2009 Hop garden picture thread.

[ColbyPants]

Well we finally got a week straight of warm, sunny weather here, and it looks like my hops wont completely suck ass this year, or at least with some babying, things bode well for next year. Here is some update photos:

Chinook

Nugget

Cascade

And the clipping from SWMBO Uncle's house (plant of unknown variety used to make dream pillows):

Because I was having hop picture inadequacy issues, I went to SWMBO Uncle's House, to take a pic of the plant I got the cutting from. The plant is 25 years old, and he just lets it grow however it does now, because he likes how it looks. So if you ever wondered what your hops would look like if they werent trellised. . .


HOPS GONE WILD!!

 

[PSmurf78]

Second year hops, pictures from mid May, with a location near Seattle.

 

[calpyro]

Things are looking up. The first of the Cascade and Zeus will be ready to pick in a few weeks.

Zeus

Cascade

 

[HoppyDaze]

Do you get two harvests?

 

[HBHoss]

Holy hop cones Batman! It seems so early to have that much ready to harvest. How cold is your winter?
I know I planted late and mine are just first years but I'm happy some of them broke ground, let alone be ready to pick. Very cool.

 

[calpyro]

Yeah, I am hope to get two harvests. The bines broke ground at the end of January and never stopped growing. I was really lucky not to have any frost this year.
I am pretty sure that the Cascade, Nugget, Zeus and Mt Hood will give me more than one harvest. Some of the other varieties seem to be on track for a late summer harvest.
I called everywhere trying to get info on multiple harvests, but there is not a lot of information out there.

 

[The Pol]

Here is the progress of my second year bines. They are between 13-18 feet tall at this time.

 

[Schlenkerla]

The Pol - Pick leaves that look like this. Your plant has a disease. Get'em off quick.

 

[HoppyDaze]

The Pol - Pick leaves that look like this. Your plant has a disease. Get'em off quick.

would he cut these leaves right at the main stem?

 

[The Pol]

The Pol - Pick leaves that look like this. Your plant has a disease. Get'em off quick.

That is no disease, that is what happens when 70 MPH winds tear up your leaves. No worries.

 

[ChrisS68]

That is no disease, that is what happens when 70 MPH winds tear up your leaves. No worries.

I can certainly attest to that! My leaves got plain shredded.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I can certainly attest to that! My leaves got plain shredded.

My appologie about being OT - I get concerned over leave discoloration. My nugget plant was in bad shape last year. Leaves got discolored one by one, dried or turned black. My yield on that plant suffered badly.

I think its better to pick damaged leaves and make space for new ones to grow.

 

[humann_brewing]

My appologie about being OT - I get concerned over leave discoloration. My nugget plant was in bad shape last year. Leaves got discolored one by one, dried or turned black. My yield on that plant suffered badly.

I think its better to pick damaged leaves and make space for new ones to grow.

I have a couple of plants that may have some deficiencies or something at least. My Willamette which is doing the best out of the bunch but still has yellow around the edges of the leafs of the bottom half (older growth). The homebrewers gardening book says that this may be from a lack of calcium or that is what I thought fit the description of the ones in the books list.

The book suggest placing limestone or wood ashes. Well I had some ash in my fireplace still so I put some on the dirt surrounding the plant as well as my Centennial which is still only about 3 inches tall and has the same thing on a smaller scale.

Is there any better suggestions for this problem?

 

[pivopivo]

Willamette, 59 inches, Nugget 30 inches

 

[Hopheader]

And tomatoes sprouting already, too, pivopivo! Nice to be in Austin... in MY backyard, it has finally stopped going below zero (celsius) at night...

still trying to figure out how I 'killed' my hops. Have to dig them up this weekend and figure something out, maybe I can still get some shoots happening again.

 

[TommyBoy]

I cut everything down about 5-6 weeks ago. Trying to keep them from getting all the way up on the roof and burning.

These are all cascades. There are 9 plantings. The two outside ones are new this year. You probably can not see but there are 28 stringers going to the roof.

Hope to also get enough strawberries for a strawberry blonde this summer.

 

[david_42]

Spent yesterday whacking extra bines and stripping the lower two feet on each plant. Ran the drip for six hours in anticipation of some hot weather. Still working on converting an old sprayer into an inline feeder for the drip system.

Can't get any good pictures, as the hop yard is surrounded with green. Had 5 inches of rain the first half of the month and everything is just popping.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

My humble laterals. Second year

2 fuggles close together on the left
1 EKG on the right.

I have to stick with a SWMBO approved prettiness plan.

 

[MgMt_Home_Brew]

So this past weekend I went back out to the field with my buddy and we finished what we started a week ago. We took up the remainder on the grass, got the twine up, and got the rihzomes planted.

We are 45 minutes from the field so we are hoping when we go back in a few weeks that we see some nice shoots coming out of the ground. However we do have someone watching them so she may train them if they come up sooner than we can get back there.

We planted 4 cascasades, 1 centennial, 1 chinook, 1 nugget, 1 magnum. The are all at least 5 feet apart and should get plenty of sunshine.

 

[TommyBoy]

So this past weekend I went back out to the field with my buddy and we finished what we started a week ago. We took up the remainder on the grass, got the twine up, and got the rihzomes planted.

We are 45 minutes from the field so we are hoping when we go back in a few weeks that we see some nice shoots coming out of the ground. However we do have someone watching them so she may train them if they come up sooner than we can get back there.

We planted 4 cascasades, 1 centennial, 1 chinook, 1 nugget, 1 magnum. The are all at least 5 feet apart and should get plenty of sunshine.

Do you have any kids? Because if you do then I bet they don't like dad right now for ruining the ultimate yard ball field.

Got a nice bit of land there...

 

[Big10Seaner]

My cascades are at least 10' tall right now and I'm starting to get worried a little. They are climbing up a 20' tall windmill and I think they will reach the top easily.

 

[MgMt_Home_Brew]

Do you have any kids? Because if you do then I bet they don't like dad right now for ruining the ultimate yard ball field.

Got a nice bit of land there...

Haha yeah no kids for me! This field is actually my buddy's parents and they used to grown corn there. They said we could grow hops in there but I am not sure they new how big we were gona go with this.

If they do grow well we will have plenty of space to expand!

 

[Mapleroots]

I Have the same worry's man, my hops are about 5 feet tall and only have a 16 foot trellis. I'm just going to have to wait and see what happens, or maybe stop feeding them so much.

 

[MgMt_Home_Brew]

I Have the same worry's man, my hops are about 5 feet tall and only have a 16 foot trellis. I'm just going to have to wait and see what happens, or maybe stop feeding them so much.

Oh man my heart bleeds for you two :cross: haha. I might be in the same boat once mine start growing but I am at the point where I would be happy to see them just grow.

Could you guys try to harvest twice in one season?

 

[Ølbart]

Some of my leaves are huge. The bines look pretty healthy as well.


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[cuinrearview]

Some of my leaves are huge. The bines look pretty healthy as well.


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Lookin' good!

 

[magnj]

Oh man my heart bleeds for you two :cross: haha. I might be in the same boat once mine start growing but I am at the point where I would be happy to see them just grow.

Could you guys try to harvest twice in one season?

I feel this, 2/6 plants growing and those two look terrible compared to most of these plants.

 

[Vic_Sinclair]

Mine are FINALLY up in Utah.
The setup. I installed the pole and will run the twine soon. The brown line is a drip irrigation system.

Cascade:

Nugget:

 

[HBHoss]

Latest hop pics:

Willamettes


Glaciers


Overall view

 

[Rick500]

Cascades and Chinook