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I suppose running those rake fingers backwards would keep them from ripping things up.

Howabout that? A dumb mechanic like me just assumed downy mildew was downy mildew. Thanks B!

Ok, so I chickened out and did not use the chlorothalonil. Though, I find myself wondering why it's great for zucchini, but not for hops. Im guessing that it has to do with lack of studies and how long you have to wait before safely harvesting after application. The weather has finally dried up...

Argh.

I have been meaning to make it over to my local extension office and take whatever exams I need to take. The problem is that I have two infants and four children total that make it tricky to find time for anything. Excuses aside, I picked up some stuff from my local farm and fleet store. It...

Reviving this thread. So I contacted dauenhauer and they sell the picking fingers in boxes of 1000 for $315.15. I just put another $300 into my trellis this year, so that source for fingers goes out the window for me, unless like 10 of us want to go in on a box. All I know is that I need a...

Third year for most of the plants, fourth year for 11 of the 66. Interestingly (and frustratingly) there is a high occurance of downy showing in my chinook plants, some in my cascade, and zero in my centennial plants. (We just trained and pruned today). So now I need to explore my fungicide...

It was raining after work today, but I jogged up to the field to see how the plants were doing- all 66 are throwing up shoots. Going into season three, I'm on the look out for oddities and I stumbled across this isolated instance on a chinook. One shoot stunted shoot with short nodes and a...

Looks good! I like how you use the angled aluminum to hold the velcro in place. It's a simple solution

Brad, Id be curious to see your contraption. That said, six years later, I have adopted the use of a makeshift Blichmann carbonator, and love it. Only moving object is the beer.

At .15LPM (for 1 minute) a cylinder would last 200 (5 gallon) batches. At .5LPM it would last for 60. I have some experiments to complete before I make process decisions, but quick answer is that I will be using the lower end of the flowmeter for a longer duration as this likely to result in...

No, to separate purchases. Tank valve came from Bobby at brewhardware.com

I have no problems with the quality of the flowmeter, considering the price. The physical quality is sturdy, its accuracy I dont have reason to suspect. However, the only way to be sure will be to put a balloon over my wand and see how long it takes to displace a liter of water; that i havent...

The crate was made out of 3.5" x 3/4" pine (wish i had used hardwood). The bracket holding the regulator is 1/16" x 3/4" L-shaped aluminum. The velcro strap is an 18"er The hose is standard bevlex beverage tube. The wand holder is 1" pvc The wand itself is available from Bobby at...

The flow meter (with valve) that I used can be had here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142041811561 It cost me $11 to have it shipped over on the slow-boat. Incidentally, if you trust china-gauges, the brass valve on the cylinder (often mistakenly referred to as a regulator) opened about 360 degrees...

If you're like me you hate dangling hoses and things that fall over- damaging equipment. Not too long ago I started using an oxygen cylinder to add O2 to my wort prior to fermentation- two things became clear in short order: 1) I needed to meter oxygen flow so that $10 cylinders arent used up...

I used 36 2'x2' screens last year, powered by three fans, one per stack of 12. This works great until you approach the 20% moisture mark and humidity becomes a major factor. So rather than heat- I propose a dehumidifier. Either run it somehow inline with your incoming air, or use it in a...

+1 to the "less romantic way"

I'm pretty sure that they are supposed to bend backwards while working... under spring pressure. That's why all those dauenhauer ones have a spring section in them.

The app was angry and wouldn't put the pictures up until I reloaded it.