thatguy314 wrote:What did you guys do / are you doing?
thatguy314 wrote:thatguy314 wrote:What did you guys do / are you doing?
I"ve seen 2 things that I'm considering.
Either way, I don't have a house, but I have space in a garden. I was going to lay cement foundations for 3 posts. Either way the foundations wouldbe permanent but I could remove the posts I haven't decided if I'm going to use a wood beam or PVC tubing.
For a wood beam, I would probably get 12'x6"x6" beams, and grow vines growing up E, W, S south sides. I might be able to get taller beams custom cut, but these would probably stand 11' above ground. The nice thing about a wood removable post is I can take it out to let the hop vines down and harvest without killing them. It's also more stable than PVC so it would probably be a free-standing post
PVC I would set up multiple posts with T-tops and run another pipe across the posts. I'd string hop twine to the horizontal posts. Advantage: cheaper, can probably fit more vines that way, but I'm probably not going to get much higher. than 10 ft. Also going to have to cut the hops down to harvest, so probably slightly lower hop yield.
I'm only growing 4 vines on this setup, but I want to give myself room to expand next year if I get going well this year.
boobookittyfuk wrote:i'd do wood.
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