2016 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

[BottloBill]

:lol: I warned you! I'll try and get a pick of the Hers remnant that has shot up in the garden.. Must really like the Newcastle climate.

she has such a different growth structure than last season mate. I just can't get over the pace of the laterals growing day by day.

 

[Weizguy]

:lol: I warned you! I'll try and get a pick of the Hers remnant that has shot up in the garden.. Must really like the Newcastle climate.

But what are the hops like?
I have a Hersbrucker growing for the last few years and it's always been stunted with no hops at all.
Are they floral, spicy, or otherwise?

 

[BottloBill]

But what are the hops like?
I have a Hersbrucker growing for the last few years and it's always been stunted with no hops at all.
Are they floral, spicy, or otherwise?

I harvested about a kilo dry from last season and that was a first year. I have found it to be very aromatic (floral) and characterised by fruit and spice. The cones grow loose pack but extremely resinous.

 

[Weizguy]

Hmmm. Now if can get mine to grow this year. Re-erecting the trellis today.

 

[sponge]

Starting to train the hops along the horizontal runs now (cascade and chinook) with goldings still throwing out plenty of laterals from the single bine along the fence.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Going to be interesting sponge when they get to the other side of the porch, getting them to start going down.

 

[sponge]

Yeah I'm pretty interested to see how difficult it will be. I'm thinking I'll have to let them grow reasonably long on their own when they reach the horizontal end and then wind them down from there, then just repeat once a week or so, letting them get long again and wind them down. Time will tell how difficult it will be, but I'm somewhat optimistic.

 

[Curly79]

Damn this hersbrucker is insane!

More like limbs than bines on that thing bottlo! That thing is thriving. Nice work.

 

[BottloBill]

More like limbs than bines on that thing bottlo! That thing is thriving. Nice work.

Cheers curly, I decided to measure the longest outreaching lateral and measured just shy of 1500. I am pretty fond of this variety due to its high yield, sweet aroma and sticky sticky resin, all that pending how well she sums up this season but I am very confident she will produce the goods again.

 

[eresh666]

Guys,

2nd season hops now starting to go crazy however is this mildew? Anyone recommend something from bunnings/mitre10 I can buy to fix this as its starting to effect the growth of the overall plant.

I'm sure something is taking the occasional chomp out of the leaves however never seen any slugs/snails/caterpillar/mites on them.

I think I found the problem, very hard to see caterpillars. (bought some already made up eco-oil, if that doesnt work perhaps something stronger will have to do).

 

[Danscraftbeer]

B) Something a little different. This is a scrawny cutting from my Cascade just buried in the gravel of an Aquaponics bed. Any cutting of anything I have placed into the gravel propagates. Something to say for organic eco systems. It was limp for a day or two then dormant for another 4 days now grown 2 inches all after umm,,8 or 9 days maybe from planting it. I did this experiment late last season as well and the leaves eventually fell off so I pulled the stems out only to find a whole bunch of new root system. These hops are pretty awesome.


The Cascades at the moment. Not a good pic. There is 3 IBC whicking beds, a bunch in the backround you cant see. The silver sheet on the south fence to barrier an invasive monster Ivy and to reflect light back and deter Aphids in a scrawny backyard. The hops actually serve a double perpose. They will canopy over the bird netting to shade the grow beds over the hottest of summer for a nicer environment for the vegies and stuff. Compact gardening. B)

 

[Yob]

I pulled a little chinook zome that was growing out of place and threw in the planter at the end of the shed, gunna 'allow' it to take over and shade the brewery in the next couple of years..

should look pretty good and keep more light away from the tank water drums.

 

[Benn]

I've got a house inspection Thursday, as soon as that's done I'll be screwing timber to the house to optimize hop climbage.

 

[Danscraftbeer]

I've got a house inspection Thursday, as soon as that's done I'll be screwing timber to the house to optimize hop climbage.

Just strings will do. Self tapping eyehooks etc. All can be easily removed when the season is finished with little to no trace it even happened.

