mrgrimm101
Well-Known Member
Hello, this year will be my first attempt at growing hops in my backyard. I've spent many hours looking at various trellis designs and I've included a drawing (bow before my epic MSPaint skills!) of the design I want to go with. I think it will work well for me considering it's pretty basic.
I want to plant 2 different varieties with 2 rhizomes each (centennial for sure and other other I'm undecided on). I've seen it where people split the lines where each plant comes out of the ground and they have 2 vines that grow up from the same root. My question is, does the plant naturally split off and grow up each line, or do I have to do some cutting or moving of vines?
Also, how far down in the ground do the stakes have to be? I was going to get some J bolts to anchor into the stakes and maybe some metal O rings for the top where the lines meet the top line. However, this might cause the lines to slide along the top line too much..I wanted to get red cedar 4x4's for the poles and coir yarn for the lines. I was going to let the top line come down one of the poles so I can adjust the slack as the vines grow bigger. The dimensions aren't set in stone..I might get taller poles if I can.
Any input or opinions that others have would be much appreciated. Like I said, this will be my first attempt so I'm trying to keep things fairly basic this year..
I want to plant 2 different varieties with 2 rhizomes each (centennial for sure and other other I'm undecided on). I've seen it where people split the lines where each plant comes out of the ground and they have 2 vines that grow up from the same root. My question is, does the plant naturally split off and grow up each line, or do I have to do some cutting or moving of vines?
Also, how far down in the ground do the stakes have to be? I was going to get some J bolts to anchor into the stakes and maybe some metal O rings for the top where the lines meet the top line. However, this might cause the lines to slide along the top line too much..I wanted to get red cedar 4x4's for the poles and coir yarn for the lines. I was going to let the top line come down one of the poles so I can adjust the slack as the vines grow bigger. The dimensions aren't set in stone..I might get taller poles if I can.
Any input or opinions that others have would be much appreciated. Like I said, this will be my first attempt so I'm trying to keep things fairly basic this year..