Mine seem to be way behind last year. Only just flowering. Saw a thread on the web. Fella in engerland harvesting already. Thoughts?
Is he in the south of England?
Some early cropping varieties in the south of England may well be ready now. Over here we're more like September. For everything.
(http://i.imgur.com/wgh9i92l.jpg)
Flying ;D
Fuggles by the way
absolutely bombin it this year, theres going to b a busy hop picking fest in oct :)
guys where would i get a Cascade Rhizome, i know its too late for this year.
I'll give ya one if ya want. I'm kilkenny mind.
My fuggles are nowhere near what you have there. Do yis feed em much guys?
Rotten grass till summer den chicken manure when throwin out flowers. We hav bumper crop dis year dunno weder if feed or climate....all we know id dere wil b lots of hop pickin on oct 4th :)
Quote from: Brewer Gerard on August 19, 2014, 09:57:25 PM
I'll give ya one if ya want. I'm kilkenny mind.
My fuggles are nowhere near what you have there. Do yis feed em much guys?
Plenty of water (which isn't difficult :-\) and thats it for me
Quote from: brenmurph on August 19, 2014, 10:07:20 PM
Rotten grass till summer den chicken manure when throwin out flowers. We hav bumper crop dis year dunno weder if feed or climate....all we know id dere wil b lots of hop pickin on oct 4th :)
Probably the feed. All i did to mine this year was thin them out and an occasional watering, and it looks like i've about half the flowers of last year when I had chickens.
When do you plant them? I'd ... Love to give that a go.
After you pick them is there a process to get them ready before you add them to beer?, I have a polytunnel waiting for some crops, thinking this would be one of them :)
Mine are flying it as you can see. Excuse the poor quality but it was sunny when I took the photo and there is a perspexs plastic sheet above the hops that is reflecting the light back down. Some of the hops are approach 5-6cm in length. I put it down to a liberal application of half of a bucket of chicken shite that I got from Fishjam earlier in the year. Brendan Murph assured me last year that this is the key to a bumper crop would work and I can't fault him thus far.
Shanna
it's a windy day here today and i am realizing the spot i had planned for some hoped for future hop plants is quite windy. How hardy are they to wind?
thanks
ronan
Quote from: auralabuse on August 27, 2014, 02:48:06 PM
After you pick them is there a process to get them ready before you add them to beer?, I have a polytunnel waiting for some crops, thinking this would be one of them :)
you can dry and/or freeze them to keep them. you can fire them right into the boil fresh but you need to use about 4-6x as much depending on how fresh or dry they are
mine is running 5-10m horizontally and have been jumping about in the wind but seem fine. they are hardy enough