Pictures of your Hop Babies/Hop Photo Thread

[Soulive]

And just FYI for those who know my address. I have a firearm and several key vantage points overlooking the crop ;-)

I would never...

 

[98EXL]

And just FYI for those who know my address. I have a firearm and several key vantage points overlooking the crop ;-)

are your chinook's first year? My leaves are huge and no flowers yet on them or the fuggle.....my Chinook is 16' tall, Fuggle stopped around 8'

 

[Bobby_M]

The chinook anf fuggle are second year. Ryan_PA got them started last year in what looked like 3 gallon pots. When I transplanted this Spring into the 30 gallon barrels, the roots were a little compacted but not bad.

Right now I'd estimate the chinook at 22' and the fuggle at 16-17'.

 

[Ryan_PA]

Glad to see they are taking off for you Bobby. Believe it or not, the Chinook left an offspring in my wife's flower pot that was next to the plant, so I have something to start with when we find the new house.

 

[Bobby_M]

Well, you're obviously welcome to some rhizomes next Spring as well to keep them in the family.

 

[aekdbbop]

bobby, what did you use at the top the your lines to secure it to the house?

 

[Bobby_M]

It's just an eyehook with lag threads. Drilled a starter hold into the facia board and screwed it in. I still wish I accounted for lowering the twine down for harvesting. I'll just have to get my extension ladder out and keep it chained to something heavy.

 

[Ryan_PA]

Why dont you just put a pulley on the eyehook, and tie off the tops of the rope to a string, and use it to lower the rig at harvest?

 

[McKBrew]

Fugglelicious!!!

 

[Aleforge]

Its been easily 45-50 days now and still nothing going on. My Kents got going first and stopped at about 12 inches of growth. Then comes my Willamette which got a little more "bushy" but still is only 8 inches long. And the Centennial only got about 3 inches tall. All have ample support to train up the line. And they all look green and healthy! They just aren't GROWING! I am going to take pictures tonight to show everyone, but they look fairly normal. Any ideas on how to kick start the growth?

 

[clemson55]

Here are my hops, unfortunately as you can tell they are confined to my tiny porch now that I moved and they arent getting the good light they were getting previously.

 

[Bobby_M]

Why dont you just put a pulley on the eyehook, and tie off the tops of the rope to a string, and use it to lower the rig at harvest?

Yeah, I was thinking of doing that even without the pulley. I'd climb up, cut the sisal loop at the top and tie off a string that goes through the eyehook and down to the ground to be tied to a cleat. I guess getting the ladder out once beats doing it over and over.

 

[wizardofza]

Don't have any room to spare, and get minimal light so this is the best I could do. My dad has my Chinook and Mt. Hood, he has the yard for it.

These were taken a week ago (I think) and are more than twice this height. :rockin:

Cascade

Hallertau

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

3 of mine have not popped the surface out of the other 13 the range form 2 feet high down to little sprouts. Talk about inconsistant!

I'll post pics when they grow more.

Do Ants eat hop leaves? I see some holes in my leaves and lots of Ants around.

 

[ben the brewman]

the trellis is a 30 year old cascade crown that i split in half and its getting lots of cones forming already. the small vine is magnum and the larger one is nugget.

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[ben the brewman]

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[Aleforge]

Updated Hop pictures. Here are the side by side comparisons over the month of June.

 

[ChrisS68]

It's amazing how nice so many people's plants are looking. With mine, what doesn't look sickly gets chewed up on a daily basis. Don't you people have insects where you live?

 

[Jeff48]

Geez Ben, I know you said your Cascade crown was throwing cones but c'mon. If you weren't married to my daughter I'd probably feel like kicking your butt for making my hops look puny. Hell even your first years look good........

At my place the Cascade is still the best looking and probably about 6'. The Centennial is at about 5' and the EKG and Magnums are still less than 3'.

 

[Arneba28]

Well my plants have had a rough first year. The shed that the twine is mounted to has a family of woodchucks living under it. Well the two baby ones dug a mini hole right up into my garden. luckily they have not eaten either bine but they kick all my mulch out of the bed for some reason. Then we had some nasty hail, took off a few leaves. The combo of rain for 4 days straight then sunny and hot for 5 days with no rain, is not the best combo.

My Magnum, coming along slowly, missing a few leaves from the hail, only one bine came up, Yes I know I need to get in there and do some weeding.

My Centennial, a little over 7 ft tall, some really big leaves. looks heathly except for a few bottom leaves that are yellow, is that over watering?

 

[Jeepsn beer]

Heres my Magnums, Willamette, and Cascades as of 6/25/08. The post is about 15 feet tall. The Willamette Valley is a no brainer for growing hops.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Here the first pic of several.... My hops are hangin' heavy. This is good reason to clip growth...

This is 2.5" schedule 40 pvc....

Frontal Shot...

Super-Fat Bine close up...

 

[Schlenkerla]

I count 8 bines....

Looking straight up...

Another angle...

Look right at the top...

I expect to be my best yield yet, provided it can stay standing....

 

[Schlenkerla]

Mucho Buds

:fro:

 

[Aleforge]

Awesome Schlenkerla! I thought it was a giant fishing pole at first!

 

[BigHops]

OMG to above post..Those are huge! Here is my 1st yr. Willamette w/ irrigation dripper system. Going out today for more Manure. Sunbeam is way in the back..

Bighops

 

[McKBrew]

Anybody who has tall bines or cones sucks. I'm going to delete this thread, because your hops should not be bigger than the OP .


J/K


I hope the warm weather we are supposed to have all weekend will help.

 

[Aleforge]

Anybody who has tall bines or cones sucks. I'm going to delete this thread, because your hops should not be bigger than the OP .


J/K


I hope the warm weather we are supposed to have all weekend will help.

Seconded, we need a mod to lock this thread quickly.

 

[NWBasementBrewer]

A happy fuggle

My happy plants on a 10' golding closest a 13' fuggle and a 8' fuggle

this nice seattle weather has really helped these plants

 

[NWBasementBrewer]

A nice willamette plant going all over the place

a small chinook just taking off