2010 Hops!!

[davebl]

Checked the hop garden today, and we have some growth! Cascade hops must really love central Arkansas. The Willamette and Mt Hood are both sprouting, and the Centennials are popping up too.

I built some 3-line trellises and tore out the cold coir, installed some new jute. Ready for a huge hop crop this year!

[3/5 King]

nice, congrats, I will have some of my own soon......and in soon I mean prob in a couple years

[davebl]

So cascades must love Arkansas. Those guys are rocking along. My other three (Willamette, Centennial and Mt Hood) have just peaked through the ground, and have a few little leaves.

Here are the Cascades on March 28:

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p429/davebl_photo/Hops/10.jpg

And today, April 4:

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p429/davebl_photo/Hops/10-1.jpg

And the Willamette today:

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p429/davebl_photo/Hops/10-2.jpg

[Evan!]

You should try crystal too...cascade and crystal have both been very happy here, and Arkansas isn't that different from VA.

[marzen41]

you warm weather gardeners are so lucky. my 12 year old cascades won,t be that tall for a month, but,i,ll still hit 20 feet by the middle of june

[ben the brewman]

Cascades are a weed and im pretty sure they just love it anywhere. My cascades are about 4 foot tall already and all of my other hops are not even out of the ground yet.

[zoebisch01]

I had to seriously prune out the Brewer's Gold this weekend. One Rhizome was some 5' away from the crown, poking out of the ground.

[snails]

Just purchased some rhizomes.. will be trying the hop growing experience for the 1st time!!

got my work cut out this summer

[akboehl]

I just preped my hop garden, I turned the soil of a 20 ft section and broke up the sod the best I could without a tiller, laid down a pretty thick layer of old newspapers, and spread a couple of inches of mulch on top. Against the advise of HBC folks, I potted my 4 varieties in some soil to give them a head start, I will transfer them after the risk of frost is gone. In Mass that threat lingers.

[vtchuck]

Against the advise of HBC folks, I potted my 4 varieties in some soil to give them a head start, I will transfer them after the risk of frost is gone. In Mass that threat lingers.

Thats a good idea in the Northeast.... although you're in the banana belt compared to me. I've started all my rhizomes indoors in pots and then "hardened off" like you would for tomato plants, before planting in late May.

[zoebisch01]

They'll push up more shoots if the first ones are frost killed.

[vtchuck]

They'll push up more shoots if the first ones are frost killed.

That's certainly true of established plants. Up here we can have a hard frost in mid-May. I'm not confident that first year rhizomes wouldn't be adversely affected. And the soil often stays wet and cold until late in the spring, causing plantings to rot before they sprout.

I know hops are tough plants, but rhizomes often come from more benign climates.... I think helping them get a head start on our brief growing season is good practice.

[ben the brewman]

holly shit these things are going crazy this year. My cascades are at 6 feet now or so, they are defiantly taller than i am.

[davebl]

holly shit these things are going crazy this year. My cascades are at 6 feet now or so, they are defiantly taller than i am.

Same here! My Willamette is about 5" tall, and it found a trellis all on its own.

[Joos]

I just preped my hop garden, I turned the soil of a 20 ft section and broke up the sod the best I could without a tiller, laid down a pretty thick layer of old newspapers, and spread a couple of inches of mulch on top. Against the advise of HBC folks, I potted my 4 varieties in some soil to give them a head start, I will transfer them after the risk of frost is gone. In Mass that threat lingers.

Its going to snow tomorrow morning! Fucking NE weather!

[akboehl]

Its going to snow tomorrow morning! Fucking NE weather!

:mad:

[vtchuck]

I just hope we don't get a lot of trees / limbs down from the weight of the snow. I just finished cleaning up the winter damage yesterday!

[akboehl]

All 4 variteies I planted have broken the surface. Whilimette and Nugget way behind the Hood and Cascades

[zoebisch01]

I just finished cleaning up the winter damage yesterday!

You too?! I made a big burn pile for all the limbs that came down. I have more than enough campfire wood and I didn't feel like sawing all those branches, it's too much of a pain.

[zoebisch01]

That's certainly true of established plants. Up here we can have a hard frost in mid-May. I'm not confident that first year rhizomes wouldn't be adversely affected. And the soil often stays wet and cold until late in the spring, causing plantings to rot before they sprout.


Good points.

[Evan!]

Damned Krazy Krystal is 10 tall already, should reach the top shortly. The two cascades are almost as tall, and the Mt. Hood is not far behind them. The other 4 are slower, and the goldings is a little bitch as always.

[salad 419]

the goldings is a little bitch as always.

Same here. Bitchy little Monty Python fucking wannabes that say NEE at growing and only produce one single cone. I feel like treating them like a parrot...... Anyway.

3rd Year Chinook was at the top of the 13 foot string last week.
3rd Year Willamettes are about 10 feet
3rd Year Goldings suck at about 6 feet
2nd Year Magnums are about 10 feet

2nd Year Cascades are probably around 10
2nd Year Centennials are probably around 9

I didn't pay attention to them and everything was screaming by the time I got to attend to them. So, I have hops bushes with some bines going up the string. If they get too close to another variety, I just trim them back.

[flyangler18]

Damned Krazy Krystal is 10 tall already, should reach the top shortly. The two cascades are almost as tall, and the Mt. Hood is not far behind them. The other 4 are slower, and the goldings is a little bitch as always.


Same here. Bitchy little Monty Python fucking wannabes that say NEE at growing and only produce one single cone. I feel like treating them like a parrot...... Anyway.


I've yet to hear of a single grower that has had success with Golding in our geographic region. I think it's too warm for that variety.

[salad 419]

I think it's too warm for that variety.

Same here.

[salad 419]

Alrighty, who's got burrs or cones already????

I do.

[Hops_direct]

Did you get your rhizomes from us? the ones your growing are all from our farm originally just curious if you got them from us or one of our customers we supply.? Willamette Valley Hops....





Checked the hop garden today, and we have some growth! Cascade hops must really love central Arkansas. The Willamette and Mt Hood are both sprouting, and the Centennials are popping up too.

I built some 3-line trellises and tore out the cold coir, installed some new jute. Ready for a huge hop crop this year!

[davebl]

Did you get your rhizomes from us? the ones your growing are all from our farm originally just curious if you got them from us or one of our customers we supply.? Willamette Valley Hops....

They all came from Fresh Hops. I didn't have any time at all this year to tend to them, so I really didn't get any yield.

[marzen41]

i have about 5# of hg goldings! no idea where the rhizomes are from i bought cascade 10 + years ago and the

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