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  1. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Elaborate please.....Cause pfffft....I am talking hops plants...if your **** has deficiencies and diseases at this stage...RIP THEM UP AND BIN THEM....so you dont screw the whole industry! Best advice I can give you....dont try 'fix' them....cause it wont work. In horticulture the advice you...
  2. Stu Brew

    Hydroponic hops

    So I got a bit keen and threw a crown into my NFT system....Just threw it into the ressy.....so its basically growing in a waterfall now....I cannot believe the nodes its thrown out. I can potentially create about 50 rhizomes from 1 crown if this actually follows through the way its going atm...
  3. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Only mature leaves will show signs of diseases....but hey....you're a real horticulturalist....you didnt even ask about soil pH which is where any calcium deficiency would be coming in. Guess this is why people are listening to your advice? Over the actual qualified guys....... Good try...
  4. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Try planting some Basil aroudn the bases of the effected ones. The smell from Basil confuses a lot of bugs....so they will keep away from it? I think you'll be alright, once they start actually growing quickly...has been a long cold winter which is weird for Australia!
  5. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    How big is it now....id be all for just pulling anything on the lower effected places off and burning them. They are only the early leaves anyways. Which is why im thinking they may have been attacked. Sorry for so many questions. How long has it been in the ground or is it just planted rhizome...
  6. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Fine by me. Its actually the pro twine just not precut coir 5mm. The precut stuffs strength isnt actually that much higher but its way bulkier(10kgs more on the WLL) and we string from the ground here like 20th century Hallertau so the 3.5mm lengths suit us really well here. I just went nuts and...
  7. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Egg sack? Crap what did it look like? You may have some beneficials moving in....they really seem to like hanging out on my hops and killing anything trying to eat them! Lady bugs instars do a great job on anything small like mites and aphids. Caterpillars are probably as easily controlled with...
  8. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Well I planted some Perle out the front. I will do some container growing this year. Might put some into the veggie patch to help with shade it has a huge trellis around the edge of it anyways. Here are some photos from the master class I held in hops growing the other week. Dont share a lot...
  9. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    BTW guys. I sell this twine to anyone interested. Belgrave Brewer and I both used it last year. Tons better than sisal, sustainable, strong and you can throw it in the mulch after you use it. The company i distribute from makes sure their workers get paid well too. So its not slave labor like...
  10. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Very small spiderweb like webbing under the leaf and some tiny tiny (less than 1mm) bugs under on and around the webbing....
  11. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Look under teh leaves, im 99% sure that is spider mite. White oil will fix them, you want to get onto it before they have a chance to spread. Id say probably just a nice hiding spot for them early....they may have gotten blown or rained off or the plant has picked up enough vigor now that they...
  12. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Try pulling the trees closer together with the ratchet lower down, tie ya cable then let the tension go and bingo bango bongo....tight line!
  13. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    I distribute and sell 40kg WLL coir twine $5 for 20m....we use it on our field here. Works very well, and can be composted after use.
  14. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    77 in.....that takes us to 107....plus the rest.....Thanks for the support! Love all'yall!!
  15. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Target.....no not the shop with the slave labor crap....... Wife makes worm tea so i gave them some of that.....then some of the nutriboost as well...still in the hot house, which is not dropping below 10° at night....damn....wifes worm tea is damn good!!
  16. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    So get a few other pots with like little stakes in them....trail out the other wanna be leaders....into said pots cover bine in soil with a foot sticking out chop it off at the top...next year you'll have rhizomes to sell....or you could let them take over the neighbours place too...that would...
  17. Stu Brew

    Missing Person

    Oh wow this is ****!! Sorry sounds like the world has lost another good bloke :( IS there any more details on this? On the original post I got a feeling of this.....not sure that many would be up on it really. Seems strange to me but i probably dont know enough details...
  18. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    So these are the Styrian Golding that i unknowingly planted on a spring that opens up in winter...as well as being in the off flow for the bloody creek......doesnt seem to have effected things much....as I said dissoveld oxygen is you friend....you can see how we the soil is...its think but not...
  19. Stu Brew

    2017 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

    Yep id say let them go. The main reason they chop back in commercial situations is for picking. Certain machines can take certain sizes, lots of growers dont like fiddling with their machines between crops so they'll try and grow to a size the machine can easily handle. When you have a ton of...
  20. Stu Brew

    Hydroponic hops

    I would up your water flow, probably to half half in an hour. I have a root in NFT atm just keeping an eye on what its going to do. that runs 24/7. What is the start off PPM of your water too? Id be aiming more at 1200-1800 for hops maybe even more....they will keep growing with as much as you...
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