2015 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

[Camo6]

I see you are a fellow Essendon supporter Mardoo. We know nothing of any such thing.

 

[Pogierob]

Got my rigging up today.

 

[CrookedFingers]

Nice work rob !
You have given them heaps of climbing room.


CF

 

[Mardoo]

Well, after The Great Ferntree Gully Hop Massacre my babies are on the mend. I can say that blood and bone meal definitely works to repel possums. I've been scattering it around my pots and haven't had any further issues. Curious to see what the weeds around the pots will be like this year though...

Unmolested Goldings:


All new sprouts eaten since first one, with two weeks of recovery:


I also took the time to get some lines up for them and do the irrigation. The trellising isn't what I wanted but it'll do. Hopefully I'll find a source by next season for the 4 meter posts I wanted to do the traditional bush pole style.

 

[hoppy2B]

Got my rigging up today.

You have your pots arranged so that each pot has 4 strings going to 1 overhead wire. Have you considered arranging your pots so that you have 2 strings from each pot going to each overhead wire? That would allow more light in and may give you a better crop. You might even be able to put 3 strings up to each wire from each pot. That would give you a total of 12 strings, if you know what I mean.

The bigger the framework of bines, the bigger the yield you should get, assuming you are feeding and watering your hop plants well.

 

[Pogierob]

You have your pots arranged so that each pot has 4 strings going to 1 overhead wire. Have you considered arranging your pots so that you have 2 strings from each pot going to each overhead wire? That would allow more light in and may give you a better crop. You might even be able to put 3 strings up to each wire from each pot. That would give you a total of 12 strings, if you know what I mean.

The bigger the framework of bines, the bigger the yield you should get, assuming you are feeding and watering your hop plants well.

yeah I hey what you are saying. Would take me about 2 minutes to change as I have the string pegged down and bit attached to the pots.

 

[hoppy2B]

yeah I hey what you are saying. Would take me about 2 minutes to change as I have the string pegged down and bit attached to the pots.

Yeah that's the shot. Put up as many strings as you can and put as much space between the strings as you can.

 

[Pogierob]

Yeah that's the shot. Put up as many strings as you can and put as much space between the strings as you can.

Im not sure how to tell the boss the clothes line has to go. ..

 

[DU99]

Use the clothes line too..

 

[hoppy2B]

Im not sure how to tell the boss the clothes line has to go. ..

And I thought your biggest problem would be mowing around them.

 

[Mardoo]

Im not sure how to tell the boss the clothes line has to go. ..

Sometimes a dryer is worth a thousand words

 

[Pogierob]

Sometimes a dryer is worth a thousand words

with two pre school kids in the house, running a dryer instead of a clothes line would cost me more than homebrewing!!!!

 

[spog]

Got my rigging up today.

Gotta say,your better half must be a very understanding woman,having a " plant " so close to the clothes line were it could cause a problem.

 

[Sixdemonbag]

I know I said I wouldn't post for a while. I lied...


What I think is the first sign of a hop cone?

 

[Yob]

Yeah man, burrs

Shit!! That's so early!

 

[seehuusen]

Got mine going too
I've got a variety of rhizomes as I'm not sure what will work in the QLD summer heat...
Got, Cascade, POR, Goldings, Red Earth and Flinders.

Here's a picture of my growth this far.
I make sure I water them plenty, and so far it looks pretty good

I can't run them upwards that high, as I live close to the beach, and I'm worried the wind will break them.
The training seems to work ok though.

Cheers
Martin

 

[LiquidGold]

After just over 3 months since the first shoot emerging from the ground one of my bines has finally found its way to the line.


Goldings

Must not have been giving them enough water methinks. The dripper system still needs some adjustments since its gravity fed (leaving them turned off didn't help either). I was really beginning to get jealous from all the photos I've been seeing on here so pretty glad to see them making an effort at last.

 

[Pogierob]

Hop envy is something I never considered a Coyle of years ago. Now I have it bad. .

 

[Pagey]

Massive hop envy... I live in Darwin and this is impossible here.!!!

 

[Sixdemonbag]

Don't hate!