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Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:51 pm
by 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.

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:17 pm
by 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? :?

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:05 pm
by jeffsmith
mr x wrote: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.

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:24 pm
by Graham.C
Anyone know how old his vines are?

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:35 pm
by Marc-NS
For those interested here is the blog of the Atlantic Beer guy

http://atlanticcanadabeerblog.wordpress.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:30 pm
by spears104
Graham.C wrote: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.

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:01 pm
by 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.

Re: Big Spruce

Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:02 am
by 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.