Hop Season 2019

[MezzoRN]

Some progress being made on the water bottle clippings.

This one right here, was a clipping from the chinook above I did last summer. This was a left over pot, that I thought I had given away. To put in perspective how resilient hops are, this one sprouted with zero sunlight, was sitting in my garage all winter after I didn’t find someone to give him to.

 

[NitrogenWidget]

Some progress being made on the water bottle clippings.


This one right here, was a clipping from the chinook above I did last summer. This was a left over pot, that I thought I had given away. To put in perspective how resilient hops are, this one sprouted with zero sunlight, was sitting in my garage all winter after I didn’t find someone to give him to.

I'm putting in 2nd yr plants from great lakes hops that look like they have already been trimmed to 2-3 shoots.
but next yr I will give the water clipping trick a try for sure.

that's amazing.

 

[MezzoRN]

The family that I bought this home from left us a lot of trash, but also some inconvenient things to clean up that are not horrible. They left this big pile of slate and granite in the lower driveway and I haven’t had time to really clean up (and it’s been raining like crazy). So I had a decent day off with the kiddo and decided to start cleaning up this mess...

Doing so, I was able to begin putting together a hop bed for my big Chinook that I transplanted a few weeks ago. The move slowed him down a lot, however with all the rain and fertilizer I gave him the past few weeks he’s starting to rebound. I don’t expect a lot from him this season because of the move, but next year should be fine. Gonna just throw some more compost and soil here to fill in around the bed a little once the shoots come up a little. Excited to see how full this bed gets down the road.