2016 Hop Plantations, Show Us Your Hop Garden!

[Belgrave Brewer]

Yep, Victoria. Good work BB. No, wait, AWESOMENESS! Epic works for me too. Very impressive.

Cheers Mardoo! Let me know if you are going to make it in this week and I'll bring the trays.

 

[BottloBill]

Goldings off and running

 

[blekk]

Dug up this monster from last years pot to give some cuttings to a mate. First year using a mound and going to put 3 HEALTHY sized cuttings down in the next few days

 

[blekk]

On a side note - has anyone brewed with the Red Earth hops yet?

 

[Mardoo]

Haven't myself but I've had a few brews with them. Very nice hop!

 

[LiquidGold]

Finally got around to mulching the hops the other week and found some of the nodes looking ready to shoot so gave em a good watering and checked all the drippers still work. Bamboo tipis might need replacing before stringing up the twine since this years yield should be much bigger than last seasons.

 

[Weizguy]

Good idea for me to clean the weeds out of the beds and commence the watering/ feeding/ mulching regime.

That may take a while to sort, as the weeds are owning the plot.

Then it's time to erect the trellis again.

 

[Pogierob]

Scraped back the top 5cm of soil to find a Rhizome for a mate. This is what I found. All the water was used to clean away the soil so I didn't damage the plant.

 

[Yob]

Nice and fat, could easily cut a few off that

 

[Judanero]

Goldings off and running

With the size of that crown I'd be worried if it wasn't!

 

[Weizguy]

OK, started on the hop beds today, as the hacksaw-slotting copper manifold task was getting to me.

Only weeded one bed so far, but found there was signs of life there, with the Cascade rhizome (maybe there was 2 in there?).


Watered with 40 litres. not sure if that was even enough to dampen the plot.

Here's the mess before weed elimination.

 

[BottloBill]

With the size of that crown I'd be worried if it wasn't!

In reference to the Goldings crown you gave me, thanks again! you are a very generous bloke

 

[BottloBill]

Foliage starting to begin

 

[Everest]

so thought id better post something up after a year of watching you guys,
the pride of ringwood and red earth are throwing up some good shoots already, cascade have barely broke the surface... chinook is still hiding,, but still pretty cold here in perth..hoping it isnt a dud
so with 3 cascades, golding, por, red earth and chinook, this should be a good year... ill post a photo up of my ghetto trellis when i rewire it in a few weeks...

 

[Everest]

another photo

 

[Spohaw]

Here's my only hop I managed to grow from seed last year

starting to shoot again

 

[hoppy2B]

Here's my only hop I managed to grow from seed last year

starting to shoot again

littlehop.jpg

If it turns out to be a male don't turf it as I am sure there would be a few people on here that would be interested in using it for breeding.

 

[Spohaw]

I'm hoping for a male to do the same hoppy

If it is female I'll still keep it

 

[Matplat]

how many seeds did you sow in order to get your single plant?

 

[Spohaw]

That's kinda embarrassing haha

50 it was .....had a few more sprout but they didn't make it