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This is my second year attempting to grow hops, first year making a concerted effort (last year was one Centennial rhizome in a pot on the front porch, dismal results).
I have 4 crowns from Great Lakes Hops in a raised bed, planted a week ago. They get eastern sun with a block on afternoon sun--it's a good setup.
So things are going swimmingly, all 4 are green, growing, looking happy--I have a Cascade, Columbus, Glacier, and Chinook--but in the past couple of days the leaves on the Chinook have been chomped on. Like half of the leaf, lengthwise, gone on probably 50% of the leaves.
I did some investigation this evening with a flashlight and discovered this guy on one of the Chinook shoots:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131697497@N02/17251277761/
From my reading, I found that this is most likely a cutworm of the Spodoptera persuasion.
So I nabbed this guy for observation and ended up throwing some diatomaceous earth around the base of all 4 of my plants. Earlier in the evening I had sprayed them with some Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew, thinking I would cast a wide net and get whatever was eating these leaves.
Does anybody have thoughts on what else I could be doing to head these things off? They seem to be pretty destructive. They're getting my peas in my vegetable garden as well. I ordered some Bonide Thuricide BT that will be here this weekend, but don't know if that's overkill.
I want these hops to LIVE!!!!
I have 4 crowns from Great Lakes Hops in a raised bed, planted a week ago. They get eastern sun with a block on afternoon sun--it's a good setup.
So things are going swimmingly, all 4 are green, growing, looking happy--I have a Cascade, Columbus, Glacier, and Chinook--but in the past couple of days the leaves on the Chinook have been chomped on. Like half of the leaf, lengthwise, gone on probably 50% of the leaves.
I did some investigation this evening with a flashlight and discovered this guy on one of the Chinook shoots:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131697497@N02/17251277761/
From my reading, I found that this is most likely a cutworm of the Spodoptera persuasion.
So I nabbed this guy for observation and ended up throwing some diatomaceous earth around the base of all 4 of my plants. Earlier in the evening I had sprayed them with some Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew, thinking I would cast a wide net and get whatever was eating these leaves.
Does anybody have thoughts on what else I could be doing to head these things off? They seem to be pretty destructive. They're getting my peas in my vegetable garden as well. I ordered some Bonide Thuricide BT that will be here this weekend, but don't know if that's overkill.
I want these hops to LIVE!!!!
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