Recent content by djorr5

Just chuck em into soil or water or do you do the full blow cutting mix and rooting stuff? Also did you collect the cuttings in spring our autumn?

Hmm. thinking about the 'layering' approach I had a couple of thoughts..... that may be wrong. If I went with cuttings then I am normally meant to do that early spring anyway (i.e. cut back). Then use these cuttings for propagation. However with layering, from what I understand, I need to keep...

From a quick search I found an old article from 1948 about layering, "Experiments on the Layering of Hops I. The Establishment of A Permanent Layer Bed". I will have a better look tomorrow but couldn't find much more than that. Do you have a specific page to look at? @wide eyed and legless

Appreciate the time taken to respond Grmblz, We have access to 10-14ML water rights so am looking at setting up the drip system off this and draw from it when needed. Yeah agreed. Wasn't going balls and all in on 8 acres (and probably will never fully utilise all those acres) first 3-4 years...

Hi @Grmblz noticed you mentioned $5 per rhizome. The pages I have looked at are well above that for price. Where are you seeing those prices?

Cheers all for the brilliant advice. Pretty much why I joined this forum.

love it when you start talking about something and it is if "they" were listening :D

Thanks for all the links guys. But nervous about the whole thing but hey you only get one shot at life. Just wondering if anyone knows if it is of benefit to plant about half the amount of rhizomes and then when they go dormant for winter split them to fill the yard I am guessing from what...

Hi all, new member and joined after a lot of my googling about hops ended up in this forum :D. Just purchased about 8 acres of land around the Sale area in Victoria and am looking to utilise the land. Over a couple of beers with some mates we decided on hops. Was hoping to start off with a small...