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So after about 20 brews I'm planning my move from extract/mini-mash to All Grain sometime this fall. I'm torn between getting a cooler type mash tun or spending the extra money and going with a kettle/burner mash tun. So far it seems to break down like this: Cooler Pros - holds temp best...

They look about the same as my previous post about 2 weeks ago. Bines have stopped growing in in length, apparently stunted my the daily 100 degree heat that began nearly 4 weeks ago. However, side runners are continuing to grow and multiply, as well as a couple of new bines emerging from the...

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Week 12 (pics taken 6/14/2011) Overview Willamette, Cascade, Nugget, and Centennial have all reached the top of the arbor with 10-15 foot growth. None of them like to train themselves horizontally so they must be hand trained at the top. As an experiment, I let the Nugget flop over on itself...

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Wow great job! What kind are those and what's your secret?!?

Yup! Cones on Cascade, Nugget, and Willamette. Pics: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f92/hops-planters-austin-tx-235708/index3.html

Glad to see another fellow south/central Texas hops grower! I think the limited sun will help them with the coming hot summer temps. Keep us updated on which varieties do best. I've got first year Wilamette, Mt Hood, Cascade, Nugget, and Centennial in planters here in Austin. So far the Cascade...

First year Cascade had burs starting late April. Some cones are now over an inch long! Pics: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f92/hops-planters-austin-tx-235708/index3.html

Week 8 (pics taken 05/15/2011) Overview Cascade and Nugget have reached the top of the arbor (~9 foot of growth). I just put up some twine across the top to see how long these plants will get in their first year! Flowers started forming on the Cascade about two weeks ago. Today there...

Week 6 (Pics taken 05/01/2011) It's been very hot and VERY windy over the last couple weeks. Some of the leaves were damaged by the wind. Overall the hops seem healthy except the Mt Hood, which suffered the most from my too-early fertilizing. Most of the early bines have had their tips turn...

I seem to have burned one of my first year hops plants by adding Miracle Grow liquid fertilizer too early. The edges of the most of the leaves turned brown and their texture became dry and papery. In hindsight I would have waited at least 6 weeks or until growth seemed to stall before adding...

Definately post or start your own thread.. either way! I'd really like to see how people get their hops through the central and south TX summer heat. Are you growing in pots or in ground?

Week 4 (pics taken 04/12/2011) Finished staining the posts and arbor. Strung up some twine and trained the hops to it (very easy to do). The browning leaf edge situation has gotten me to re-evaluate my watering and fertilizer schedule. I had been doing a heavy water once a day or every...

Today I finally gave up trying to train the hops onto the posts directly and strung up some hop twine (coir yarn) that I had ordered from freshops.com earlier. The bines took to them very easily. Before I strung them up on the twine, my largest bine on the Willamette twisted and split near it's...