Recent content by wankboi

Good advice... I wish I could put them right into the ground, but my "yard" is on rented property where they decided for whatever reason to cover everything in concrete. Planters are my only way to go for the time being :( Luckily, it was just one planter as of yet, but I ought to be careful...

Another place to grow? They're in containers, so I'm a bit stuck there :) Anyway, the hops may have been rotting from overwatering or some such before the beetle grubs came in... who knows? I wouldn't really mind using chemicals... Nice to know there are things like that, though. I'm in Japan...

I grow hops in planters. I have some second years, and some first years. Problem is, one of my second year cascades started "losing" its bines. They just started to separate from the underground crown and then the leaves would wither and die. The strange part is that this was only happening...

Thanks for the advice, guys. There's certainly no harm in just letting the rhizome sit there and wait til next spring to see if it sprouts, so that's what I'll do. Nothing to lose, after all! Let's hope the little guy is alive under there.

I bought 4 rhizomes at the start of this season and 3 of them are doing just great. One of them, however, is not. I'll start with my question - Should I dig the rhizome out and give it a proper burial now and get the "closure" I need to move on with my life, or should I wait til next year on...

Just a follow-up to what I'd posted earlier: Although they didn't reply to my message, they were preparing the paperwork for international shipping all the time and everything will go off without a hitch, it looks like. Awesome! Happy ending.:rockin::rockin::rockin: Freshops does indeed rule.

I bet they'd at least answer your emails :(

I ordered from them last year. I live outside the U.S. and was very happy that they'd ship to other countries. It was awesome. This year, though, they changed from direct emailing to putting in international orders through an online form. I haven't gotten any email notification that they'd...