Pictures of your Hop Babies/Hop Photo Thread

[MrFebtober]

I've got one Nugget and two Centennial. All three sprouted within 24 hours of eachother a couple weeks back, but now Nugget has taken the lead and is the first to be trained onto the twine!:

 

[gwood]

Cascades (three days)

Cascades (one week)

Chinook (one week)

I've got a total of five cascades, one chinook, and two centennials.

 

[joed123]

Here's a first-year Willamette, 2.5 weeks since sprouting, outside the Philly area:

And here's a first-year Cascade, 2 weeks since sprouting:

 

[Brewsmith]

I can't leave well enough alone. I bought a replacement Chinook rhisome for one that got eaten, and I was looking at the rest that they had in the LHBS. There were still a couple left that were sprouting like crazy, so...

I bought two Horizon ones and planted them!

So now I have a total of 10 pots with 2 each of 5 different varieties:

Willamette
Cascade
Centennial
Chinook
Horizon

The entire wall of my garage will be a hop yard by the end of the season!

 

[gwood]

I can't leave well enough alone. I bought a replacement Chinook rhisome for one that got eaten, and I was looking at the rest that they had in the LHBS. There were still a couple left that were sprouting like crazy, so...

I bought two Horizon ones and planted them!

So now I have a total of 10 pots with 2 each of 5 different varieties:

Willamette
Cascade
Centennial
Chinook
Horizon

The entire wall of my garage will be a hop yard by the end of the season!

I'm thinking about doing the same thing. I've got three cascades that were first attacked by aphids and were then subjected to what I think was a viral thang, suffice to say...they aren't doing well. Thinking about ripping them out and starting over but I'm not sure the LHBS has anything.

 

[Bobby_M]

Today... Chinook..Daughter...Fuggle.

 

[DUCCCC]

Here's my Nuggets at 7 weeks, one potted on the front porch:

And one in the ground out back:

 

[foonder]

I need a better camera...
This is my chinook plant yesterday, and then again today. It's been in that pot for about 2 and a half weeks.
EDIT: The shoot in the top is the left most on the bottom, and yes, that IS the Grand Theft Auto font.

 

[foonder]

Finally got my last hop plant in the ground. It's a shame one was eaten, otherwise this would've been done awhile ago. This rhizome is the one (pictured above) that'll replace the eaten one.

And another shoot off to the side:

This one had shoots growing off of it like Crazy. I removed it from the pot after adding an assload of water to make the soil muddy, but I still heard some little root-lets snapping as I gently pulled the rhizome out once I'd dug around it a bit. It's got some roots growing from the bottom so I'm not worried. Seems like it'll be the strongest of the hops plants.

 

[CatchinZs]

I've got a bunch of slow starters but we keep having these warm spells mixed with cooler days so I think once we have more consistant temps mine will be off to the races. 3 of my 7 are up. 2 cascade and 1 nugget.

I gently uncovered and checked on one of my mt. hood and it had a 4 inch sprout growing down, straight down , really strange but I rotated it and recovered in to see if it makes it. I oriented it with the buds up originally but it had a mind of its own.

I have tomato cages up to keep the dogs off of the plants and one of my cascades has sell trained itself and is about 1.5 ft tall. Hearty little buggers.

 

[JustMrWill]

Here are my babies...

FUGGLE - had the most buds on the rhizomes when I planted...

CASCADE - a few small buds at planting...

CENTENNIAL - rhizomes looked like dead sticks...no buds...one has yet to do anything. I even dug it up and it still looks like a dead stick...

Side shot showing various heights.

These are in temporary pot (aka 5 gal buckets). I should have the garden done this week and will transplant them then.

-Will

 

[AnonyBrew]

Latest hops update: http://picasaweb.google.com/Soperbrew/SoperbrewHops5708

 

[Battery_BreweryNJ]

My Home Made Trellis...

Nuggets Shooting up the twine!!!!

Northern Brewer too...

 

[Melana]

Nice pics Will...

 

[AnonyBrew]

My Home Made Trellis...

Nuggets Shooting up the twine!!!!

Northern Brewer too...

Is that a BBQ humping a drum in the background?

 

[ben the brewman]

thats what it looks like. i wish my new hops were growing like these. the are still small

 

[Hagen]

I planted 3 cascade, 3 centennial and 3 hallertauer.

