]

I wrote to AQIS awhile back regarding rhizome import from UK:

"Regarding your enquiry regarding the import of a Hop cultivar from the UK. Most (if not all) recent
imports of Hops have come through the Quarantine Station in Hobart Tasmania. The growing and
testing takes about 12 to 18 months and begins with the establishment of a new plant from a cutting
taken from the original imported crown. This cutting is then grown on and tested and if OK the
established cutting and any progeny are released and the original imported crown is destroyed.
The cost is approximately $1000. If you would like a more detailed costing or more information
regarding the testing please let me know. Currently all Hops are prohibited entry into Australia."

I also found out that after you put in an application for a permit to import Seeds/Nursery Stock they
will then send you a "New Plant Introduction form" which is required by Biosecurity Australia to
commence a formal assessment ....which I was told could take a couple of months!
(Plants that are already in Australia, still require this assessment).

You definitely don't want to import a 100 plants they charge per M per day!
Fees and charges for post entry plant quarantine

Maybe with a suitable long pole they could grow one in a square metre

And a good thing too :super:

Keep Australia clean

Batz

 

[Keifer]

So is there another type of saaz that you can grow in aus? Whats the 'B' for?
I love saaz and would love even more to have it growing in the yard!

 

[JasonY]

$1000, not inconceivable if you really really wanted it. I am not there yet however and $1k is a lot of hops

One powerball and maybee I will do it for fun.

I didn't manage to actually find anyone that sold the rhizome in any event.

 

[brendanos]

Did someone say Saaz D? How/when does one get a hold of it? I would be quite keen to grab some.

 

[Keifer]

What about getting the right kind of seeds? surely you could import them alot easier than rhizomes?

 

[glenos]

To add to your misery, WA has more restriction on importing seeds and plants material.

From Tas (disease and fruit fly free) we can not export most vegetable seeds and can not export fresh fruit to WA.

 

[brendanos]

What about getting the right kind of seeds? surely you could import them alot easier than rhizomes?

Ross

Hop growers only ever use the female plant (except for specialised places that generate new varieries), so the seeds are never fertilised. Hop bines are usually propogated from rhizomes.

Pedro

Or do you mean seeds that have been fertilised?

 

[Kai]

$1000, not inconceivable if you really really wanted it. I am not there yet however and $1k is a lot of hops

It'd be a real bugger if it died before the first harvest.

 

[Keifer]

Yep thats what i meant brendanos, or does pollunating once the plant is growing cause it to change? (can you tell i used to work in a nursery!?)

 

[Mr Bond]

Seeds don't need to be fertilised!
They are the result of a pollinated flower that has matured and produced a seed to carry its next generation.
If you sowed and had 20 plants grow you would have to wait until they flowered and then eliminate the males b4 they pollinated the females that u want.
Thankfully we are an island continent with stringent quarantine laws that stop backyarders importing possible diseased plant matter willy nilly into our country.One wrong disease could damage our domestic hop production and that would hurt all of us.
We will just have to wait until the said variety is released and goes through the correct procedure (as outlined earlier)and then purchase clean rhizomes from the likes of Stu in Tassie.

 

[Dr Gonzo]

Seeds don't need to be fertilised!
They are the result of a pollinated flower that has matured and produced a seed to carry its next generation.

That the way i thought it happened. So that would mean that if your hops plugs or flowers haves seeds in them then a male plant must have been nearby to pollinate them. Or can hops plants become he/she's and pollinates themselves?

 

[brendanos]

..........................so Ross might have a chance if he finds seeds?