Trellis back bone question

[JUST_BREW_IT]

What are you guys using as your backbone for your trellis systems? I'm looking at some vinyl covered galvanized rope wire like this. Will this do?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clear-Vinyl...201?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item233529b169

 

[maierhof]

What did you mean by "backbone"? If you are tzlking about the rope to which the vine attaches the vinyl will stop the vine from attaching itself to the rope which it needs to do in order to continue growing tall. I bought my rope at home depot and it was the cheapest they had. You need some thing that the micro "hairs" of the vine will literaly sink into and stay attached. Wind is not your friend in this case... just my experience.

 

[JUST_BREW_IT]

No I mean the main support line that you tie all of your drops on to

 

[rekoob]

For lack of something better, I have a pretty large tree branch that hangs over my brew shed, I toss a shot line over it in the "v" that I want and pull a hemp line back over it, three lines go up for a total of six lines anchored to six pots.
At some point I will put up a couple tall pipes (1.25" or 1.5") or 4x4's, with some type of set up I can lower down.

 

[JUST_BREW_IT]

Ok, forgive my crude drawing in paint. What I'm looking for advice on is what size of backbone rope wire (red) I should be using for roughly 14 hop plants?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Stealthcruiser]

Your vinyl clad cable will work for that.

1/8 is kinda small, and MIGHT sag on you a little bit, just don't get crazy and put lots of tension on it with your winch.

 

[maierhof]

Your vinyl clad cable will work for that.

1/8 is kinda small, and MIGHT sag on you a little bit, just don't get crazy and put lots of tension on it with your winch.

I agree with this, it just seems a little small. My middle name is overkill so I would probably put in 1/4 but hey that is just me.

 

[JUST_BREW_IT]

I ended up going with this stuff. What do you guys think?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151070331453?redirect=mobile

 

[maierhof]

I ended up going with this stuff. What do you guys think?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151070331453?redirect=mobile

That looks like my middle name lol
However you may not need all 250ft of that unless you are planning to expand your grow.
Home depot sells vinyl covered steel rope by the foot, you might want to check that price too as you can get it one day.

 

[JUST_BREW_IT]

Yeah, I'm hoping 250' is enough for 2 runs. I'll have to shorten things up a bit.