New Brunswick Craft Brewers Association
Brewing => Hops => Topic started by: ECH on May 24, 2017, 05:20:11 PM
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Mine have poked through this last week or so.
2 Centennial are looking good so far.
Finally planted what I had in the ground last fall, 2 Centennial, which will be 2nd yr plants this year, so might get enough off of them for an oz or 2 in the fall.
Golding that just grew so so last year, but was still in a pot at the time, however hasn't come up yet, so might be a goner. The one surprise was the one Fuggles I had, from about 3yrs ago...been in a pot all this time, didn't grow last year at all, so when I dumped out the others, I dumped it as well to recoup the dirt, and low and behold there were a couple of viable chutes on the root side that had grown last year, so took a chance and planted it, not expecting anything but hoping for the best, and it has popped this last week.
Chutes are only 3-4" at this point, but looking promising.
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Surprisingly 3 out of 6 I got this year are showing promise thanks @Roger (http://nbcba.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1911) for them
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My Hersbrucker are almost 3 feet tall and my cascades are about 2 feet tall. They're planted beside the house so they get a good head start. I've got some centennial, golding, nugget and Willamette in another spot but they're only a few inches tall now 10inches at most...
Edit: I just checked my hops and the Hersbrucker is 5 feet tall and the cascades are 3 feet tall... Crazy!
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My cascades had about 6 shoots and are about 3 feet tall, my Centennial had 5 shoots and are about 16 inches right now.
My Hersbrucker transplants from Roger have yet to peek through.
Should I let all the shoots grow? Or concentrate them?
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My Cascade have yet to show themselves and I fear they may be dead :frazzled:
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My cascades had about 6 shoots and are about 3 feet tall, my Centennial had 5 shoots and are about 16 inches right now.
My Hersbrucker transplants from Roger have yet to peek through.
Should I let all the shoots grow? Or concentrate them?
What I do is trim all the smaller ones and train around 3-4 of the bigger ones around the rope. I also trim any new shoots that come up to let the ones I've trained get all the nutrients. Then once they're about 12feet I trim off all the leaves up to about 5-6 feet. This helps with some pests that will crawl up the bine from what I've read they loose interest in the plant if they can't find any food on the way up. Good luck!
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Very helpful, thanks!
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My cascade have exploded this year. The willamette is doing really well but its totally possible it just got overtaken by the cascade since I planted them so close together.
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I planted 13 hop plants last spring. My Golding in my back yard is about 2 ft tall and training. The other 12 hop plants at my camp survived the winter as well and one has actually has a runner coming up between the planted rhizome and it's neighbor. I did not get anything last year but I'm hoping for a small crop this year. Time to build an oust. :cheers:
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Hops already to the top of my string! Need to figure something out now.
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Mine are almost 4 feet. I don't expect much as it is the first year
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Some of mine are to the roof and half way back down to the ground already...
I don't do much with mine I just let them go. I've tried running lines horizontally. It works great but its a pain to wrap them around the lines everyday. I've seen it done quite successfully @jamie_savoie (http://nbcba.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1182) has had some pretty awesome crops doing it that way.
Mine seem to grow to the roof fall back down then grow back up again. It's probably not the best for yield but I get enough to use so I don't really care.
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Some of mine are to the roof and half way back down to the ground already...
I don't do much with mine I just let them go. I've tried running lines horizontally. It works great but its a pain to wrap them around the lines everyday. I've seen it done quite successfully @jamie_savoie (http://nbcba.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1182) has had some pretty awesome crops doing it that way.
Mine seem to grow to the roof fall back down then grow back up again. It's probably not the best for yield but I get enough to use so I don't really care.
That's helpful... I was thinking about making another runner down to the ground level, but was reading that I'd have to train it downwards, daily. That really seems like a pain, so I may just use your method!
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My 2 centennial are probably at about 5-6ft so far, Golding about 5ft, and the Fuggles, which I didn't expect to survive are at about 3-4ft.
Mine go up a line to a 4X4 post at about a 45 degree angle, 15-17 ft of line, generally go to the top, grow slightly more and then start to fill out.
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Mine are about 6 or 8 feet. I've been negligent about fertilizer and weeding but they aren't doing too bad. The centennial are doing much better this year so far.
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I put up a trellis 10 ft tall and I guess I should have made it twice as tall. Cascade is already reaching for the sky past the 10 ft mark. Anybody got any sky hooks? :rock:
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First cones are appearing!
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Mine didn't do much. The 2 centennial grew maybe 6ft and stopped. The Golding maybe 4ft and stopped and the Fuggles maybe 3ft.
First centennial has about 8-10 cones on it, the 2nd one just has a few starting.
Don't know if it is the location or the soil, or what. Going to walk the manure to them this fall and hope for the best next year!
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Mine are doing fairly well considering the lack of attention I have been giving them. Cones are small this year, not sure if they will size up or need more water.
The last picture is the hersbrucker I got from Roger. Thanks for trying hersbrucker, maybe next year.
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Anyone harvest hops yet?
I harvested my Hersbrucker hops on Sunday but had a poor yield. Only 1.5lbs wet...
My cascade hops are looking decent though.
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I've been looking at mine, they are about 8 feet above my head but look like they are ready. Didn't get much yield, maybe 50 cones per plant. Probably should have watered more with how dry the season was.
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I picked my Centennial last night. Got about 80oz (5lbs) wet off of the 5 plants. They are in the top of my garage drying as we speak.
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That's a sweet drying rack! Where did you find that?
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So I officially didn't kill the hops this year I got a massive 3 Oz wet hops haha not bad for a first year next year should be good
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That's a sweet drying rack! Where did you find that?
Amazon. They are "Herb or flower" drying racks.
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The 80oz of centennial dried down to 23oz. Last year I only got 6oz so a big improvement. I picked the cascade tonight and only got 146oz, way down from last year so fertilizer and water are on the docket for next year.
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I harvested my cascade hops on Sunday and got 7lbs wet about the same as last year. But the lack of rain is likely the reason for your lower yield.