2015 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!
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Pogierob
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Victoria
http://beerlegends.com/victoria-hops
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glenos
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Three weeks later and this has happened.glenos said:
Cascade is also 4.5m and burring up, it hasn't grown as well as Perle but is going to give me a small baggie.
Lochem
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It's time. Not a very big yield, but I'll take it!! About 150 g wet. Victoria.
If I can get one brew out of it, so be it!
Cheers to Mardoo!!
If I can get one brew out of it, so be it!
Cheers to Mardoo!!
Pogierob
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How.good are hops!!!!!! **** yeah!!!!!!
sp0rk
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My Hallertauer has died right back due to all the rain we've had washing all the fertiliser and nutrients away 
Won't be getting anything off it this year, thinking I might flog it off at the end of season and get something a little more suited to our climate up north
Won't be getting anything off it this year, thinking I might flog it off at the end of season and get something a little more suited to our climate up north
BottloBill
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Hersbrucker good to go for first harvest tomorrow. I have noticed new burs coming on for a second harvest in around 3 to 4 weeksB)
Pogierob
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Perhaps a touch early but... BOOM!!!
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For those worried you couldn't get a good 1st year yield from hops in pots...
BottloBill
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Done well with your yields in pots MateSixdemonbag said:For those worried you couldn't get a good 1st year yield from hops in pots...
That **** is mental!!! Here's my first year yield in comparison...
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Sixdemondog,with the discussion of to pot or not,fertiliser ,watering regime,position,weather etc,that's a bloody good crop first year !
Did you keep any records ?, got any tips for the other growers here.
Cheers....spog....
Did you keep any records ?, got any tips for the other growers here.
Cheers....spog....
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I went in pretty naive about the whole thing, but I tried to do everything right to see if it was even possible. But essentially:
-Pots are of the 'self-watering' type, which could easily be replicated with a bowl of some description as the base before putting your mix in. On a side note, I splurged with fairly nice looking pots…at is was a pre-requisite from the SWMBO
-Initial soil mix was 2/3 potting mix and 1/3 manure.
-I use a powder fertiliser every 2 weeks or so.
-I just used thin rope for the lines. I knotted them and tucked them or tied them to the rim of the pot. Easy and really clean.
-They get full sun from about 6-7am to about 4pm, then completely shaded. The pots (and soil) don't get a great deal of heat as they shade themselves and from the wall behind. I think this is important in the higher latitudes with pots. You don't want them cooking.
-I'm just watering with a hose, a real drenching, in the morning. Maybe in the arvo its been really hot.
-The initial rhizomes were not excessively large or anything. Purchased a few off the boards here, and a few off ebay.
-I really baby them. I see them from the couch, so I'm out there all the time twirling them and even got out and set up a tarp with the rain event we had early in the season to protect them.
-I planted them really early. Last week of July.
-I even threw a rhizome in my herb pot for ***** and giggles. That on, a cascade is the lushest of the bunch. The simplest pot, the least sun, and propped against a wall! the pic is at the end. Cones are huge.
-Bugs were a little bit of a problem at the start. Spider mites. I sprayed them vigorously.
Hope that helps somebody.
-Pots are of the 'self-watering' type, which could easily be replicated with a bowl of some description as the base before putting your mix in. On a side note, I splurged with fairly nice looking pots…at is was a pre-requisite from the SWMBO
-Initial soil mix was 2/3 potting mix and 1/3 manure.
-I use a powder fertiliser every 2 weeks or so.
-I just used thin rope for the lines. I knotted them and tucked them or tied them to the rim of the pot. Easy and really clean.
-They get full sun from about 6-7am to about 4pm, then completely shaded. The pots (and soil) don't get a great deal of heat as they shade themselves and from the wall behind. I think this is important in the higher latitudes with pots. You don't want them cooking.
-I'm just watering with a hose, a real drenching, in the morning. Maybe in the arvo its been really hot.
-The initial rhizomes were not excessively large or anything. Purchased a few off the boards here, and a few off ebay.
-I really baby them. I see them from the couch, so I'm out there all the time twirling them and even got out and set up a tarp with the rain event we had early in the season to protect them.
-I planted them really early. Last week of July.
-I even threw a rhizome in my herb pot for ***** and giggles. That on, a cascade is the lushest of the bunch. The simplest pot, the least sun, and propped against a wall! the pic is at the end. Cones are huge.
-Bugs were a little bit of a problem at the start. Spider mites. I sprayed them vigorously.
Hope that helps somebody.
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they are big cones, nice.
BottloBill
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Not really, he just has really small hands jokes....are they firm or really fluffy Six?Liam_snorkel said:
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