2013 Hop garden photo thread

[FuzzeWuzze]

Finally got my Trellis setup. There are 2 eye hooks screwed into my eaves under my gutters, i am running a nylon rope up, through one hook, across my house(about 14 feet) through the other hook and down. I have my sisal rope/twine wrapped around the nylon and dangling down to get staked. The eaves where the eye hooks reside is ~17 feet high.

I think i went way overboard with the number of lines up considering its a first year plant, but whatever.

From left to right, spaced 6 feet apart.

Columbus, Cascade, NewPort

I put up 4 lines, in hopes that if it does get crazy and grow all the way up that i can train the vine back down ...we will see if that works.

 

[beer_doc]

I put up 4 lines, in hopes that if it does get crazy and grow all the way up that i can train the vine back down ...we will see if that works.

Looks awesome! I don't think you can "train the vine back down" though. The vine will naturally want to fight gravity. What you can do is let out slack from the staked down side and that would allow more room to grow up.

Does that make sense? There's probably a good way to support the vine so it's not flapping in the wind so to speak. Maybe someone on here can suggest something.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Looks awesome! I don't think you can "train the vine back down" though. The vine will naturally want to fight gravity. What you can do is let out slack from the staked down side and that would allow more room to grow up.

Does that make sense? There's probably a good way to support the vine so it's not flapping in the wind so to speak. Maybe someone on here can suggest something.

When I asked about that here before some one said doing that would likely break the bine which obviously is a bad idea....

 

[Carlscan26]

Here's my setup. Just one pulley assembly this year but I will probably add a second one in a few years when the nines are climbing that high. I will attach twine and then raise the frame until harvest time. Also I will prob move out of the pots if this location works. Cascade and Centennial.

 

[Stevo2569]

Cut off prob 50 bones today off my 2nd year crowns. Mainly centennial and cascade and some nugget. Looks a lot better. Cascade especially was going nut with 15-20 nines per plant.

 

[Jamminjoenapo]

All four bines are about ten feet now.

 

[BrewPirate]

Second year Cascade, Centennial, and Hallertau. All off to a great start!

 

[koalabrewing]

We live in a row house with no yard. Our balcony is the best we have. Here is a picture of the Cascade rhizome we planted this weekend. We also have a Magnum rhizome in another pot. We'll see how well this setup works, better than nothing!

 

[Cgreen042389]

One of eight

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

First year centennial

Sixth year boy (middle child)

 

[Nunner]

Got home from a long weekend out of town to these little guys

Columbus


And centennial



Still no luck from the cascade yet

 

[r8rphan]

Side by side photos of my hops this time last year, and this year... Doing 'much better'.. Barring a bunch of hail storms or a forest fire like last year, I am hoping to have quite the harvest....

Cascades from 04/24/12 and 04/28/13

04/24/12 (year 2 Cascades)

04/28/13 (year 3 Cascades)

Centennials from 04/24/12 and 04/28/13

04/24/12 (year 2 Centennials)

04/28/13 (year 3 Centennials)

Magnums from 04/24/12 and 04/28/13

04/24/12 (2nd year Magnums)

04/28/13 (3rd year Magnums)

Willamettes from 04/24/12 and 04/28/13

04/24/12 (2nd year Willamettes)

04/28/13 (3rd year Willamettes)

 

[r8rphan]

These things are going crazy.. I'm thinking I should start selecting bines soon.. Have already been removing about 20 per day that are escaping out between the logs of the raised beds..... Some of them are a foot long where there was nothing the day before....

For the most part, the things are training themselves.... seeming to remember where they were last year.... Not sure how many bines I should keep...

Also, when they hit the top of the 13 foot high trellis support, I'm gonna clip them and force side shoots.. last year I just let them go, and I was harvesting cones mostly from the top, having to lean out from the top of a 12 foot ladder....

Later this summer, I plan to set 8 post bases in concrete behind the beds, and then start collecting lumber during the fall and winter so that next year I can build a 24 foot long by 16 foot high catwalk (with another catwalk at 8' inside of the thing), so that I have something safe to collect the cones from, something solid to build trellises from (thinking 20 foot high trellises) and also to serve as the little lookout I've always wanted on the property... can drink beer up there and pee on the squirrels..

 

[r8rphan]

Either this year or next, I want to build some more raised beds for hops... As I want to eventually add columbus, chinook, and possibly tettnang and perle to the varieties...


loving this 'perennials' concept... gonna plant asparagus, artichoke, bunching onions, walking onions, and other edible perennials in the other raised beds that I have in front of and in between the hops beds.... get everything established and then all I gotta do is compost and mulch before winter, and water in the summer....

 

[johnsnownw]

Hops are finally in the ground, and I have the anchor portion of my hop trellis in place.





My son thought he'd help with the anchor installation.

 

[+HopSpunge+]

This is my hop garden. I planted the ones under the sputnic satalite looking trellis about 6 years ago. Mixed up blob of hop love now , got alot of pruning to do. The "X" ontop of the pole has a sleve in the middle of the "X" and slides up and down the pole.

Then the ones in the recicled cut up truck tool box are my newest babies planted last week both Saaz.

 

[jethro55]

Modified the fish cleaning table for some more hops growing. Am hoping for some shade over the table in late afternoon.

 

[brewmcq]

And centennial

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I'm not the sharpest bulb in the shed, but isn't that a marigold..? ;-)

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

I'm not the sharpest bulb in the shed, but isn't that a marigold..? ;-)

I dont know if it was put there on purpose, but it is a great plant to have near hops.

Ladybugs love Marigolds and if you release a box of ladybugs they are more likely to stick around longer if theres marigolds and some other plants around...and then eat all of them aphids....

 

[Hockeyhunter99]

Here is what Fargo, ND looks like

 

[basementbrewbrad]

they are coming up everywhere. all but about ten of them are showing above the dirt now

 

[twofieros]

Second year hops going strong in WV.

 

[ProstheticHead]

Second year hops going strong in WV.

Looks like a house up in The Ridges

 

[DerCribben]

Here's my little hop "garden" up in Brentwood NH. These are my first year Cascade, Nugget, and Zeus hops planted about 3 weeks ago and my second year Centennial transplanted from its hard pot into its new and larger fabric pot about 2 weeks ago.

 

[twofieros]

Looks like a house up in The Ridges

Sure enough!

 

[Eshorebrewer]

I got my magnum and goldings strung, going to get the glacier and chinook taken care of this afternoon. Need to get some mulch down as well.

 

[ProstheticHead]

Sure enough!

Wow, that was a wild guess. I live in Huntington, but I've done a lot of Drywall in the Ridges. Recognized those steep hills haha. Good looking plants.

 

[RUNningonbrew]

How many vines per line do you guys usually do?

 

[drh146]

Thanks for the thread everyone. Thought id share mine. First year, month old.

 

[Punx Clever]

She's coming along... probably set back by being dug up and re-panted to eliminate the mushroom infestation that got to the top layer of potting soil though...