DragonTail
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Here is my trellis.
Still need to cut last years off.
Still need to cut last years off.
My plants a dying. The leaves started curling under, then the edges began to brown and now some have simply wilted and are falling over themselves. They have been in planters for a month with potting soil. I just added some fertilizer I think it was 18-24-8...it was all I had and it seemed like a phosphorus deficiency. I added very little...hoping it rejuvenates them or I'll have to order some more.
It could also be a potassium deficiency. Hop Disease and Pest Symptoms
Yea I saw that, hoping the fertilizer helps and I should get them in the ground in a week or two so that should help too. If they are still looking bad should I still plant them or try new rhizomes?
I think you should plant them and see how it goes. How big were the containers?
Cascade is just taking off. The weather has warmed up some and this one grew about 12" today. The centennials aren't far behind!
Are these first year hops? Mine haven't done anything except poke their noses out of the ground a couple of inches and haven't gone any farther.
I wonder if I am water them too much. I am going to let them dry a little and since today is going to be like 96* that should do it.
These are second year. My first year took a bit longer to get started, but I think that's just because they weren't in the ground until mid-march. As soon as you hit 90 degree days for a couple of weeks, watch out!
Yep, I am a few hours south of you. The back yard was 90 sat, 94 sun, 96 mon, 98 today and 92 tomorrow. I hope they get long enough to train soon.
P.S. It is getting hard to drink the Porter I have 4/5 ths a keg of with this weather
With those temps, sounds like you are located around Modesto! It's been pretty warm up here too...but it should be cooling off to mid 70s by thursday. I bet with this weather those sprouts will start taking off. I think mine really went crazy last year around the middle of may. When they say hops can grow 15" in one day, they are not joking around. Make a mark on the twine...it's pretty impressive how fast these guys grow.
Here are a few pics... just built my pergola/trellis and planted 17 rhizomes (9 varieties- Nugget, Cascade, Willamette, Crystal, Mt. Hood, Spalt Select, Magnum, Northern Brewer, and Sterling) on Sunday and Monday.
Pergola/Trellis
Some of the mounds-- waiting on growth!
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Do you have sprinklers that go off in that area?
In my opinion, having them in the grass like that is good vs having them in just a bare dirt surrounding.
I only came to this conclusion because having vegetation keeps a region cool.
Having bare soil which is exposed, like a desert, will be heated more readily by the sun. (This is called terrestrial radiation). The sun does not heat the air, it heats the ground which then radiates the heat that we experience. Vegetation helps prevent this heating by deflecting and absorbing sunlight.
Of course, the benefits will be more dramatic in a desert climate vs naturally cooler climates. Of course, duh lol.
Finally all 8 are planted. 1st year growing hops so it should be interesting. First four barrels are Glaciers and the next four are Willamettes. Once I have bines, the line will go to the post at the top of the slope. The post used to be for the TV antenna. A support wire was attached to it. Very strong. I figure I'll wait to run the line until I have actual growth.
Just taken today...
Cascade Bush..
Nugget Bush...
Need to trim both
Finally added twine and the pole. (The Golden IBU Pole!)
Holy crap, those things look like shrubs. How deep did you plant those? I am beginning to wonder if my 4 maybe 5 inches is too deep with the above ground result I am getting.
They will be OK if your soil drains well. Water the hell out them if this is your first year. If you want to do it organic like let me know I use the zap-tap-crap lauter tun. Works great, maybe too good.
This is a nested-two-bucket setup. I add about two shovel fulls of compost/manure to this. Then top off with water and cover it to perculate/ferment. Black bucket is best for this since it help with the heat attraction. Then I let it drain onto the root-base. Good $hit for your rhizomes.
you may have quite a job training the bines... they like to follow the sun as they grow vertically. It looks as though the angle from the planters to the post will be less than 45 deg. As long as the sun is on the opposite side of your post as the planters, they should follow better, but these buggers like to reach for the sun. Keep taking photos, it looks like it will really look cool in full bloom. Kind of like a hill side hop circus tent.
P.S., the first year, water them babies daily... if not twice!
I should have built a mound for them but maybe I will dig them up and do that, I don't know at this point. I have really hard pan dirt here, but I dug the hols about 12-16" deep and filled in with compost and then planted about 4" deep so they have soft dirt below them for about a foot or so.
I will take some pictures this weekend but this is what most of them are going to climb
I also checked out your 2008 report, that is awesome!
Just taken today...
Cascade Bush..
Nugget Bush...
Need to trim both
Finally added twine and the pole. (The Golden IBU Pole!)
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