Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:48 am
I am usually able to fertilize and spray every other week. I had been able to control the bugs really well all season. Its been about 3 weeks since I came up here to work on them so the beetles made some head way. I just sprayed the crap out of them with sevin...says 2 weeks to harvest. Fertilized with Mir. Grow Bloom. Ill try to get up next weekend and spray again. These hops are in a pasture so there are a ton of bugs. The hops at my house have had no bug issues...and i spray with insecticidal soap to keep mites and aphids off. For some reason I seem to remember someone on a hop forum saying Sevin was going to be or was approved as an insecticide for commercial hop farming.
On Deck: Bier de Garde, Northern German Pils
In Fermenters: Homegrown Pale Ale
in keg: Octoberweizen, Dusseldorf Alt