2016 Hop Growing Thread

[Punx Clever]

Things are growing nicely. The two tallest were also some of the first to break ground, so that makes sense. There's another that lost it's growth tip early on despite getting an early start... it's making up for lost time with side bines.

Overall, not a bad start on the first year for these plants.

 

[jsvinth34]

Well sadly I found this the past few days. Powdery mildew? Not sure what to do about it

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[Johntodd]

Looks like sun spots. Any chance you irrigated when the sun was shining? Never spray water on plant leaves during the day. The droplets act like magnifying lenses and burn holes in the leaves.

(Of course, if it is powdery in any way, then it's not sun spots.)

 

[The10mmKid]

USDA image of Powdery Mildew

 

[Texconsinite]

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Amazing how different the two Neomexicanus are. Multihead is a bushy beast, shooting sidearms out every which way. The Neo1 is long and spindly continuing to climb the trellis. Soon it will reach the diagonal line up to fence.

 

[Robx]

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Amazing how different the two Neomexicanus are. Multihead is a bushy beast, shooting sidearms out every which way. The Neo1 is long and spindly continuing to climb the trellis. Soon it will reach the diagonal line up to fence.

Interesting that you have so many sidearms on a short plant. For science - would you mind sharing the composition of your soil, where you live, and your watering schedule?

Specific to soil composition - what are you using for fertilizer. I notice that both plants have long internodal length for their height and also the leaves are already developing 3 lobes despite being so close to the crown. Most hops I've looked at seem to grow single lobe leaves up 1' or so before starting to get 3 lobes and then eventually 5 lobe leaves.

 

[RockyMountainCraftBrewing]

My Cascade is doing wicked.5 bines running up the rope and it is 8 feet high.Sadly the one strong bine on my Centennial just plain died.Did not give it anything but water.Got home after work and the leaves were withered and allmost black and the bine itself was as hard as wood.

RMCB

 

[BaylessBrewer]

I think my plants are doing ok for first year plants. One cascade is going strong and one bine on it has lots of burrs forming and the other bines are still growing and putting on side arms. Still small.
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The other cascade is really small for some reason and isn't putting on any height but is kinda turning into a bush of sortsView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465866701.338703.jpg
My centennial is catching up to my big cascade finally. It was a little slow starting but it looks pretty healthy now. Not sure if it will produce this year or not. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465866788.916639.jpg

 

[olotti]

Well sadly I found this the past few days. Powdery mildew? Not sure what to do about it

That's not powdery mildew I had some on my melon plants a couple years back and yeah it looks like the poster below put up that pic, it looks like mildew. Those are either sunspots or I don't know where you live but here in mi we'll get a crazy weather day when we'll get frost and it'll dry out spots like that or the edges of the leaves, had that last year, you can cut those leaves away or leave em it won't hurt the plant either way. But rest assured that's def not mildew but to prevent any water in the coolest times of the day either early morning or evening when the sun goes down and try to water just the ground around the leaves not just dump it on and get the leaves wet.

 

[thaymond]

Things keep growing like crazy.
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Sometimes, it's fun to watch things progress. With some sudsy barley pop, of course!
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[BaylessBrewer]

What's the deal with all the cotton looking stuff on these burrs?View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1465912765.466064.jpg
Is this normal? Do I possibly have spider mites? Other than this the plant is very healthy looking.

 

[Apollo]

What's the deal with all the cotton looking stuff on these burrs?
Is this normal? Do I possibly have spider mites? Other than this the plant is very healthy looking.

Those are cute itty bitty baby hop cones.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Could just be regular spider web, those leaves look great!

 

[BaylessBrewer]

Those are cute itty bitty baby hop cones.

I laughed my ass off at this!! Lol I have a 2yr old and whenever she finds something smaller than normal (small blueberry/ normal blueberry) she holds it up and says " ooooh it's a itty bitty baby one" lol

 

[BaylessBrewer]

Could just be regular spider web, those leaves look great!

I sure hope so!
Thanks. I'm pretty impressed by how these plants grow. I've had many gardens but this is my first year growing hops.

 

[brewcat]

What's the deal with all the cotton looking stuff on these burrs?
Is this normal? Do I possibly have spider mites? Other than this the plant is very healthy looking.

