help! this look right?

[dreaded_rust]

I've got some hops starting to sprout and was wondering if this looks right? This one already had this little 3" or so bine on it when I brought it home. I planted these about two weeks ago, after they were in my fridge for about two weeks. This bine hasn't grown at all from what I can tell and it doesn't look nearly as healthy as the others. Any advice here? I'm in southwest Idaho and the weather has been pretty steady in the low 70s.

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[lump42]

If started sprouting in the fridge, that may be sunscald from the sudden intensity of sunlight (fridge to outside).

 

[Pelikan]

Like lump said it could be scald. My first impression was fungal infection or some sort of bacterial wilt. It's clearly still alive though and hops is pretty hardy...just have to wait and see at this point. Stop watering it if you have been up till this point.

 

[dreaded_rust]

It had the sprout on it when I bought it. I think you may be right about the sun shocking it. Heres what it looked like when I planted it.

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[Jaybird]

You will probably shoot up a few more in the next few days. If you do just cut that one off. Our first year we kept just cutting them back and back and back so the energy would develop in the rhizome. Fast forward year 2 and our hops produced like crazy! Its just something an old hop farmer told us to do, we did and it paid off for us.

Cheers
Jay

 

[dreaded_rust]

I snipped it back to the nub. I also moved a little dirt around to look at the rest of it and it looks like it is developing some roots.
Fingers crossed

 

[dreaded_rust]

Still nothing coming up with this one.
should I be worried?
The other one is like a foot tall.

 

[W0rthog]

Did you plant it upside down?

 

[dreaded_rust]

Did you plant it upside down?

I quite certain that I planted it correctly.
The other rhizome in the same planter isnt doing much either. Only twout sprouts about two inches tall. i dont understand, the two rhizomes in the planter nexto it are doing well. One of them is like almost two feet tall. same soil, same amout of sunlight, same amount of water...
should I maybe add some fertilizer?

 

[dreaded_rust]

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[Yoseff]

It looks to me like either too much water or possibly damping off.

 

[dreaded_rust]

It looks to me like either too much water or possibly damping off.

What is damping off?
It has been raining a good bit lately.
If is getting too much rain what can I do to fix that?

 

[Yoseff]

It's caused by any one of several fungal pathogens, usually phytophthora, or "slime molds." It results from unusually moist soil conditions. Basically, the fungus eats through the sprout at the level of the soil and cuts it off. Once symptoms show there isn't much that can be done to save the shoot, but the rhizome should be alright.