Ended up harvesting a half ounce each (dried) off the Cascade and the Chinook plants. My pulley setup failed and its been a few weeks since I have had a chance to convince a friend to bring a ladder and help fix. I simply removed the pulleys, and ran the wire through the double eye bolts. Seems to work fine.
Plants mostly dried and dead except for a couple of bines on three of four plants, one still going great (Chinook). I have been neglecting them for sure, but thought with all the rain that they'd be fine. nope lost about an ounce of hops or slightly more on the Sterling and Columbus plants combined. Wish I had a Centennial plant, but oh well. Maybe next year I'll try to see what I can come up with as far as sterling crowns.
All in all I don't think I'm doing too badly for the first year out. Need to connect a makeshift irrigation setup from a hose bib and what-not for more regular watering during the HOT months.
I think I'm going to get more cones off the Chinook plant for sure. I might need to abandon the fourth Sterling plant as the location is next to a AC handler and the hot air blows on the vines and before they all dried out, was looking stressed in the part of the plant in the path of the airflow from the air handler unit.
TD