Recent content by derrick45123

With that many plants, I would try selling fresh hops. With a harvester you could have that all picked in a day and to the brewery within 24. Also with the wet/fresh hops, you get the handicap of selling water weight. Pelletizers are pretty expensive, and require drying which once air touches...

It's normal to cut back the first round of shoots. Your getting rid of bull shoots, which even though they're bigger and growing faster, they will yield less and be less stable once they grow because their hollow stem. Also you clip your first shoots to help control downy mildew, the spores will...

Ya, it was few beers clouding my head. I really wasn't even considering the fact this is a home brew forum... My dad actually does this with his hops every year.:o

That's a pretty sweet set-up, that's a very convenient 2 story deck. :p

I think I'm thinking bigger hop yard, your talking about a few plants in your backyard.... If I was working with 250 plants, I would not want to pick them in the yard. I would rather take them down and move to the shade, or a harvester. Leaving 16' wouldn't be possible.

16' just doesn't seem right. So if your harvesting with a harvester, and it requires pretty much the whole bine, how can you be leaving 16'...that's pretty much the whole plant. Even hand picking, are you just picking in the hop yard, how many plants are you doing this with. I can't see you...