Hop Plantation 2005

[Borret]

:lol: mine hasn't budged in a month.

The cutting is charging along though. The weather hasn't really effected it.


Borret

 

[kungy]

My plant is really gunning along now, and about time too. Shoots are popping up all over the place and the main stalk is now surprisingly thick, reminds me almost of a sweet pea stalk.

Will

 

[big d]

any news on the western hop fields?
guest lurker etc

 

[Guest Lurker]

We have contact between chinook and climbing wire.

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any news on the western hop fields?
guest lurker etc

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Hi Big D. The chinook is now 40 cm up the wire, so that is about 3 cm per day since the pic I posted. The POR on the other hand has done nothing.

 

[Tony]

I planted a hallertau plant late, my order got missed by grumpys but it took off a week after planting.

I had about 12 shoots poke out of the groung till a cat trampled a third of them.

Well they have grown back and have had about 4 inches of groath and leaves apear in the last week

I fretalised with blood and boan and a slow release nitrogen fertaliser.

Will be adding some pot ash and some tomato plant fretaliser that is fairly rich stuff.

Will take a pic and keep you all posted.

I kind of figure that being in tamworth that is considered a cold belt area but also having long days being further north that tassie, should work erll.

cheers

 

[Darren]

any news on the western hop fields?
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Adelaide hops have reared their beautiful heads

 

[tangent]

any pics Darren?

 

[ausdb]

Hi Big D. The chinook is now 40 cm up the wire, so that is about 3 cm per day since the pic I posted. The POR on the other hand has done nothing.

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My POR is going great guns, its the elusive rhizome I got from Chillamgilla at the sandgroptoberfest. It had three whitish coloured shoots on it before I planted it and now the biggest one is about 6" tall. I had a look at deebee's POR's on Sunday and they are only a couple of inches high if that. I will take pic in the next few days and post it.

PS GL I have your sodastream bottle a my house, there is a leak somewhere in my party keg system so I will fill your bottle back up before I give it back to you. Also have to get the tube of mastic for you, the insulaton is in my shed

Cheers

Ausdb

 

[voota]

My POR is the same Ausdb, almost 5 ft now, those things are weeds! Wish I could say the same for my cluster, the poor thing is close to death.

 

[tdh]

Tony wrote - >I kind of figure that being in tamworth that is considered a cold belt area but also having long days being further north that tassie, should work erll.<

The further south you are the longer the days, south of the 35th parallel is where you find commercial hop fields.

Now that Tassie also has daylight savings their days must be about 27.45 hours in length

tdh

 

[markws]

??Hop leaf fungus??? <_<

My POR plant appears to be growing well - now at least 1.2m in length, however I have noticed that a number of the lower leaves on the vine have a light brown/cream spotting inconjunction with holes appearing in the leaves. The upper leaves are in good condition and are unaffected. I assume the leaves are diseased with either a virus/fungus at the moment - no snails or other bugs have attacked the plant as yet


Any thoughts - Comments...It looks like I will be doing a little research tonight to unravel the truth.. :blink:

Regards

Mark WS

 

[Doc]

Mark,

Mine are displaying the same symtoms. Initially it was just one or two leaves, but it seems to be spreading.
I'd also be interested to hear what it is and how to deal with it.
I can take some close up pictures if that would help too.

Beers,
Doc

 

[Steve]

Mark/Doc strip the bottom young leaves off to stop it spreading. I read somewhere to do this as a matter of course anyway to stop viral/fungal infections?


Just grabbed this from grumpys manual on growing hops.

IMPORTANT: Once the plant has reached a few meters in height the bottom metre or so of each vine MUST be stripped from the plant by hand to avoid the growth of various soil borne fungi and to ensure that the vines get maximum benefit.

Give it a go. Cheers
Steve

 

[Borret]

Interesting, that's how my downfall started too and now the pale leaves and white spots and rusty bits..... and no growth. It's sortoff reasuring that I'm now not alone.

The cutting hasn't displayed the same problem yet though.

Borret

 

[Doc]

Mark/Doc strip the bottom young leaves off to stop it spreading. I read somewhere to do this as a matter of course anyway to stop viral/fungal infections?


Just grabbed this from grumpys manual on growing hops.

IMPORTANT: Once the plant has reached a few meters in height the bottom metre or so of each vine MUST be stripped from the plant by hand to avoid the growth of various soil borne fungi and to ensure that the vines get maximum benefit.

Give it a go. Cheers
Steve

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Excellent. Will do tonight.
I think the instructions also mentioned limiting the number of vines. I might have to kill/cut off a few shoots too. That maybe limiting some of my growth.

Beers,
Doc

 

[Steve]

Yeah doc - only need 2 or 3 strong/main bines per plant.
Borret is your cutting in the same dirt as the other one?

 

[Borret]

Yeah doc - only need 2 or 3 strong/main bines per plant.
Borret is your cutting in the same dirt as the other one?

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Sort of.. The main plant is in planting mix in the ground but the cutting is in a mixture of the planting mix (same stuff I actuall grabbed a couple of handfulls back outof the ground) and mixed it with some potting mix at about 50/50. This was at my ex nursury working green thumb sisters advice to give it a little better drainage than the planting mix. Seemed to work.
Not sure of the low watering rate that has been suggested though as the one on the window cill sat in water only for the first months and has been watered everyday in a trerracotta pot ever since. I did strip a leaf or 2 off the bottom of it earlier in the piece as it was starting to rot though.
The cutting is still on the window cill inside so may not be subject to the same environmental stresses.
The main plant may be starting to look a little healthier than it was but one of the growth buds is now missing so it may be back to a 2 bine plant.

I shall take some more photo's, they speek better than words

Borret

 

[deadly]

Sound like fungus,try and get some distance between lower leaves and the ground (strip back) and water the soil not the plant - same as roses I guess.This might be of usehttp://www.freshops.com/nutrient.html

 

[markws]

Thanks lads,

Like Doc - I will be definately removing all the infected leaves. :angry:

Interestingly when I reviewed the plant this morning - almost all of the leaves had some sign of starting to produce nodes for the hop buds. May be just cutting the physical leaf and leaving the stem of the leaf will help them to mature?? :huh:

Regards

Mark WS

 

[markws]

Ps - like Borret and others I have removed all the secondary vines and creating additional cuttings for trading....If it has not already been considered - At the end of the season maybe we can organise a trade of all the secondary plants amongst AHBer's