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I've got cones that are about 3/4 of an inch, and there are a lot of them. Unfortunately, the vines have become such a mess overlapping and wrapping around each other that it's going to be damn near impossible to distinguish which cones are which without hacking them down and going to work...

Here is a view of the chicken wire layer. Each main bine has about 15 feet of growth condensed in that layer and heavily over-lapping one another. They'll be allowed to grow a few feet vertically now that the box has been raised. The very bottom leaves have died off but there are several healthy...

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16 days into flowering. Raising the height of the box has allowed them to grow a lot more vertically and they seem happy with that. Ignore the black tape in the back. Its temporary; I'll be patching it over tonight. It's where the old fan used to be before I raised the box.

Well I wasn't planning on burning them...

In my thread about growing indoors, people keep mentioning the smell of hops being mistaken for the smell of their illegal cousin, and that the smell is very intense. This seems a little absurd to me for a couple reasons: 1. If the smell was that similar and intense, wouldn't you all have the...

10,000 watts would cost nearly $400 per month to run in my area. If you were harvesting 20 lbs of hops every 60 days, you'd be upside down by over $700 per harvest. That's not factoring in the insane amount of expensive hydroponic nutrients a plant large enough to produce 20 lbs would be sucking...

Thanks for your interest! It's been a very fun project and I plan to keep you guys posted all the way through the first, and hopefully many future, harvests. 1. Cutting the root ball has been ditched. I also don't plan to switch to hydroponics, which was my original plan. The system is...

If sediment is an issue, just get a silk screen and toss them in that, squeeze them over the bottling bucket or keg when you move the batch from the secondary. BTW how many ounces of hops is that?

Here we see a closer picture (not close enough, I took them a little :drunk:) You should be able to see the early flowers. I'll take a closer pic next week when they're more prominent. My goal is to flower them until they stop producing. By eliminating the vegging stage, I'm hoping to get a...

A glance at the chicken wire layer. Bines are two days shy of six weeks old. They did four weeks vegging, and have been flowering for 12 days. There is a bit of sawdust on the plants (I cleaned it off shortly after the pic). This is from the construction of expanding the box.

I added a foot to the ceiling of the grow box (now 5.5 feet tall). Bines can grow about four feet before being trained back down. Each crown has at least one bine over 15 feet long. I'm going to use a zig-zagging twine for the next layer. The chicken wire is packed. More pics to come.

The most expensive part of growing these indoors is the hydroponic nutes. I use dirt and a 275w HPS light. The light costs are actually pretty negligible, unless you're using a 600 or 1000 watt, which is absurd overkill

Why not just wring them out back into the beer?

Would the bines be able to grow through the burlap? Seems like it would just create a wall that would block light/growth? I do like the idea of some sort of organic material next time, though :mug:

Ah yeah, they'll be scrutinizing that extra $8 on my electrical bill pretty hard. The people they look for have 4+ 1,000 w lights running, not to mention industrial fans, etc. That's the type of stuff that makes your electrical bill double and sometimes even triple. I assume the ventilation...

Interesting. How big was your grow space?

I should also mention that the side-arms are about a foot long on each vine. There would be a LOT more on the right side, but the main Cascade vine got chopped accidentally when I was removing excess vines at the base of the plant. I was...upset. But another vine on the Cascade took over and...

This is a view of the self-watering system. There are two holes in the bottom of the soil bin, the size of the two little buckets you see. There is no lid on the buckets. They are pressed up to the holes in the bin. Soil is packed tightly through the bin into the buckets, and there are many...

A side-ways view of the whole operation. The door closes and the box is light-proof: