2007 Hop Plantations

[Mightypns]

My Columbus, 1st year. Anybody else grown Hops in Canberra? How well do they go?

 

[Fents]

yep so my tett and columbs have def sprouted. not posting pics as im sure we have all seen new plant growth, but im still pretty excited.

how many meters high will they grow?

and instead of growning them straight up string can i train them sideways around my fence trellis?

 

[petesbrew]

Good to see it up and going Pete :beerbang:

And no need to get technical at all with it. Give it a good all purpose fertiliser every month or two (low P) with regular watering and watch it go.

Cheers.

Cheers Duff. They're loving the sun, (facing northwest) and are growing like crazy ATM.
Should make the pool area nice and good-smellin'-like!

 

[Steve]

Mighty - hops grow very well in Canberra.
Fents - you can train them horizontally, but its more hard work as they naturally want to go vertically. You will have to train them manually by hand probably every day by wrapping them around the trellis.
Cheers
Steve

 

[tangent]

my hersbrucker is chest height already and climbing like crazy

 

[Fents]

cheers steve.

 

[domonsura]

I put my Hallertau in 5 days ago - it 'woke up' quite visibly by the following day and within the last 2 days it already has 3-4 inches of growth on one shoot with 2 others preparing to go for it. First one already has 3 little sets of leaves unfolding!
Is this normal? I thought I was going to have a couple of weeks to get some kind of support in place, but not at this rate!
On the other hand, the much larger cluster rhizome I planted a week earlier is thinking about it (I can see slight unfolding of the uppermost bud, but only just noticeable) but no real action.
This is going to be a cool summer

 

[tangent]

1st bine has almost reached the top and ready for the extension rope

 

[oldbugman]

Just wondering, one of my cluster bines is showing some yellowing of the leaves, is this like other plants and shows signs of the plant being hungry?

What to feed him if so?

 

[mfdes]

Just wondering, one of my cluster bines is showing some yellowing of the leaves, is this like other plants and shows signs of the plant being hungry?

What to feed him if so?

Do you have it in a pot or in the ground?
If it's in a pot it may either be a mineral deficiency, or an excess of another mineral (which stops the plant absorbing what it needs and causes the same symptoms).

If you have it in the ground mineral deficiencies are much less likely. If it sprouted early (it is still early), that is, before the spring equinox and days longer than 12 hours, it may be thinking it's already autumn and going to sleep. It may not resprout till 6-8 weeks from now and then may be significantly weakened. Is it a new plant or an established one? With an established one you'd probably still get a few cones. A new one may be too weakened.
This can happen because we get FAR less frost than Europe or the US and the plants think it's time to wake up too early, when the days are too short.

MFS.

 

[Lukes]

My Tassie Hall has gone mad in its new spot and is up over fence height already:


Fents,
At this point I start to grow/train them horizontally along wire at the top of the fence.

It makes them easy to pick as the hop cones hang down underneath.
- Luke

 

[petesbrew]

My columbus at 4 weeks. Nice!

 

[Fents]

Thanks Lukes! That looks madness....oh so many cones

I shall grow mine up to the top of the trellis then along it with string in both directions..should make a great fence / neighbour cover too!

 

[drsmurto]

The hills are alive......

Finally some real growth - my chinook is taking off. Need to pull the finger out and build a trellis. About time something outgrew the weeds......

Is there a huge variaiton in growth between types? My 2 goldings are still in hibernation and my cluster sprouted but stopped after 1cm and stayed put for a month. Chopped him back down again so hoping to see some signs of growth soon.

 

[domonsura]

My hallertau and cluster plants, going for it. Growing on average 2 inches a day now.

 

[Fents]

Dr S - Same

My Tettnang has gone mad, my cluster has sprouted but aint going no where and the other one hasnt even rear'd it head yet!

 

[Screwtop]

Wurttemberger is up now about 10cm After the Perle not growing properly last year I moved the rhizome during winter, it's now shooting and looks good up to 10cm.

 

[Plastic Man]

after what seemed like endless weekends of kids parties and family BBQ's I finally got some quality time to put up my "trellis" - (I was getting worried they'd get eaten by snails).

Goldings:


Columbus:


gardenings never been so exciting !!!....

I only got one vine from the Columbus though ?? The Golding has about 4.

 

[tangent]

my hops have grabbed the rope extension and taken off.
it's about 45 degrees though so i'm giving them a hand every few days wrap around the rope.
around 2m high now

 

[bindi]

My vines have died off and are just small lumps at the base still living,but I know SFA about plants, so I just cut them off and hope it will go again. <_<