Big Spruce

[Graham.C]

Looks like they are well on their way. Here is a good interview with Jeremy White which was posted on their facebook page. I don't know who the Atlantic Canadian Beer Blogger is but he is probably one of us (or friends with someone) from the sounds of his questions. I see leafman has commented, or just someone has the exact same profile pic.

[mr x]

One pound of wet hops per plant is a bad use of land IMHO. You'll be hard pressed to tell me that hop farming around here is anything more than a gimmick...hope the rest works out though. Advice from Piccaroons?

[jeffsmith]

One pound of wet hops per plant is a bad use of land IMHO.

Agreed. Considering I got 3.5lbs of Columbus (wet) and 3lbs. of Cascade (dry) off one plant of each this year, that seems like a really, really low yield.

[Graham.C]

Anyone know how old his vines are?

[Marc-NS]

For those interested here is the blog of the Atlantic Beer guy

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[spears104]

Anyone know how old his vines are?

I'm pretty sure he told me his bines are two years old.

****Correction...the article says it is year 3.

[jeffsmith]

That seems like a really low yield for 3 year old plants. Then again, we have no idea what the last two years were like for them.

[Jayme]

Yeah 1 pound for a 3 year old plant is not good at all. Maybe they just had a bad growing season, but even still... The plants look quite small in the photos of the hop yard, though maybe they were taken early in the season.