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With the pests why dont you wait to see if they are eating any cones or sticking to the leaves, if they don't eat your cones maybe you shouldn't worry too much.

Unless they are really taking over and killing the whole plant. I have seen bite marks on my leaves in the past but no damage with worrying about.
 
hey edecambra,
Just wanted to let you know that this thread of yours is great for us growers in south florida. I'm located in the miramar area which is right around the corner of sunrise area. I also saw that you are in a homebrew club how does that work? what do you guys do? and how could i take part? great job on showing everyone the progress of your awesome plant too!
 
I live in a hot climate. So far I am using neem oil for the bugs. Copper fungicide for leaf protection. BT for caterpillar. Killer. Seems to do well. Neem oil seems to be greatly used. The others, not so much. Soap may strip some protective coating from the leaves if used to much. BT is good. Once the caterpillar eats an infected leaf, they stop eating and die a few days later.

Once the bugs were so bad, i had to use seven dust. This was right before cone growth
 
More Hop Porn...

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hey edecambra,
Just wanted to let you know that this thread of yours is great for us growers in south florida. I'm located in the miramar area which is right around the corner of sunrise area. I also saw that you are in a homebrew club how does that work? what do you guys do? and how could i take part? great job on showing everyone the progress of your awesome plant too!

Hello, I'm in the FLAB (Fort Lauderdale Area Brewers). We meet at Geronimo's in Davie on the second wednesday of the month, at 7. PM me for some more details.
 
Also finally an update on my "sudo" second year plants. So my first year plant died shortly after I trimmed the crown to transplant. I went all Cascade this time and the trimming took off like gang-busters, growing way better than the original rhizome (that died). So I have both trellises covered from the one crown of Cascades and they look great, good yield and strong bines. I have since conditioned my soil with the "pro-biotic" fertilizer instead of the traditional ones. It looks like the yield is a bit larger than last years, but not substantially so. Also I have taken the lazy approach this time and just let the bines grow where they wish mostly, where only occasionally I encourage a bine in another direction.

I'm glad so many people have found this thread and are contributing, glad to see so many SoFlo Hop growers. Now for pics:

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Nice pics man.... Why not attach another trellis to your current one? I think it would increase your harvest. Your plants look real healthy.... But Might be time to see if you can get them to reward you with more precious conage.
 
I sure wish I could but I'm in a villa and the hoa doesn't want us doing too much landscaping. Some day if and when I have a real yard it will be a real victory garden.

These bines will probably give me about two to three ounces of dried hops, but I'll post back to let you all know. If I had two plants going instead of just the one big one I bet the yield would be better too
 
Hello, I'm in the FLAB (Fort Lauderdale Area Brewers). We meet at Geronimo's in Davie on the second wednesday of the month, at 7. PM me for some more details.

Nice.. Thanks! yea I will definately have to get out there. Great Pics of your plant! too
 
Glad I found this thread, it has inspired me to give this a shot.

I need to make these movable (I plan on remodeling the house soon and am concerned that all the construction could damage the plants and make this whole adventure worthless), so I was thinking of using these planters with a 10' pole to help trellis the plants.

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Looking at cascade and one other type centennial or chinook (from morebeer.com).

One question: should I plant 1 or 2 rhizomes in each of the planters?

Any other suggestions/recommendations?

Thank and Cheers!
 
mojito65 said:
Glad I found this thread, it has inspired me to give this a shot.

I need to make these movable (I plan on remodeling the house soon and am concerned that all the construction could damage the plants and make this whole adventure worthless), so I was thinking of using these planters with a 10' pole to help trellis the plants.

Looking at cascade and one other type centennial or chinook (from morebeer.com).

One question: should I plant 1 or 2 rhizomes in each of the planters?

Any other suggestions/recommendations?

Thank and Cheers!

Save your self 2 years worth of time and order hop crowns from Great Lakes hops instead of rhizomes. They send you huge crowns(hops root ball that rhizomes become) and I know a few people here on HBT who have been very pleased with theirs.

Plant one crown per planter.
 
I had been wondering about growing my own hops and after reading this thread I bought myself two cascade rhizomes. They have been in the ground about 3 weeks now and one is already 2 feet tall. Hows everyone else doing so far this year
 
I had a bine that never died back so last week I finally cut it. Now I already have a new shoot about 3-4 inches tall. I'm probably going to be moving soon so I don't want to let it start rockin yet. Probably gonna keep clipping everything for the next month then let em go. Seeing how late the season went for me last year I should still have a ton of time.
 
All of mine are about a few inches tall except a nugget which is about four feet tall. The others haven't started to grow.
 
shataway said:
My second year Cascade has not sprouted. I think I overwatered over the "winter" in Palm Beach County. :(

Are they getting good sun? Are you still watering the crown and if so how often? Have you tried giving the crown a water/fish emulsion combo to give it some nutes?
 
KWB,


I never backed off the sprinklers after the weather got cool and the growth slowed down. They get filtered light as they are in the shade of other plants. I fertilized twice since in the last 6 weeks. I see some bud like things but they seem to turn black.

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shataway said:
KWB,

I never backed off the sprinklers after the weather got cool and the growth slowed down. They get filtered light as they are in the shade of other plants. I fertilized twice since in the last 6 weeks. I see some bud like things but they seem to turn black.

Give them direct sunlight if possible for the majority of the day and water as normal but not too heavily. See if that helps. I basically didnt water mine for 2 months over the winter and once I started to again after cutting the bines I had left it put out new shoots in like a week. I don't think you watering over the winter should have killed them.
 
