Yeah, thats another thing I did notice a few days ago on my Warrior plant... About 4 of the leaves are getting some signs of burning on them. JAG, does this seem to be an issue for your plant at all so far?. I Hope this is a non factor! Last night i saw signs of my first cone actually forming. Still have 40+ buds looking solid other than the burning. I have a friend on my hops plant too, a Praying Mantis is taking guard over leaf eating critters, it has been interesting to see that guy grow, keep working buddy.
Yeah all 3 of my plants have sun burnt leaves, but mostly on the bottom 3 feet. Still growing and happy, so I'm living with it. I'll leave the leaves to shade the other non-burnt leaves. The Golding plant has burnt leaf tips all the way up, but it's not too bad. I changed the settings on the drip timer so we'll see if that helps. Unfortunately I don't really have a good way add a shade cloth for them this year, but next year I can change the trellis.
Yeah all 3 of my plants have sun burnt leaves, but mostly on the bottom 3 feet. Still growing and happy, so I'm living with it. I'll leave the leaves to shade the other non-burnt leaves. The Golding plant has burnt leaf tips all the way up, but it's not too bad. I changed the settings on the drip timer so we'll see if that helps. Unfortunately I don't really have a good way add a shade cloth for them this year, but next year I can change the trellis.
My hops are sadly dying, once they cleared the fence and the sun got to them it seemed things were all good... but now the sun has taken its toll on the plant and it is rapidly drying out.
I've been out of town for as much as the summer as possible and the last dry monnson days have taken their toll. Last year I shade clothed everything. This year I rolled the dice.
I'm confident I can get them to survive another year and then I will move them to an Eastern exposure with more shade from a nearby house.
Can you grow hops there if they are proteced from the midday sun, or is it just to Fing hot?
Last summer we had a heat wave with severe sunny. I lost several flowers and vegetables when the soil temp got up to 130. The roots just cooked in the ground. Even with plenty of water the plants could not take the water up fast enough. The plants where I mulched the ground and put up sunshades, blocking about 30% of the sun, survived.
I think I'm in a bad spot, right now my hops have a northern exposure so the sun on the plant behind the wall does not get but 6 hrs of sun, the growth on the top of the fence gets several hrs more, that is all fried, crispy. I think the brick is getting too hot and transmitting heat through the fence for too long. Frustrating after such a good start, I'll have to rethink the entire growth next year.
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