I bent my bine...now what?

[alers22]

My chinnook hop bine had grown to about 18" tall and as i moved the bine to start wrapping it around the rope, it bent at about a 45 degree angle and put a crease in the bine.

I haven't noticed any additional growth since this happened but the bine has not dried up and died yet either. The bend occurred about 1/2 way up the bine.

Should I let it go or cut it back to below the crease and let it take off again?

Thanks!!

 

[BeerCrafter2011]

Cut it, it will never regain strength at that point. You'll get new growth from the crotch right above the leaves below.

 

[alers22]

Thanks!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

You need to get "schtupped". That will straighten your bine out.

 

[BeerCrafter2011]

You need to get "schtupped". That will straighten your bine out.

nice.. i had to google that one.

 

[stonebrewer]

Hmmm...so I had something like this happen yesterday as well. I had two bines about 6 inches apart on two different twines. It was really windy and it looks like one bine tried to grab the other string and snapped it's end off when the wind blew again! Doh!! Anyhow, I saw on a video that if you lost the tip of the bine you have lost the entire bine. Is this true or have you had experience snipping back to the next crotch? Reading this thread sounds a little risque! Grin!!

 

[B-Hoppy]

I don't know who made the video but this is usually what happens at my house:

 

[stonebrewer]

Saw it on a hopsdirect.com youtube video with Stacy Puterbaugh. He warned against breaking off the top, which I took as catastrophic. Obviously from your picture, it isn't. Thanks for sharing this as I was going to snip this bine off at ground level tomorrow!!

 

[B-Hoppy]

Of all the plants I've ever dealt with, these things are pretty much indestructible and have a will to live. I haven't seen the video but the commercial growers do many things different than us home growers do so I'll have to get some time to check it out. I think you'll be fine by letting them go to do their thing. Good luck!

 

[stonebrewer]

Just rewatched it because of this conversation. He actually said it wouldn't kill it but would slow the growth and cause it to shoot arms which isn't good for a "baby" plant, aka a first year plant.

 

[PJM]

I was lazy and did not get my twine run in time and had two bines on one plant bend over and crease pretty severely without breaking. Had the same thing happen on another plant as well. I figured they were toasted but decided to run my twine and try to wrap them up the twine as best I could and attempt to straighten out the creases. So far it has worked. On all three bines I have had significant new growth above the location of the creases. I was very surprised.

 

[strumke]

Same here, I bent a sterling bine about 2' in when I was wrapping it around the twine. I left it all there and it continues to grow the thickest bine of all the plants I have growing. It's around 8' now.