2015 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

[JB]

Mine got smashed around a bit, Columbus, POR & Fuggles copped the brunt of it. Squished & shredded. Will sing to them to tonight, hopefully they'll recover.

 

[DU99]

checked on mine today,thought i lost it last year,but then there is this

 

[Grainer]

My mini plantation

 

[poggor]

Is now a good time to plant hops? how long do they take to give buds?

 

[poggor]

And can you smoke them?

 

[Curly79]

My mini plantation

wow grainer. Which varieties. Bit hard to read ?


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[Bizenya]

you can smoke anything

more 'should or or why would i I guess'

 

[Grainer]

Goldingsx2, Tettanager, POR, Chinook x 3, Victoria, Perle, Red Earth, Hellertau I think...without going out he back

 

[poggor]

can i grow hops on my balcony?

 

[Grainer]

can i grow hops on my balcony?

sure.. grow it up to your neighbours lol

 

[poggor]

how much sun do they need? how big a pot?

 

[HBHB]

Well, no signs of the Chinook yet. Suspect these big suckers might have something to do with that.

 

[mofox1]

Burn them!

 

[Mardoo]

HBHB I found some of those when I pulled some rhizomes. There is a larva which feeds off hops for five years while they develop, becoming a giant beetle, but I only just read briefly about them and don't know much else. They look a bit similar but I'm not a'tall sure.

 

[Grainer]

THERE IS A SPECIAL SPRAY FOR THEM YOU can get at buntings that kills em in the ground.

 

[Mardoo]

Sweet. What are them critters called? Or do you remember the name of the spary?

 

[zappa]

They look like white curl grub (scarab beetle grubs) that commonly feed on lawn rhizomes.

 

[CrookedFingers]

Got some cascade springing out recently.
Happy days.





CF

 

[technobabble66]

Hey HBHB, they're just witchety grubs - at least that's what we've always called them. I think you've got ones that live in wood/trees (the ones the kooris eat) and ones in the ground. I believe they generally just eat whatever crap in the ground, including dead/dying roots. If they're in higher numbers they might be savaging the roots of the hops(?). I grew up in the country and they're everywhere in the soil (country SE of Melb); and all manner of plants still grow happily in spite of them.
Hope that helps

 

[technobabble66]

Also - 2 weeks slack and no pics.
My Columbus (shout out to Ninegrain!) rhizomes shot out of the ground ~2 wks ago. Still pretty small, and there's no sign of the Chinook waking up yet.