Show off your 2012 Hops garden!

[snevey]

Oh, and my wife thinks I'm nuts too. I've already had my Nugget hops grow around 10" a day in their first year (last year)...

 

[The Drizzle]

Here's my first attempt at a trellis, needs some shoring up but hope it works. These are 2nd year Mt Hood, Fuggle, Golding, and Centennial.

 

[iandh]

Just finished putting in a second hop trellis.

Here are some photos from the first trellis being built.

 

[cyclogenesis]

I need to take some pictures but the second year Chinook in Chicago is going NUTS! Just hit 10ft high and it is not even may yet!

 

[TyTanium]

I need to take some pictures but the second year Chinook in Chicago is going NUTS! Just hit 10ft high and it is not even may yet!

Wow, even with the cold weather we've been having? My 2nd year Cascades & Centennials stopped growing once it got cold again - maybe a foot or two.

 

[Randar]

I need to take some pictures but the second year Chinook in Chicago is going NUTS! Just hit 10ft high and it is not even may yet!

You've got to beware of training first-emerging bines, especially with goofy weather like we've had this year causing a premature flush of bines to emerge. "Racers" won't form as many laterals and won't typically yield anywhere near that of second emerging bines.

I could have trained mine as long ago as a month ago but waited. I will be training them within the next 5 or 6 days (when I get to it) and only training the newer/shorter bine shoots ... trimming the rest that have gone haywire due to the earlier heatwave and premature warming of ground temps.

 

[cyclogenesis]

Ahh.. but this was not a first shoot, I spend some time being mean to the poor thing before letting a shoot go... Perhaps I was a bit early letting one go.. he has a few laterals on him, one heck of a thick bine!

 

[DiscGolfKing]

Second year Columbus, centennial, cascade, and williamette. All doing well at about five feet in west michigan

 

[blawjr]

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Second year Columbus, centennial, cascade, and williamette. All doing well at about five feet in west michigan

Very cool! I think i'm going to upgrade to something like this next year

 

[mux]

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Second year Columbus, centennial, cascade, and williamette. All doing well at about five feet in west michigan

I like that. Did you use 3/4 or 1/2" galvanized pipe for the top? Im stealing that idea. Thanks for posting the picture.

 

[DiscGolfKing]

Half inch, will probably put pulleys on it next year as I imagine it will be a pain come harvest time

 

[ShackNasty]

Last year I planted one nugget, kinda just to see what would become of it. Well, it's growing !!!!! This is year two, and I am very happy with its current status.... Its still only April after all.

 

[day_trippr]

Had a spare moment so I took a few pics of the hop beds. These are all second year plants. They popped out of the leaf mulch with a ton of shoots which I cut down to 4-5 per crown last weekend. Got them pretty much trained already.

Cascade

Chinook

Centennial in the beds, Fuggles in the pots

Running on a drip system that worked great last year, they'll be on their own for the next two weeks while the SO and I are on an Out Island in the Bahamas. Hopefully the aphids will hold off 'til we return...

Cheers!

 

[Indytruks138]

My little guys are finally starting to sprout and grow. First year, one rhizome per half barrel planter. Cascade in both. One has 2 sprouts with one strong one, the other has three sprouts, all still tiny.

 

[rvklein]

My 1st year Cascades have broken ground but I'm still waiting on my centenials. Not sure if that's normal for I got a bad batch.

 

[Chaddyb]

Here's three of my 6. They are all first year, all have come through.

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

My 1st year Cascades have broken ground but I'm still waiting on my centenials. Not sure if that's normal for I got a bad batch.

My Centennial has yet to break through also, I think that maybe they are just late bloomers

 

[modobrew]

As of this past Monday, my Centennial and Cascade both had several shoots showing. I havent been home since, so I hope they are still wet and thriving. Give it a little more time and hopefully they will break through.

 

[tchuklobrau]

One of my 40 centennial plants, lol all in desperate need of a smack down. So much to do, no time(or good weather) to do it.

 

[Mr_Pear]

Finally got everything setup last weekend and I took some iPhone pics so I thought I'd share I transplanted 2 2nd year cascades and moved over some rhizomes I started in the green house. Now I'll have 2 cascades, 2 centennials, 2 chinooks, 2 colombus, 1 mt hood, 1 newport and 2 willamettes. Not sure what I'm going to do with all them hops but I'm excited

 

[mccumath]

Well, I am having different experiences than you guys... My two first year Centennials just broke ground today, but my Cascades are not there yet... Keeping my fingers crossed that they start soon. Will see what happens...

 

[Paulasaurus]

Pergola is up at the new house and ropes strung just in time. 13' tall, I cannot wait to see it filled. Currently plant inventory- Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Columbus, Zeus, Fuggle, Nugget, and a mystery plant.

This thread amazes me more every year, some awesome gardens on display here. Well done everyone.

 

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[taterosu]

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Hope I got this in the right place. Trying to learn the phone app lol. I made a bed that is 25 ft long by 8 ft wide. Then added a weed barrier cloth and mulch to help keep the weeds down and hold in the moisture. I planted 10 hops in two rows along both sides of the bed. Then ran my ropes from each hop plant to a main rope for them to grow on. The main rope is 20 foot high.

 

[nsrooen]

Second year cascade and magnum. Got an early start.

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

My Centennial finally decided to break ground today, woot

 

[mux]

Just found out my friends mom has a huge hop garden. She used them to cover a fence about 10 years ago. She said they get tons of hops and they would love for some one to use them.

 

[mux]

Makes my set up look weak.

 

[drac0]

Here's my hops poles. I work for an irrigation company so 20 foot 3" OD Sched. 40 PVC pipes were good priced for me. I attached a pulley to the top using a 1/4" galvanized eye bolt and using a SS carabiner I attached a pulley to that. I drilled 5 holes into a 4" OD PVC coupler that fit nicely over the 3" pipe. I attached line to the coupler and ran the line through the pulley so I can raise and lower it like you would a flag on a flag pole. Each coupler has 4 stringers attached to it for the hops to climb.

I used 10 foot 2x4 as an internal mounting point for the "masts" and set those in like you would a fence post. I did trim down the top half of the 2x4s to allow the 3" pipe to fit over them. If we get a tropical storm, I should be able to lower the hops to the ground and pull the pipes off the internal supports.

 

[gbx]

Here is a pic of my south facing balcony hop grow op. I'm only growing 2 this year - Cascade on the left and Willamette on the right. The centre container will have vegetables in it. The containers are drilled out 120L rubbermaid with more than 100L of potting soil. I've got 2 lines from each plant attached looped through the upstairs neighbour's balcony (bribed with homebrew). When the plants hit the top, I will let out more line and hang the coiled up bines over the railing. This worked great last year - the tips are always growing up and it allows for unlimited growth. Last year the only problem was I was trying to grow too many and all the lines were attached to a single point - I was out every single day trying to keep them from getting tangled.