HOP Crisis!!!!!!

[BrewMeister Jeff]

The last few days have been warm and I have been watering the flowers and plants in my yard and have been keeping the hop plants hydrated too but not too much just enough to keep the dirt moist.

But after a storm that rolled through here last night I went out to look at them and this is what I saw:

http://www.bandebrewing.com/images/hop-plants/HopCrisis1.jpg http://www.bandebrewing.com/images/hop-plants/HopCrisis2.jpg

http://www.bandebrewing.com/images/hop-plants/HopCrisis3.jpg http://www.bandebrewing.com/images/hop-plants/HopCrisis4.jpg

http://www.bandebrewing.com/images/hop-plants/HopCrisis5.jpg

Is it because they are getting confined in the pots? If they are dying can I transplant them now or should I just leave them where they are and transplant them in spring again?

[vtchuck]

Was it wind or hail or just heavy rain?

Assume they are first year plants? They often look scrawny the first year.

Start mine in pots, but transplant in late May, so I don't know about container plants.

I have a lot of brown leaves near the base of some of my plants. I just pick them off to let the plants breathe. Tops seem to do fine

They are pretty hard to kill, especially the hardy varieties like Cascade & Nugget. Once they are established, they are invasive weeds.

There is a grow hops group in Yahoo Groups that has a lot of good information... might want to check them out :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Grow-Hops/

[MrMarbleHead]

Only the one that a couple of entire bines turned brown looks bad, I think they will be ok.

But you may want to clean up the growth around the bottom of the plants. I tried to get my first years down to just one or two bines per rhizome, and pluck everything else out to promote growth to where I wanted it. That may help get them back on track.