2013 Hop garden photo thread

[Nunner]

My cascade have taken off...my Centennial on the other hand not so much.

Close up of some of the cones on the cascade.

Both first years in San Diego

We'll have to trade, my centennial took off, but cascade not so much.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Already have tons of cones, should i expect an early harvest?

I need to harvest some of mine now (in fact I waited a bit too long for some of the cones). Last year, I took multiple times from some plants/

 

[jfrank85]

Third year Centennials, all organic, sexy and massive.

 

[ghoti]

Have tons of cones.

 

[mkringii]

Third year Centennials, all organic, sexy and massive.

Another michigander with cones.. My 3 buddies and i dont have cones yet here on the westside.. And thats roughly 15 different varieties with nothing yet? Whats going on here!?!?

 

[Carlscan26]

We'll have to trade, my centennial took off, but cascade not so much.

Works for me - let me know when you're harvesting. :cheers:

And one more pic of those cascade cones:

 

[SMIB]

I really like the set up with the cross rope. How tall are the pvc pipes?

I went with standard 10' PVC, and the bottom 5' is slid over a chunk of 1/2" rebar. Will see how it goes this year, might have to add a couple of feet - and can already see that I'll need some sort of a pulley system too.

 

[JimmytheGeek]

About spiders, I tend to get a lot of whitish, grayish, spiders on my bines, especially toward the end of growing season. They are fantastic to have around, imo, as I don't have problems with pests and don't have to add pesticides. Bottom line, don't stress about the spiders--they don't eat hops or vegetation--so welcome them. I have found, though, that it's wise to give the bines a solid shake (which gets the spiders to drop out) before picking hops...

(I believe recluse spiders tend to stay on the ground but I'm no expert.)

As a homeowner with both brown recluse & black widows on my property, my research tells me that they prefer darker protected places like wood piles and crawl spaces. Experience has told me the same, so it is very unlikely you will find a recluse or a widow in your hops.

 

[SPR-GRN]

Apparently i am living in the wrong location for hops growing.. pictures look good guys & gals.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

It seems the Miracle Gro i gave my two first year stunted plants a new life and they are back on their way upwards after being stuck at like 5 feet for over a month.

It seems that the soil i planted them in is just way more nutrient deficient than where i planted my cascades. All of them were planted in the same compost mix, i just think the surrounding soil was crap and nothing i did organically seemed to help.

My first year Cascades are easily 25' right now and still growing, while the Columbus and Newport were stuck for a long time and yellowing. Im still convinced it has to do with the fact the two stunted ones were planted over top of an area where bushes were pulled out that probably just sucked every bit of nutrients out of the ground, and the cascade was planted on top where a bunch of yearly bulb flowers were that I was always too lazy to cut back and just rotted and composted into the ground over fall/winter. Getting those bulbs out was a nightmare they were all one giant mass probably 1.5' wide and a foot deep.

 

[Chrisl77]

Here are some photos of this years garden.

All my babies. these are cascade and willamette, all are around 2 months in the pots. I am going to put them in the shed this winter and figure out where to plant them in the spring. I seem to be addicted to rooting clippings as I have another 24 in the aeroponic box.


This is my third year cascade its a monster the pic does not do it justice. My EKG and fuggle are growing on the opposite side of the arbor. Its easily 3 times larger then both of them.


Here is an EKG rhizome I clipped off the main plant this spring. I am using it to decorate my pool side bar.


Here is a pic of my Willamette and nugget.

I need to do a better job stringing these next year. The top line is around 17 feet at that spot but the both overgrew it and mixed together at the top. Gonna be fun harvesting the top of them without mixing them up. These are my best growers this year. I have another 6 growing just not as well, most of them are first year rhizomes from the main plants.

 

[sexymanlyman]

Tennessee!

 

[derbycitybrewer]

Here are some photos of this years garden.

All my babies. these are cascade and willamette, all are around 2 months in the pots. I am going to put them in the shed this winter and figure out where to plant them in the spring. I seem to be addicted to rooting clippings as I have another 24 in the aeroponic box.
http://s292.photobucket.com/user/surfnkid69/media/SAM_0082_zps13181824.jpg.html

This is my third year cascade its a monster the pic does not do it justice. My EKG and fuggle are growing on the opposite side of the arbor. Its easily 3 times larger then both of them.
http://s292.photobucket.com/user/surfnkid69/media/SAM_0084_zps57dc58e8.jpg.html

Here is an EKG rhizome I clipped off the main plant this spring. I am using it to decorate my pool side bar.
http://s292.photobucket.com/user/surfnkid69/media/SAM_0083_zps0296abc4.jpg.html

Here is a pic of my Willamette and nugget.
http://s292.photobucket.com/user/surfnkid69/media/SAM_0085_zps1194b8f4.jpg.html
I need to do a better job stringing these next year. The top line is around 17 feet at that spot but the both overgrew it and mixed together at the top. Gonna be fun harvesting the top of them without mixing them up. These are my best growers this year. I have another 6 growing just not as well, most of them are first year rhizomes from the main plants.

