The 2020 growing season was full of firsts. Many of which were chronicled here on the blog and on social media. As the season came to a close I didn’t wrap up any loose ends with our progress. I am sure you are all sitting on the edge of your seats, holding your breath, wondering “how did those plants do?”
I am here today to do that recap.
Galena
The Galena’s were planted on May 12th.
These were 4 year old crowns purchased from another hop yard. We planted 5 of them. All 5 survived transplant. They are located at the front of the property in a circle around a single pole.
We harvested all 5 plants and had a tractor bucket full of bines. Sitting on the deck in the beautiful fall air, we hand picked those cones. It was a decent harvest for their first year in our yard. We used those hops to make bitters, hop soap and hop tub salts.
Chinook
Rhizomes are the underground shoots that sprout off the main plant. This is the “usual” way to plant hops.
There are 22 plants that were planted as rhizomes, Row A, Section 3 & 4.
This is Chinook Rhizomes A 3.3 on Sept 9. That’s about 7 feet tall to the top leaves.
The rest of the Chinook plants came as 4” plants. They were planted starting June 1st.
We planted 251 Chinook plants (including the rhizomes), 243 survived until Sept 9.
Chinooks are planted in Rows A-D.
About 7 feet tall.
They arrived July 8th.
Triumph
We planted 233 Triumph plugs and 128 survived to Sept 9. We experienced a 45% loss on these little guys.
Styrian Golding
We planted 208 plants and 188 survived to Sept 9.
Styrian Golding M 5.6 was planted on July 21.
Comet
This is Comet, planted in row U section 6. We planted 13 Comet and 10 made it to Sept 9. This big guy is U 6.1
Zeus
Here is one of the survivors: U 5.11
Tahoma
This is V 6.6
Sterling
V 5.1
TeaMaker
We planted 5 and 4 survived.
