2011 Hop Garden Picture Thread

[chapa]

I don't have a hop garden yet but I will plant soon, and am looking at some of these setups for inspiration. I dont think a 20 ft trellis is going to fly, so thinking about just going with pots for now, with a stake, and maybe run some twine from the stake to a make shift trellis, maybe 8-10 ft at best. I guess if nothing it will at least be a start, so I can get the roots going this year.

 

[timbudtwo]

Cascades just popped out of the ground a week after planting rhizome! So excited.

 

[junkyard brewer]

My cascade did horrible last year. I think its a combo of my lack of attention and lack of sun. The power people decided to take a monster tree out of my yard about a month ago and my cascade root came back this year. I walked out side while clearing what they didn't take a few weeks ago and much to my surprise, it was running up the rope I have. I added another rope and pulled it apart so it would climb 2 ropes and its growing daily now. Pics to come.

I also want to purchase a few more rhizome's, hopefully placing my order tomorrow. I need to drink a few more tasty brews to get things figured out. lol.

 

[platypotamus]

my Nugget, Cascade, and Mount Hood hops are in their second year, and coming back strong. here's a few photos of the Nuggets, so far:




...and here's the whole set ~ Hops: 2011

I need to get some shots of the Mt. Hood this weekend. The bines are incredibly thick already. Funny thing is, they barely produced at all last year, while the others did quite well.

 

[dtfeld]

Cascades about 4' tall after only 2 weeks. On the North side of the house gets lots of morning sun and afternoon shade.

 

[BYOBKC]

 

[ruffdeezy]

Just planted these guys yesterday. Will be my first attempt so I am quite excited about it. Never been interested in growing plants before but this is a good start.

 

[Hoppity]

I'm excited about growing hops for the first time. I have Golding & Mt. Hood in the labeled containers and Cascade in the others. They've been in potting soil for about ten days. Mt. Hood takes the early lead.

 

[NuclearRich]

I have a sprout! After 2 weeks, the nugget popped up on the first sunny day. Yesterday, I also found the tiniest sprout on the willamette. So excited!

 

[RussH]

I am a first time grower, and just got my plants on the weekend. I found a local guy selling Cascade & Chinook clones, and when I went to pick them up, he added that he had a 1 year old centennial in a pot that he was willing to part with. So far I have the centennial in the ground, and am waiting till the end of the week to transplant the other two.

The Centennial has been in the ground for 4 days and is already climbing like a champ.

The two clones will go in the other two boxes. The lusher, greener of the two is the Chinook.

 

[Weezknight]

Southeast Pennsylvania here.

(2) 2nd Year Cascades & (2) 2nd year Goldings are flying out of the soil already. This past weekend I pruned down all of the really long "early" bines, and I'll be putting up the trellis this weekend.

Thinking I'm just going to let 2 bines per plant grow this year, but the way these things came out of the box the past few weeks, I could have strung up about 7-8 per plant!

I'll post some pics after I get my ghetto trellis back up again.

 

[bernerbrau]

Nugget broke ground last week. Perle is about 3 feet long! I'll get pics when we finally get a sunny day around here, since I was out of town last weekend. The good news with all these ridiculous storms is that it's doing all my watering for me.

 

[platypotamus]

finally got a chance to take a photo of the Mt hood plant. it is planning to eat the garage.

 

[runs4beer]

All right when I get home I'm going to snap and add what I've got going on.
Last weekend I traded 6 oz of hops for 5 Cascade Rhizomes and got them in the ground, 3 of them are now about five tall now.

 

[cripplecreek]

Southeast Pennsylvania here.

(2) 2nd Year Cascades & (2) 2nd year Goldings are flying out of the soil already. This past weekend I pruned down all of the really long "early" bines, and I'll be putting up the trellis this weekend.

Thinking I'm just going to let 2 bines per plant grow this year, but the way these things came out of the box the past few weeks, I could have strung up about 7-8 per plant!

I'll post some pics after I get my ghetto trellis back up again.

