Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

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In my own experience, sell the idea to SWMBO that they are great as a backdrop. They cover the fence with green instead of bare wood.

Just don't tell her that they grow like weeds and are hard to remove!!

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pattatat

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I thought only cooked hops were poisonous?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong

Retrofit

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No responses?

Google it? Everything I've read suggests that UNCOOKED hops And COOKED hops can kill dogs. The thing with this I have to admit, is it urban legend or 'truth'? What's the alternative, try it on your dog????

This is what I did and I'm not BSing. I filled a bowl with hops, I put it on the ground and I sat in front of the TV and waited to see if my dogs were interested in eating from the bowl. My dogs like meat, bones, pop corn, and peanut butter, in that order . They sniff and walk away from veggies. My dogs didn't even look at the bowl, not even a sniff.

SO....

So I still don't make my hops easily accesible to my dogs, but if they get through my 'defenses' the likelyhood of them actually eating them is low.

Isn't this one of those, "Better to be safe, then explain to the wife how you killed the family dog?" senarios?

HalfPint

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Alright, I have a raised bed garden that I made yesterday and it's in the sunniest part of my yard. We're thinking about planting a few blueberry plants behind it (against the fence) and that's where I'd be planting my rhizomes.

Let me get this straight, every year I tear the bines off of the fence and throw away after picking?

Also, I'm thinking about growing cascades for now since their my favorite hop. What should I expect from two rhizomes on my first year?

Thanks,
J

lowlife

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Expect a vine that is 5-10 feet with no hops being produced that add up to anything usable. Some people do get an ounce or two though from what I have read. Best I have got from a first year is a about ten cones.. Then again maybe I am **** as a farmer.

Irrenarzt

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I got over 8 ounces of dried cones in my first years harvest from 9 rhizomes. I'm getting ready to do another 10 in the front in a few weeks...

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HalfPint

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That kinda sucks considering I'm only going to be living where I'm at now for at max a couple of years, but I guess with some skill I can transplant em to the new casa.

Randar

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While it is true they will produce, test plots using horizontal training methods show a significant preference for cones to be produced on vertical sections of the bines as well as for overall production to be noticeably degraded. Perhaps the amount some of the home growers are getting from horizontal training suits their needs, but it is not the optimal way to grow them if you want good production volume.

GilaMinumBeer

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Plant them by the fence and forget about them. They will do the rest.


Lest you want em' pretty like LGI's.

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True, but most dogs will leave them alone and never even go near them. Others gobble them down and can get very sick. I think there's even a thread on thsi site somewhere about a guy having to rip out his hops because his dog wouldn't stop eating them and was getting so sick.

Chocolate is also poison to dogs but it is the quantity of it that you have to worry about. Same with hops. My dogs leave them alone, even though they aren't big enough to get even the low hanging ones.