barhoc11
Well-Known Member
I have taken advice from most people and trimmed back my second year hops to encourage growth and the plants have taken off like crazy. Now that I am getting good growth, my question is very simple... How many bines per plant should I let grow and train up the rope? I have 4 ropes per plant available, due to how I setup my hop area against my garage. Should I just pick the best 2 shoots and let the hops grow up the outside 2 ropes so that they do not get intertwined? Does it matter if the bines grow too close together?
I just want to run this by some of you guys before I do anything. I think the recommendation was to let 2 - 3 bines grow per plan and cut the rest back to the rootball so I am trying to figure out how to utilize 4 parallel rope with 2 - 3 bines in the best way.
Thanks!
I just want to run this by some of you guys before I do anything. I think the recommendation was to let 2 - 3 bines grow per plan and cut the rest back to the rootball so I am trying to figure out how to utilize 4 parallel rope with 2 - 3 bines in the best way.
Thanks!