1st wet dry hop of some homebrew for this season, in Endicott, NY. These are Fuggles, not very aromatic. The Cascades have a few weeks to go before they’re ready.
Mod Edit - We’ll see if this works - please note you have to link directly to the jpg, not the image with all the html cruft. Also, facebook is a little wonky for sharing pics since it wants people to be logged into facebook
I’m sure your hops will come in fine, next year. Raising them is great fun, picking and drying is significant work, but well worth it.
Mr. Moderator, please let me know how to get images embedded, correctly. I don’t understand the “location.” Do I need to have a repository somewhere, on the web? Thanks!
Hey, I did the edit. The problem with your original link was that it went off to a facebook HTML page with all of their cruft around your image. The board software won’t display that. You need to give it the url to the image itself (e.g. it ends in .jpg, .png or .gif) and put that between the img brackets
For instance, this is a photo of a stack of kegs that I prepared pre-NHC.
My first year hops are spindly little vines, about 3 feet long. I’m not sure if hops like our climate but I’m hoping to see a flower next year…maybe. Beer looks awesome and I’m jealous.
Are you near the 48th parallel? If you’re between about the top of the US and Dallas, TX, you should be able to water and give them Nitrogen, and get some yield. 1st year, you may not get much, but 2nd year & on, should be good.
Put them where they’ll get the most sunshine, and good drainage. Actually, there’s a ton of good info on the web on how to grow hops. Where do you live? Denny is in Oregon, and I’m in NY State, near Syracuse.
If you’re really having trouble, try Cascades, they’re about the most robust.
I’m in Colorado. Last year was the first year I tried to grow my own. I planted two Cascade rhizomes, only one came up. It was in direct sunshine, but suffered from the heat last summer, so I moved it to a more protected location where it started to thrive. Then a hailstorm killed it.
This time I have two Willamettes and two Cascades. I’m trying to grow them up the trellis underneath my deck. All four are growing, but I don’t think I’m anywhere close to cone production. In fact the second Cascade just sprouted. It was doing nothing for a long time. A friend suggested that I had planted it too deep, so I dug up the rhizome and replanted it about 2" below the surface. That seems to have done the trick, as I found a sprout yesterday.