 

[NikZak]

2 weeks ago I took 5 cuttings from my Victoria hop plant and stick them in a glass of water on the windowsill. Four of them have started making rootlets and one was limp so the fifth was tossed and these are going to stay in the water.

Just want to know at what length roots should I put them into pots?

 

[wide eyed and legless]

http://piedmonthops.com/how-to/root-your-own-cuttings

 

[NikZak]

Awesome. Cheers mate. But I've done it differently. I've just taken cuttings of shoots and put them in water. Just wondering when I should transfer them to soil

 

[wide eyed and legless]

As in those pics in the link, he moved his into a bigger container to allow the roots to grow some more, if you have some 3 inch pots lying around put the into those until it grows more roots the stick them in the ground, use a decent potting mix though, or some rotted down compost if you have any.

 

[Everest]

2 weeks ago I took 5 cuttings from my Victoria hop plant and stick them in a glass of water on the windowsill. Four of them have started making rootlets and one was limp so the fifth was tossed and these are going to stay in the water.

Just want to know at what length roots should I put them into pots?

i found this is one of the only ways for me to grow my own hops, im not the best at cuttings and propagation etc...
but you just stick these in water and wait... i left mine in for 2-3 weeks at least behind a window inside the house.. so it gets (less harsher) sun and cooler temps than outside (perth summer)

after that i planted them gently into soil with some support for them to grow and a week later they have doubled in size and still going strong.. finally a win
these were the roots when i planted them

and heres my little setup... hops at home in the stein glass... some twine to hold them up.. alfoil to reflect some light and heat...

 

[GNU]

First time growing hops and my cascade is coming along alright

 

[Sixdemonbag]

Just checked the hops growing at my in-laws property. Heatwaves have sparked a serious growth spurt. Well of the ones I have in pots, at home.

 

[Bruer]

My POR have already developed cones. No side shoots yet just a bunch of bines. Should I snip the tip sort of speak?

 

[LiquidGold]

Goldings in the front, Cascade to the back. Some of the bines on the Cascade are heaps thick and its grown so quick it caught up to the Goldings that had a big head start.

Recently added the cheap plastic edging and some mulch. Plan was to take a rhizome cutting from the Cascade next winter but seeing all the success people are having with cuttings I might do a couple myself in the aquaponics.

 

[Belgrave Brewer]

Growth all over the place for these first year rhizomes, from just reaching the bottom of the coir rope, to up and over the top wire. Still, I'm pretty happy so far.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

If one gets too many hops what does one do with the excess, I had thought of making the oil but Knowing how much oil to use would be a problem.

 

[NikZak]

If one gets too many hops what does one do with the excess, I had thought of making the oil but Knowing how much oil to use would be a problem.

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I reckon too many hops would never really be a problem. At worst I'm sure you could give away/sell any excess or make some super hoppy beers

 

[Matplat]

So, at the beginning, everyone said that for first year plants you should keep all the bines rather than selecing the best 2-3.... however it is getting harder and harder to keep them all cos there are so bloody many! Seriously there are multiple bines from multiple locations in each pot... if i had more space i would run at least two lines from each one. Should i start cutting off the excess bines? It seems wrong, but the lines are getting crowded already...

Dr Smurtos comment about them being like weeds is becoming abuntantly clear!

 

[kunfaced]

If one gets too many hops what does one do with the excess, I had thought of making the oil but Knowing how much oil to use would be a problem.

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Have you thought of making soaps? What type of oil and how where you thinking of doing it? Do you use any liquid fertilisers on your hop plants? Everyone has been warning me off adding extra phosphorus to the ground, I was thinking of using a little bit of slow release pellets when I dress mine in the next week or so, good or bad idea? Sorry for the questions but your plants gave me a boner.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Depends on how far your hops have grown, if they have taken off Power feed or Dynamic lifter just remember the latter is a slow release fertiliser so not to often with the feed.
The oil can be extracted using alcohol but it could end up an expensive exercise with hops,probably better with its cousin.

 

[kunfaced]

Have you heard of anyone doing a butane extraction on hop cones? I've had pretty good results with other things, and found butane with no byproducts.