Hop spacings
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No offence intended but the guy obviously doesn't have a clue.Yob said:
You'll need an elevated work platform or similar machinery to work at the sort of height that is required to grow hops properly. That being around 7 metres. Can you afford that on a small scale? Its way too dangerous not to use an EWP.
Second point is that he probably won't get any or much rhizome in the first year if he doesn't specifically set out to produce some. And that goes double based on the fact they are in pots.
Third point is the question of how you intend to harvest them. I know from hand picking mine that if he was to pay someone to hand pick them it would cost as much in labour as what he could expect to sell them for.
Unsafe, doesn't have a clue on how to grow them, extremely uneconomical. My honest advice, forget about it.
No offence intended mate, just putting it to you straight. There are ways of getting around some of the issues. If you think you are clever enough to grow hops commercially you can figure it out.
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Look I'll give you some free advice in the opposite direction because I realize the above post sounds a bit harsh.
If you want to multiply your hops, take them out of the pots straight away and plant them in the ground. Then when you have bines growing bury the first couple of feet of bine in the ground before running the bines up the string. You need to do that now at the beginning of the growing season. The length of bine that you have buried will become rhizome that you will be able to lift next year in autumn/winter.
The reason I have been as blunt as possible above is because you don't seem inclined to growing hops commercially. You've started off by creating a lot of unnecessary work and extra expense by going to the trouble of filling large pots and so on. Think efficiently.
If you want to multiply your hops, take them out of the pots straight away and plant them in the ground. Then when you have bines growing bury the first couple of feet of bine in the ground before running the bines up the string. You need to do that now at the beginning of the growing season. The length of bine that you have buried will become rhizome that you will be able to lift next year in autumn/winter.
The reason I have been as blunt as possible above is because you don't seem inclined to growing hops commercially. You've started off by creating a lot of unnecessary work and extra expense by going to the trouble of filling large pots and so on. Think efficiently.
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