2015 : Anyone have their hops growing yet?

[sablesurfer]

Wait until the snow is gone and the ground is thawed and just put them in the ground. IMO you will do more damage transferring them around after planting then them being in the ground with some overnight lows.

Not if you just put the whole pot full of dirt in a hole. It's what I have done for five different plants now. Rooted em in root stimulate and water in beer bottle, planted them in biggish degradable pots, put whole thing in permanent pot later on.

 

[corkybstewart]

Tomorrow after work I'll start pruning the roots and starting some new plants. I've got Cascades coming up everywhere.

 

[MrSnacks]

We had some incredibly warm weather, snow melted, ground thawed. I got my hop crowns from Great Lakes planted in pots and now I've got hops indoors in pots going nuts and of course it snows! Crap. Not sure what to do now.

 

[CarbonTom]

Got my hops from freshops today. They look super healthy I am excited. Already have some roots/shoots coming out. I am planning on putting them in pots Fri or Monday and starting them inside. I figure in MA I should at least hold off until the end of April or early may

 

[CarbonTom]

Just looked at where I planted my glacier last year and I think I might have forgotten where it was haha. There were these first two shoots. Are they hops? I'm pretty sure the one in the snow is. Its all white. Should I cut it back? Or did it come up too soon and killed off the plant?

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[sablesurfer]

Just looked at where I planted my glacier last year and I think I might have forgotten where it was haha. There were these first two shoots. Are they hops? I'm pretty sure the one in the snow is. Its all white. Should I cut it back? Or did it come up too soon and killed off the plant?

The last two are not hop pictures. Hop shoots look like purple asparagus shoots for about first 3-4in of growth and then start doing try point leaves with lots of wrinkly ridges.

 

[CarbonTom]

The last two are not hop pictures. Hop shoots look like purple asparagus shoots for about first 3-4in of growth and then start doing try point leaves with lots of wrinkly ridges.

Ah, I dont think the first one was either since it was so rigid. So maybe they havent popped up yet. ty

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Just looked at where I planted my glacier last year...

Why do you cover your plants with ice?

 

[CarbonTom]

Why do you cover your plants with ice?

I figured glacier hops needed ice to grow

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Hops:

 

[MTinOR]

I have shoots on all my rhizomes here in Portland. The back 4: Mt Hood, Magnum, Willamette, Zeus... All second year plants with pretty good first year crop. Front 3: Cascade, Centennial, Sorachi Ace....all first years. Was only going to get a Cascade, but saw Cent. and SA and said screw it. Lol View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1427438252.574976.jpg


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[shelly_belly]

I thought I had lost my cascades. The pot has been full of rain water for almost 2 months. 2 weeks ago I dumped the water out.

 

[huckbof]

count the nuggets...

what is interesting is that my hops in containers have leaves and hops in the ground don't

 

[mr_rogers]

After the raspberry false alarm I was sure I wasn't mistaken as my hops literally exploded in the warm Utah weather we've been having. So two days ago this is what my hops looked like. Sitting at a warm 75 degrees they were happy happy happy.
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And this is what it looked like yesterday...

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Can anyone enlighten me as to the negative effects of 8 inches of snow on a young hop vine?

I hope they're resilient.

 

[swmalone]

We didn't get that much snow a bit further North but it did land on my centennial that had just sprouted from the ground. I was more worried about the lower temperatures. It seems like the hops are fine, well the cascade hasn't sprouted yet, but I'm hopeful. The fruit trees on the other hand don't seem all that happy.

 

[Mountainsax]

count the nuggets...

what is interesting is that my hops in containers have leaves and hops in the ground don't

Soil in containers (raised bed, hills, etc.) will warm up faster than flat ground. Your container hops just have a little head start!

 

[wysiwyg]

My Chinook and cascade are coming up and one looks more like a hop Bush! I just planted them last year and am quite happy they made it through the MN winter. Thing is, one plant has about 20 shoots coming out of the ground. I'd love to get all the hops I can, but I've also heard of people trimming back all but the strongest shoot.

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[neild5]

That looks good. It looks like there are several bull shoots. They will be hollow, and even though they are growing fast they will be weaker and are not as disease resistant.

 

[tjpfeister]

Oshkosh, WI-
These two potted (second year) centennials broke ground about 2 weeks ago. The 15 plants I have in my garden (also second year) are all putting shoots up right now. I potted 55 rhizomes in nursery pots last Sunday, about 7 of those have shoots up already. I need to get the trellis up on the bit of land I'm renting before these things get too crazy!
Green Bay, WI-
My friends are have been reporting shoots for over a week now, but my father says the two fifth year plants on his property have yet to break ground (odd). No report from my abandoned field, I assume it to mostly be a loss on account of the poor soil and last year's poor watering.

