2011 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hops!

[hoppy2B]

Now all you need is a couple of strawberries and you'll be laughing. :lol:

 

[raven19]

If anyone is interested I have a significant number of home garden variety strawberry plants to give away.
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You may notice in the image between the mass of strawberries and the long plastic mounds in the background, there are some mounds. They are the homes of my recently aquired Chinook rhizomes.

I hope they grow well mate. Out of interest are the strawberry's good eating too?

Does any one get any attention from undersiables?(re thieves) and the police for the strange looking vines covering there gardens?

Aroma is minimal (until you squeeze the ripe cones), and they don't look like a hooch plant. I don't think you will have any problems fella. These are bines that need a structure/twine to grow up. Their cousins are stand alone (I believe! )

 

[Fish13]

I hope they grow well mate. Out of interest are the strawberry's good eating too?



Aroma is minimal (until you squeeze the ripe cones), and they don't look like a hooch plant. I don't think you will have any problems fella. These are bines that need a structure/twine to grow up. Their cousins are stand alone (I believe! )

thanks raven.
Just wanted to ask the questions before i plant a vine. Yeah i figured it would be like a passionfruit vine

 

[hoppy2B]

I hope they grow well mate. Out of interest are the strawberry's good eating too?

Hi Raven19. My recently planted hops are beginning to emerge. The strawberries just went in less than a week ago but are starting to bound away. Most have flowers and will be fruiting within a couple of weeks!
The strawberries are excellent eating. Home garden varieties have the most flavour. Commercial varieties tend to be 'wooden' because they need to pack well.
Actually, did have an after thought. I probably could mail them if anyone is interested.

 

[waggastew]

Did a rush-job rejuvination of my hop garden this arvo after work after seeing one of the plants starting to shoot. Dug up the old plants, inspected, dug over patch and made it bigger, added fertiliser and replanted last years rhizomes along with two newies (POR and Super Alpha). Of the five I planted last year, I lost two (perhaps they didn't grow at all? They were very close together), Cascade and Mt Hood. Most have begun to shoot so it should not be long until they are clambering up my new 2nd hop pole. Line up now stands at:

Chinook, Chinook #2, Goldings (mega-rhizome), Saaz, Super Alpha, POR.

Bit of a bastard mix, I might try and swap the Saaz for another Cascade next year. I also plan to 'box-up' the hop beds to make the 'which hop is this process easier.

 

[GrainStain]

Hey Jace,

I got them from bunnings, I am pretty sure they were called tomato trellis'. Obviously they are no where near high enough, but these are just an experiment initially to get established in the pot for the years to come and perhaps try to grow them horizontal as well. There is no real game plan as yet, I really dont have the space.

Fortunately, I had a mate at work kindly donate me part of his North facing veggie patch where I put some in the ground!

This is the hops in the pots at week 3. Very exciting. My wife looked at me strange when she had a close look at the leaves...

 

[barls]

just finished rebuilding the trellis
heres a pic

 

[Shed101]

just finished rebuilding the trellis
heres a pic

no half steppin' :icon_chickcheers:

 

[GrainStain]

That boldly states "I AM GROWING HOPS"

Nice setup

 

[barls]

the funny thing is that its only for 2 5yr old and one 3rd yr plants. ill post up some more once they take off.

 

[Yob]

heres a pic

is the main horizontal line up top just rope?

I happen to have some stainless/galved wire (free when a mate come round to mint the hills hoist) I was thinkin of using but not sure if they will grab onto it... I could always run the steel wire for strength and then some string round it for them to grab onto...

nice lookin rig man,

1st signs of life for me is the tett.. sprung to and surprised me, ripped out of the pot in a week and grew 3 inches in a few days.. must transplant it next weekend

Piccie of my first sprout.. :wub:



im sure the others will be along any time now and cant wait :beer:

 

[Shed101]

I happen to have some stainless/galved wire (free when a mate come round to mint the hills hoist) I was thinkin of using but not sure if they will grab onto it... I could always run the steel wire for strength and then some string round it for them to grab onto...

I'm pretty sure you'll be right with that :icon_cheers: It's what Ratchie uses, and come to think of it it would be grippier than the stuff the pro's use.

http://www.arcelormittal.com/distributionsolutions/wiresolutions/industrialwire/products/annealed_wire/hop_wire ://http://www.arcelormittal.com/distri..._wire/hop_wire

 

[going down a hill]

I have a gardening problem!

I planted the rhizomes horizontally instead of vertically in a temporary planter until I finish making my hop boxes. The first shoots came through during the week (that's the good news) and I thought I would correct the direction of the rhizomes by making them vertical. Some of the shoots were then exposed when they were before hand underground and the sun got to a couple of the shoots and they have gone dead and limp, the shoot half way up still has life, but the tip is cactus.

Does that mean that shoot is finished or will it regenerate?

Cheers.

 

[kelbygreen]

they will prob shoot out of the shoots, I had this when I didnt water mine and it died right back little shoots came out of the vine and just ended up with heaps of straggly vines growing out of the old one. I wouldnt worry as long as the plants not dead you may be like me and get no crop on first year though

 

[going down a hill]

Thanks Kelby

 

[kelbygreen]

yeah my POR has 4 shoots coming up and the chinook no sign yet but time will tell. So even though I tried my best to kill them there still growing haha

 

[barls]

is the main horizontal line up top just rope?

