Just finished it, we have some sprouts
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Need some help is this the start of a male or am I over reacting it's on my Columbus bines
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Give it a few days. If it looks like this, she may be a hermie. The male parts are dead center, the female spur, which eventually was a cone, is on the right.
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Some of those look to be the start of your spurs for cones. Some varieties are notorious for putting out both parts when they are stressed (too much/too little water, too much/too little sun, too much/too little nutrients, etc). Give those parts the ol' scissor treatment if they are boy parts. They're likely sterile, though I think I read that nagmay has had success breeding with hermie plants.
Give it a few days. If it looks like this, she may be a hermie. The male parts are dead center, the female spur, which eventually was a cone, is on the right.
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Some of those look to be the start of your spurs for cones. Some varieties are notorious for putting out both parts when they are stressed (too much/too little water, too much/too little sun, too much/too little nutrients, etc). Give those parts the ol' scissor treatment if they are boy parts. They're likely sterile, though I think I read that nagmay has had success breeding with hermie plants.
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Release the beasts!
Real ladybugs? Have you tried this before? How long do they stick around?
We have those asian beetles in this area that aren't really ladybugs and really do stink terribly.
I have Nugget, Cascade in their second year, Chinook, Columbia in their first, we will see who survives the Texas Summer (Williamette is holding on by a thread from last year). I also planted some beans to help replace the nitrogen in the soil (I read that somewhere not sure exactly what I am doing or how that works). I also have a row of barley coming in nicely!
How screwed am I?
What are sidearms? I think mine just started growing them. What do I do with them?
Same happened to my chinook plant. Sidearms make up for it.
The two bines are only about 7 feet long right now. Should I train the side arms around the rope? Or let them go where they want?
Train the sidearms that come out of the closest nodes. Let all other sidearms go crazy. 😊
Each point where 2 leaves come out of the main bine is called a node. At each node, sidearms will come out. They look like the main bine, but the sidearms are where your hops flower. Allow those sidearms to do whatever they want.
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