Signs of life...

john mills · Post by **john mills** » Mon May 05, 2008 11:38 am

Well, I finally got my rhizomes in the ground Sunday 5/3. Single row, that is 45 ft long, containing 6 varieties (Cascade, Centenial, Chinook, Horizon, Nugget, Santium), 13 rhizomes total. Same type rhizomes spaced 3 ft apart, 5 ft spacing between different varieties. If they all come up, I"ll be really suprized. I'd be happy with 1/2 coming up this year.

sirgiovanni · Post by **sirgiovanni** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:17 pm

Freaking awesome man! Where do you live?

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:25 pm

5 out of 6 plants are up. One Fuggles does not look like it is going to do anything

john mills · Post by **john mills** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:52 am

Jack....Are there any more rhizomes left??? I'd be interested in picking up some more, if they've been abandoned with you. I could play Johnny Appleseed, and help out our fine countryside with some hop plantings.

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Sat May 10, 2008 9:25 pm

I checked today and 4 out of 8 have just popped up. I planted these two weeks ago.

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john mills · Post by **john mills** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:11 am

Only 11 days since planting 13 rhizomes...all have at least 1 shoot out of the ground. I wasn't expecting 100% especially since Thyme Garden put 3 Cascade rhizomes in the bag when I ordered only 2. I'm sure they thought one of them wouldn't make it because they were all very thin short sticks. The best of the lot has been the Centenials..followed by Chinook, and Horizon (I'm not sad the high alpha's are doing so good).

Michael Erwin · Post by **Michael Erwin** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:09 pm

Be careful where you plant hops. I wanted to grow some myself, and I discovered that fresh hops and even brewed spent hops (pellets included) are highly likely to be fatal to dogs.

Davin · Post by **Davin** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:06 pm

You are right they are pretty well fatal to dogs. however from everything I've read dogs are generally uninterested in the hops plants and cones.

The problem comes in with what you decide to do with your spent hops after a brew session. Since the hops are covered in sweet wort, dogs are extremely likely to eat them.

I did a lot of research on it before planting my hops sinc eI have a dog that will eat damn near anything.

sirgiovanni · Post by **sirgiovanni** » Sun May 18, 2008 1:31 pm

Still coming right along with the hops!

Black Raspberries are starting to really leaf out now too!

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:53 pm

Here is my support system I put up today. Some 2 foot rebar stakes I bent over and some hook eyes behind the gutters. This is the south wall of the garage/brewery.

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john mills · Post by **john mills** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:24 am

sirgiovani, looks like you have your own Stonehenge...errr I mean woodhenge.

sirgiovanni · Post by **sirgiovanni** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:08 am

Hill terrace. :p

Why the hell didn't I think of doing some solar alignment? Man! I mighta coulda drawn in paegan worshipers.

Davin · Post by **Davin** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:29 pm

no pagen worshippers here, but maybe some beer worshipers

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Only one of the cascade made it (I replanted the other 5 but late so they are not doing so well 3 of them have sprouted, but the other two appear dead.) The one doing well is 6' tall though.

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Willamette going strong.

4 out of 6 are over four feet.