I happen to have some stainless/galved wire (free when a mate come round to mint the hills hoist) I was thinkin of using but not sure if they will grab onto it... I could always run the steel wire for strength and then some string round it for them to grab onto...

nice lookin rig man,

1st signs of life for me is the tett.. sprung to and surprised me, ripped out of the pot in a week and grew 3 inches in a few days.. must transplant it next weekend

Piccie of my first sprout.. :wub:

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im sure the others will be along any time now and cant wait :beer:

the top wires are the plastic coated clothes line wire from bunnings. if i had some of the ss wire i would of used it, but its so god damn expensive.

 

[Malted]

I happen to have some stainless/galved wire (free when a mate come round to mint the hills hoist) I was thinkin of using but not sure if they will grab onto it... I could always run the steel wire for strength and then some string round it for them to grab onto...

I reckon something strong on your horizontals and then jute (or similar) string running down to the ground. Jute being a fibre string will be good for the hops to grip onto.

The biggest reason for using jute (or similar) is that when the hops die off, you just cut the string and bine at top and bottom and put the whole lot in the bin, easy. Think about it; if you want to recycle the vertical strings then if the vertical strings are 'grippy' then you're going to have trouble getting the bines off them when dead. Make it easier on yourself, use disposable vertical strings.




Edit: Here's a picture of my 1st yr Goldings, I really need to sort out some sort of trellis system for them!


I have a trellis for my zomes in pots, but don't think it appropriate for the ones planted in the garden bed (because of other plants). I am not sure what to do for the garden bed, just that I have to do something soon. The pot trellis was about 2.2m above the height of the top of the pot, it did not seem to be high enough. I reckon 3-4 m would be better but that is a height at which it is not easy to get up a ladder to harvest cones. So I am thinking of a structure at 3.5m high that I can raise or lower the vertical strings from a pulley arrangement and that wouldn't really work on the system below. So I have not built the same system on the garden bed.
I think I am over thinking the possibilities.

Trellis for pots:

 

[beerdrinkingbob]

Bit of DIY trellis work.......

 

[Wolfy]

Bit of DIY trellis work.......

I give them 2 weeks of weather like this and they'll be at the top.

 

[kelbygreen]

well I might grow hops this year I put in a dripper system and its on a automatic watering system so it will come on at x time so x amount of time. I also put about 100mm of sugar cain mulch over the bed to retain the moisture its working well as I watered them last night and its still damp.

But now to figure out how often to turn the drippers on and for how long. They are 4lts/h so I am guessing prob 45-60mins every 2 days maybe when it gets hotter might have to do it every day will adjust as needed but be away for 10 days from tomorrow again so wont be able check till I get home.

 

[Fents]

I give them 2 weeks of weather like this and they'll be at the top.

My tetts already at the top of my fence trellis and its got to be double as high as that pic.

 

[beerdrinkingbob]

had crossed my mind but I have to move in 2 months so need to keep it mobile, anyone pruned their hops back before??

 

[Wolfy]

had crossed my mind but I have to move in 2 months so need to keep it mobile, anyone pruned their hops back before??

On one of the brewing podcast/video things in the USA, the guy used a single pole and had a string looped over the top, as the hops grew he lowered the string, thus allowing the hops always to grow 'up' but keeping a fixed pole height (and hence keeping it portable).

 

[Yob]

there was this guy MMMMMMmmmmmm! You can pickle them too!

:blink:

 

[PhantomEasey]

Hey guys, thought I'd add mine to the mix. First crack at growing my own hops, big thanks to Mario for supplying them! All in 52ltr pots from the big green shed, potting mix and a weekly dosage of powerfeed. Since these pics were taken (Friday night) the Hallertauer is over 400mm high. Looks like I need to spend an evening setting up those climbing strings sooner than I thought

Without further ado...
POR


Hallertauer


Tettnanger


Gonna move two of them round the front of the house so they can climb all over the gable. The POR will stay against the fence and be draped along it in a zig-zag effect.

Anyone had success with the electric food driers? My aunty has one that I plan to use cometh the harvest

 

[Fish13]

woohoo my hallertau is on the way!!!

 

[Mitternacht Brauer]

Anyone had success with the electric food driers? My aunty has one that I plan to use cometh the harvest
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Hi Fish13, I got a drier from Aldi last year for this purpose but found that I was better off taking a screen off a window and putting it on two saw horses in the shed for a couple of days. All depends how much your plants yield.

Pic from last year to give you an idea.
Note two screens used together.




Good luck

 

[PhantomEasey]

Anyone had success with the electric food driers? My aunty has one that I plan to use cometh the harvest


Hi Fish13, I got a drier from Aldi last year for this purpose but found that I was better off taking a screen off a window and putting it on two saw horses in the shed for a couple of days. All depends how much your plants yield.

Pic from last year to give you an idea.
Note two screens used together.

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Good luck

Hey Mitternacht (love the name btw)

It was me asking about the drier. Was the issue the time it took to dry them, a negative affect on the quality of the flowers, or simply a capacity issue?

Btw, them are some nice lookin' cones you've got there!

 

[MaestroMatt]

Anyone had success with the electric food driers? My aunty has one that I plan to use cometh the harvest


Hi Fish13, I got a drier from Aldi last year for this purpose but found that I was better off taking a screen off a window and putting it on two saw horses in the shed for a couple of days. All depends how much your plants yield.

Pic from last year to give you an idea.
Note two screens used together.

View attachment 48146


Good luck

How many plants gave you that kind of yield?? Even, dry weight that would have to be a quite a few brews worth there!
Looks great!