Hop Bine Tip Dead

[barhoc11]

As I work through some of the joys of hop growing for the first time, I am encountering things that seem 'off' to me based on work with other plants.

My latest issue I have is that all of a sudden my Cascade plant that was growing after being put in the ground now seems like the part at the end of its longest bine (the part that shoots out of the same bine as the plant grows to make it longer) has turned brown and is dead.

My green thumb tells me to trim back the bine until the area where the latest shoot had extended from so that it can regrow, is this correct? I can post pics if needed but I figure this has to have happened to someone else.

 

[pennztatelion]

It has happened to a couple of mine before and it doesn't regrow even if you go down to the next spot where it sprouted from.

What will usually happen is the next spot down will start shooting sidearms and try to keep going with those or it will try to shoot new ones from the base of the plant too.

Don't freak out though it will keep growing in some way shape or form.

 

[brewguyver]

Had a similar issue with one of my centenials - it decided to train itself while i was traveling - kinked two vines and the tip of another snapped off.

It shot out new bines from the bottom (also trying to self-train) but picked the fence this time. It's a little behind it's sisters, but everything is going fine now.

I've trained sidearms as well, and that seems to have worked fine.

 

[brewguyver]

For reference, the plant who's tip died ended up sending more shoots - got a ton of hops off it. This was a centennial so your experience could be different, but i'm assuming hop plants function basically the same.


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[bartlbee]

This happened to my strongest Cascade as well. In the end I ended up having to trim all bines to the ground and its finally starting to grow again. My other Cascade is growing well but the leafs at the bottom all die, and I'm worried it will make its way to the top. I'm not sure what happened but you're not alone.