Ditto here in Northeast PA (NEPA / Scranton). I'll snap up some shots. Just did my pruning to 2-3 bines per mound. Have 6 different varieties. Quite a few over 6 feet already. All are second year and came back this year with avengeance! THICK! Hopefully it will carry through to harvest.

 

[BenjaminBier]

finally got a chance to take a photo of the Mt hood plant. it is planning to eat the garage.

Dude this looks awesome.

 

[bernerbrau]

There they are. Nugget is the small one. Perle is the longer one.

 

[bigljd]

First year hops from Northwest Hops. I just ordered 2 Centennial rhizomes from Rebel Brewer, so they'll be added to the veggie garden when I get them. The 2 in the veggie garden will be trained horizontally when the hit the top of the pole, and the 2 next to my patio will be able to grow horizontally across our pergola when they hit the top of the poles. Hope they do OK in our NC hot summers.

 

[matt_mcdermit]

Second year Newport hops have already reached the top of their 10ft. trellis. Any suggestions on what to do once they reach the top? I have about 4 bines with a fifth one breaking ground. Figure I will just let more grow since the others have already reached the top.

 

[dedhedjed]

First year cascades popped up... Have a few others going as well...centennial, Columbus and nugget are all up as well... Still waiting on chinook to pop out of the mulch.

 

[NuclearRich]

Second year Newport hops have already reached the top of their 10ft. trellis. Any suggestions on what to do once they reach the top? I have about 4 bines with a fifth one breaking ground. Figure I will just let more grow since the others have already reached the top.

I would run some heavy twine to the front of that porch. It looks like that is an entry way? Run them all the way across!

 

[runs4beer]

This is my first attempt at growing hops and it came together a little haphazard; last weekend someone in my club posted that they overbought when they went to a hop farm upstate. I traded a few ounces of pellets for 5 rhizomes that were really big and had 3 to 5 inch shoots and a few sets of leaves on them. I stop by the hardware store on the way home and picked up a bag of mulch, top soil, twine and eyelets. I dug two holes around these random I-beams that stick out of my yard, mixed the top soil with some compost and slapped them in the holes with some the mulch around the top . This weekend I’ll run the twine from the I-beams to just below the gutters on the garage which will give them about 20’ of room. Some time this summer I’ll build some boxes around them. It works out well; I’ve always been worried my kids would impale them selves running around the yard down there on the I-beam thing.
We’ll see.


Edit: sorry if i give whiplash or a kink in your neck I forgot to rotate the image

 

[FrewBrew]

Here's mine in Northern DE. These are Brewers Gold... still waiting for the fuggles to stick their head up. All of the plants are first year and the Fuggle rhyzomes were kind of small.

 

[jbwebst]

Here's my submission;

1st year Crystal, planted March 21st.

I have 2 Crystal, 3 Cascade, a 1 Centennial, 1 Nugget, 2 Perle and 1 Williamette
here (all first year plants).

 

[Jaysus]

Nice use of the "i beams" runs4beer!

 

[MBasile]

Here is one of mine! I planted three rhizomes in some pots. I plan on moving in the next few years, so I'll be able to transplant them eventually.

 

[Paulasaurus]

Finally got my trellis up last night and hope to run the ropes today. As you can see my 2nd year Columbus is looking for something to grab hold of. Trellis height is about 9-1/2'

Boxes from left to right...Cascade, Centennial, Columbus, and Chinook.

 

[rockgineer]

100 hills and counting . . .

Water tower for gravity fed irrigation. more barrels will be added soon.

Here is a picture of a second year cascade working its way up the rusty tractor.

 

[virginiawolf]

Rockgineer, Wow that set up looks really good I need higher posts like that for my garden. I've been training them across but I should just go up.
Thanks for the inspiration. The cat joined in Nice hops everyone! Virginia Wolf

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[FrewBrew]

So my hops weren't doin it where they were on account of not rough sun. So I moved them to a more Southerly facing location.

2 bags of stone (drainage) 4 yds of garden soil 2 yds manure and some mulched up relatively composted leaves.

There are 2x fuggles and 1 x Brewers Gold (the one with growth)