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@eelgerg: I'm not trying to get picky with your post "and this is almost 20% dry/wet ratio so I think I'm good. " but... So the 20% figure that people give for dry matter to decide harvest time assumes total dryness as the reference, not air dry which will still be 10% (or more) remaining...

You CAN dry them in the sun, but it is certainly not the best. I know, people have said that they hang out in the sun for over a month before you pick them, so what is a few days more? But living plant tissues make things to stay healthy and green and the cells repair solar/environmental damage...

I am using the "Controller" with a 200W Peltier TEC (old Melcor unit) that is set up to cool liquid and transfer heat (hot side) to air via heatsinks and a cooling fan. I'm running RV antifreeze (propylene glycol). TEC units transfer maximum heat at zero differential; it works pretty well with...

Thanks for prompting me. Here is the schematic. I need to put it on Google Drive with code and other info and will get that done before the week is out. As you will see from the schematic, this is meant to drive a TEC module. (the drive transistor and power supply will need to be sized according...

Conditions here have been pretty good so far. I did have some bine breakage in some strong winds in early June, and birds like to perch on the uppermost shoots of the slanted wires of my teepees so they have broken a few bine tips. I'm still waiting to see the results of cutting back. On 4/29 I...

My sense is that with the long days you have there those trained bines will continue growing and fill out quite a bit to make a crop. I think that the untrained wild growth at the base has probably sapped some of the strength from the trained ones, but that is past and you are looking forward. I...

Mine were just a little slow to start growth this spring, but not much behind the others (Chinook, Cascade, Willamette, Santiam). My son works on a farm near Santa Barbara CA and some of their hops are just barely going, yet they have ripe tomatoes now. Hops need a cold period to rest and know...

I'm no legal expert, but I think there may be some incorrect "street wisdom" floating around. I posted originally with what I now believe was an incorrect understanding of patent protection, something along the lines of "you know it's not patent infringement if you're not selling right?". I'm...

A few things struck me that may not really be issues, but just that I don't know the details. Is it mashing or sparging that is the problem. Have you done an iodine test on the grains at end of mash to see if there is unconverted starch? Corn grits, even quick ones, can require a bit of boiling...

Worry about the trellising later. If they are still alive GET THEM PLANTED IN A LARGE TUB OF SOIL AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. Fill it with potting soil. If there is any life in them at all they will grow; you can figure out the other stuff later. Rhizomes are hard to kill, but in a fridge since...

This is a correction of post #56 of this thread. I edited that post with a correction statement and said I would re-post, so here it is. Reason for edit: I had the daylength thing wrong - I based the long-day comments on the "Grower Notes 2016.pdf" (Great Lakes Hops) document B-Hoppy had...

That is my garage attic. It gets to about 100-105F up there on sunny days and has good cross ventilation with screened louvres at each end - makes for pretty good drying even with no fans. They are really dry in 2 days if sunny outside, but even if a damp spell outside they just take a bit...

Where you get early warm Spring there in the SW, you are seeing something much different than many of us in the north experience and it is very interesting! Tell us more! If you have hop cones as big as your thumb, they must have flowered at about the equinox (?) or before? If they...

See thread on maintaining hops. For potted plants with a future in the ground - Do manage the rhizomes - as in remove the ones they are producing as it will definitely crowd a pot and should be done anyway. Distinguish between the rhizomes and the true roots; leave the roots. Rhizomes will be...

Hi kilohertz, "I just can't imagine hacking back everything to the ground . . . ". ============= I am editing my post with this notice and will repost a corrected version at the current end of this thread. I will leave this post intact other than these notes, but be aware of this correction...

That is very good stuff. I'm definitely getting a grip on this hop management with reading these articles. That Grower Notes article puts several management practices in perspective - why the cutting back is done and how it is different from the "carping" of the crowns. I'm not going to try...

Thanks for sharing that Brewcat! Good article. Nice library. I guess this cutting of the crown is something I "accidentially" did with tilling over the top of mine years ago. Maybe I should do it again. :) This seems to say that ripping up the surface rhizomes and cutting back is going to be...

What technique do you use to "cut back"? Do you cut with a knife? Just pull them? When I'm thinning unwanted shoots I just pull and they break near the base most times. I don't like the idea of mechanically damaging the whole top of the crown, but I have to admit that some of my best crops long...

Well, that all makes sense. Not sure that I have it overwintering as infected dormant buds if it only affects the leaves much later in the season, and not every year, and not emergent shoots... But I definitely get the leaves of several varieties hit later when it is warmer - IF we get a...

I guess it isn't going to hurt anything to cut back, and if you are doing it for the "energy control" you will get whatever disease control comes with it. I never see the infected spike shoots when my shoots emerge. In the Western Mass hills it is too cool for the mildew to take off when the...