When u say rooting clipping, can u root side shoots or do they have to be clippings from the rhizome?

 

[half_whit]

Probably not the best hobby for someone with a nearly debilitating and irrational fear of bugs, but here's my progress. 3 of 5 original plants have survived. One is taller than my friend here so probably around 7 feet. Just did some weeding and sprayed em down with neem

 

[Chrisl77]

When u say rooting clipping, can u root side shoots or do they have to be clippings from the rhizome?

Bine clippings i dont know if side shoots would work. All my clippings where late shoots coming out of the ground that i was getting rid of. I clip the bine into sections with 1the set of leaves per section. Once the section made roots it would grow a new shoot from the node at the leaf.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Slightly different picture this week...of all my ladybugs!

Every one of those black dots is a ladybug larvae, or an adult..i have them all over my Newport which has quite a few aphids.

 

[bottlebomber]

Ladybugs are savage aphid eating machines. I had some artichokes that had tons of aphids, and I unleashed a couple bags of ladybugs onto the plants. The ladybugs went into a feeding frenzy, chewing up aphids as the reached for more. In some cases they were just biting hunks out of them as they went for the next one. I'll never view them the same again.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Ladybugs are savage aphid eating machines. I had some artichokes that had tons of aphids, and I unleashed a couple bags of ladybugs onto the plants. The ladybugs went into a feeding frenzy, chewing up aphids as the reached for more. In some cases they were just biting hunks out of them as they went for the next one. I'll never view them the same again.

Yea i did two seperate releases two or three weeks apart. My hop leaves are littered with ladybug egg sacks, so i should have a constant supply for the next 4-6 weeks as they hatch and grow.

 

[TangoHotel]

I went outside between thunderstorms and snapped a few pics. The Sunbeam has tones of cones.

The Willamette has exactly 2 cones but has a bunch of the spurs.

And nugget is approaching 25 feet and still reaching skyward.

 

[Crabnut]

Here is what mine are looking like this year. On the left is my Glacer, and on the right is my Cascade, going wild.

 

[jack_a_roe]

i heart this thread. i gotta head to my buddys and take a pic of ours. all first years we got>>cascade, centennial, kent goldings, willamette, nugget, mangnum, brewers gold. pretty sure there's another variety or two but i forgot off the top of my head.

 

[mf6421]

I've got 2 cascade plants and 1 Centennial plant all in their 4th year. This is probably the best they have ever grown. I think last year's cool and rainy May/June caused more aphid damage and slower growth. This year we have had more sun, but I still have only watered the hops a few times this season.

The first photo is the top of my first year nugget plant that is just starting to flower. The other photos show the cascade and centennial which have had cones for the last few weeks.

 

[heyblinkin]

Second year plants turned into one hop tree.

 

[bottlebomber]

Second year plants turned into one hop tree.

That's bad ass. It's a pillar of hops.

 

[JimmytheGeek]

I have first year plants and I have been reading up on hop gardens. Some say to trim back all but the strongest 2 bones. Is this q good rule for first year plants? Or should I just let them go the first year? The only reason I ask is because my Sterling is going nuts. It has like 8 or 9 bines one more keep popping up

The first year, I let my Nugget rhizome do what it did, and still ended up with about an ounce of wet hops that I used in a batch. Last year, I had too many irons in the fire & let it go wild, and just used the ounce of dried hops I got from them. This year, I chopped it back to 6 bines, cut 2 shoots off the main rhizome & planted them at the other end of my setup.

I have far more cones this year over last, primarily because the plant is in "survival mode." It's a common technique in viticulture to cut back extra vines that do not have grapes on them to increase the number of grapes on the producing vines. Doing so makes the grapes "think" they are under attack and must produce as much seed as possible to continue the line. I believe this is the case for hops as well, but not based solely on my own experience.

 

[Chamuco]

Drying first pick from my centennial.





More to come....


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[brooksy]

My wife and I move into my grandmas last winter after grandpa passed, an unintended benefit is she has property and a nice 7ft tall fence around her garden to let my hops grow on.

2nd year nuggets, the deer ate the leafage in the middle.



3rd year cascade



1st year mt hood which took 2 months to break ground



1st year centennial, the plant I'm most excited about

 

[DoubleAught]

This is my first year. My 8 crowns are coming along nicely it would seem.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Cones everywhere!

 

[Stevo2569]

Drying first pick from my centennial.

More to come....

I decided to get some off before they overmatured. Probably 3-4 wet ozs of each cascade and nugget. Here's the biggest cascade ever off these plants.