2013 Hop garden photo thread

[BoatBrewer]

Is the rope on the pulleys a climbing rope? I like this idea. I had been planing my construction and it looked kinda like this but without the pulleys.

I can take some close up pics and post them in a bit. Its not climbing rope, just 3/8 poly from home depot. the working load is incredibly underrated. one site said 244 lb, another said 133. the core isn't braided but It performs well enough. I designed this system from my experience as a sailor, and I believe it will be very easy to raise and lower for partial harvesting and pruning. The posts are also inserted in a 24 inch deep sleeve, so I can take them out in the off season, for maintenance. the hardware connecting the guy lines are eye nuts, connected directly to the eye "lift" bolts. I should be able to keep a respectable amount of tension on these lines for strength and stability. I can at a later date upgrade the lines, if needed, but the hardware is the key in this system.

 

[Looper]

Looks good looper.... I'm down in springfield and my 1 years are just coming... but the guy I got the 4 year olds from his were about 4-5 feet last friday. Can't imagine what they are today after the warm weather!!!

Good luck!

Appreciate it!

After such a late/nonexistant spring, I was worried that the growing season would never come... But finally! The extended forecast looks nice and warm, so HELL YES! I'll update this thread in a week or so, at which point I expect all the plants to be at the top of the 12' trellis.

 

[Punx Clever]

My one little plant finally needed something to grow on:

I had some help with the upgrades too:

She's even dressed like a Pacific-Northwest hop farmer!

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Have some white ******** on my leaves, they look like aphids or something but t hey are super tiny...i think theres some eggs too.

So i dumped 1500 lady bugs on the case around my plants and garden...

on a side not earlier this week after spraying with Neem i came out the next morning to find a big fatty aphid dead with its teeth still stuck in the leaf...success.

 

[sok454]

So are your hops growing horizontal along the fence?

My one little plant finally needed something to grow on:

I had some help with the upgrades too:

She's even dressed like a Pacific-Northwest hop farmer!

 

[basementbrewbrad]

punx clever that is a cool way to maximize your space. Good idea for those who have to worry about their HOA getting on their case.

 

[twofieros]

I wasn't expecting to see cones forming already! Is this normal this early? Second year plants in WV.

 

[Punx Clever]

So are your hops growing horizontal along the fence?

Well, not yet... but I imagine that they'll get there pretty soon

 

[jglazer]

Yea my Tettnang are starting to shoot to the side and are at the beginning stages of cone production, seems very early (North Carolina). Hopefully it wont effect overall production. The tettnag are probably ~10' tall and my cascades are anywhere between 2-4`.

 

[jperry]

First one, is Cascade (field grade) from GLH, this year. Second and third, are plants I prop'ed, from last years, Chinook variety (crown), from GLH also.

 

[jeepinjeepin]

Yea my Tettnang are starting to shoot to the side and are at the beginning stages of cone production, seems very early (North Carolina). Hopefully it wont effect overall production. The tettnag are probably ~10' tall and my cascades are anywhere between 2-4`.

I'm in NC as well. My second year Zeus and Cascade are both getting near 12' with some bines. I'm getting sides and burrs too.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

This was my Cascade on 5/3, after a month in the ground

This is what its like now on 5/17

Its now nearing 6 feet...

I wish my other ones were doing so well, both my Columbus and Newports are still kinda scrawny. Oh and ignore the silly edging stones above ground, we're (me really) probably laying some paving and edging stones down so i bought a few to see how it'd look before blowing a few hundred and realize we hate how it looks.
Columbus

Newport

 

[UncleLankyFrank]

Winter in Minnesota was particularly brutal this year, with ridiculous late spring snows and frost until the second week of May. I had 6-8 foot long vines on some plants after growing them in pots since early April when I got my rhizomes.

I accidentally snapped off the growing tips of two vines and the rest were withered by battering winds and sleet. So I cut them all to the ground and will just wait for root growth and new shoots.

I have a good pile of compost on top of them. Is there such a thing as too much?

 

[therackman]

2nd year cascades in OR on backyard bamboo trellis

 

[Brewitt]

Transplanted my Cascade and Chinook last weekend into the ground from pots. I was very carefully not to disturb the roots or plants. Soil is great. I mixed some worm castings into the soil in the holes before placing the plants. Watered the plants in place. Today the tips of both cascade bines are brown and dry and the leaves are staring to look ratty. The chinook is happy and healthy and so is the Kent Golding in the pot sitting next to the others. Both plants in the ground were treated identically and are only about three feet apart.

Any ideas? Will the bines sprout a branch if they lose the tip? They are only about 2 feet long. Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[jeepinjeepin]

New pic.

 

[Chamuco]

Cascade and chinook.

 

[specialkaye]

Here is a pic of my townhouse roof top grow. The container is a drilled out 189L rubbermaid container with a 3rd year Willamette. This is first year in the new location. The trellis is made out of a sawhorse bracket and is about 7.5ft high. Not as high as I'd like but i'm going to zig zag the bines a few times before they hit the top. Hopefully it will work out alright.

I give you some pretty big credit here. That's an ambitious project for a small area and I wish you the best of luck with this.

 

[specialkaye]

Holy Spike Head! That's a lot of shoots.

 

[specialkaye]

Thanks I just finished them, wife wanted a garden, so she got 2 5x8 raised garden beds with integrated a sprinkler system. that just happen to water the hops at the same time... MMmmm odd.

i got a few other pics of the beds >> link <<

Very nice set-up.

 

[specialkaye]

I wish I could post some pix of my hops from last summer... but I'm sure this forum is only rated PG-13.. ;-)

Needless to say, my SWMBO is really enjoying herself with my hobby.. ;-)

I'm open to private messages....

 

[brewmcq]

I'm open to private messages....

Lol

 

[part16john]

2nd year centennial

 

[Stevo2569]

2nd year centennial

Looks like only one bine on each string. Did you trim the rest?

 

[Chamuco]

What?! Really? Already?

 

[part16john]

Looks like only one bine on each string. Did you trim the rest?

The others are lagging behind a bit the one shot right up.

 

[UncleLankyFrank]

Winter in Minnesota was particularly brutal this year, with ridiculous late spring snows and frost until the second week of May.

Add today's torrential rain with flooding and and buckets of pea-sized hail and whatever had survived would have died today. Germany is so temperate compared to this crazy climate! What can I do to protect my babies from this when they come up?

At least I found out my sidewalk drains well and holds back the hop piles. This has been the longest Spring ever. I am hoping that whatever hops survive this tempest will be really hardy!

 

[hungry4hops]

Here's mine cascade on the left and fuggle on the right, already reached 8 feet. Found a couple guardians among the leaves also!

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Sweet photos... but ACK!! I think that spider may be a recluse of some sort.

 

[gbx]

Sweet photos... but ACK!! I think that spider may be a recluse of some sort.

I don't know what kind of spiders you have in your area, but it looks a lot like one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider ...not so much as the one in the picture but the shape, the stance and the large lobster like claw/fang things.

[edit] better picture here http://hobospider.org/