Hop Growing 2014

[andybiochem]

Getting there slowly…

Yellowing a bit at the bottom, so have started watering & feeding more regularly


Styrian Goldings:


Cascade:


Unknown Wild hop 1


Unknown Wild Hop 2


Top of Styrians:


Top of Perle, WGV, and Progress:

[YeastWhisperer]

It's amazing to see how differently Cascade grows in the UK. The internode spacing on the bines is much wider, kind of like the plant has been stretched. UK weather may be a bit on the cool side for Cascade. Cascade does not kick into high gear until the daytime temperature reaches 30C. All of the "C" hops like it warm. The Yakima Valley is basically high desert with outstanding soil. The daytime temperature in Yakima routinely hits or exceeds 37C. For example, the daytime temperature today (August 1, 2014) will exceed 38C in Yakima (http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Y ... A+USWA0502). The historical average daytime temperature for Yakima during August is 30C.

[jmc]

Hop flowers are forming on all my hop plants now.

Should I be feeding them any particular fertilizer to help them?

[scuppeteer]

Hop flowers are forming on all my hop plants now.

Should I be feeding them any particular fertilizer to help them?

Bit late for feeding them now, but standard Miracle grow is good enough.

[YeastWhisperer]

I hit my hills with blossom booster as they were starting to bloom. Whether or not that application made a difference is anyone's guess.

[seymour]

My Cascade is exploding with cones, nearly ready to harvest, unbelievably. By comparison, my Northern Brewer, Challenger and Missouri native are struggling, barely any side-shoots and no cones at all yet.

I've spoken with several guys who have bigger-than-ever Centennial crops, and have offered free hops for the picking. Hopefully I've got some green C-hop ale in my near future!

[jmc]

Thanks for the info. I'll try some tomato fertilizer I've got. Cheers

[DeGarre]

First Choice Multipurpose Liquid Feed really perked them up.

[DeGarre]

I have a problem, I've got 3 plants growing against a wall in a sunny place, from big flower pots. I water them twice a day, the weather has been around 30°C for the past 3-4 weeks.

The tallest plant has all the leaves now wilted, noticed this last night before watering. Gave some water to it this morning too and still wilted.

Definitely hasn't dried, could it be too much water? Or the sun shining directly? 2 other plants seem fine. Thanks.

[scuppeteer]

Just the excess heat bouncing off the wall is enough to make them wilt. No amount of watering will help.

[DeGarre]

Just the excess heat bouncing off the wall is enough to make them wilt. No amount of watering will help.

Cheers. So will it die?

[scuppeteer]

No just doesn't like it. As you have it in a pot its easy to move when you cut back later in the year.

[YeastWhisperer]

I harvested my first-year Wye Challenger and first-year Cascade hills yesterday. Wye Challenger grew unbelievably well in Maryland. My two first-year Wye Challenger hills yielded a whopping 51 ounces of wet cones in addition to sterile male flowers. That’s an all-time record for a first growing season for me. My two first-year Cascade hills yielded 26 ounces of wet cones.

[scuppeteer]

I harvested my first-year Wye Challenger and first-year Cascade hills yesterday. Wye Challenger grew unbelievably well in Maryland. My two first-year Wye Challenger hills yielded a whopping 51 ounces of wet cones in addition to sterile male flowers. That’s an all-time record for a first growing season for me. My two first-year Cascade hills yielded 26 ounces of wet cones.


Wye Challenger cones in a 5-gallon (19L) bucket




Many of the Challenger cones were over 50mm long (the ruler is divided into inches and fractions of an inch)

Wow! You win on the first harvest.

How's the Lupulin look and the aroma's?

[YeastWhisperer]

My fingers were completely yellow and sticky when I completed picking the Wye Challenger hills. The Cascade hills are nice for first-year cones, but they are not the same league as the Wye Challenger cones. This hop yard is the third hop yard that I have planted, and I have never had anything that approached the performance of the Wye Challenger hills or the Cascade hills in this planting.