2012 crop

Richard · September 03, 2012, 05:24:02 PM

Aye; we'll be getting frost soon-ish and that'll screw them up pretty bad.

sdixon · September 04, 2012, 07:11:44 PM

So I checked with Scotts Nursury and they have some Nugget plants for sale whic I plan to buy. She also said that the frost won't hurt the rhizomes at all... as long as the ground isn't frozen (as in solid) I can plant them for next spring.

So.... does anyone have any rhizomes that they can share? :-)

Richard · September 04, 2012, 07:21:14 PM

Ach sorry... yeah looks like it's the vines that can't take a frost. I dunno if you'll get any benefit from planting now versus next spring, though.

Ian Grant · September 09, 2012, 10:18:32 PM

Well finally got around to picking my hops and on one plant i waited to long the spider mites got it before me. Sucks too cause it had a lot of big cones on it.

DandyMason · September 10, 2012, 07:16:35 PM

What do the spider mites do? Just eat them?

I just picked all my hops, and it really didnt take too long unfortunately... got just over 7 oz wet hops from my first year cascades hahaha... Ive read the ratio of wet to dry is usually about 5... so that means I have just over 1 oz of dry hops? hahah ... Better luck next year hopefully!

Richard · September 10, 2012, 07:22:58 PM

http://www.freshops.com/hop-growing/hop ... -and-pests

Click on "Spider Mites" at the top. Basically yeah - they eat it, and the end result is a mangled hop bine.

JohnQ · September 13, 2012, 12:33:11 PM

Just harvested and here are the results...

Cascade, 1 Bine 2nd year, 1 Bine 1st year, 12.5 oz all from 2nd year
Centennial 4 Bines 1st year, 0
Chinook 2 Bines 1st year, 7 Cones, less than 0.1 oz.
Fuggle 1 Bine 2nd year 3 Bines 1st year, 5.0 oz all from 2nd year
Galena 2 Bines 1st year, 0
Magnum, 2 Bines 2nd year, 2.5 oz, were ripped from ground during storm and early in the season and suffered. Had been ahead of everything else before then.
Nugget 2 Bines 2nd year, 2 Bines 1st year, 26 oz with a bit from 1st year
Willamette, 1 Bine 2nd year, 3 Bines 1st year 7 oz with 1 oz from 1st year.

Total 53 ounces.
All vac sealed and in the freezer.

JQ

Brian_S · September 19, 2012, 09:30:53 PM

My 20 plants were decimated by F__king eastern comma larvea......take home is don't leave you plants unattended for an entire summer. On the up side BT application is in line with organic practice so I'm going the BT the buggers into oblivion next season.

On a related note the 1/4 acre wild hop plant I found produced like a bugger

B