Has anyone had any experience with growing hops in a hydroponic environment? My neighbor has a hydropnic system for growing flowers and vegetables and he said we could experiment with some rhizomes. Before I engage in it just want to know if there is any feedback from the forum.
Never done it, but hops are said to like dry feet. That is, well drained soil so they don’t have root rot, or get a fungal infection (that may be a problem with hydroponics).
Several years ago a guy started a thread on realbeer.com about his attempt to hydroponically grow hops. After a long growing season he abandoned the project as a complete failure. He managed to get a few sickly leaves to grow but that was the extent of it. Part of the problem is having a room 20’ tall for them to grow in.
Hydroponics can be done outside…
Yep. Here in CO lots of people grow the dank outdoors with hydro. I got my mom to plant hops in her garden last year and they didn’t do much. I expect to maybe get a harvest in the 3rd year.
So I know it’s been awhile, but yes hydro can be done with hops and done well! Our place is in Colorado! I wanted to add some photos, but can’t seem to figure that out…
cool!
To add photos click the little mona lisa button above the smileys. it will insert an image tag like this (broken so it will show)
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the photo has to be hosted on a flick, photobucket type site. copy the address of the photo (it should end in .jpg or .img or what have you) and paste it between the img tags.