jayrome2722
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Last year I was fairly certain I had a downy mildew infection of my hop plants. This year I took some steps to prevent that, including fungicide. Everything seemed to be going well, until sidearms started to appear and the bines reached the top of the lines. The leaves started turning brown from the top down ( opposite from last year) and worked their way 1/2 to 3/4 of the way down the bine. One plant lost all its leaves above 1/2. The other is working on it, and all the cones are brown. I have lines hanging from a large rope that I used last year to string all the smaller lines. Is it possible the Mildew stored itself in the rope? Also, should I be cutting back all these plants now as they aren't going to produce? Can I take some steps now to keep this from happening next year?