Hop Plantation 2005

[Steve]

Cheers Darren and Hopsta...I dont think I'll nip the top off...will just let it do its own thing. I still have string going from the top to the side of the house from last year. Will let it do whatever it wants.
Sosman - yours look the goods :beerbang:
Steve

 

[n00ch]

Mine was going great guns till i went away for 2 weeks and it got no water. Kind of looking a tad sick now.

 

[lochrockingbeers]

If anyone's interested in hop plant swaps let me know. I have por, cluster, hallertau, hersbruck, tettnang and perle. Have a few little potted plants of some varieties to spare and could take side shoots or rhizomes of other varieties to swap.

I'm interested in anything not listed above but mainly british or american varieties. Saaz would be nice if anyone has it.

 

[Darren]

Yeah I too would be interested in saaz

 

[tangent]

i'd like POR but i've only got hersbrucker to swap

 

[Trough Lolly]

I've cut off a couple of healthy (6 inch plus) runners from the 2nd year Goldings that is currently going berserk. The runners are in a jar of water with a couple of mls of rooting liquid :blink: so I hope they last the week. I checked on them this morning and they look pretty happy.

The Goldings has three main runners that are bolting up the trellis - if it pushes out any more shoots, I'll let them go for a bit and then cultivate. By rule of thumb, I'm snipping runners after the third pair of leaves appears on the target bine...if that makes sense!!

I'm after Hallertau and Cascade plant stock. Has anyone got Northern Brewer rhizomes???

Cheers,
TL

 

[tangent]

Darrens tip of removing the leaves from the cutting worked like a treat!
Little roots growing out after only a few days

Adelaide growers 1st.
Who wants one?

 

[sosman]

My three hallertau bines have reached the top of the frame now:

Geez Sos, looks like you are streets ahead of the competition! :beer: Perhaps you should get up there and add another few metres onto it h34r:

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I picked that height because apparently the commercial growers use 15'. Dunno whether it is optimal but it will do. The idea is for it to "crown" which it has started to do.

 

[sosman]

I've cut off a couple of healthy (6 inch plus) runners from the 2nd year Goldings that is currently going berserk. The runners are in a jar of water with a couple of mls of rooting liquid :blink: so I hope they last the week. I checked on them this morning and they look pretty happy.

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I did that last year, but I didn't bother with the rooting powder. They still sprouted roots. Where I failed is transfering the shoots to soil. I should have let my mum take care of that end of the business.

It took a few weeks to get to this:

 

[Jazman]

if it works herbrucker be fine as i am growing perle and it slow 2nd year in a pot thank god for bulk buys

 

[Trough Lolly]

I did that last year, but I didn't bother with the rooting powder. They still sprouted roots. Where I failed is transfering the shoots to soil. I should have let my mum take care of that end of the business.

It took a few weeks to get to this:

Nearly a week in water - no roots yet... :unsure:

But both runners are sitting upright and looking good - the leaves are a bit wilted but still quite green and healthy looking, but that's probably due to lack of direct sunlight. I sat the jar in a bathroom that gets full sun through frosted glass as I feared that full sun would do more damage but a well lit room wouldn't...

My missus thinks I'm going a bit too far with my hops - everything else has to tend to itself in the backyard, except for this little corner of the garden that gets almost daily attention.

Cheers,
TL

 

[tangent]

pull the leaves off TL
did u do that?

 

[Chatty]

sinkas, the deficiency symptoms for Ca, Mg and Fe are very similar. Unless you are dead certain (those photo's were a little dicey) I would apply a soluble vegetable fertiliser (Thrive or similar) that has all 3 of those minerals in them.

Chatty

 

[Kramer]

I thought I might post some pics of my POR I have only one on the computer at the moment can't find the rest.

Will post them tomorrow.

Here they are about 2 weeks ago-

 

[Kramer]

Here they are at week five, Remember my state of the art lattice system is Patent Pending!

I find that they grow better if I only water them once every 3 days or so and I have been having 30 degree days here lately.

 

[AndrewQLD]

I'm just down the road from you Kramer, here is my Victory plant, looking good so far. I planted this last year and it only grew about 12" but this year it has really taken off.


Andrew

 

[Steve]

TL - I have a couple of roots shooting from my POR cutting. Will keep you updated. Anything from yours?

Cheers
Steve

 

[Kramer]

Slightly off topic:

AndrewQLD I used to live in Bundy but moved up here to manage my own shop refilling printer cartridges, I am always back in Bundy for something or another but fuel is now killing me in my new car and I can't afford it so much now!

Back on- I hope my hops grow alright up here but I think it may too far north to get any cones. But it still looks cool and all my mates think I am going too far with homebrew by growing my own hops!

They still like the free beer though! Go figure!

 

[Steve]

Quick question for Borret:
You know the cutting you grew in the glass of water and then transplanted it into the pot of dirt....when exactly did you transfer it? When the little white roots were very long or just sprouting? I have a cutting for trough lolly that is just sprouting roots in the glass of water its sitting in. :beer:
Cheers
Steve

 

[Borret]

Quick question for Borret:
You know the cutting you grew in the glass of water and then transplanted it into the pot of dirt....when exactly did you transfer it? When the little white roots were very long or just sprouting? I have a cutting for trough lolly that is just sprouting roots in the glass of water its sitting in. :beer:
Cheers
Steve

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G'day Steve,

I think it was about a week after it initially sprouted roots so there was a heap happening and the plant was actually growing at this stage.

This photo shows it a couple of days prior to planting. If I remember rightly I put a couple of drops of yates fish emulsion in the water once the roots had appeared so it had a bit more to feed on (only remember casue it's in the edge of this photo.)



It's still charging along too. Here's where it's upto now. Interesting that the bent over tip actually rotates like clockwork every 2 hrs. I need to stick it in the ground or a bigger pot soon too.



Cheers

Borret