2015 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

[LiquidGold]

First cascade harvest, 184g wet. Loving it

 

[Wolfman86]

what length do they tend to start flowering, ive got a first year cascade with two vines at about 1.4m, still no flowers.

 

[Yob]

Any lateral growth on the Bines?

 

[indica86]

Well mine have been odd.
Grew a little then stopped.
The original growth on the Chinook looks ******.
Shoots have come up elsewhere - 3 about 3 feet tall in two weeks.
The days are still long here, it's hot and wet.

 

[Wolfman86]

No, had three shoots in the beggining which stopped (the tallest being bout 250mm high the other two bout 50mm), but about 2months later 2 new bines grew out of the side of one of the 50mm ones (which are the two 1.4m bines).

 

[Wolfman86]

indica86 that sounds very similar to my cascade, the old growth does nothing.

 

[LiquidGold]

Mine did that and I attributed it to not enough water because they started growing like mad once we got some rain. I was tempted to cut them right back at one stage but eventually they either shot new ones or even some of the old growth began to grow again. I had drippers on them the whole time but a good soaking seems to be what they were chasing.

 

[seehuusen]

Curious to know, how does people handle the rhizomes once they've finished?
Are they OK to leave in the ground? Do I have to keep watering them? Or should I pull them out, wrap them in wet news paper + plastic bag and store in the fridge?

 

[The Judge]

what length do they tend to start flowering, ive got a first year cascade with two vines at about 1.4m, still no flowers.

I have a first year cascade growing in Perth and it has just reached about 2.5 meters. About 1 week ago it started growing burrs, but not on laterals, just on the main bine. I think there's 5-10 burrs in total (so nothing amazing at this point!) and I'm religiously watering it.

 

[Yob]

Chinook is nicely smothered, photo doesn't do it justice

 

[Dae Tripper]

Well my Mt Hood as made it to the top of the trellis, what now?

 

[Camo6]

Tie it in a knot before it slides back down... (insert ninja smiley here)

 

[BottloBill]

One of my Chinooks as of tonight. Donated by Yob

 

[Yob]

Well my Mt Hood as made it to the top of the trellis, what now?

now you make the poles higher :lol:

 

[Dae Tripper]

Should I put up some horizontal lines?

 

[Curly79]

From what I can gather mate, as long as your vertical lines are strong she will shoot laterals and just get nice and bushy. My cascade victoria and chinook have done just that. Seems to be pretty self supporting.

 

[Curly79]

Still got a while to go but flowering nicely

 

[BottloBill]

My Hersbrucker powering along

 

[Curly79]

Ready to pick yet?

 

[BottloBill]

Not quite ready yet Curly