2009 Hop garden picture thread.

[k1v1116]

3rd year Chinook hops

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[reanime]

drayman86 and others with wicked tall lightweight structures. How do you harvest those at the top?

 

[drayman86]

drayman86 and others with wicked tall lightweight structures. How do you harvest those at the top?

At harvest time, I'll just tip the whole thing over onto the ground. Simple and easy.

 

[sethful]

i must admit the the hops in the front yard next to the street are awesome!

 

[drayman86]

i must admit the the hops in the front yard next to the street are awesome!

Thanks....I get a lot of compliments from the neighbors.

 

[cyberbackpacker]

Thanks....I get a lot of compliments from the neighbors.

If I were a homebrewer in your neighborhood, I'd be excited *tip-toeing... snatch*

 

[JustMrWill]

Originally Posted by reanime View Post
drayman86 and others with wicked tall lightweight structures. How do you harvest those at the top?

I have an eye-bolt at the top of my 18' poles and can lower the sisal if the bines don't wrap around the pole...I can also take the top 10' off and lower it that way (I used 10' chainlink fence rails and they seat together).

-JMW

 

[Gosassin]

I took these shots on May 30th, when the vines were about 1 1/2 months old. Now they're about 2 1/2 months old and are twice as long!

 

[brewyourown4life]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH44ZUSb9aI]YouTube - Hops project update 2[/ame]

 

[Seabee John]

I'm so stoaked! My cascades and fuggles have finally budded and are producing cones. Now we wait for the nugget and EKG

 

[FireBrewer]

Cascades running back and forth on the top chord and budding like crazy!

Centennial cones forming

Nuggets too

 

[Odawg]

My hops, taken from on Sunday. There's a lot of other plants growing nearby the base and the bines are growing about 5 feet into the tree above the rope, which is 10 feet tall.
They were never trained before this year, so I wasn't sure how well they'd grow, but are doing quite well.

 

[humann_brewing]

1st year cascades on 7/9/09

My strongest grower for the 1st year, quite a few cones.

 

[flyangler18]

My 1st year Cascades are producing cones by the bucketload.

 

[magnj]

wow I'm jealous of you guys. I have 1 plant growing well and it is still way behind all of yours. The other two that survived out of the original six are just clinging to life, damn rain early June destroyed them.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Fark - Bad weather just annihilated my hop pole!

50' of hops on the ground..... $#&*!$%%*&#$@$

 

[Schlenkerla]

Used to look like this.....

....only alot fullererer... Need to get druck....

 

[Brewsmith]

Here's mine today. They are really starting to take off.



It is interesting to see the varietal differences in the plants as they go. The Cascade were the first to take off. The Chinook started slow, but are growing aggressive now with big, thick bines and huge leaves. The Centennial have big leaves like the Chinook. The Horizon, Nugget and Golding all have smaller, pointy leaves, and the Nugget is sending out side arms like there's no tomorrow.

Here' a shot of me stringing up the bines taken by my 5 year old.

 

[FireBrewer]

Centennials are still the first in, Cascades are about 2 weeks behind.

 

[SOB]

Fark - Bad weather just annihilated my hop pole!

50' of hops on the ground..... $#&*!$%%*&#$@$

Holy Shiite!!! I would be pissed as well!!! A storm knocked the top of one of my bines off but nothing like that! Any fix yet?

This next beer's for you!

 

[SOB]

Pics today of my first year hops. Hallertau has reached the top of the 15 foot rope and has cones ALL over it!

Willamette got busted at about 10 feet and has some cones on it. It's a little behind the Hallertau though.

 

[Bobby_M]

Complete dud Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, Fuggle

Cones on the Chinook.

 

[sethful]

everyone has some really nice hop gardens going!!
I've got some small cones started, but nothing much yet. I'll get pictures up soon.

 

[Ølbart]

Not a single burr in sight here, although one of my plants has some side arms approaching 5 ft, and the others seem happy enough as well.

 

[FireBrewer]

Hey now, that's not a very nice gesture.

 

[vtbeerman]

When the bine gets to the top of the pole which way do you wrap horizontal growth? Clockwise to the right? Counter-clockwise to the left?

 

[SOB]

Hey now, that's not a very nice gesture.

I was saying "F-U...my hops are better"

(kidding of course)

 

[msheraw]

I am really glad for all of you. I had some great plants up until last week when the guy who is letting me grow on his land proceeded to disc over ALL of my 2nd year plants except for one. They were clearly marked. MORON!!!!

There goes the 2009 crop....... I would include pictures but there are no bines remaining...

Needless to say I am looking for a new grow site.

 

[FireBrewer]

I was saying "F-U...my hops are better"

(kidding of course)

Right on.

 

[humann_brewing]

I am really glad for all of you. I had some great plants up until last week when the guy who is letting me grow on his land proceeded to disc over ALL of my 2nd year plants except for one. They were clearly marked. MORON!!!!

There goes the 2009 crop....... I would include pictures but there are no bines remaining...

Needless to say I am looking for a new grow site.

That sucks, sorry to hear about that