Broadway
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I've got a couple first year hops growing. Fuggles and Willamette.
I have them running up 20' lines next to my porch. They both started out fairly strong, and look good.
One problem I've had, is that something is eating the leaves. I've used a couple different types of organic pesticide on them, but to no avail. I pretty much gave up after a while and decided to let nature take its course. Both sets of hops have lost I'd say 1/16th of their leaves (eaten away).
The Willamette are doing great... they're a bit over 7' tall, and growing noticably every day.
The Fuggles however have just stalled out, and have stayed around 6' for about two weeks now.
Any idea on why a hops plant would stall out like that? Before they stopped growing, they were growing super fast too...
I hit them with a little bit of miracle grow a while back, but other than that, I've just let them enjoy the good soil I planted them in....
Still new to all this... any advice is welcome.
I have them running up 20' lines next to my porch. They both started out fairly strong, and look good.
One problem I've had, is that something is eating the leaves. I've used a couple different types of organic pesticide on them, but to no avail. I pretty much gave up after a while and decided to let nature take its course. Both sets of hops have lost I'd say 1/16th of their leaves (eaten away).
The Willamette are doing great... they're a bit over 7' tall, and growing noticably every day.
The Fuggles however have just stalled out, and have stayed around 6' for about two weeks now.
Any idea on why a hops plant would stall out like that? Before they stopped growing, they were growing super fast too...
I hit them with a little bit of miracle grow a while back, but other than that, I've just let them enjoy the good soil I planted them in....
Still new to all this... any advice is welcome.