2014 Hop garden photo thread

[MrNic]

My Centennial and Columbus. The Centennial has about 5 shoots growing, but only 2 are really going strong.

 

[poptarts]

nice those are doing better than mine, mine pretty much stopped growing when I planted them, think they went into shock or somthing.

 

[michaeltrego]

Here is my single Cascade plant - 3rd year plant, looking good with sidearms sprouting all over the top. This pic is with the trellis lowered to train the long ends horizontally.

And here's a full shot. The trellis line is 15' high, and the longest shoots are another 5' extending to the right.

 

[BikeAndBrew]

Came home from vacation today to find some really nicely developed Cascade cones. Should be ready for harvest very soon!




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[Hopphead]

What's eating Gilbert?
I don't think it's the lady bug:



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[Hopphead]

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.

A soil test kit? Home Depot?

 

[jethro55]

Had a decent early crop from a few second year plants. About 10 oz wet Chinook and another 10 oz mixed bag of Nugget/Magnum/Chinook. Made for a fun brew day !

 

[PapaBearJay]

What's eating Gilbert?View attachment 207235View attachment 207236
I don't think it's the lady bug:
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That looks like aphid or leafhopper damage, but others might have a better idea.


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[sablesurfer]

A soil test kit? Home Depot?

Yep. There seems to be some debate about their effectiveness, but it gave me a place to start.

 

[fuzzy2133]

From the weekend. It has been training its self. All my in-laws have done is keep it watered.

 

[TrickyDick]

My chinook second year is going crazy. The Columbus is looking good too. Probably ready to harvest the chinook.
Also have a first year centennial and a sterling. The sterling doesn't do very well because it gets some are from the AC unit blown onto it. Pic of the chinook (left), and Columbus (right).



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[FuzzeWuzze]

2nd year plants doing well. The Newport is the only one showing signs of budding yet, the other two still feel like they need to grow.
As a reference the the gutters are at 18 feet and the plants are 6 feet apart.

The Cascade plant is going crazy again, growing to the top then growing to the left and right towards both other plants..ive already had to reach out the window 5 times over the last two month to loop the cascade plant back away from the Columbus plant or they would have intermingled a month ago.

Columbus

Cascade

Newport

 

[BoiseBeerCulture]

My Galena/Centennial/Columbus Hop Pole......

 

[Hop_Head_from_Connecticut]

What's eating Gilbert?View attachment 207235View attachment 207236
I don't think it's the lady bug:
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Lady bug is looking for what ever is eating Gilbert

 

[MeanDeuce]

Battling some mildew, leafhoppers and possibly some nutrient deficiency at the moment.

 

[EdMerican]

I was lazy early in the year... I moved my 3rd year cascade, columbus and perle hops from the pots I had them in to the ground, then left them alone too long. By the time I went to string them up everything was a tangled mess. I hacked most of it off at the ground after getting my arms shredded trying to untangle everything. Columbus and perle didnt seem to mind much. The cascade was NOT a fan of how I treated it. From left to right, two of each: Columbus, Willamette, Perle, Centennial and Cascade. Williamette and Centennial are first year.

 

[badwhale]

Cascade in middle, and Nugget on right. Had some high winds break all but one bine off the plant on the far right. What does it do? Pushes up new bines, and makes radials all over the place.



This is my first year Chinook. Slow and steady.

I added blood meal and compost and mulch to all the plots. We'll see what happens.

 

[BPO]

Third picture. Going good. Added drip irrigation and it thrived.

 

[cram]

Here are a few pictures taken this morning from part of the hop yard. All of these are first-year rhizomes taken from the yard at the start of the season. The first shot is a row of Centennial, with two Nugget plants growing to the poles. For reference, the tops of the poles are over 21' from ground.

The second picture is of three Nugget plants and one Centennial on the left. To the top is about 16'.

The last picture shows a few "fertilizer-makers." Spent brewing grains, chickens, and hops--symbiotic loop, for sure!

 

[theck]

Anyone know if this is the start of cones?

 

[EdMerican]

Anyone know if this is the start of cones?

I don't think so. Looks more like side shoots to me. The start of cones looks more like... well... tiny pot buds with hairs.

 

[EdMerican]

Here ya go. This is the beginning of hop cones.

 

[1fast636]

Alright first pic is of the four in the backyard cent is going crazy willament seems to have stalled, chinook sorta growing, and well Columbus I got a question about, I didn't notice the tip broke off some time and now I have some bines coming up off the old bine pics below should I just let it go and see what happens?

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Columbus problem ?????

It looks like regular old bines just growing but off the old bine that lost the tip almost like an above ground rhizome

 

[B-Hoppy]

Eventually. Those are the sidearms/laterals beginning to form. As they get longer you'll see little burrs on them which will eventually turn into hops. Congrats!

edit; looks like you have the answer already. Congrats anyway.

 

[sablesurfer]

WOO HOO! Lots of progress here, but not much in way of pics, sorry. Magnum has FINALLY reached the roof line, out of six hops it is about three-four weeks behind the others.

ALSO...Willamette is FINALLY showing hop flowers. Got about 3-4 right up at the roof line.

And...my cuttings from the start of this season are actually showing some attempts to make hops. My Centennial cutting now has a few hop flowers showing.

 

[temple240]

Here's my in progress trellis. They're all first year plants. Only one Chinook is really taking off.

 

[Hop_Head_from_Connecticut]

Off chutes

 

[WoolyBooger]

Ok, so I'm about 3 weeks late posting this. I harvested about 1 1/2 lbs of Columbus and 1/2 lb of Centennials off of my second year plants already! After harvest, I cut them off at ground level and restrung my trellis. I have new healthy bines that are about 3 ft tall right now. I'm going to let them go and see if I get a second harvest out of them.


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[thaymond]

For all you early harvesters. Lucky ducks!

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=479609

2014 HBT Hop Harvest Totals

 

[thaymond]

Sorry, double post.