Here is my cascade hop planted on march 5 the last picture taken yesterday. I saw it today and they already grew another inch so it has been growing about an inch a day. This is in Miami Florida by the way.

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Hey guys,


Nice looking plants out there. I'm in central FL (Lady Lake, near Leesburg and The Villages)

I tried hops in containers on my porch, but they soon overgrown the largest posts I could find, then I move them outside. Overall a huge disaster. That was 2 years ago.

Now I came up with a new plan. Did an addition, and now have an ideal spot, I hope, for growing. Corner of the house pointed WNW which will get early morning sun and afternoon shade. I bought huge, 36" diameter planters that'll sit on the landscape rocks between house and shrub line (roses, hope those don't interfere with my ability to get at the hops later or else they'll meet mr hedge clipper). Now the best part is I've got probably close to 30 feet height to the top of my eaves, into which were installed eyebolts, securely into the framework of the trusses I am told. I am going to put pulleys on these eyebolts, so as to lower the vine as the grow toward the eyebolt and pulley. This way I don't need to be climbing up a huge ladder and risk falling.

I have my rhizomes, planters, soil (miracle grow mix, and have lost my myo-magic pellets I was going to put into the planters to help the roots develop. Maybe I'll finds them somewhere.

I bought 4 planters and 4 rhizomes: cascade, Columbus, sterling, and magnum (wish I had bought centennial instead of one of the others but oh well)
Hopefully I'll get the rhizomes into the planters by Friday if I can make the time.

Couple things I wanted to ask or share. Someone ? Mojito ? Posted a pic of a planter? Looks similar to mine. I think my brand was Susquehanna. Seem what cheaply made. I think will be OK once filled with soil however.

Also, someone posted that they used BT to deter caterpillars? What is BT?

I'll be sure to post some pics of my hop garden as soon as the rhizomes are planted.

As far as the twine, I would ideally like to use something permanent, strong, and lightweight. Stainless steel braided wire comes to mind. Do you Thi the hops would be able to climb that? Something maybe only a bit thicker than picture hanging wire? I bought some coir a few years back but didn't use it. I don't think the pieces are nearly long enough and a 20 ft length would need to be spliced in order to employ the pulley system I'm planning.

Thanks for sharing!

TD
 
The stainless wire would be a bad idea. The bines essentially have small hooks that they use to climb with and the stainless would allow them any way to sink in. You would be better just getting a large reel of twine or even a thicker rope. Just my 0.02.
 
Ddubduder said:
The stainless wire would be a bad idea. The bines essentially have small hooks that they use to climb with and the stainless would allow them any way to sink in. You would be better just getting a large reel of twine or even a thicker rope. Just my 0.02.

Thanks. That's sort of what I was worried about. You think even the twisted wire stuff wouldn't afford them a grip?
I just HATE to consider getting that high on a ladder more than once.

Maybe what I do is get a metal or PVC pipe, and hoist THAT with the pulley system (using stainless steel), and train the hops onto coir twine tied to the PVC or whatever pipe.
Well I think I'll have at least a few weeks (?) from planting to figure it out and get it all setup before the hops emerge and start growing skyward.

Thanks

TD
 
Ok here is my location. Just planted them. Need to get some mulch on there. I think is over estimating the height, probably closer to 22-25 feet not counting 12 or so inches from the planter.
Oh and my rhizomes are just about the most pathetic rhizomes I've ever seen. Measly 4" clippings. I think they were ashamed so they gave me two on a couple. Only one was somewhat beefy in size. The others about the size of a sharpie marker!

Half tempted to buy the eBay entire crowns...

TD

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Well, I had my hops on some trellis' but they weren't very happy. So I built this pergola for them and planted them in the ground. I have magnum, Columbus, willamette, and tea maker. I have some yellowing on the columbus and tea maker, they were what I planted in pots in late january. They also have some fungus I think. The columbus seems to be coming back though and the teamaker is a little slower. I hope they survive.

What should I do to get rid of the fungus? Also I am going to get a drip irrigation hose for these as well I think.

Cheers!
 
I like that setup, they make a nice landscaping item, hopefully someone doesn't get the wrong idea after looking at the leaves
 
KeyWestBrewing said:
Give them direct sunlight if possible for the majority of the day and water as normal but not too heavily. See if that helps. I basically didnt water mine for 2 months over the winter and once I started to again after cutting the bines I had left it put out new shoots in like a week. I don't think you watering over the winter should have killed them.

You are correct! Starting to see a little green and keeping my fingers crossed!
 
The stainless wire would be a bad idea. The bines essentially have small hooks that they use to climb with and the stainless would allow them any way to sink in. You would be better just getting a large reel of twine or even a thicker rope. Just my 0.02.
it would depend on what kind of crevasses the stainless wire/braid has. i have a plant growing up the twisetd wire support lines of a telephone pole, sorta like this:

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mine looks a lot prettier, of course :D
 
I decided that I am going to use galvanized steel wire, pulleys, and rings along with eyebolts in my eaves. The ring I will tie to a length or coir twine , and the free end of coir I'll tie to the hop container using an eyebolt or something. This way I don't need to get on a ladder. I do hope that the vines are flexible enough so as not to break them off. Well, time will tell. I now have planted the hops and there are some early sproutings from all 4.
Mulch going on this week.

TD
 
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