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HItransplant

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Can someone help me identify what's going on with my first year goldings' leaves. They haven't been wet but it has been really hot.

Is it my watering schedule?

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Thanks
 
HItransplant said:
Can someone help me identify what's going on with my first year goldings' leaves. They haven't been wet but it has been really hot.

Is it my watering schedule?

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Thanks

I did a little research and the end result I found was a calcium deficiency. Calcium deficiency gives your hop leaves a scorched appearance. Check www.hcbi.com.
 
I don't disagree. I will propose the more I mess with my hops, the more messed up they become.
I would anmend your soil, mulch, and consider a better water system for next year. Good luck.
 
hopmomma said:
I did a little research and the end result I found was a calcium deficiency. Calcium deficiency gives your hop leaves a scorched appearance. Check www.hcbi.com.

That link isn't good, but I found the website w google. The leaves look burned on more than just the edges, more like the mag deficiency pic, but still looks like something else. Thanks for the suggestion, and for researching for me :)
 
Dude, Your plants are suffering from extremely high salts (usually caused by too much fert.) You're petting the puppy to death. On hot days the plant is rapidly transpiring and losing water from it's leaves. The water moving upward thru the plant is carrying the salts; which acculmulates at the expanding leaf edge (like salt on the rim of a Margarita). When the concentration gets too high - poof!
 
Retrofit said:
I don't disagree. I will propose the more I mess with my hops, the more messed up they become.
I would anmend your soil, mulch, and consider a better water system for next year. Good luck.

Yeah, I'm mostly trying to collect info so I can learn from my first year. Thanks...

I read an article that supports this being a deficiency... But a potassium deficiency. I'm gonna try some compost to see if it helps.

Any more suggestions?
 
Jagdad said:
Dude, Your plants are suffering from extremely high salts (usually caused by too much fert.) You're petting the puppy to death. On hot days the plant is rapidly transpiring and losing water from it's leaves. The water moving upward thru the plant is carrying the salts; which acculmulates at the expanding leaf edge (like salt on the rim of a Margarita). When the concentration gets too high - poof!

That could be, but I only fertilized when I planted...and it's only on some of the middle leaves. I would think salt burn would be everywhere...
 
HItransplant said:
That link isn't good, but I found the website w google. The leaves look burned on more than just the edges, more like the mag deficiency pic, but still looks like something else. Thanks for the suggestion, and for researching for me :)

No problem! I'm a first year myself. And my hops I derooted and cut from a friends plants without really knowing what I was doing. I broke my shovel during the process because the dirt was so hard and rocky. Good luck and tell your hops I said feel better :)
 
Are these old leaves? Old leaves just turn yellow as they've done what they were suppose to and are now 'spent'. My healthy plants have big old yellow leaves on them while the young leaf is bright and green. Not saying 'this is it', just curious.
 
Retrofit said:
Are these old leaves? Old leaves just turn yellow as they've done what they were suppose to and are now 'spent'. My healthy plants have big old yellow leaves on them while the young leaf is bright and green. Not saying 'this is it', just curious.

They are about midway up the bine.. So, they aren't new; but, there are perfectly healthy leaves that are older.
 
If your vines are facing south and right up against the house than the house could be radiating heat back on the plant causing the leaves to burn a bit. When is the last time they had rain?
 
eddieandtheboozer said:
If your vines are facing south and right up against the house than the house could be radiating heat back on the plant causing the leaves to burn a bit. When is the last time they had rain?

They are south facing, and up against the house...but, the leaves that are burnt are actually among the leaves that are furthest from the house, so I had kind of ruled that possibility out.

Here's a couple more pics... Burnt leaves are about half way up to the roof

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Thanks again for the help everyone
 
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