Here's the biggest cascade that's sprouted. one is just sprouting, and the third is still silent

Here's the centennial

Nothing on the hallertauer yet, but it gets about 2 hrs less sun per day than the others.

 

[The Pol]

I have about 4 shoots growing from each of my rhizomes... the strongest are about 5" tall currently and growing fast... when should I snip off the weaker sprouts????

 

[FishinDave07]

I have about 4 shoots growing from each of my rhizomes... the strongest are about 5" tall currently and growing fast... when should I snip off the weaker sprouts????

Once the bines started to fall over due to their height/weight the 3 strongest were stringed up.

 

[Bobby_M]

A lot of the trellis and teepee designs I'm seeing look to be 10-12 feet tall. What's going to happen when the plant gets taller than that? My chinook is like 8 feet right now and I don't see it slowing down in the next 4 feet of growth. Do they just start draping down?

 

[CarlLBC]

Living in South Georgia and the heat, I went with 4 american hops and put 4 of each in boxes 4'x8'. I wasn't expecting a large yield due to the stress of the heat and humidity so I went with a different trellis system. I'm training them to go up the twine side then over the wood slates, then i'll pinch the end to stop the growth and allow them to get bushy. one reason is because my wife didn't like the idea of several 15-20 foot poles in the side yard. I think this looks better and i'll be able to pick off the cones as they ripen instead of pulling down the bine getting over ripen and immature cones with the ripe ones. this should help my yeild in the end. Lake Park, GA is not a hop growing climate, so we'll see, heat and mildew are the main problems i'll have to keep an eye on. they've taken off pretty well due to the weather and I got 16 out of 16 to sprout. some are 2 inches and some are already 8 feet long

 

[ChrisS68]

I think that once the plant reaches the top, it will begin to kinda flop over and begin producing side branches, which is a good thing since that's where the cones will form. My understanding is that whatever you grow your hops on, you want the plant to reach the top so it promotes side branching. Having a trellis that is too tall, where the plant never tops out, will actually reduce yield.

Chris

 

[Bobby_M]

Well crap, that kinda puts a damper on my whole season.

 

[ChrisS68]

Well, I could be wrong, but that's the gist I got from the Basic Brewing podcast with Dave Wills.

Just wanted to add that I suppose, if you have a 20' trellis and the plants reach the top, you'd have to be golden.

 

[AnonyBrew]

Dang it! Now I have to lower my 50ft trellis?

 

[AnonyBrew]

Living in South Georgia and the heat, I went with 4 american hops and put 4 of each in boxes 4'x8'. I wasn't expecting a large yield due to the stress of the heat and humidity so I went with a different trellis system. I'm training them to go up the twine side then over the wood slates, then i'll pinch the end to stop the growth and allow them to get bushy. one reason is because my wife didn't like the idea of several 15-20 foot poles in the side yard. I think this looks better and i'll be able to pick off the cones as they ripen instead of pulling down the bine getting over ripen and immature cones with the ripe ones. this should help my yeild in the end. Lake Park, GA is not a hop growing climate, so we'll see, heat and mildew are the main problems i'll have to keep an eye on. they've taken off pretty well due to the weather and I got 16 out of 16 to sprout. some are 2 inches and some are already 8 feet long

Wow! very professional looking. Nice job!

 

[IrregularPulse]

I've ben waiting for my cascades and Mt Hood to grow. I noticed this stupid "weed" growing where my cascaed "shuold" be. After looking at these pics the "stupid weed" might actaully be my cascade....?

 

[DUCCCC]

I've ben waiting for my cascades and Mt Hood to grow. I noticed this stupid "weed" growing where my cascaed "shuold" be. After looking at these pics the "stupid weed" might actaully be my cascade....?

Picture?
Have you been picking it when it sprouts?

 

[zoebisch01]

I've ben waiting for my cascades and Mt Hood to grow. I noticed this stupid "weed" growing where my cascaed "shuold" be. After looking at these pics the "stupid weed" might actaully be my cascade....?

It will look near identical to the emerging shoots in this thread.

 

[Mutilated1]

Wow Carl, thats a very nice looking setup you've got going there.

It makes me almost want to dig mine up and start all over again.