bosox
Well-Known Member
I have two rhizomes growing in two seperate half whiskey barrels, a Mt. Hood and a Cascade. The Cascade is doing great, producing 2 shoots with one of them nearing 5 ft. tall and haven't had any problems with anything.
The Mt. Hoods however, haven't been so lucky! They've been attacked by bugs, and I've been spraying them now twice this past week, but I had to do some more leaf pruning because some of them were just too yellow and eaten and had bugs on the bottom side. Today though the only bine growing (which has seemed to stop at about 3 feet for a week now) has the top of it snapped off! There's no more bud growing at the top, it's just a cut bine....What should I do? Should I trim it back to the soil and let it grow again, or should I do nothing, or cut it a little lower? The plant seems to be in need of something, as it was the first to sprout and originally the strongest/tallens of the hops. Now it appears to be dying!
The Mt. Hoods however, haven't been so lucky! They've been attacked by bugs, and I've been spraying them now twice this past week, but I had to do some more leaf pruning because some of them were just too yellow and eaten and had bugs on the bottom side. Today though the only bine growing (which has seemed to stop at about 3 feet for a week now) has the top of it snapped off! There's no more bud growing at the top, it's just a cut bine....What should I do? Should I trim it back to the soil and let it grow again, or should I do nothing, or cut it a little lower? The plant seems to be in need of something, as it was the first to sprout and originally the strongest/tallens of the hops. Now it appears to be dying!