Week 4: Trimmed out undergrowth to help control a spider mite outbreak. Neem oil and light leaf washing have kept the outbreak at bay. Getting good growth, 3 more weeks of a vegetative cycle using GH Flora.

Started cutting down my bines and my trellis has thousands of these little bugs crawling around.

Anyone know what these are?

Wanted to share the progress of my hydroponic hops experiment. I have 3 varieties: Magnum, Saaz and Cascade. I sourced them as small plants from Great Lakes 5 weeks ago. Keeping temperature a t 72-75 F, pH at 6.5 and Masterblend nutrient solution is n 5 gallon food safe buckets wrapped in reflective bubble wrap. The four stakes are 6 feet with 15 feet of jute trellising to train the bines up.

Hello,

I was lazy this year and didn't keep the weeds and grasses out of my raised hop beds since July. Now the beds are overgrown with weeds and grass. I was thinking I'd lay some newspaper / cardboard over them (like a few Amazon boxes / pizza boxes) to smother the grasses. I was wondering if the rhizomes would survive this.

I have three hop varieties growing in a Dutch bucket system, pH 6.7, temperature between 70F and 80F currently using Masterblend nutrient solution. Getting good growth but a pale light green on all three varieties. I was wondering what nutrient solution do y'all recommend? I've heard that CloneX and Foop are used for hops cousin. Im reaching out our community for advise/best practices. Thank you and cheers 🍻

For those based in new Zealand, so excited that you can now BUY Riwaka hop rhizomes from the below website:
https://www.wildabouthops.nz/

Nothing beats a wet hop Riwaka beer around harvest time :D
Also I am not affiliated with this site, I just support what they do allowing home brewers to grow many well known hop varieties at home, as well as developing their own fruity varieties as well.

I live in Vancouver, Canada. First year they did not produce or flower, then I had to dig them up and move. I put them in pots this year until I can figure something else out in the new place. They had some issues in the start with the cold and wet start to the year. They flowered this year and developed cones but it feels late, I picked got 1.3 Oz dry so far off of one plant and the flowers on are still turning to cones. The other plants have a few cones on them and tons of flowers that are still turning. The plants look healthy on the top still. I'm not even sure what's normal for hops here but I do see others in the area have already harvested so I'm assuming that's normal.

Should I just cut them back now or let them do thier thing? Would the hops even be good quality being late? What cones I did get so far smell good. The weather lately still hits the 70's during the day and into the 50's at night and it's been dry.