sethful
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Thanks for the info cu....
and Uechi, I totally agree!
and Uechi, I totally agree!
We harvested the Cascades over the weekend. It looks like we'll have about 10 to 12 pounds (dried). Not bad considering most of them were first years. I put a few pictures up on Flickr: 8/16/09 Cascade Harvest - a set on Flickr.
Holy crap! Good for you! Mostly first year plants?!
Yeah, we had about 5 third year plants and the rest were first years. I'd guess we got about a pound off of each third year plant and another 5-7 pounds off all the first years.
It was a loooooong day of picking, but a good time. Two more rows to go and then we'll be done for the year...
How many plants do you have and how many varieties do you have?
You should post prices when you are ready to sell.
Yeah, we had about 5 third year plants and the rest were first years. I'd guess we got about a pound off of each third year plant and another 5-7 pounds off all the first years.
It was a loooooong day of picking, but a good time. Two more rows to go and then we'll be done for the year...
Nooooooo kidding. We just picked our smaller cascade field. Our experimental pickers didn't work out as well as we wanted, so we ended up picking all weekend by hand. (Of course it was the hottest/muggiest weekend of the year.) As soon as those leave the oast, we have to start on the big fields.
Not to scare you Rhody, but think about 2 years from now when those are all 3rd year plants and you're getting about 200 to 300 pounds. That's why this winter, I'm spending all my spare time building different pickers to try out.
I harvested my 3rd year cascades yesterday. The upright rope I had them growing on broke and I tied them horizontally. That resulted in uneven ripening but I was still able to pick a huge amount of ripe hops from two plants.
Looks like we had some similarities in our harvesting this year:
Filipino woman picking hops? Check!
Sitting on at green table? Check!
A butt load of homegrown hops? I WISH! Maybe in 2 more years...
Good looking harvest, summersolstice...hops and helper!
Not a bad first year from the Cascade:
^^^ so do you do anything special with the soil in your pots during winter or at the start of the growing season? Or do they just take care of themselves?
Not a garden but some wild hops on my folks property in Courtenay BC. Got a bag last night and I'm going to try them out on a basic Coopers Draught kit first. Not idea what they are but here are 2 pics. First is obvious, and the second is a phone pic of the hops growing in the trees. There are tons.
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