How are all your hops doing that you're growing?

Wow @Josh Hughes and @FrostyBeach your hops are doing well.
My centennial plant is hanging just a few cones, and seems like it stalled out in the midst of a prolonged heat wave. Since the heat subsided, there is new leaf growth, but I wonder if I missed the growing window. If such is the case, that is OK. I got myself a hops plant, and expect it will grow more vigorous and robust in coming years, now that I know what to expect.
 
Hops are starting to stir to action here in Suuny SE Queensland.

Grabbed some rhizomes one for me one for @Figjam72 20231105_132501.jpg20231105_132851.jpg
Fingers crossed planted them in 50/50 potting mix Compost.

Rigged up two trellises in Anticipation for some crazy hop action Here's hoping.
Made a crossbar at the top on both they resemble two Crucufixes.
I bet this will get the Neighbors Attention lol :D
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Hops are starting to stir to action here in Suuny SE Queensland.

Grabbed some rhizomes one for me one for @Figjam72 View attachment 27163View attachment 27164
Fingers crossed planted them in 50/50 potting mix Compost.

Rigged up two trellises in Anticipation for some crazy hop action Here's hoping.
Made a crossbar at the top on both they resemble two Crucufixes.
I bet this will get the Neighbors Attention lol :D View attachment 27165
Gee, Ben, there's a perfectly good pole, already strung up with wires, right there at the street! :eek:
 
Hops are starting to stir to action here in Suuny SE Queensland.

Grabbed some rhizomes one for me one for @Figjam72 View attachment 27163View attachment 27164
Fingers crossed planted them in 50/50 potting mix Compost.

Rigged up two trellises in Anticipation for some crazy hop action Here's hoping.
Made a crossbar at the top on both they resemble two Crucufixes.
I bet this will get the Neighbors Attention lol :D View attachment 27165
Was listening to the latest brulosophy podcast on growing your own hops the other day.
One of the suggestions was not to grow them near artificial light because this might confuse them with the light hours and such for growing.

Well mines done just fine out there next to the streetlight.

Check it out they are already sprouting
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My bines have been comming down a bit this year!
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Never had this issue maybe the rain we been getting has weakend the jute twine I use to string em up.

I've also had a few pest issues this year with white cabbage moth catapillars chewing the leaves a good blast with the hose sorted one batch out.
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The little transplant is going great too
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Nearly ready to pick
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See plant on the left the cones are nice and full. The one on the right the king parrot is on the cones are just forming.

Here he is isn't Kingy Beautiful!
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He brings his Girlfriend here to eat the Sunflowers I plant for them
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We are blessed to live here with these birds flying wild and free!
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Why people catch em and cage em is beyond me...
 
Nearly ready to pickView attachment 28397
See plant on the left the cones are nice and full. The one on the right the king parrot is on the cones are just forming.

Here he is isn't Kingy Beautiful! View attachment 28398
He brings his Girlfriend here to eat the Sunflowers I plant for themView attachment 28399
We are blessed to live here with these birds flying wild and free! View attachment 28400Why people catch em and cage em is beyond me...
That's awesome Ben, nice to see that beauty in the wild where he belongs!
 
Second time in two weeks this has happened
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Next year I'm gunna get a better pole the wind from the rain swarls has been snapping my metal garden steak!
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The cones on this bine some are ready but I've has a second flurry of growth so was gunna wait till the end of march to pick...

Not sure half of me is saying just pick it and be done and do better next year other is saying string it back up and wait to pick it...
 
Harvested my hops today.

This year has been my best crop ever!
With the poles snapping under the weight I can see why!

I'm getting a melon type aroma coupled with citrusy thing on the nose

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I Blitzed them all up In the thermo
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600g wet hop plus the 400g I got off the other bines that's easy 1kg (wet ) they say 1/3 weight once dried so that would easy be 350g Fing amazing considering I'm in Sub tropical Queensland growing a cool temperatate Cascade Ryzome.

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