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Chinooks. Other are coming along more pics soon.

Two choices really. Either add more vertical room for the hops to climb by moving the pot near the side of a building or tall and adding cord to climb. Or setting up a similar pot and pole rig and setting it 10 or more feet from the hops and tie some cord between top of the two poles and train...

I'm actually back in Bay Area California just haven't been at a computer to update my profile.

My hop garden as of a week ago. A combination of early warm spring and late rain has these growing like crazy.

There is some pruning my future... The new babies are starting to get going too...

I did have the same lines last year. The majority of my first years just reached to the top of the vertical lines. The hops that did go horizontal were a bit of pain as they naturally wanted to climb towards the sun. To make things easier this year a picked up a roll of vegetable twist ties from...

Some new pictures

Looks great hop hero! Weather report says I should get some rain this Wednesday so my hops should be back up in a week or two. Keep the photos coming everyone!

I assume you are referring to the fact that the mulch inhabits the growth of nitrogen producing bacteria? I'm not to concerned about that as the soil has been uncover up until about a week ago. I'm not too concerned about the soil fertility as It started as a 50/50 blend of high test compost and...

What type are your Golding hops?

New hops are potted up! Need to get a little more soil to top them off as well as some Gorilla Hair mulch to go on top. After they start to sprout ill hit them with some Growers Secret which I had great success with last year.

They are indeed a bit crowded as I found out last year. Unfortunately the is all the space I have for the time being. The two smaller containers are 2x2x6 and the larger one is 2x2x8. Because they are so close together I will be pruning and training aggressively this year. The bins are slightly...

A sharp pair of pruners and 15 minutes of work yields clean beds. At the end of April or mid may ill select the six of the strongest bines per plant and cut the rest. Ill keep the strongest three strung up and the weaker three on ground as possible replacements if a bine fails.

Some pictures of the hops before trimming. Trimming on second year and older hops creates more uniform and productive growth, or so I've read.

Actually yes I did. I'm also adding six more types this year for a total of 17. The following types are being added. COLUMBUS FUGGLE GLACIER GOLDINGS HALLERTAU (US) TETTNANG I just have to free up some pots to plant them in first planning on having them in today or this weekend.

A warm north bay area winter spring has my hops popping up! Photos to come.