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Nice! Mine are about a foot tall right now, just got my main line rigging and verticals up yesterday.

Looking forward to following your progress! Such an awesome venture to pursue.

These guys make it look pretty easy.

I put in 4 crowns from GLH and the 2 larger crowns are taking off fairly quick. Once the bines start climbing a ways should I prune the bines that aren't being trained or should I let them go since this is the first year they're in the ground like I've read for rhizomes?

Trying to decide if I should run 2x4s across the middle and top of my uprights with eye hooks screwed to the bottom of the top board or just eye hooks with paracord between uprights to lower the bines down once growing season is over. Any suggestions?

The reason I posted that is his bed looks roughly 16' long, 8 varieties would put them roughly 2' apart. My Bed is back on page 11, 24' long with 4 varieties with a 15' trellis to start with ;) I had planned on only putting 3 in but Great Lakes Hops was nice enough to throw in a 4th.

5' between different varieties and 3' between same is the general rule of thumb from everything I've read.

Chinook, I ordered Magnum, Glacier and US Golding. I'll definitely order from them again when I decide to expand the garden.

A conduit bender would probably do the trick.

They look great! I ordered 3 through them and received 4, all in great condition and in the ground.

Great idea! My crowns are still small enough to get some cages over. Thanks.

Still need to run 2x4s across the middle and top but it's getting there. Going to have eye hooks on the top to tie bailing string from. So far I have magnum, glacier, US Goldings and chinook. Posts are 15' out of the ground, I know they go taller.

I looked through a bunch or recipes that I would like to brew. Came up with a general cross section of hops that they used and decided on a few varieties to start with. Happy growing!

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I've had my planter box for about three years, Grown veggies and herbs, last year I moved the majority of my veggies into my yard garden... Now with approval of SWMBO I'm coverting the box into a hop bed. Starting with magnum, glacier and goldings, thanks to greatlake hops I'll also be putting...

Sounds like a plan, see how the plants do this growing season.

Add Chinook to that, they were nice enough to send me a freebie :-)

Awesome! This is going to be my first year growing as well. I got my crowns from greatlake hops yesterday and plan on getting them into the ground today. Starting off with magnum, glacier and goldings.

First year hop grower here, waiting on my crowns to come in from greatlake hops, should be tomorrow. Thanks for the shared advice.

Add another postal scale user, works great.