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It takes a couple of years and if your neighbors don't treat for them, treating your property is only somewhat effective because the bastards fly... but, you can use milky spore.

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Amazon make sure you get this upgrade pack. The stiffer bed springs and metal extruder are way better.

Yea that's not advised. You are aiming for those numbers in your soil, if you don't know what your soil has then you can't really aim there, and there is a fair amount of chemistry and biology that goes on in managing nutrient depletion and replenishment in crop science.

Trust the pros at Fox Farms - Grow Big is an excellent general feed nutrient for a wide variety of plants, including hops. Also Maxicrop - Liquid Seaweed. You can probably find both of these, or something very similar, at your nearest hydro/specialty gardening store. I wouldn't use amazon unless you don't have one of those nearby. When you get them just follow their instructions on the bottle for a light feed, and I would feed every time or every other time you water. Which would come out to about once weekly, weakly :)

Also wanted to make sure you saw my edit above:

>Ed: for some reason they gave those nutes in the slide in weird order. Nutes are given in N-P-K, Nitrogen Phosphorous Potassium. So if they need 3% nitrogen, .5% phosphorous, and 2% potassium you are really looking for 3-.5-2. That might explain something as well, if you are using 3-2-.5 fertilizer, you are giving 4x as much phosphorous and 1/4 as much potassium as is recommended. Let me find a better article, those slides are not the greatest

My wife and her friend made seasonal wreaths a few years back (winter, spring, summer, fall). They went to Michaels and bought a bunch of fake floral stuff. Since she's a sweetheart, she found fake hops for the fall wreath.

What I'm saying is there are faux hops out there, if you'd be willing to settle for that sorta thing. They looked very nice. Here's an amazon listing that has some related items that could work also:

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Silk-Garland-Green-Hops/dp/B00N3VPBPC

You can try this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00192AO90/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Low PHI. I used this on spider mites and it worked wonders.

My recommendation, this stuff

Coconut Fiber Works Organic Hops Rope (Hops Twine) Weight is 5 Lbs,and Length is 750 feet + from Our Own Production https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B8BVKDB/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_TZBW0TK3NSN43SSKA33K?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I use coconut fiber, I don't know if it's the best stuff to use, but I've used it two years in a row and it's nice and thick. The hops grew up without any issues. This is the product: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KQH3ZOE/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_N6A188VF12F8B3BCXTV0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Also, how many plants do you have that you cut so many bull shoots? And how old are your hops plants?

I got Newport, but looks like they’re out of stock Amazon Link - Hop Rhizomes - Newport

I will start by saying you need to look up guy wires. something this tall needs support and the tension from the top wire will sway the poles inward. The guy wires help to counteract that and stabilize the pole.So the pulleys are screwed to the main poles with top wire going thru it. The top wire is long enough that once tight across the top the ends are low enough to the ground I can secure it. And the top wire is a coated one. I have this twine that have used for my other hop plants and lasts for me two seasons for the hops to climb up. It might last longer but I don't wanna risk it and it's cheap enough to just buy every 2 years. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JMC1CGW/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_glt_i_RCQ7JRH9CE0HSX921X7N?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 I wouldn't use wire rope for the hops to climb up but I know people have and do.

Check your local nursery, home improvement store or check on Amazon for grafting tape. It works great and degrades over time so no need to remove it.

Here's a link to Amazon.

Amazon Grafting Tape

Looks like mild nutrient deficiency. They are first years, right? I’m not sure if they have osmocote fertilizer where you are, it’s a slow release pellet that contains nitrogen, phosphorous, and potash. It’s made specifically for flower and vegetable plants. Sprinkle a small cap full around the crown and it should clear it up after a few weeks. Note the new leaf growth, if it’s normal looking, without the burn, you’re good. Hops are very heavy feeders and need a lot of food in that soil. Here is the amazon link osmocote

I use the trays from my dehydrator placed on top of a box fan to dry hops. It works very well. If you have a dehydrator, you may want to try that. It saved me from building framed screens.

How do your other plants look? How much sun does it get? I would do a general feed with some seaweed extract like Maxicrop and Fox Farms "Grow Big" 6-4-4. Throw in some lemon juice, a good 1-2 tsp/gallon, if you suspect your soil isn't quite the right pH. Lowering the pH of your feed will help the roots pick it up and I would recommend it if you are growing in a soil of pH greater than 7.

If there was any chance you were over feeding or your soil had been over amended, I would flush well with just the lemon and water and then let the soil dry out.

Either way, if you guessed right, you should see healthy new growth over the next few days. Don't worry about the already yellowed leaves, focus on the new growth when tracking plant health. The plant will basically abandon most leaves as it sucks the resources from them and they yellow. It wants to grow big right now so it will do that when you fix the problem and not go back and fix old stuff (generally). Those leaves can probably be taken off in a week or two as the plant resumes healthy growth.

"Hop Production" and "Hops" are the two I'm familiar with. Both written by industry folks and are solid. "Hop growers handbook" was put together by a guy who was just getting into hops a few years back, and the Guide to Hops & Malt I've never seen. https://www.amazon.com/Hop-Production-Developments-Crop-Science/dp/0444987703. There's some others out there but for the most part they're written by folks who don't actually have a working knowledge of hops but are happy to take your $$, haha!

I'm working through The Hop Grower's Handbook right now. You can find a huge amount of information online for free, though, from different universities, on youtube, blogs, and scholarly articles