20 July 2009

hops - week 14

the experiment continues:

Mt. Hood (left) - planted in ground May 2008 -> ~14'
Cascade (right) - planted in outdoor container 12 April 2009 -> 15'+
notes: The Mt. Hood plant is still developing sideshoots, but overall growth is still very slow and no hop burrs have shown up yet.
The Cascade plant is still growing laterals.
Tons of hop burrs (spikey balls) have shown up all over the plant. About a dozen of these have started to turn into the hop cones. See pics below.

cascade - hop burrs

cascade - hop cones

Nugget - planted in indoor container 13 April 2009 -> 25'+
notes: Still growing strong - focused on laterals.
Some hop burrs have shown up, but are not doing much yet.

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