My cascades!

Yooper · Sep 20, 2008

We spent this morning harvesting our hops from our second year cascade plant.

Here, Bob is standing on a bench and harvesting:

Here I am with one of the buckets of hops:

They are now in an upstairs bedroom (an empty one), drying and smelling so good!

talleymonster · Sep 20, 2008

Damn, that's quite a yield!

You should put a bucket in your room and see how you sleep.

niquejim · Sep 20, 2008

OK, now I really hate everyone that can grow hops. Mine start early , but die in the summer heat.
I guess I'll have to live with fresh tomatoes and corn in Jan-Feb, fresh limes, mangoes, avocados, grapefruit, pineapples, bananas, pomegranates and herbs all year

FishinDave07 · Sep 20, 2008

Nice harvest Yoop. and a hunk of a HWMBO

Niquejim: Mine are puttering-out too. It's just too fricken hot!!!

SteveM · Sep 20, 2008

Wow - nice haul!! Congratulations!

Melana · Sep 21, 2008

Holy Harvest! Nice job!

JustMrWill · Sep 21, 2008

WOW!

I got about 2 oz (dried) from my first year Cascades (2 plants). How many plants do you have?

-Will

McKBrew · Sep 21, 2008

Nice job. I hope I have success with cascades next year.

Danek · Sep 21, 2008

Wow! What a haul - nice work!

quickerNu · Sep 21, 2008

nice haul! My firt year cascades probably produced about that much, but over several harvests.

Homercidal · Sep 22, 2008

Nice going! I only got one of my plants to produce, and I don't think I have enough to even weigh. Next year will be better.

Smogre · Sep 22, 2008

That is fantastic! Nice big cones.

ScoutMan · Sep 22, 2008

They look great. I found that a 5 gal bucket of freshly picked hops winds up being about 10-12 ounces when dried.

david_42 · Sep 22, 2008

Mine fried again. A day of high temperatures and dry winds. Instant brown. Next year I harvest early, regardless.

jfrizzell · Sep 22, 2008

Smogre said:
That is fantastic! Nice big cones.

Yeah, but what about her hops?

the_bird · Sep 22, 2008

Damn, I wish I could have gotten some help! The job of picking hops grows considerably less interesting after you've done it for an hour. I ended up with a just-about-full Ale Pale of Cascades (three second-year plants).

Yooper · Sep 30, 2008

Well, that bucket of cascades is now dried and in the freezer.

Ladies and Gentlemen- I had 17 ounces of dried hops!

That was on one second year plant. I can't wait to use them! I'm going to try to find something to dry hop in the next few days, just to use my first ounce!

Yooper · Sep 30, 2008

JustMrWill said:
WOW!

I got about 2 oz (dried) from my first year Cascades (2 plants). How many plants do you have?

-Will

Altogether? ONE! Well, one hallertau and one cascade. The hallertau is a "low yield" anyway, but I only got 6 ounces of dried from it.

I'm thrilled with it!

Brewme · Nov 10, 2008

david_42 said:
Mine fried again. A day of high temperatures and dry winds. Instant brown. Next year I harvest early, regardless.

If given enough water (I plan on a drip system), will they make it just fine or do the hops brown up even if water is in good supply at the root level.?

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