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Thank you very much! The summer heat was a major concern last year in 10 gallon pots. I was watering in the morning and again in the evening to keep up with dry out and water consumption on 100+F degree days. This year the heat hasn't been an issue, if anything they seem to push harder when...

Multihead: is really putting on the cones! I think this plant will end up putting out as much or more as any of my second year plants. A really pleasant, tropical citrus-fruit odor has started to develop. Willow Creek: is in its last few weeks of development. Cones are plentiful, huge and...

Based on the leaf, I'd say it was some type of cocoon webbing of moths or similar. By the time spider mites start covering things in webs, the tiny bite marks from their feeding are quite evident: You would also see hundreds of them on the undersides of your leaves if they were building...

Wait till after you've cut them back to stumps before transplanting them. It has nothing to do with the plants, its just easier to manage a stump than a 10 foot bine when transplanting. As for weather protection, if youre in the great white north and your area freezes, wait till it gets warmer...

The New Zealand hops have started to get going and are at almost the same place of development up the lines. Alpharoma is a very branchy, very spread out plant with one major bine and about 30 branches that have been strung to the other strings. Southern Cross has tossed out a few additional...

No need for a soil test. The fading between the leaf veins is a magnesium deficiency and the spotting is a calcium deficiency. Spraying the plants with a foliar solution of CalMag (or similar calcium / magnesium product) will solve both very quickly. You may be able to get away with just a...

Diagonally grown hops from sub-irrigated planters to a fence and then to a roof top 6/29:

Nope, not nitrogen, you'd see yellowing starting in the leaves at the base of the plant moving up similar to this shot: Not magnesium (epsom salts) either, the plants get yellow in the leaf sections but green in the veins like this: Thats a calcium deficiency in those troubled leaves. Go...

When people say that New Mexican hops are deeply segmented, they aren't kidding. Multihead hops are moderately segmented, but still retain typical European looking features - big round leaves. On the other hand, my Willow Creek hops look remarkably like cannabis to the untrained eye. Much...

Well I never actually measured the volume of water that each planter box holds, but I'd guess it was 3-4 gallons at the bottom. My second year plants (which look remarkably similar to yours) need to be refilled every 2-3 days, my first year plants are more like once a week. I also pour about...

Thanks for the love! Admittedly, this is my first year running hops in SIPs, but my vegetables are all in SIPs and they're the reason I switched the hops over. The reduction in water consumption and continual hydration were my big motivators. My veggies are in much smaller SIP containers...

I love my SIPs (24x24 tree planter boxes). This is the first year Ive gone full bore SIP for all my gardens and they are so much better than top watered containers in the hot, dry climate of San Diego. Soil mix is Fox Farm Happy Frog / Fox Farm Ocean Forest, Worm Castings, Rock Dust, Steer...

A lot happens in a month.. My second year Newport and Cascade have been topped at the roof and are beginning to throw burs. In the last week my second year Columbus finally seems to have hit its minimum day length requirements for growth. The cluster of green shoots (which has looked the same...

If you're only running one plant in an SIP (basically lazy hydroponics), why not just go out and get liquid ferts from any grow shop or garden center and toss them in the water you're watering with? I do this all the time in my SIPs with Botanicare's Soil Grow / Bloom lines depending on what...

I foliar with CalMag all the time - its a way better way to get calcium and magnesium into the plants immediately as opposed to waiting for the new growth to show the corrections. You also use way less of the fertilizer than standard watering cycles. ;) You can do it with other nutrients, but as...

Glad to see someone is doing full bore hydro! My sub irrigated tree planters are basically oversized Global Buckets (passive hydro using the soil as a wick). I've seen lots of great blumat setups, but never with hops. Should be amazing for keeping the root zone properly wet. I'd say the plants...

Been a while since my last update! To start off with, all of my hops were planted too early and all decided to stop vertical growth around April 1st. While the weather in southern California has been exceptional, I watched all of my bines self terminate. The plants looked very similar to...

The hops are now all in their final spots and planters for the season. Horizon's planter had a pinhole in the inner plastic from over my over zealous initial handling and had to be re-lined which was a much easier job than I was expecting it to be. Most of the other plants seem well on their...

I'm about 8 miles due east of the Del Mar Fairgrounds / coastline. Southern California's heat gets a bit more intense here than it does on the coast - we're regularly 8-12 degrees hotter than the coast with about 20% less humidity. The biggest concern you're going to have living that close to...