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I think as much sun as possible is the way to go. In Orlando, my cascade bines were outside and had full sun ~8 hours a day. No issues with too much sun down here.

There's a lot of posts about what fertilizers to use. I found this article which describes soil and fertilizer requirements for hops in depth. Basically, you want a high nitrogen, low phosphate, high potassium fertilizer with zinc (and some boron but I'm not going to bother with it). This...

Right. I didn't trim much (just thinned it a bit at mid-season). I'm not sure if limiting and cutting is the way to go either. Maybe if you want the bine to focus growth on a few cones to perhaps "enhance" them (similar to what vineyards do to grape vines to focus growth for the grape). Other...

Here are some pictures of my crop. I'm very please this year despite the tons of rain. So far, I've picked about 5oz of hops. There's at least 10oz left on the bines! I have two bines inside a screen patio and one outside. That's an 8' ladder for perspective.

Forgot to mention, my plants are in the ground. Not in pots.

I've been using CitrusGain with good results. I've been fertilizing the plants about every 30-45 days using about 2-3 Tbsp each time. I'm already harvesting the hops on two of my plants.

About aphids - I had a bad infestation of aphids on my bines and pepper plants. I used every spray available at HD with no luck. Not too mention the daily rain washed the spray off each time. I bought 750 live ladybugs on eBay for another $12 (including shipping) and they did the trick. Highly...

I let mine go uncut for a while. Two or three vines will eventually end up growing faster and stronger than the others. The plant will shoot up vines the whole season. I was consistently pruning in the second season. The first season however was pretty slow so I didn't prune much. I think it's...

Looks great. One thing I learned the hard way, the bines get really heavy after a summer rain. Close to 20lbs wet for my bine last season. I had to reinforce the strength of the trellis after it broke a couple of times.

I started picking in batches around September or so, about every other week. The bine continued to produce, albeit slowly, through October

Plusultra, I got close too 3x the yield in the second season vs. the first.

I live in Orlando and I'm in my 3rd year growing hops. I've had good success growing Cascade. It took 2 years for the vine to really take off. I just planted it in the ground with some potting soil and covered it with mulch. The second season I started using BGI CitrusGain 8-3-9 fertilizer. The...