2015 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

[Liam_snorkel]

mine are only just starting to send up climbers:

 

[OneEye]

Looks like something is having a party with my cascades. Anyone know what it could be or what I could spray em with to keep them at bay??

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Looks like spider mite damage, spray the underside of the leaf with neem oil,pyrethrum spray or insecticidal soap.

 

[OneEye]

Thanks mate. I'll give that a whirl and report back

 

[BottloBill]

Finally hit the 3 metre mark

 

[Pogierob]

Boom!!!

 

[Lochem]

Something is hitting my cluster too. Used two different sprays and not much luck. The bines were climbing lots in the first two weeks and then just stopped growing completely. They are definitely struggling hard with something.
Could be mites or white flies. I saw lots of white flies spinning circles around the pots. Just hoping it's nothing more serious under the top of the soil...

 

[wide eyed and legless]

What sprays have you tried? Looks like it could be either burn leaf or downy mildew,are you watering from the bottom of the plant , not splashing the leaves? If it is downy mildew a copper spray should fix it.

 

[Drew]

First year chinook, finally making some ground! (Okay not quite 3 metres yet....but I'm happy).

Some of the lower leaves look a bit munched on but it seems to be growing fine.

 

[SpiroZ]

First year Cascade, single bine which the possums finally found and nibbled off the end.

This one is about 3m and goes up and along the fence on the cat 5 cable....looks like some nice flowers starting..

 

[dave81]

Hey
First year cascade here, second rhizome for the season though
; ) just wondering if 2 bines per bine/string is too much.i have 1 more bine to trim off as I have 5 growing (just waiting on a mate to get his stuff together to see if he can strike it)



I may try run them along the fencline when they evetually get up but we'll see.cheers

 

[DU99]

Plenty of growth in the tub

 

[Weizguy]

I'm pretty sure those red petioles (leaf stems) indicates a mild Potassium deficiency.
A regular liquid feed should fix it up.

Still better than mine; some just popping out of the ground now.

 

[Mardoo]

Don't some species naturally show purple in the bines and petioles, like The Cousin? My Cascade shows purple bines but none of my others do, and all are fed and potted the same way in the same soil mix.

 

[hoppy2B]

Don't some species naturally show purple in the bines and petioles, like The Cousin? My Cascade shows purple bines but none of my others do, and all are fed and potted the same way in the same soil mix.

Yeah most varieties have red bines, some tend to be darker than others, and the more sun they get the darker they generally become.

Chinook, Mt Hood, Fuggles/Tettnang are 'white bine' varieties. Yob claims to have a Canterbury White Bine.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Don't some species naturally show purple in the bines and petioles, like The Cousin? My Cascade shows purple bines but none of my others do, and all are fed and potted the same way in the same soil mix.

True there Mardoo, I had a cannabis plant that must have been a throwback to an original cultivar, out of 62 plants one was more like a Purple Haze than its all green sister plants.

Also looking up what pests and diseases growers may have on a plant it is generally easier to look up cannabis plants as they and the hop plants share the same pests and diseases

To get a good growth going a bit of complete fertilizer will help and also help the flowers set.

 

[beerfarmer]

To cut or not to cut..... Hop growers cut back the first flush of growth as these bines bolt away early using up all the stored energy in the crown. These bines have long internodes.The second flush of bines have shorter internodes ( less stem between each set of leaves)That means more sets of leaves per meter of bine which also means more flowers as flower cones emerge from same nodes as the leaves. It's a hard thing to do, cutting back this lush strong first growth, and timing is important. I still find myself keeping a few first bines as habit. I let first bines get to a 40cm b4 cutting. Hoppy gardening.

 

[seehuusen]

interesting about cutting back, some of my rhizomes are shooting really thin bines, thinking I might need to cut those back?
What makes that even harder is that my Flinders bine is looking like it could produce a little bit of deliciousness

 

[nathanvonbeerenstein]

Any think they can diagnose my second year cascade? Started off like a rocket and has sort of come to a halt with leaves not looking too flash

 

[hoppy2B]

Probably not enough water, and doesn't hurt to put on some liquid manure.