Pictures of hop plants

[Jako]

I should have taken a picture today. I try to move fast in the greenhouse as it's not the most enjoyable place to be. Reminds me of being in FL.

 

[drjayray]

Crystal hops came back and running up the tree. Centennials are banging hard already and my cascade are not far behind em. Spring has sprung.....

 

[superiorsat]

The first 2 pictures are 2nd year Comet and the tallest is about 8.5 foot. The next 2 pictures are 2nd year Cashmere and the tallest 6.5 foot.

 

[Kent88]

I weeded around and pruned my hops a few days ago. I prune off all the shoots at the end of April because I don't know how to distinguish bull shoots from good ones. I also gave them some fertilizer.



My Hallertau. There is some clover around it that's really difficult to get at.



My Nugget hop crown. It looks like it's put out a rhizome on the left that I should prune off next spring. I would've taken it this year, but I transplanted it last year and want to give it a year of being left alone.

 

[Jako]

Crystal hops came back and running up the tree. Centennials are banging hard already and my cascade are not far behind em. Spring has sprung.....View attachment 728222View attachment 728223

your centennial plant looks just like mine. super aggressive plant. i believe its my Tahoma plant has side arms that grow just as fast as the main bines its a mess to keep in order.

 

[Jako]

The first 2 pictures are 2nd year Comet and the tallest is about 8.5 foot. The next 2 pictures are 2nd year Cashmere and the tallest 6.5 foot.

where are you located?

 

[superiorsat]

where are you located?

Eastern Iowa. North of Davenport.

 

[Jako]

hops look great.

 

[willy_mugobeer]

A new setup this year at Mom-in-law's house. 3rd year Sorachi Ace in the front there, 3rd year Eroica and 1st year Southern Cross over to the right. When we were house-hunting with her a few years ago ... and I saw this patio in the back ... well, if you're in this thread, you know exactly what I was thinking. The second stage on top -- basically a 16' extendable pole from the hardware store, three carabiners, and a bunch more string -- is new this year, just finished that setup this morning.


3rd year Zeus, on the south/southwest side of the house. This one's the producer/moneymaker -- about 6 lbs. dry weight last year. Added three new strings on the right this year.


Neighbor Paul's backyard - 5th year Chinook at left and 4th-year Centennial at right (which I thought was completely dying a couple weeks ago, but perked up real well once I gave them strings to run up). We scavenged some old sections of fence to build the structure ... sags in the middle quite a bit, but whatever.


8th year Columbus, on the east/southeast side of the house. Also a mega-producer, even though it loses direct sun about 12:30 every day.

 

[JAReeves]

The tall one is the Eroica, the Centennial is behind it. Both going strong. The Cascade is in front and looking like a second-year plant. It'll get there. On the other side of the house, starting off slower are Nugget, Shaddock, and Old Mission. The Crystal is sketchy. Not sure if it is going to make year 2 or if I have to replace it with one of the multitude of Centennial offshoot rhizomes I have.

It fits, though. Almost every plant I have bought from this one nursery dies off, no matter what it is or where I put it (I got the Crystal and Nugget from them). Just a crappy seller of plants I guess. I have even sent them plants back and received replacement plants that never show life. Trees, shrubs, grapes, hops, vegetable seeds, etc., no pattern at all; just a 75%+die-off rate. Oh well.

I know its not me, because I trimmed one of my grapes last year, randomly threw a stick in the ground, and it's putting out leaves. I have a green thumb. This nursery doesn't.

 

[Jako]

Well.. had a huge wind storm Friday. Spent the afternoon keeping the greenhouse together. Didn't go well.

Spent all of today fixing it. I built some braces and used neoprene screws for the panels. Luckily today was nice weather.

 

[Jako]

A new setup this year at Mom-in-law's house. 3rd year Sorachi Ace in the front there, 3rd year Eroica and 1st year Southern Cross over to the right. When we were house-hunting with her a few years ago ... and I saw this patio in the back ... well, if you're in this thread, you know exactly what I was thinking. The second stage on top -- basically a 16' extendable pole from the hardware store, three carabiners, and a bunch more string -- is new this year, just finished that setup this morning.
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3rd year Zeus, on the south/southwest side of the house. This one's the producer/moneymaker -- about 6 lbs. dry weight last year. Added three new strings on the right this year.
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Neighbor Paul's backyard - 5th year Chinook at left and 4th-year Centennial at right (which I thought was completely dying a couple weeks ago, but perked up real well once I gave them strings to run up). We scavenged some old sections of fence to build the structure ... sags in the middle quite a bit, but whatever.
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8th year Columbus, on the east/southeast side of the house. Also a mega-producer, even though it loses direct sun about 12:30 every day.
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So wild. The neighbor I would love to have.