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[Auger]

I've got nothing so far Hoping they made it through the winter, this would only be their second year.

 

[TrickyDick]

Third year chinook is about 8-10 feet high. Cent, Columbus, and Sterling are just getting going.

 

[Hounds]

I'll grab photos later today but YES my hops are just starting to come out here in Central New York. We had a very large amount of snow this year ( 30 feet ) with a Month of super cold spell but snow was already on the ground at that point. So a nice insulator.
We JUST had our last melt down of what was left on the ground about 2 weeks ago. It was amazing as SOON as that snow melted and we had a couple 60 degree days, WHAM.
The first and most furious is an heirloom I suspect to be 50 to 100 years old. That is always the quickest but last year it suddenly died off. Not sure. The leaves and bines grew but cones suddenly died. Hope it was a fluke thing. It did not bother any of the other plants. I have Cascades just out of the ground and Centennials and Magnum's just barely trying to peak out. They'll all be out in a couple days I suspect. Hope its a good harvest for all this year, last year sucked here in Central NY. At least up here in the Southern Tug Hill where we had tons of rain in April and May, too much I believe. Also a wet summer all-in-all.

 

[matthewohm]

They are just now poking their heads out here in Sullivan County, NY...

 

[Pelikan]

The first and most furious is an heirloom I suspect to be 50 to 100 years old. That is always the quickest but last year it suddenly died off. Not sure. The leaves and bines grew but cones suddenly died. Hope it was a fluke thing.

If the leaves/bines weren't too affected and all the cones kicked at the same time it might be a phosphorus/potassium deficiency. Maybe try a bloom booster (p-k) this year.

What kind of aroma and taste do you get from the heirloom? Very curious

 

[Hounds]

I was using a 20-20-20 fert on all plants. Is that sufficient or not good for hops?
Also I had the heirloom tested and the numbers are similar to Cascade. In this area I believe Cluster was grown extensively so I'm going with that but who knows. its on an 1875 farm and is growing out of what appears to be an old stone structure which I believe was a hop house.
It does taste and have similar characteristics as a Cascade.

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

Just cut back the bull shoots on my plants yesterday. They were growing pretty fast so hopefully that's a good indicator for the next shoots.

 

[antony]

I just recieved my rhizomes about 3 weeks ago (Cascade, Centennial & Columbus), planted 2 of each in-ground & I think the Centennial is starting to poke through now. I've been impatient (it's my first year) but I guess two weeks is pretty good to show signs of life. I'm hoping I can train them horizontally until the top of the fence and then angled up to the roof. Wish me luck...

 

[Pelikan]

I was using a 20-20-20 fert on all plants. Is that sufficient or not good for hops?
Also I had the heirloom tested and the numbers are similar to Cascade. In this area I believe Cluster was grown extensively so I'm going with that but who knows. its on an 1875 farm and is growing out of what appears to be an old stone structure which I believe was a hop house.
It does taste and have similar characteristics as a Cascade.

20-20-20 Is good to start but might be inadequate for full term growth. Standard ferts like that might build up excessive salts in the soil over the season and wind up locking certain elements out. It's very easy to overdo it with 20-20-20.

Maybe try some gentler organics this year. Epsoma is easy to find on the east coast and cheap. Try plant tone (5-3-3) until you see the first evidence of bloom, then switch to either flower tone or tomato tone. Application is generally once every four weeks during the grow season, with the dose (granular) scratched or raked into the soil surface around the plants. Pretty easy. All you have to do is water from there as needed.

 

[CarbonTom]

Planted my hops on Friday to start them inside for a bit. And my hallertau has exploded. There was a shoot coming off the rhizome when I planted it but it still went through a couple inches of soil quickly. At least an inch per day. This is at 5 days. Also my wye viking and magnum have broken surface as well. Here's to a great start to the season, and a lot of lagers at some point down the road. I highly recommend fresh hops, all of my rhizomes arrived healthy and had sprouts before getting them in the ground.

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[KVANTAN]

South Texas first timer here. I got my rhizomes from Hop Goblin about two weeks ago and got them in the ground pretty quick. I am trellising with 3/8 inch PP rope. I added Miracle Gro garden soil to the 12" deep holes and I have very sandy soil surrounding that with the rhizomes 1" below the surface. Patted down but not hard packed. Lots of little snails in the area, gonna drop some egg shells soon.

Centennials have just showed up a few days after my other two Willamettes. Strongest Willamette is pictured along with the new neighborhood "swing set".

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