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I definitely need to apply something stronger. I came home and thumped 6 of them off. The damage is more obvious now. My cones are only dime size, are starting to get crackly, but dont appear to have glands yet. After handling the cone i smelled my finger ( ha ha) but no hoppy smell. I am...

I tried this but not very seriously. I cut a few sidearms a couple of days ago and just stuck them in the ground.

Dish soap may not be enough for these guys. Since I am considering a real pesticide while I have cones/flowers, does anyone have an approximate harvest time for South Florida hops? I want to pace the applications so I dont use too much and it is gone by the harvest. I have seen vids that...

I listened to a Brewing Network podcast where it was stated that fresh wet hops are 60 to 80 percent water if I remember correctly. That means 2.5 to 5 times the weight of dry hops if using wet.

Sri Lanka Weevils have attacked my hops! $&@/:;!! Ok just two leaves chewed on yesterday but it seems like it ate a lot for one day. I am trying dish soap spray to keep him away. Any thoughts?

I dont think so. Most of my flowers are near the end where it gets the most sun. The dried up cones are about halfway up where it gets sun for the morning only. Maybe thats the answer...

I have around 12 dime sized hop flowers that are developing but several buds that dried up. Any thoughts about water or fertilizer or if this is normal? Plants are first year cascade and are ok healthy otherwise.

Congrats! Pictures please! What I thought were going to be cones on mine turned into sidearms.

I boil outside and ferment inside. I can carry a full bucket or better bottle wherever it needs to go.

My lower leaves were looking similar and the growth had slowed. I had some leftover Scotts GREEN MAX Southern Lawn Fertilizer which has extra iron so I sprinkled about a tablespoons worth around the plant area. The lower leaves look about the same but the growth was over a foot last week. I...

If you like hop stew, or dont mind filtering in the glass, you can take the poppet out of the keg and the pin out of the ball lock fitting. Just dont forget to vent the keg before taking off the ball lock fitting.

Same here. I think it is strange that 1 rhizome put up 3 bines and the other just put up 1. Will let them go and see what happens.

Thanks for the info. I just have not found the specs of a ng burner that can get the btus from 4.5 inches of water column pressure. I tried to convert a propane burner to ng but it did not work out. I drilled out a propane grill to convert to ng and it had decent results.

Remember, three bines totally 84 inches. No secrets here. Just planted on the South side of the house where it gets shade by early afternoon. I panted using Miracle Grow potting mix that had some sort of 6 month fertilizer. And I hate snails and slugs with no reservation and nuke them first...

Week 6 update One cascade has a single bine about 53 inches. The other has three bines with about 84 inches of total growth. The lower leaves are darker in the main veins a light green on the remainder of the leaf. The upper leaves have a nice healthy green color.

I am also interested in converting to natural gas. My natural gas pressure is 4.5 inches and I need to boil 12 gallons in a keggle.

Thanks. I assumed that was the case but I was still curious if I needed to scale down from 11g to 5g to use the spreadsheet.

What adjustments, if any, are required for an 11 gallon batch?

Thanks for the info on the diatomcious earth. I went with some snail slug Getta plus.

My two cascades rhizomes have abot 16 inches of growth each. One of my centennials never came up and the other only made about two inches before stalling. Yesterday came home and found it broken off. O for 2 on centennials. RIP