Farmer Needed - Breeding program

[Spohaw]

You get a decent germination rate?
I got one out of 50 from 2 that sprouted

Praying it's a male haha

 

[Yob]

erm... no... not really :lol: h34r:

*ed: This makes me a crap load more determined though and I hope better prepared for when the right male does land. there is many things to be done pre selection

PM's to follow

 

[Spohaw]

It took ages for mine to sprout .... Read that germination rate is very poor with hops as well

Was that plot joke a pun ? haha

 

[Yob]

I know right, that's a Haiku and a Pun in the same week..

:blink:

 

[Spohaw]

How did you germinate your seeds ?

I put mine in damp paper towel inside a take away container and put them in the keg fridge for 6 weeks then planted them and got a pretty poor rate

Think it may have been either old / non-viable seed or just how I tried to grow them

Puns and haikus aye hahaha haven't been that drunk for ages haha

 

[Yob]

dude.. ya missin out

 

[hoppy2B]

I think you're just wasting your time Yob, you sound like you don't know what you're doing at all if ya aks me.

 

[Yob]

nope.. didn't ask.

*ed: so totally, whole hardheartedly.. can I get a mutha'fukin'dwarf.. did not asky.. you...thankyouforyourinput..

chokesonvomit*2(if+>ass)andfku*2=whateves

*for clarity

 

[BottloBill]

Argh here he is hoppy2b....Got your head up your a*%se again mate??? Anyone else smell *****

 

[Yob]

@ Sir Hop aloty..

if we get several yards set up and established prior to singular experimentation from selective breeding... ah, fook it.. look, Ive played with selective breeding before and I regret even rising to this clear bait... .

 

[BottloBill]

No focks Given carry on breeding

 

[ekul]

maybe try a little gibberellic acid on the seeds to help them germinate. I had a mate that used it on some plants that were really tricky to sprout.

 

[booargy]

If I find anyone with male hops around me their whole garden will get a doze of round up.

 

[Spohaw]

Good luck with that booargy

 

[manticle]

I think you're just wasting your time Yob, you sound like you don't know what you're doing at all if ya aks me.

Unnecessary, inflammatory and deliberately provocative.
Desist.

 

[elcarter]

It's got to be Amarillo

Get that to adapt to Australian conditions and you might have something very special.

Hoppy to B.

You gave me a heap of rhizomes for free that I have distributed throughout the Adelaide home brew community. When you did this I though you were a pretty decent bloke.

However the few comments Iv'e seen you make of late particular in the hop threads have certainly began to change that opinion.

Not disputing your views or saying you can't have them but the way you've gone about expressing them within the forum when doing so has been pretty poor mate.

 

[hoppy2B]

Argh here he is hoppy2b....Got your head up your a*%se again mate??? Anyone else smell *****

That is just vile and disgusting commentary from individuals who clearly suffer from some sort of mental derangement that qualifies them to say whatever they want in response to someone making honest input.

 

[hoppy2B]

It's got to be Amarillo

Get that to adapt to Australian conditions and you might have something very special.

Hoppy to B.

You gave me a heap of rhizomes for free that I have distributed throughout the Adelaide home brew community. When you did this I though you were a pretty decent bloke.

However the few comments Iv'e seen you make of late particular in the hop threads have certainly began to change that opinion.

Not disputing your views or saying you can't have them but the way you've gone about expressing them within the forum when doing so has been pretty poor mate.

Look mate I am sick and tired of Yob making derogatory comments toward me whenever he feels like it. Its absolutely vile and disgusting the number of times I have put up with crap from that egotistical arsehole. My comment followed another arsehole comment he made on another thread. And my comment was tame by comparison.

 

[GrumpyPaul]

My comment followed another arsehole comment he made on another thread. And my comment was tame by comparison.

Which thread?

I must have missed that one

 

[manticle]

That is just vile and disgusting commentary from individuals who clearly suffer from some sort of mental derangement that qualifies them to say whatever they want in response to someone making honest input.

I said desist. Take some time to think about your contributions here.

 

[BottloBill]

That is just vile and disgusting commentary from individuals who clearly suffer from some sort of mental derangement that qualifies them to say whatever they want in response to someone making honest input.

In all honesty hoppy you have given some good advice and some not so good advice, we are all on a learning curb here....an everyday part of life > life, something that Yob and a few others are trying to spawn in the way of New varieties. We all swallow our words sometime in our life and some more than others. I say instead of being negative put forward some encouraging and positive input which you have clearly lacked recently on similar topics.

 

[Kodos]

Out of curiosity, have the seeds been checked/ok'd by quarantine?

There might be some vic hop growers who get pretty worried about seeds imported through irregular channels.

Not meaning to imply Yob is acting inappropriatly, just flagging it in case others think it can be done without checking regulations.

 

[droid]

a huge issue with farming will be the weather, I know like der everyone knows that but if a crop gets wiped out is that farmer on their own in the venture? Is it each persons risk? Getting things going as a collective sound s great but consider the cost incurred by someone losing a watered, fertilised and tendered crop that gets obliterated by unforeseen weather, pests etc

you have you considered hydro hop farming in the early stages of growth?

 

[Yob]

Losing resultant flowers it is a possibility from bad weather, it's unlikely that the zomes would be killed though.

 

[droid]

here is an interesting read about hydroponic hop farming http://www.hydrohopfarms.com/hydroponics.html

 

[Yob]

Hot houses on that scale are not financially viable, propagation perhaps, actual growth in don't think so.

Also remember, we aren't constrained by some factors the commercial yards are, we have, at the end of the day, it's a bit of fun with an interesting outcome if it works, the worst that can happen is we all end up swapping kilos of flowers

 

[JasonP]

Out of curiosity, have the seeds been checked/ok'd by quarantine?
There might be some vic hop growers who get pretty worried about seeds imported through irregular channels.
Not meaning to imply Yob is acting inappropriatly, just flagging it in case others think it can be done without checking regulations.

This is a good point. You can get in serious trouble importing seeds if hasn't been approved.

 

[Spohaw]

When I buy plants and seeds online I assume the seller has taken care of the quarantine issues

 

[JasonP]

You buy from overseas? I wouldn't always assume that they are OK to import. Australian quarantine laws differ from other countries and are very strict for good reasons.

 

[droid]

yep all good, I was thinking that a hydro set up to find the male and do all the scientific stuff might be easier in a controlled environment not so much suggesting the commercial hydro set up for you

Good luck with it!