hey guys,
this year ive noticed that a few of my main bines, have reached a good height of over 3-4m but dont have a any hops on them, none at all..
this could be a massive thing ive overlooked but are there different type of bines? these are throwing out a heap of laterals but no hops...?
dont do it the hard way....
just put some cuttings in water for a few weeks...when the roots are grown enough, plant them, ive had 100% success with them so far... i have to give them away ha
goodluck
i found this is one of the only ways for me to grow my own hops, im not the best at cuttings and propagation etc...
but you just stick these in water and wait... i left mine in for 2-3 weeks at least behind a window inside the house.. so it gets (less harsher) sun and cooler temps than outside...
so just a quick update a week later.... maybe the addition of lime helped out a bit... i havent paid too much attention to them this week but
the bine on the right is over a month old and has been through mites and acid, the left bine (big and healthy) is a few days old...
looking better
yeah so the mites are gone..... but this probably was my problem right from the start...... now to get it back up to 7... funnily enough my 2yo cascades that are growing better had the same ph level.. so its a wonder at all they took off at all too, though they were late bloomers...
ah wow thanks for the replies...
i got the Pyrethrum Spray as applied that today...
but ill def look into that neem oil for the next round...
cheers guys, all good advice there!
Hey guys
I thought Id post up my recent hop story
a little back ground first... i bought 2 cascade rhizomes last year and they grew well, one flowered real early and the other late.. an overall pretty good experiance
so i ordered a pride of ringwood, goldings, red earth and chinook for this...
my first try at growing cuttings... i had some root hormone on mutliple cuttings in pots and cared to them daily. they all died... this one i just left in water for a few months and now its growing well in a pot with no care at all...
ill try this again this year...
my ghetto trellis.. total cost $0, using as much existing objects as possible.
a wire with twine wrapped around it for hop vine to grab onto is tied from the pot to the top of the green pool fence, the continues to the top of the palm tree. about 4m of growth but my ccascade kept growing up the...