Is there a Doctor in the house ?

[Steamedbeech]

Hi, just been up to my workshop where my Cobbs Golding is planted to be greeted by this

It was looking good and this would have been the plants second crop, but I'm guessing they've had it now
Any ideas what's happened

Cheers Dan

 

[31bb3]

Im no hop grower unfortunatly but im sure someone will advise you :thumb:

 

[ScottM]

Almost look burned. Bit of a waste anyway

 

[Steamedbeech]

Seems like thats a good call ScottM, just got off my ar$e and dug the books out nothing in 'The homebrewers Garden' but found a small piece in a herb book that refers to a Golden variety(?) that sometimes suffers from sun scorch, "if this occurs prune to new growth and change its position next season" ho hum looks like its compost time :cry: thanks anyway.
Dan.

 

[PD]

sun scorch in this country ? this year ? your unlucky

 

[Steamedbeech]

Met the wife have you ?............ :rofl:

 

[evanvine]

Fom Burr to harvest has been very short this year, about 4 weeks.
Could be you weren't quick enough?

 

[Steamedbeech]

Not sure, this is only my second crop , last year the cones were more open and really loaded with lupulin when harvested, this year (so far ) there has been no sign. With hind sight I do recall some of the leaves didn't look to healthy about two weeks ago :hmm:
Last summer down here was much better , which is odd if it was sun scorch. That said my skins peeled three times this year :wha: so its been v hot but quite erratic

 

[evanvine]

Have they all gone, your pics show some nice healthy ones.

 

[Steamedbeech]

It didn't look good, the damage is fairly evenly spread across the plant.
I think I'll let it run its coarse if the cones look like they're producing the magic yellow stuff I'll give them a go. :

 

[evanvine]

if the cones look like they're producing the magic yellow stuff I'll give them a go.

Think you may find they have already done it!

 

[Wendy1971]

+1 with jim :thumb:

 

[Steamedbeech]

Yep :thumb: you're both right , lupulin is in the house.

well in the cones at the bottom (stoopid photobucket) of the picture.
I think you may be right evanvine, but it seems to me the turn around was pretty rapid, oh wel lurning curve :wha: and all that, thanks for the input.
Dan

 

[evanvine]

Not happy with your misfortune Dan, I was very nearly caught out this year.
Never known such a rapid Burr to Harvest situation.
My Brambling Cross are normally a week to 10 days after my Goldings and Fuggles, this year they are only 3 days behind!

 

[jim80]

Mine went a bit like that but only at the very top of the vine. I picked the rest today, not that there were all that many on my first year plants but they seem fine.
I thought I'd just left the top ones a little too long before picking them, but the change was only in 4 days (went away for a long weekend in kent...)

 

[evanvine]

the change was only in 4 days

Don't beat yourself up, the change can happen in 24 hours!
The pundits give all sort of indications when they are ready, just check the colour of the Lupulin (rich golden yellow) and then harvest!

 

[jim80]

I grew up quite literally surrounded by hop fields - You'd think I might know more!
The smell of fresh ones takes me right back to the seventies, it's subtlety yet quite different from the packaged and dried ones I buy for my beers.
They were the only local produce I didn't pick as a summer job when I was a lad.