Pictures of your Hop Babies/Hop Photo Thread

Heres my Magnums, Willamette, and Cascades as of 6/25/08. The post is about 15 feet tall. The Willamette Valley is a no brainer for growing hops.

Here the first pic of several.... My hops are hangin' heavy. This is good reason to clip growth...



This is 2.5" schedule 40 pvc....



Frontal Shot...



Super-Fat Bine close up...

I count 8 bines....



Looking straight up...




Another angle...



Look right at the top...



I expect to be my best yield yet, provided it can stay standing....

Mucho Buds



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Awesome Schlenkerla! I thought it was a giant fishing pole at first!

OMG to above post..Those are huge! Here is my 1st yr. Willamette w/ irrigation dripper system. Going out today for more Manure. Sunbeam is way in the back..




Bighops

Anybody who has tall bines or cones sucks. I'm going to delete this thread, because your hops should not be bigger than the OP .


J/K


I hope the warm weather we are supposed to have all weekend will help.

McKBrew said:

Anybody who has tall bines or cones sucks. I'm going to delete this thread, because your hops should not be bigger than the OP .


J/K


I hope the warm weather we are supposed to have all weekend will help.

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Seconded, we need a mod to lock this thread quickly.

A happy fuggle


My happy plants on a 10' golding closest a 13' fuggle and a 8' fuggle

this nice seattle weather has really helped these plants

A nice willamette plant going all over the place



a small chinook just taking off

My Cascades & Fuggles topped out yesterday, it's been a cold, cloudy spring. Unfortunately, the gallery is barfing when I try to upload.



Much better. The trellis is 16' tall and the Cascades is closest to the camera. Only 46F this morning.

Hooray for hops! Thought I'd take a few pics of my first year hops, and post a link to my hop photo album:

Google Picasa Web Album





And the crazy hop jungle:

I have flowers on a few of mine....I just don't know what to do....first year plants are 20+ feet tall....WTF?

41" of hop baby. I probably need to trim up the bottom a bit.

First year cascades in central Texas:

quickerNu said:

First year cascades in central Texas:

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LOOKING GOOD!

Since its the photo thread, and I haven't posted since mine were 4" tall, may as well show off some burrs on my one first-year williamette thats at least 15' by now (try to ignore the japanese beetle destruction on the leaves behind them)...

Can you believe the most hearty one in the pic is a first year plant?

Bobby_M - What are you growing?

The inverted V in the center has a first year Cascade on the left and a second year Chinook on the right. I also have a Fuggle that's not doing as well and a Centennial. I expect the Chinook and Cascade to produce really well, but not much from the others.

Bobby_M said:

The inverted V in the center has a first year Cascade on the left and a second year Chinook on the right. I also have a Fuggle that's not doing as well and a Centennial. I expect the Chinook and Cascade to produce really well, but not much from the others.

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Cascades are really good growers. Sound like Chinnook is too. I can't say much for centennials. I know from what I've read Fuggles are hard to grow.

Looks like you'll have a good crop this year.

Well, I went over and checked out the hops that I'll be harvesting in 4-6 weeks. all I can say is WOW! There are nice cones coming on all the varieties.

Hallertau:




Mt. Hood




Red Vine:



Saaz:

And finally, Cascade:

WOW!!! I would post pics of my first year hops, but I wouldn't be able to cope with the howls of derisive laughter.

Hopzilla

Cookiebaggs - Man I love your pergola. I've always wanted my hops growing on a pergola!!! :rockin:

Natural shade - perfect beer garden!!!!

Schlenkerla said:

Cookiebaggs - Man I love your pergola. I've always wanted my hops growing on a pergola!!! :rockin:

Natural shade - perfect beer garden!!!!

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Actually, it's not my pergola or my hops. I just harvest them .

The people who own them just like to grow for shade and decoration. They don't brew but are absoutely tickled to death that someone (me) is using them as opposed to just tearing them down in the fall.

I, of course, share a bunch of brew with them all year. It's a sweet setup.

Some of these rhisomes are going on their 9th year.

Beautiful hops pictures. Mine still aren't anywhere near impressive. I think once I have a house of my own and can put them in the ground they will do a lot better.

McKBrew said:

Beautiful hops pictures. Mine still aren't anywhere near impressive. I think once I have a house of my own and can put them in the ground they will do a lot better.

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Same here, but I feel my hops could be the worst on the site.

2 1/2 months of growing, only 12 inches of growth on one, and 6 inches on the other two. They just wont do anything!

Cookiebags, it looks like your hops are going to freakin Eat your house. Good Job. I wonder what it'll look like 9 years from now when I don't live here anymore but my hops do.

Taipans said:

Same here, but I feel my hops could be the worst on the site.

2 1/2 months of growing, only 12 inches of growth on one, and 6 inches on the other two. They just wont do anything!

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Nah... mine's smaller than yours.

Haha. I just hope mine make it until next season so I can re-evaluate wth is going on with them. Have you tried any tricks to get them to pick things up?

I had some cones really getting dried out so I had to get them off the vine.





All that is only 1.3oz WET.

I may have to do that myself. I'll check tomorrow. I'm expecting oodles when its time start picking!!!

Bobby - Which way does the house face. I'm guessing the hops are on the south side. My hops are more stout one side. I'm wondering if the east/west set-up makes a difference.

My house faces west. The south-east plant is doing awesome.

That's the south facing side and it's almost due south.

Mine faces east. I was starting to think the SE most plant shadows the other. Maybe but not in your case.

Did you clip bines equally on both plants. I didn't unfortunately, I had some wind damage in May or June... The wind did it for me.

Despite NJ ever changing climate, it does well for hops!
I think its the "Garden State" Soil

My bines are starting to produce hop cones. I am feeling a little lucky. I planted 5 hops this year and all 5 have cones starting. Due to the sun position I was not able to get pics of all 5, but these are 2 of them.

First year Centennial


1st Year Cascade

I hate this thread.