Second year overgrowth!

Don't know if this is the nest place for this question but here goes:
I have numerous bines on my second year chinooks-it's looking good, but many of them have started shooting out more bines from the points where I got flowers from last year. I don't have strong support for these, and I'm worried they will detract from my yield, but I'm also worried to remove them because surely they won't flower from there.
Has anyone had similar problems? Any suggestions or should I just leave them to do their own thing?
I seriously had about 8 original bines but have about twice that many shooting off the originals!

if they are coming out of the ground, yank them out as these are excessive shoots. if they are coming off of the vines you have trained, from the junction where the leaves are are coming out, you can pull the lower ones off. these are sidearms. most of the hops are produced on the sidearms coming from the top 2/3 of the vines. the lower sidearms mostly just create a mess at the base of the vines and impede air circulation, so removing them would be a good thing.

Chinook sidearms can run up to 40". Leave them alone.

david, i would disagree and am only stating what has worked for me in the past and what is recommended by oregon state and other hop growing resources: http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/disease.cfm?RecordID=599 and http://ipmnet.org/plant-disease/disease.cfm?RecordID=603 . the sections on 'cultural practices' suggest removing the lower leaves.

Ok, so if I leave them they will likely end up climbing the same twine I have for the others-will this be an issue? It seems to me they may end up strangling each other? I could put up more twine for them to grow on, but not for all of them!

What have others done?

they're not gonna strangle each other but they'll create a very dense mass of vegetation which impedes air movement along the bottom of the growing area. if you have situations of high relative humidities in the early part of the growing season, you are creating an environment conducive to disease proliferation. all i'm saying is that if you give a plant optimum growing conditions(within your realm), creating an environment that is as stress free as possible for the plant will lessen the problems that MAY occur further on down the road. good soil amendments, enough room to grow, light, water and such, things will progress fine. my whole being, while working in the green industry, was dealing with customers who had problems with their lawns and plants that were either self-imposed or just overlooked. the main thing i learned, and am still observing, is that if you can manage to give a plant what it needs, it will perform well for you. any hurdles you throw in front of it, will just slow it down. as you know, plants don't have legs and cannot jump hurdles! yuk, yuk! sorry, i had to work tonight, and will do the same tomorrow, so needless to say i'm enjoying a few hoppy beers. you too b-hoppy! and HAPPY HOLIDAY!