2010 Hops Gardens

[rniles]

Nice pix Rockmanxpr and Randar! Randar: those chinooks are huge!

 

[Randar]

Randar: those chinooks are huge!

That's what she said!

Seriously though, that one is abnormally elongated, but the chinooks are almost always the most elongated in my hopyard. Polar opposite from my Fuggle, for instance.

I think Cascades and Chinooks will be ready to harvest in about 2 weeks.

 

[Randar]

First year grower, harvested my Cascades on Sunday.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2049419&id=1137835436&l=04fa0cf895

Seems pretty early for Valpo. Were the cones papery, sticky, and very aromatic?

 

[Hop Hack]

It has been a great summer for hops...to humid for me tho...lol. This is one of my Cascades

 

[ChrisGeb]

Cascade hop harvest (3rd year). Don't know what to do with them all!

 

[Hop Hack]

Chris...mine are third year also, and wow what a difference a year makes. I will be making extra cascade pale ale with all mine. My brother finds out that i made some and i cant keep it around very long...lol I also have Willamettes that are doing well this year, but never as well as the Cascades.
Ed

 

[Retrofit]

IL hopgrower. Everything I have is sun burned. I thought it would be a terrible year for me. I haven't been home a lot and I visited my place this weekend and I"ve got new growth. I know it's to late for a great yield, but I'm surprised. My Chinnook is amazing, my Cascade is a close second, but the rest of my hops are struggling. Still time for some, but I'm not having everyone elses success. Sigh...

 

[lehr]

Mine this year.

 

[nate4g63]

My first year Zeus....

 

[brrman]

damn you all!!! I just don;t get enough light anywhere on my property. 3rd year hops and not a single cone. The vines grow like mad, but no cones at all.

 

[Randar]

IL hopgrower. Everything I have is sun burned. I thought it would be a terrible year for me. I haven't been home a lot and I visited my place this weekend and I"ve got new growth. I know it's to late for a great yield, but I'm surprised. My Chinnook is amazing, my Cascade is a close second, but the rest of my hops are struggling. Still time for some, but I'm not having everyone elses success. Sigh...

My Chinook, Cascade, Magnum, Nugget, and Newport all did visibly better than Goldingx2, Fugglex2, Mt Hood, Crystal, and Willamette. My Centennialx2 were somewhere in between.

 

[atomicflatulence]

damn you all!!! I just don;t get enough light anywhere on my property. 3rd year hops and not a single cone. The vines grow like mad, but no cones at all.

If hops are like most other plants, youve gotta fertilize with the right balance or you'll get all vine and no flowers.

 

[DrJerryrigger]

If hops are like most other plants, youve gotta fertilize with the right balance or you'll get all vine and no flowers.

Better place to start than all flowers and no vines... an N-P-K soil test kit can be found at almost any garden store, or any store that has a garden department (like home depot).
But if nutrients were the problem you would be seeing some sines of deficiency in the leaves. Pics of hops with deficiencies

 

[extra_medium]

starting my second year with hops in 30g containers. First year I harvested 6oz off of 4 bines. not much, but it was the first year. looking forward to see what happens this year. hope to see it breakthrough the soil in the next few weeks.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Yes! It's hop garden season... can't wait to see some sweet photos.

 

[atomicflatulence]

Mine has started sending shoots in jersey.

 

[BenjaminR]

I ordered 6 varieties of rizomes this year.

Then a family friend gave me a pack of hop seeds.... Looks like they ordered them off amazon. No variety or anything. I am a bit skeptical because I dont know if they will turn into male or female and from what I have read you cant tell until very late in the season. I cant imagine they are feminized seeds. Im debating starting them and putting them very far away from my good ones.

Anyone start any from seed?

 

[Atl300zx]

being in the south, i keep trimming the shoots til may. makes for a late harvest with better tasting hops.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

My rhizomes are traveling by priority mail as I type. They are expected to arrive tomorrow. I have three varieties coming: Kent Golding, Mt. Hood and Sterling. (Let's see how they do in the hot Texas summers.) I expect to toss up my hop garden this week and I'll get some pictures once it's up.