ShartAttack
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Hi all,
I moved to central Texas a couple years ago and decided to give growing hops a shot. I got 3 rhizomes each of Cascade, Centennial, and Crystal and picked them up at Austin Homebrew Supply around May I believe.
Anyway, 2/3 Cascade, 3/3 Centennial, and 2/3 Crystal all started vines. Unfortunately, none of them ever got to be more than about a foot long. I was diligent with daily watering and planted them in a shady corner of the yard, but then the city removed some trees in my neighbor's yard and it got hot and that appears to be all she wrote.
Even with daily watering, all of the Cascades and Crystals withered up and most of the Centennials look like they are about to go that way. These are first year hops and I've heard wildly varying stories about how they grow (my first/only year hops in Iowa grew great!) and thought I'd get some feedback here. My suspicion is that they are all just dead and I shouldn't expect to see them come back next year but I wanted to tap the experience here.
Next year I think I'll try again while researching more heat resistant strains and/or working up some shade/drip irrigation but unless somebody tells me otherwise I'm guessing my current plants are toast.
I moved to central Texas a couple years ago and decided to give growing hops a shot. I got 3 rhizomes each of Cascade, Centennial, and Crystal and picked them up at Austin Homebrew Supply around May I believe.
Anyway, 2/3 Cascade, 3/3 Centennial, and 2/3 Crystal all started vines. Unfortunately, none of them ever got to be more than about a foot long. I was diligent with daily watering and planted them in a shady corner of the yard, but then the city removed some trees in my neighbor's yard and it got hot and that appears to be all she wrote.
Even with daily watering, all of the Cascades and Crystals withered up and most of the Centennials look like they are about to go that way. These are first year hops and I've heard wildly varying stories about how they grow (my first/only year hops in Iowa grew great!) and thought I'd get some feedback here. My suspicion is that they are all just dead and I shouldn't expect to see them come back next year but I wanted to tap the experience here.
Next year I think I'll try again while researching more heat resistant strains and/or working up some shade/drip irrigation but unless somebody tells me otherwise I'm guessing my current plants are toast.