what does your hop yard set look like

[herne]

I am planting 14 new hops. MT hood, Magnum, Chinook, Casscade. I will post pic when my set up is complete. Can you guys post your set ups. Im not sold on mine. Its the original may pole idea with growing lines.

 

[day_trippr]

Give us a hint: aspiring pro type "hop yard" setup, or literally fourteen plants at home?

"May Pole" suggests the latter, but one can never tell around here...

Cheers!

 

[BrotherGrim]

Here is the trellis I built this spring. My hops are in my front yard next to my driveway so they kind of have to look decent.

 

[Sovietnam]

I built a very basic planter box right outside the west/southwest facing wall of my house and I am going to run a few lines to the roof. Planted Mt Hood from a rhizome and have a nugget rhizome I'm gonna do a similar set up with on the corresponding wall of my workshop. Pics to come.

 

[nagmay]

Here's one we just set up yesterday. 3 x 40' rows on a slope that gets great sun.

 

[Jem]

Nag may, would you mind sharing some details? I'm thinking of a similar build, but just one row. I'm planning on using treated 20 ft 4x4' sunk 2-3 feet and stringing a 3 mm cable Thanks Jem

 

[thaymond]

This is my setup. It held up nicely over the winter.

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[Snowden]

This is my setup. It held up nicely over the winter.

I remember seeing some of your previous posts about HOA restrictions. That build is the embodiment of the phrase, "Necessity is the mother of invention"!

 

[thaymond]

I remember seeing some of your previous posts about HOA restrictions. That build is the embodiment of the phrase, "Necessity is the mother of invention"!

Thanks. It was a solution to a problem without having to join the HOA board to change the policy. :-D

 

[oldstyle69]

MORE!!! i need some more ideas!

 

[herne]

MORE!!! i need some more ideas!

Yeah for sure. I can see id like to incorporate several ideas.

 

[tjpfeister]

Here's what I did last year in my 6x12 veggie garden. These were grown for wedding decoration and will be relocated this year into a proper field (that I am still building the trellis for)

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[nagmay]

Nag may, would you mind sharing some details? I'm thinking of a similar build, but just one row. I'm planning on using treated 20 ft 4x4' sunk 2-3 feet and stringing a 3 mm cable Thanks Jem

This set up is at a friends house. They are 16' 4x4's set 40' apart. They are for our hop breeding experiments, so maxing height is not critical. Attached is a panorama looking down from the porch.

At my place, I have a single 30' run that uses 20' 4x6's set 3' in the ground. The post holes are packed with gravel (not cemented), since it's really the trellis wire that holds them in place. At each end, the wire drops to a very large auger-style ground anchor.

My one recommendation would be to go with bigger wire. 1/4" galvanized 7x19 cable is awesome and cheap to since it is a standard for ziplines. You can pick up 250' for $50-60 on amazon or ebay.

Cheers!

 

[brian4508]

View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1428943204.492507.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1428943320.123949.jpgour little sumptin' sumpin' and my wonderful farming wife!View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1428943651.300150.jpgand the hops in back for my homebrewing.

Basically, they grow on anything. The taller the trellis, the better the yield as most the hops are in the top 1/3 of the bine in a 20' setup

 

[day_trippr]

[...]The taller the trellis, the better the yield as most the hops are in the top 1/3 of the bine in a 20' setup

I have found that to be the case as well...

Cheers!

 

[gometz]

Uh... Brian4508 wins... By a massive margin.

I'm doing it more for fun than anything else, it's just a raised planter I built that has 4 2'x2' sections (1 rhizome per section). They will only have about 10 ft to grow, but I plan on training them into a criss-cross pattern to give them more length.

 

[brian4508]

Uh... Brian4508 wins... By a massive margin.

I'm doing it more for fun than anything else, it's just a raised planter I built that has 4 2'x2' sections (1 rhizome per section). They will only have about 10 ft to grow, but I plan on training them into a criss-cross pattern to give them more length.

This is what I do at my house. It does work but not 100%. But I'm more than happy with it as they are for homebrewing.

The big farm is my commercial hop yard for selling to breweries. We already sold our future 2015 harvest. Time to expand again!

 

[brian4508]

Uh... Brian4508 wins... By a massive margin.

I'm doing it more for fun than anything else, it's just a raised planter I built that has 4 2'x2' sections (1 rhizome per section). They will only have about 10 ft to grow, but I plan on training them into a criss-cross pattern to give them more length.

This is what I do at my house. It does work but not 100%. But I'm more than happy with it as they are for homebrewing.

The big farm is my commercial hop yard for selling to breweries. We already sold our future 2015 harvest. Time to expand again!

 

[gometz]

This is what I do at my house. It does work but not 100%. But I'm more than happy with it as they are for homebrewing.

The big farm is my commercial hop yard for selling to breweries. We already sold our future 2015 harvest. Time to expand again!

Yea I just want the greenery and enough hops for a few beers. Hoping that all 4 make it in the Texas heat.

How big is your commercial farm?

 

[kMc21]

Here's the trellis I just finished. Build thread here.

 

[brian4508]

Yea I just want the greenery and enough hops for a few beers. Hoping that all 4 make it in the Texas heat.

How big is your commercial farm?

We are just over 2 acres (2300 hills). Looking to put in another acre this year

 

[tally350z]

My simple hop trellis with two plants. Cascade and centennial..

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[Vaydor]

I built boxes for my new hops. Made sure to give them plenty of space per rhizome. We plan on trellising them over our deck for shade. I'll post pics once I'm finished. Might even plant lettuce or spinach alongside them in the box. Has anyone ever tried that?

 

[mthorn2]

30' spacing 12 plants 4' in ground 16' out... Working great!

 

[mthorn2]

Here's pic

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[herne]

Hailed today and now im wondering if my casscades will bounce back from being mercilessly beaten from the heavens.

 

[oldstyle69]

Hailed today and now im wondering if my casscades will bounce back from being mercilessly beaten from the heavens.

where are you at? thats alot of damn hail!

 

[herne]

Sw kansas people where snow shoveling it to the street sucks.

 

[Vaydor]

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Just need to stain the boxes and poles when it dries up.

 

[LJvermonster]

Can't really see it but this has 4 vertical wires, cascade and Chinook. Only 3ft 8 in space between the two so we'll see how that goes!

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