Space is an issue for some, and possibly not wanting them to take over the whole place. I've moved mine from pots into bigger homes this season though. I agree they're better off in the ground but it's not practical in all situations.Stu Brew said:
Ill take my hat off to anyone that can grow a first year rhizomes that takes over their place.....I mean I could....but the soil down the back and sun aspect is far better than here....Maybe if I was in Tassy with a 4x4m back yard id be worriedRocker1986 said:
that said...they do grow well in the right spot! I highly doubt you'll have issues in a standard backyard though....as hard as you can grow one! Just my two sense worth....go as hard as you can...and if it goes really well, all you'll actually get is lots of cones and lots of rhizomes...... which is good all round!
Yeah good stuff. I have purchased an aeroponic cloner. I root them then put them into pots. I got a really really late start on it last year....and I didnt have a greenhouse setup either. The whole first batch of shoots are going to get cut and cloned this year....so hopefully this is how im going to end up with 60 columbus from 20 last season, with a few extra rhizomes I dig. I like to hear about stuff like this! I did one 50L pot with Columbus just to see how they would go. I got about 20 rhizomes out of the one pot...the plant performed like arse though...grew all of 200g of hops cones...but I was more experimenting to see how they would go in terms of easily producing rhizomes which was rather effective.Alex.Tas said:Had a dig around in a couple of my pots from last year this morning.
These two plants were grown from cuttings last year. All I did was trim, dip the end in root growing powder, then poked my finger into the prepared soil, then stuck the end of the cutting in.
I took the cuttings, as i was thinning the shoots out to around 4 per line. These ones would have made it to the compost heap otherwise.
Watered as per the other main plants and look what they turn into.
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This one is a chinook
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And this one is a columbus
Planning on giving them away to a mate so he can start his own plantation.
Pretty sure i have a few more clones lurking in with the main plant beds too!
Now just to wait for the warmer weather!
Rocker1986 said:I'm in Brisbane which probably doesn't help you much, but mine were in pretty much full sun last season and had no problems. Having said that, they are on the western side of the yard, and behind them as you'll see in the following photos is a lot of trees, so they do get shaded towards the end of the day more. Last year they were in pots but this year I've built these larger beds and trellises. There are braces on one of them but they can't really be seen because of the light. I have to get up and do the other one soon too, and fix the lines in the Cascade bed. On the left is a 2nd year Hallertau that was moved from a pot, and on the right is a first year Cascade, with the rhizome planted a couple of weeks ago. The other pot has a 2nd year Fuggles plant and was moved to another location in the yard but kept in its pot. I figured the hops I'll use the most of might as well have the biggest homes.
Dunno if I've mentioned already; I originally bought chicken wire to fence-in my hop garden, but after seeing your photos I'm going to forget the fence idea and just lay and weigh down the chicken wire over my hop mounds.Rocker1986 said:
Makes them a bitch to weed, make sure your mulch is good and thick priorkaiserben said:
Cool, that should work pretty well. The good thing about this mesh stuff I have (which was just lying around unused) is that it's heavy enough to hold itself down aside from that bent piece that I have the brick on, but light enough to be lifted up to get at any weeds or whatever.kaiserben said:
Yeah they're pretty much set in place now, but either a ladder or some cutters should make it pretty easy to get at the flowers near the top when it's time next year.wide eyed and legless said:
