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  1. B-Hoppy

    A boa in my hops!!

    Is that your snake or do they just appear at random? Seems pretty friendly from my vantage point. Guess you won't have to worry about mice or voles chewing at the base of your vines?
  2. B-Hoppy

    Homegrown Centennial Hops - Harvesting? Drying?

    With the amount of cones you'll most likely have, you can dry them on a window screen with a fan. Within a few days you should be down to the required 8-10% moisture. They can smell very aromatic way before they're even close to being ready for harvest so it's a matter of experience to...
  3. B-Hoppy

    Question about sourcing Hop poles/posts for trellis system.

    Check here for starters: http://www.mhga.org/
  4. B-Hoppy

    Hop crop 2017

    Out back pulling the garlic today & a pic of a few of the ladies.
  5. B-Hoppy

    Hop Crops For the Year -- Picking Time?

    Harvest time is generally determined by dry matter content of the cones as they begin to lose moisture as they get closer to harvest time. The folks out west who've been harvesting for a few generations can tell you by feel but industry standard is to let the dry matter come up to a little ways...
  6. B-Hoppy

    Growing hops from seed

    "All tested micronutrients were high but the soil didn't come from close to that hangar." "High" to one plant may be good but may be at a toxic level to others. Ground ivy or 'creeping charlie' (Glechoma hederacea) must have a very low tolerance for boron as a solution of about 1/2 cup...
  7. B-Hoppy

    Growing hops from seed

    Sure doesn't look like downy to me from the pics. I was thinking maybe a micro-nutrient imbalance and then saw the siding, is it galvanized? Thinking about zinc toxicity I did a google and saw this...
  8. B-Hoppy

    Late season planting, advice requested.

    Different varieties you should plant at least 6 feet apart as I've seen vigorous varieties grow rhizomes at least 3 feet in one season if you're concerned about underground growth (thinking two plants for that space and you should have great coverage by the end of next year). Generally, their...
  9. B-Hoppy

    Growing hops from seed

    Corvallis Oregon.
  10. B-Hoppy

    Growing hops from seed

    Store bought, haha! A little rough after the ride but he'll be fine, already perking up two days after planting!
  11. B-Hoppy

    Hop clusters

    Check out some of these pics, it might be a male: https://www.google.com/search?q=male+hop&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAr5XJnOjUAhWG2yYKHWRyCkkQsAQIPA&biw=1691&bih=912
  12. B-Hoppy

    Training sidearm to take over as lead bine.

    What normally happens is that the node (the next set of leaves on the stem) just below the break begins to send out two new shoots. These normally would have been cone bearing sidearms but will take over the duty of the broken tip. One of those generally becomes dominant and just continues...
  13. B-Hoppy

    100% homegrown

    If you're talking about the roots on a putting green cut at 3/16 of an inch, maybe, but in general, the blues, rye's and fescues tend to go much deeper, up to a foot or two. Pasture type grasses are deeper yet.
  14. B-Hoppy

    Bugs are eating my leaves

    There's a few types of rose chafers, go with the scientific name: https://www.google.com/search?q=macrodactylus+subspinosus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
  15. B-Hoppy

    Bugs are eating my leaves

    Looks like rose chafer, never encountered them here in NEOhio: http://msue.anr.msu.edu/uploads/234/71503/Hop_RoseChafer.pdf
  16. B-Hoppy

    adding stuff to fertlizer to effect hop flavor

    Perennials and annuals function a little bit different internally. You've just been the assigned point person on this project, haha~
  17. B-Hoppy

    adding stuff to fertlizer to effect hop flavor

    Is this idea what you're getting at? http://www.growingmarijuana.com/flavoring-crops.php
  18. B-Hoppy

    Trimming the lower sidearms?

    If your first year baby gets sick and never recovers from the infection, what are you left with? Same with second year. If the plants are under stress/attack from a disease issue, they are spending energy to combat that issue and not making healthy growth. If they are kept healthy from the...
  19. B-Hoppy

    Trimming the lower sidearms?

    If you have downy mildew in your neighborhood it can infect your plants at pretty much any stage of their growth (as long as the temperatures are above about 55F). Anything you can do to make the conditions unfavorable for that disease to develop is in your best interest and removing that mass...
  20. B-Hoppy

    Is going to be a problem/what to do?

    Common problem it seems: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=628847
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