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31 days into flowering with plenty of sizeable cones and not a hint of smell unless you stick your nose in the cones. Drying may be a different story but a few days of smell is different than the 45 days of flowering I was worried about. Even when I really make an effort to smell them, it'd be...

A hops root system is nothing compared to a tree. Even when hop plants are well-established, their roots aren't strong enough to damage concrete. Think about the root system required to hold up a bine and the root system required to hold up a 30 foot tree.

I'm currently 31 days into flowering and I have cones ranging from the size of a quarter to much bigger (safe to assume these are the cascades?), and I smell absolutely nothing except a faint pollen smell when I open the box. If you bury your nose in some of the bigger cones you can smell hops...

I should add that 800-1000 watts of high intensity Discharge lighting (metal halide and/or high pressure sodium) is going to basically be a small space-heater. There are likely to be times where you'll want to open a window.

Everything you could ever want to know about DIY hydroponics is on YouTube. Id say three 5-gallon home depot buckets with either a Deep Water Culture or DWC/aeroponics is the way to go. Inexpensive too, and you can easily manicure the roots between grows. Nutrients are expensive, though. There...

+1 on crowns, but if you already ordered the rhizomes they'll grow fast once they get a taste of that light! I just read how big the space is. If you choose to use lights, you'll need multiple 400's. The issue is going to be keeping the light hitting them as evenly as possible. I nullified this...

The crowns from my Indoor Growing thread are GLH. Very happy with them.

It'll work with full summer sun, but they'll be lanky until they hit the skylight, then they'll crowd the window. Until they hit the top, I'd hang a 400w Metal Halide in the center of the skylight...

Those of you following my thread about growing indoors know that after 24 days of flowering, I've got 3/4 inch cones all over my bines. Questions: 1-Is there a rule of thumb when to chop the whole bine? AKA are all cones ready around the same time (like the hops cousin), or is it like a...

One of about 35 cones. 22 days into flowering :)

The "crab theory": when one bine tries to rise up and make something of herself, the others just drag her down :)

Burrs everywhere!

A side-view. The very bottom leaves have died off, but theres such a healthy canopy (12" on the left, 18" on the right) that it hasn't affected photosynthesis at all. Plants continue to exhibit a healthy green color, thick bines, and are producing burrs and cones rapidly.

The top of the canopy. The vines haven't had to be trained for a week or so now. They just climb over eachother and weigh each other down to the surface of the canopy. Plus they're flowering so intensely that growth has slowed a lot.

Taken 22 days into flowering: A side view of the top of the canopy

Agreed. They're energy efficient and give off very little heat comparatively, but for the 50,000 lumens I get out of my 400w HPS, you'd pay an absolute fortune for LED lights.

Thanks! Its been really fun and I'm looking forward to the final product :mug:

My experience with hops is that they'll produce according to several factors, but one of the big ones is soil quality and amount of water provided. I don't know the price of water in Arizona, but with their water needs and the climate, you're going to need a lot of water for them to put out a...

Oh, another simple fix is that Great Lakes Hops crowns are already a year old. Extra couple bucks for a crown as compared to a rhizome but I've been extremely happy with them.

I had considered moving one of the varieties outside in the spring, but then I just went ahead and flowered. With the massive amount of vegetative growth my girls experienced in just a month and the number of cones I've got, I think there's no question you could get a bunch of vegetative growth...