Pwrflpills
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I live in South Florida (north Broward County) and have hops growing in containers - 1 cascade, 1 centennial. I planted them last March and they were producing cones on 10-18' bines by June.
The bines gradually declined towards late summer and had minor sidearm growth with undersized leaves up until I cut it all off about a week ago. What I hadn't noticed is that they had started to produce a siginificant number of new bine shoots with normal looking/sized leaves that are coming out of the soil. Some of these are already over 2 long.
I realize that probably no one has any real experience with growing hops in So. Fla, but in the bigger picture, is Fall bine growth common and is it something I should cultivate? Winter is the growing season down here, so I'm interested to see what happens. But if Fall growth is known to be junk, I don't want to waste my time building a new trellis, which I need to do for next year anyway.
The bines gradually declined towards late summer and had minor sidearm growth with undersized leaves up until I cut it all off about a week ago. What I hadn't noticed is that they had started to produce a siginificant number of new bine shoots with normal looking/sized leaves that are coming out of the soil. Some of these are already over 2 long.
I realize that probably no one has any real experience with growing hops in So. Fla, but in the bigger picture, is Fall bine growth common and is it something I should cultivate? Winter is the growing season down here, so I'm interested to see what happens. But if Fall growth is known to be junk, I don't want to waste my time building a new trellis, which I need to do for next year anyway.