 

[Jako]

Blueberry hydomel while I checked the hops out.

 

[Jako]

Well all the issues are sorted out. Hops are well on the way

 

[Kaz15]

My 3rd year post transplant cascade hops are ready to rock and roll.

Some pruning along with cat, critter and child barricade was required.

Ready to go for the season.

 

[Kaz15]

I am sad that this Arcadian plant must be ripped out soon. It’s already discovered the patio post and starting to climb. It will be replaced by Prussian hops from GLH.

The little pot is part of my cascade crown I cut/dug out to keep the mother plant manageable. Giving it to a homebrewer friend.

 

[Jako]

My 3rd year post transplant cascade hops are ready to rock and roll. View attachment 729199
Some pruning along with cat, critter and child barricade was required.
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Ready to go for the season.

Super cool trellis

 

[NitrogenWidget]

I am sad that this Arcadian plant must be ripped out soon. It’s already discovered the patio post and starting to climb. It will be replaced by Prussian hops from GLH.

The little pot is part of my cascade crown I cut/dug out to keep the mother plant manageable. Giving it to a homebrewer friend.
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LOL!
both my Arcadians and Hartwhicks have done this along a lot of bines pushing through the tiny space between boards of the planter I built next to the deck.
I just had to cut out 6 more bines that were between a foot to 3 feet long growing outside the planter and under the deck.
again.
one popped out between my deck steps.
I put a couple of the cuttings with significant roots on my fence line to see if they take. will look good on the chain link if they do.
I have some fence pickets i'm going to force into the ground to cover the space between boards to stop this.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

My second year hops are off to the races here in Virginia! I planted 4 plants from Great Lakes Hops last year. I got a little bit off the Chinook (the equivalent of 2 oz dried), so hoping I get some this year. From left to right, the Triple Pearl and Chinook have several bines up to the deck. The US Golding is way behind, but has a couple bines staring up the twine. The Tahoma has one bine up to the deck, and maybe a couple others in the rear. I trimmed back some bines on the Triple Pearl and Chinook, but will just let whatever grows on the others grow.

 

[Jako]

long story short. the green house is fixed and ran the extra line fort the hops to keep going. just need to set up my solar fan and lights and let the hops go wild. don't judge my make shift frame it was my first attempt and it just need t o keep the greenhouse safe in heavy winds.

 

[Toxxyc]

That looks awesome.

 

[Jako]

My neighbor has horses. Took my tractor over and cleaned out the horse pin and took a years worth of poop for myself. (With permission ofcourse) hops look neat from the outside.

I have 3 new plants on the way. Teamaker, Comet and brewers gold.

Comet was made from an English hop sunshine and a wild utah hop. Also a neomexicanus.

It gave me the idea. I would like to go into the mountains and find some wild hops and take some rhizome and see what I end up with.

 

[Kent88]

With permission ofcourse

My brain is now trying to figure out whether a lack of permission would've earned you charges related to robbery or just trespassing.

When my dad and uncle bought a few acres around a place where a guy boarded horses they were asked to clean out a barn. When I commented that it was free fertilizer I was told that horse manure really wasn't very good fertilizer, they were just cleaning it out to be friendly to the neighbor.

 

[Jako]

My brain is now trying to figure out whether a lack of permission would've earned you charges related to robbery or just trespassing.

When my dad and uncle bought a few acres around a place where a guy boarded horses they were asked to clean out a barn. When I commented that it was free fertilizer I was told that horse manure really wasn't very good fertilizer, they were just cleaning it out to be friendly to the neighbor.

It's compost she would clean and build it up over time. So better than just a hot pile of shiz.

 

[Kaz15]

Cascade and Alpharoma are off to the races. The 1 week growth is pretty awesome.

 

[Jako]

Working on timing the lower half down. Soil wasn't getting enough air. I want to give it some. Nitrogen and push some green growth.

Did i over trim? Also when should I change what type of fertilizer?

Also new hops in some smaller pots for this year. I plan to move the plants into the ground of the greenhouse. Next year.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

Found this little guy taking a nap on one of my hop cones!

 

[Jako]

Found this little guy taking a nap on one of my hop cones!

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that's a rad picture.

 

[Jako]

i was going to take more pictures of the other two plants but it was super windy and ended up forgetting typical me.

 

[Kaz15]

My Cascade plant is doing it’s thing. Such a beast.

Hartwick:

Alpharoma: