Hops in planters
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When I moved from pots to planters, I amended my soil to provide optimum nutrients to the plants. I used a combo of a bag of mushroom compost, a bag of manure, and a bag of topsoil tilled into the soil that is naturally in my yard. I did this in early spring, but I read that you can do this in the fall as well.
Once they moved into the ground, the growth and yield was astounding. Each plant produced a pound of hops last year, and are producing about the same this year (with one exception...Chinook). I also put my plants on a regular water and fertilizing schedule. The watering got blown up this year due to all of the crazy rain.
I moved mine this past spring. They have all done better than when they were in pots and all have cones on them right now, a few are just starting to form.
I didn't expect them to do great just due to the shock of transplanting. I was also worried about them dying off. So far they all look pretty good.
Some of them are starting to look a bit rough at the bottom but the top two thirds of the plants look good.
I also did what @theymond said, but I dug holes about twice as large as needed and filled with top soil and mixed with some of the crappy soil that I dug up. My pots where also potting soil/manure/compost mix and I used that soil as much as possible trying to keep the root ball together and covered in that soil as much as possible.
I don't water them as much as I should and I'm considering a watering system for next year. I have 14 plants going (some of those are multiple plants in one area) so not sure how I'm going to get a watering system to all of them but it's on my things to do this fall/winter.
Good luck.
I didn't expect them to do great just due to the shock of transplanting. I was also worried about them dying off. So far they all look pretty good.
Some of them are starting to look a bit rough at the bottom but the top two thirds of the plants look good.
I also did what @theymond said, but I dug holes about twice as large as needed and filled with top soil and mixed with some of the crappy soil that I dug up. My pots where also potting soil/manure/compost mix and I used that soil as much as possible trying to keep the root ball together and covered in that soil as much as possible.
I don't water them as much as I should and I'm considering a watering system for next year. I have 14 plants going (some of those are multiple plants in one area) so not sure how I'm going to get a watering system to all of them but it's on my things to do this fall/winter.
Good luck.