Check under the leaves just in case. 10x to 20x hand lens.

http://www.uvm.edu/extension/cropsoil/wp-content/uploads/Millerspidermite11.pdf

 

[BrewStew]

Seeing how the Summer Sulstice is right around the corner, do I have time to add more "grow" nutes?
I'm using a 3-3-3 Sea Tea. Recently my plants have had some explosive growth and I'm starting to see the beginning of side arms. Should I add one more dose of "grow" or switch to "bloom"?

 

[thaymond]

Seeing how the Summer Sulstice is right around the corner, do I have time to add more "grow" nutes?
I'm using a 3-3-3 Sea Tea. Recently my plants have had some explosive growth and I'm starting to see the beginning of side arms. Should I add one more dose of "grow" or switch to "bloom"?

Once you start seeing complete sidearms, your N uptake is nearly complete as they are approaching full biomass. In the link, page 10 is a good Nitrogen guide. The dates/days are the x axis, and the uptake is the y axis. It levels out and flatlines after solstice time. Go with a high P and high K fertilizer for a bloom boost.

https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/pnw513/

Granted, those are charts for entire hop yards, but if you scale down to your hobby yard, you can assume something similar.

 

[jbhollis1180]

I'm fascinated and giddy with this thread. I went a bit crazy this year as I have 2 rows of 11 plants each of cascade and centennial (pictured) and 19 potted plants of more cascade/centennial plus some nugget, and another 5 nuggets in a raised bed. Trellis is made of 4, 21' Ash saplings cabled with 3/16 wire and anchored with 30" ground anchors. For the potted plants I just secured 8' redwood stakes and strung them with sisal twine. The rows are 35' in length and spaced 10' on center. Most are doing well, despite an avid aphid battle. I have even had some minor early success propagating from my 2nd year plants. Cant wait to drink the fruits of my labor. Cheers.

 

[jsvinth34]

Looks like sun spots. Any chance you irrigated when the sun was shining? Never spray water on plant leaves during the day. The droplets act like magnifying lenses and burn holes in the leaves.

(Of course, if it is powdery in any way, then it's not sun spots.)

After thinking about this for a bit, I think it's because it rained and then the sun came out. At least it makes me feel better about that now lol

 

[lzrdkng14]

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Cascade flowers

 

[Punx Clever]

Came home from work today to find one of my plants has almost made it to the upstairs windows!

 

[Texconsinite]

Now that it finally stopped raining, all three are going nuts.
Cascade keeps adding burrs, I can see the main harvest on its way
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Neo1 almost to top of trellis
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Multihead just wants to be a bush, apparently, but is growing quickly
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All first year plants, hoping to get cones on the neos this yr but we'll see

 

[BaylessBrewer]

All plants are doing good. Still have one cascade that don't look like it will top 4ft this year. It's been this height for almost 4weeks now and it just wants to put on side arms and bush out. I tried trimming all the side arms off with hope of it growing upward again but it laughed in my face and put on twice as many side arms! I give up! Lol
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[philipCT]

Need some help here. My plants aren't in a real sunny location but they're growing pretty well for 1st year rhizomes I guess. The cascade has many leaves that look like the below. I've seen very light spider webs on them but the leaf cupping seems from what I've read to indicate downy mildew.

Any ideas on what this is and how I should treat it? (the small bubbles visible on 1st and 2nd photo are from a soapy water solution I just sprayed on it in an attempt to treat it for spider mites, which I think are what the really fine spider webbing is from)

 

[Saboral]

I was just trimming around the bed and I accidentally cut not just one but two of my cascade bines. I'm devastated......

 

[brewcat]

Need some help here. My plants aren't in a real sunny location but they're growing pretty well for 1st year rhizomes I guess. The cascade has many leaves that look like the below. I've seen very light spider webs on them but the leaf cupping seems from what I've read to indicate downy mildew.

Any ideas on what this is and how I should treat it? (the small bubbles visible on 1st and 2nd photo are from a soapy water solution I just sprayed on it in an attempt to treat it for spider mites, which I think are what the really fine spider webbing is from)

Could be herbicide drift, which would cup the leaves. Hops are very susceptible to glyphosate. If that is what it is, it will recover in a couple weeks.

 

[cram]

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Centennial this morning. Starting to flower toward the bottom.
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Nugget and Chinook still headed up.

 

[thaymond]

I was just trimming around the bed and I accidentally cut not just one but two of my cascade bines. I'm devastated......

Nooooo!

I think we've all been there, or at least close to it.

 

[Yeastieboy]

I was just trimming around the bed and I accidentally cut not just one but two of my cascade bines. I'm devastated......

I would likely cry like a baby.