WildBillnOK
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Just wanted to know if I could plant some rhizomes now to give my plants a head start instead of waiting till spring. I am in central Oklahoma. Thanks for the help!
Not sure how hot and dry you get there, but that would be my biggest concern.
However, you DO need to keep them well watered lest they wither. When it get REAL hot, they can die easily if they can't replenish their water.
But all in all, it's hard to kill them once they get their roots going.
You won't have any flowers this year, but maybe next. They often will give a little with the first full year, and almost always a good amount the second year, and you are somewhere in between.
I would think if you are really not planning to get any production out of them this year, that the trellis is not needed, just let them go on the ground, curl them up when they start spreading out. If you do plan on the trellis, the height would depend on if you are going straight up, on an angle, or up and across. Look around here and there are lots of post you trellis pics, you can make something up from that.
Just be prepared for a roller coaster ride.
Oklahoma ain't necessarily prime real estate for hops.
They will grow. And you will stay busy trying to figure out whats going on with them. I have been growing them for 4 years in Central OKC and every year, they do something new that makes me go WTF!
What's been going on with your crops, and what kind of hops are you growing?
Anybody else know of some good varieties of hops to try to grow in Oklahoma?
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