http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/ Homebrewer's Garden: Hops/Barley/Herbs Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:38:13 GMT Dave Witt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5490 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5490 Don, I'm not sure you would want to use anything like wax that might get into the beer. Sounds like a head killer to me. Dave _____ From: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:56:35 GMT t2000kwt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5489 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5489 ... I did try that but the fit is tight enough that the glad wrap tears and prevents the cap from seating. That might be possible once I remove some more Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:01:53 GMT Aaron Berg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5488 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5488 My Cascade and Fuggle grow at about the same rate. The noticeable difference for me is that the Cascade has slight light/dark striping on the cone and the Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:11:57 GMT Ric Cunningham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5487 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5487 Check with your LHBS and see if they will sell you a quantity. My LHBS packages there own hops in 1 oz mylar type bags. It is worth a shot. ... -- Ric Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:07:56 GMT stencil http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5486 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5486 On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:48:20 +0000, in [Grow-Hops] Digest Number 489 ... Prior to sliding the cap in place, put a small ziploc bag or a square of poly wrap Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:34:50 GMT Jason Whitt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5485 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5485 Good idea on the antique bench bottle capper. It may be an improvement over what I've heard myself and a few others do with hammer-tamping. Rock on. Jason Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:17:05 GMT ola.rickardsson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5484 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5484 From what you describe the cones does not seem to be mature. When the cones are mature you will definitly smell the characteristic smell of hops. Since it is Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:09:16 GMT bemho69 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5483 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5483 Sorry in advance if this has been covered several times before. I am not a diligent reader of the digests unfortunately but and quite thankful for the group! I Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:36:39 GMT Tim http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5482 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5482 Tim, Thanks for sending along some pics of your plugger and the finished product. I have Googled to see what a plugger looks like but with not much luck but Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:30:40 GMT kenneth sigler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5481 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5481 i took a 6" piece of 1 1/2 pvc made a plunger with a 1/2 pipe stem and compress them with my antique bench capper. works pretty well pipe holds about 1/4 oz Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:04:39 GMT kenneth sigler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5480 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5480 I did notice that my cascades had sqaure cones and my fuggles were round. ll my others are round.  i dont know if any others are sqaure or not but of those 2 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:46:19 GMT Tim McTigue http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5479 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5479 I've done something similar, but I'm just pressing them against a table top, not using a cap. I just compress them more or less gently, I don't use a hammer. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:31:15 GMT Tim McTigue http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5478 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5478 A friend at work lent me a similar dryer last year, and it worked great, but I didn't have much of a harvest last year. Half a shopping bag pretty much Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:17:32 GMT Bob http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5477 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5477 Al, I used a round tower dryer, not sure of the brand, with a small light as a heat source and a fan. It dried 1/2 a shopping bag full of cones overnight. It Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:18:46 GMT t2000kwt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5476 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/message/5476 I fashioned a hop "plugger" out of about 2.5 feet of 1.5" dia. schedule 40 PVC drain pipe, a cap for the pipe, and a 1.5" wood dowel rod. This is loosely based