When you don't trim

[COLObrewer]

3 year old Chinooks, West side:

East side:

There's about a billion cones, still have a billion of last years in the freezer from this one plant.

 

[beerandloathinginaustin]

Too bad it's Chinook.

Awesome to see though!

 

[bigbeergeek]

SO GLAD it's chinook, that's awesome man!

 

[Vance71975]

3 year old Chinooks, West side:

East side:

There's about a billion cones, still have a billion of last years in the freezer from this one plant.

Awesome, if you want to get rid of some you can send them my way i love Chinook lol!

 

[Chuginator]

WOW. That's a beast!

Hops definitely have a mind of their own. I've heard horror stories of people repeatedly trying to kill them when they get out of control or when they get out of the hobby!

 

[beerandloathinginaustin]

Out of control hops should be classified as an oxymoron.

If these were Amarillo I'd be on the next flight to Pea Green. I haven't seen a direct from Austin to Pea Green but how could there not be?

 

[passedpawn]

Amazing.

 

[3 Dog Brew]

Well done.

My Cascade plants look pathetic by comparison. Too damn hot at this latitude. I need to try planting them on the North side of the house where they are not getting baked all summer.

 

[COLObrewer]

Too bad it's Chinook.

Awesome to see though!

Well, we'll have plenty of Cascade, Mt. hood and Redvine but this plant has been a monster since year one.

 

[_JP_]

What are they growing against? A fence?

 

[COLObrewer]

Yea, it's a split rail A frame fence with woven wire on it where we planted the rhizome.

 

[beerandloathinginaustin]

What are they growing against? A fence?

I just assumed they were so hardcore that they built a fence for themselves! :rockin:

 

[stratslinger]

Wow! The research I did earlier this year (granted, not exhaustive) seemed to suggest that hops needed a lot of vertical room for growth in order to produce enough viable cones for use.

Those pictures make me thing my research turned up a bunch of BS...

 

[COLObrewer]

It certainly doesn't seem to retard the plants on this fence line, not sure what it is. My first year redvine plant is planted near these on the same fence line and are prolific to say the least. We probably won't need to buy hops anytime soon.

 

[retsyn]

pretty awesome picture... been in CO for awhile now and can't say i've heard of Pea Green but i looked it up and i have been to Delta several times. hopefully the chinook on the east side of the hills in my yard has the same type of harvest.

 

[COLObrewer]

Are most other peoples chinooks earlier than other varieties, the cones on this plant already have ample lupulin while my other varieties are barely flowering.

 

[_JP_]

I picked my chinook today - Northern Brewer has a few cones, but is still a few weeks out. Zeus will be ready after that, also. My Chinooks were definitely ready before the others though.

 

[Cap'n Jewbeard]

Not to bring down the level of discourse here, but when they saw "When you don't trim," was anyone else expecting some seriously gnarly 70's-era pubes?

Fortunately, your glorious green clouds of hops are approximately infinitely better than that.

 

[B-Hoppy]

I just assumed they were so hardcore that they built a fence for themselves! :rockin:

No, hops don't build fences . . . they make Chuck Norris do it for them!

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

Not to bring down the level of discourse here, but when they saw "When you don't trim," was anyone else expecting some seriously gnarly 70's-era pubes?t.

Hey! Careful now! Some of us remember the 70's, and those women (who were not to be mistaken for prepubescent girls) quite fondly!

My second year Chinooks are definitely beating all of my other plants at growth and at cone production. The Goldings are in a distant second, though the Glaciers just blossomed with hundreds of buds.

Has anyone tried a fresh hop ale with Chinooks? I'm toying with that for a brew this weekend.

 

[Fantastical]

Nice!!!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Not to bring down the level of discourse here, but when they saw "When you don't trim," was anyone else expecting some seriously gnarly 70's-era pubes?

Isn't this and that essentially the same?

Either way, you still want to get in some.