USDA ACCESSION NO.: 66056

SELECTION: Selected by Dr. R.H.J. Roborgh at the Riwaka Research Station near Nelson, New Zealand, in the early 1960's

GENUS: Humulus

SPECIES: lupulus

CULTIVAR: Smooth Cone

PEDIGREE: California Cluster x Open Pollinated

PRIMARY SITE: USDA ARS World Hop Cultivar Collection, Corvallis, Oregon, OSU East Farm

ORIGIN: Seedling Selection

DATE RECEIVED: Spring 1966; PI Number 314970

METHOD RECEIVED: Rhizomes

AVAILABILITY: No restrictions, commercial cultivar

REFERENCES: USDA ARS Annual Report of Hop Investigations 1966, p.8.

MATURITY: Late

LEAF COLOR: Medium dark green

SEX: Female

DISEASES: Downy Mildew: moderately susceptible

Verticillium wilt: unknown, probably resistant

Viruses: unknown

VIGOR: Very good

YIELD: Fair to good near Corvallis, Very good in New Zealand. Corvallis average 989 lbs/a (5 year range 651 1,520 lbs/acre)

SIDEARM LENGTH: 12 to 24 inches

ALPHA ACIDS: 8.2% (5 year range 7.0 9.5%)

BETA ACIDS: 4.2% (5 year range 3.4 5.2%)

COHUMULONE: 31%

STORAGE STABILITY: Very good, 73% of original alpha acids remaining after 6 months room temperature storage

OIL: 1.00 ml/100 g (5 year range 0.38 to 1.14 ml); Humulene 20.7%; caryophyllene 6.1%; myrcene 55.2% Farnesene trace. H/C ratio = 3.38

MAJOR TRAITS: High yield potential in New Zealand; some similarity to Cluster hops.

OTHER INFORMATION: Grown commercially in New Zealand in the 1960's and 1970's, but not grown commercially any more. Sister selection of First Choice (USDA 66055). A tetraploid Smooth Cone was developed at the Riwaka Research Station in the late 1970's by colchicine treatment. It was used to develop the triploid superalpha hops Green Bullet (USDA 21404), SuperAlpha (USDA 21405, and Alpharoma (USDA 21406), which are now the predominant hops grown in New Zealand.