2014 Hop garden photo thread

[hnycrk]

Very nice looking hop gardens everyone! ! It's going to be a good gardening season!!

 

[Mleytevidal]

Think I need to prune these guys up a little bit.



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Wow! Nice!


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[sablesurfer]

Ok, NOT listed on the soil test instructions...."Caution, the blue vial will explode explosively leaving exploded dirt and testing solution exploding all over the place. Explode."
No, it does NOT say that about the blue vial in case anyone is wondering.

(No new pics, been raining here for two days.)

 

[Zuljin]

Ok, NOT listed on the soil test instructions...."Caution, the blue vial will explode explosively leaving exploded dirt and testing solution exploding all over the place. Explode."
No, it does NOT say that about the blue vial in case anyone is wondering.

(No new pics, been raining here for two days.)

Wow! A two day explosion raining blue soil! Nice! :rockin:

 

[modobrew]

Built the planter two weeks ago, just got the time to transplant my 3 year old cascade and centennial hop plants. I still need to thin them out and build something for them to grow up. I think I'll let them get used to the new home before I cut them back. I still have at least one more of the planters to build and possibly a compost area. You can see how I had them planted previously.


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[fuzzy2133]

First year cascade getting going. 3 bines sprouting.

Golding has no bines out of the dirt but plenty of roots developing.

 

[LesIsMore]

I started talking to my cousin who used to have his own landscaping business, next thing I know, he offered to plant rhizomes for me. Just planted 2 centennial and 2 cascade rhizomes this weekend and built this structure.

 

[badwhale]

I have 2nd year Nugget:



and 2nd year Cascade:



Just yesterday (4-27-14) I noticed a little tiny shoot of one Chinook plant. These are first year. I didn't take a picture yet.

 

[Beer_Eugenics]

Update

 

[Beer_Eugenics]

Update 2

 

[MathiasMicrobrew]

Cones already?! Where abouts are you lol

 

[Beer_Eugenics]

Cones already?! Where abouts are you lol

Laredo, Texas

 

[pennztatelion]

haven't put up my poles yet but my plants are in the ground. Spacing is close I know but I'm going for a closed wall off for ambiance on my deck.


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[jayway]

That is close spacing but I like the wall idea. How many plants and what varieties?

 

[pennztatelion]

21 plants. All chinook. I went for something that will have good sidearm length and stayed same variety due to how close I was keeping them. Maybe in a year or two I can transplant some out when they mature.



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[Zuljin]

Update 2

Damn, Laredo. DFW here and mine don't look close to making cones, I don't think.

 

[thaymond]

Cutworm! I hates you so!





A 4 foot bine.... Cut off about 9 inches. Just bought some neem oil this weekend too...

 

[sablesurfer]

Cutworm! I hates you so!
A 4 foot bine.... Cut off about 9 inches. Just bought some neem oil this weekend too...

Was just going to say. I have neem and my caterpiller killer soil bacteria stuff...whatever it is called. Only 2weeks of rain so haven't gotten to protect my babies yet.

 

[sablesurfer]

So, according to this, my 2nd year hops are very low on phosphorous, ok on potash, low to very low on nitrogen and neutral to alkaline. Hmmm.

I just put blood meal down two months ago for nitrogen, I hear that vinegar can work for lowering pH and not sure how to do phosphorous as bone meal takes months to break down.



My centennial pot on the left and my chinook pot on the right.

 

[badwhale]

Cutworm! I hates you so!

A 4 foot bine.... Cut off about 9 inches. Just bought some neem oil this weekend too...

Huh. I thought that was maybe rodents in my garden. I put fence around, and I don't see any more of mine damaged like that. I only really noticed damage on the Nugget, and not the Cascade.

 

[thaymond]

Huh. I thought that was maybe rodents in my garden. I put fence around, and I don't see any more of mine damaged like that. I only really noticed damage on the Nugget, and not the Cascade.

Nuggets been hit 3 times. They hit Zeus once, and cascade once. This one was the most profound though. Aggravating.

 

[Zuljin]

So, according to this, my 2nd year hops are very low on phosphorous, ok on potash, low to very low on nitrogen and neutral to alkaline. Hmmm.

I just put blood meal down two months ago for nitrogen, I hear that vinegar can work for lowering pH and not sure how to do phosphorous as bone meal takes months to break down.

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My centennial pot on the left and my chinook pot on the right.

All I know about using vinegar in the garden is that it can be used as a herbicide (plant killer).

 

[sablesurfer]

All I know about using vinegar in the garden is that it can be used as a herbicide (plant killer).

(This could get off topic as I have strayed from pics of garden.)

So some follow up reading shows that hops are fine in the 6-7.5 range...and in general they are still a weed so not sure if home growers really need to obsess over this anyway. <shrug>

As for the vinegar, yes at full strength it appears (according to the interwebz) to be a great dandelion and weeds in concrete killer.

Also according to the interwebz, a guy used 12oz in 1 gal water and dropped the pH in his potted blueberries by 2 points....(and I believe this was across 'some' pots of plants, not all in one.)

Not sure what I have added to the convo, but I'll come back in a couple weeks with more pics to make up for it.

 

[jayway]

Trench for irrigation



And finally in the ground!




I know were a little late and the rhizomes were in the fridge for almost 2 weeks but at least they are in the ground. Hopefully we won't lose too many. 5 plants each of 5 varieties. 100' hop row with room to grow!

And in the distance... Future barn nano ...

 

[sablesurfer]

California huh? I could be done with this career in a couple years and come be your farm hand and pilot batch brewer.

 

[atimmerman88]

I get to contribute this year! Finally bought some rhizomes from thmye gardens.

Gotten goin in pales for now in central illinios where we still are in frost risk


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[BPO]

Here is the second post. So far so good.

 

[nextgenxx]

Found these growing about on my morning jog! Pretty big!




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[ChrisVZ]

My first year garden using a recycled 17' antenna pole with Nugget, Fuggle, and Centennial.







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[CliffMongoloid]

Are theses hops? Planted last year