My Hops Have Grown (nine Inches Today )

[Steve]

They'd be better if you took them out of those tiny pots and stuck them in that garden bed Pumpy. Their roots grow horizontally for metres...and I mean lots of metres. But dont do it now! Do it next year.
Cheers
Steve

 

[Pumpy]

They'd be better if you took them out of those tiny pots and stuck them in that garden bed Pumpy. Their roots grow horizontally for metres...and I mean lots of metres. But dont do it now! Do it next year.
Cheers
Steve

My God Steve where them roots going to go now :blink:

Pumpy :unsure:

 

[Steve]

My God Steve where them roots going to go now :blink:

Pumpy :unsure:

Round and round until its root bound. Root bound plants dont produce as much.
Cheers
Steve

 

[Adamt]

I was root bound once.

Then I found out she might have Herpes and I called it off.

 

[raven19]

I was root bound once.

Then I found out she might have Herpes and I called it off.

:lol:

 

[Wisey]

Since whens herpes stopped anyone?

 

[raven19]

Pumpy, I trimmed the main bine on the Chinook last night as it was a good foot higher than the trellis just swaying in the breeze.

Popped it into some root hormone from the Green Shed then into some seedling mix in a pot. Fingers crossed it takes off!

I am hoping this encourages the next few bines to get cracking now!

How are yours travelling?

 

[matho]

Pumpy, I trimmed the main bine on the Chinook last night as it was a good foot higher than the trellis just swaying in the breeze.

Popped it into some root hormone from the Green Shed then into some seedling mix in a pot. Fingers crossed it takes off!

I am hoping this encourages the next few bines to get cracking now!

How are yours travelling?

Raven

just a hint keep the cutting fairly wet, you have to think of it as a cut flower to only way for it to get water is thru the stem or the leafs. i use those little plastic green house that you can buy, there is about 1 cm of water in the bottom tray and i spray the leafs with water everyday. hope it all goes well

cheer's matho

 

[raven19]

Cheers Matho, I have three pots sitting in a foam broccoli box with a glass lid on top - so I could easily add 1cm of water into the foam tray for the pots to be immersed in.

 

[kabooby]

It also helps to remove all but a few of the leaves.

Kabooby

 

[Pumpy]

Pumpy, I trimmed the main bine on the Chinook last night as it was a good foot higher than the trellis just swaying in the breeze.

Popped it into some root hormone from the Green Shed then into some seedling mix in a pot. Fingers crossed it takes off!

I am hoping this encourages the next few bines to get cracking now!

How are yours travelling?

Raven I will try that with the bines

Pumpy

 

[Pumpy]

It also helps to remove all but a few of the leaves.

Kabooby

Here is a site on propogating grape vines!!

Is that what I have to do to propogate the Hope bines ?

http://www.gardenhive.com/fruit/grapes/pro.../stem-cuttings/

Pumpy :unsure:

 

[matho]

hey pumpy that propagating techneque is for dormant vines, as the vines of the hop plant die back i dont think it would work.

what i do is this

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use one of these

if you have more that three bines growing from a plant pick one to cut back then cut it like in the photo below

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once you have made a cutting put it into some rooting hormone i use the purple gel for semi hardwood, then put it into the punnet
keep the cutting fairly wet, i put the container near a northern facing window spray the cuttings with water every day and in about two to three weeks they will be ready to put into pot and put outside.

cheer's matho

 

[Pumpy]

thanks for that Matho,

here is a current pic of how my Columbus are travelling

Pumpy