Im starting this thread to document my 1st season of growing hops. I started them from a crown that I planted in early March. Im looking forward to drinking a homebrew made with organic homegrown hops!!!!
Im starting this thread to document my 1st season of growing hops. I started them from a crown that I planted in early March. Im looking forward to drinking a homebrew made with organic homegrown hops!!!!
I thought you said in a different thread that you had cones already. Those are the pics I want to see By the way, I have baby cones on my Cascades now. Aren't they cute :fro:
Where did you get the crown from? You
mentioned plant tone. I'm not familiar with this. Could you elaborate a bit. If this is the secret to your success.... well maybe I need to get on board. Do you plan to move to the ground or will pots be the final place?
I was wondering for the longest time if I would ever get cones. You're right about noticing the daily growth. My plants are growing like crazy now. It's amazing.
Theirjo was kick ass and sent it to me in trade for a variety pack of homebrew. If theres any "secret" its gotta be my turtles water from tank changes. The water has perfect ph balance, dechlorinated, and is full of great micro organisms plants seem to love. The plant tone is just a basic fertilizer that I use for my Trinidad Scorpion, Datil, and Charleston peppers. I use it minimally and just have it to make sure my plants are getting a rounded diet. I dont think I will go in ground because you cant dig a foot here without hitting coral rock. So I figure next season I will get it a nice big pot it can be hoppy in. Heres a few pics of the plant tone label.....
And more cones.... I was hoping you could see the frostiness starting to form on the cones but it doesnt seem like it came through.
Can ya post a bigger pic? It might work then.
Blows me away to see hops growing in the keys. Not only growing but, flowering. What ever it is, your nuclear turtle water or just an amazing green thumb, keep doing what your doing.
I agree with you about planting in ground. Next year I wanna make a raised planter box and a better trellis system now that I know it will grow. My soil is terrible and I'd rather not dig it all up and refill it.
I'm using the fish emulsion as well as a low dose liquid feed with the micro-nutrients. Seems to be going well so far. Just rains like crazy lately. Hopefully I'll get some burrs soon.
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