So my second year hops are going crazy. My Chinooks and Centennial are 7-8’ tall and I have new shoots coming out everywhere. Today I was trimming them and when lifting them up uncovered “hairy white roots”. Are these things that can be transplanted to expand my crops?
[quote=“560sdl”]So my second year hops are going crazy. My Chinooks and Centennial are 7-8’ tall and I have new shoots coming out everywhere. Today I was trimming them and when lifting them up uncovered “hairy white roots”. Are these things that can be transplanted to expand my crops?
Seems like I am going to have a lot of these…[/quote]
I plan to give it a try with my goldings once they get a bit longer.
[quote=“Rookie L A”][quote=“560sdl”]So my second year hops are going crazy. My Chinooks and Centennial are 7-8’ tall and I have new shoots coming out everywhere. Today I was trimming them and when lifting them up uncovered “hairy white roots”. Are these things that can be transplanted to expand my crops?
Seems like I am going to have a lot of these…[/quote]
I plan to give it a try with my goldings once they get a bit longer.[/quote]
I tried with three shoots that I was going to toss and it looks like two of them are going to work.
Last year while cleaning up around a bine i accidentily pulled the bine. It had no roots at all. I stuck it in a glass of water and it promptly grew tons of roots. That was halfway through the year last year and on a 1st year rhizome. This year the plant is growing like a beast…though it could be because it is a cascade. They seem to grow like they are on roids.
Yup, that is exactly what i did. In fact, i have one going right now. My cascade cutting is about a week and the root that has started is about a half inch. Once the root sprouts it will grow fast. If you can get a cutting where the bine is still a youthful green, it will sprout quicker.
Yes. The first few I did really didn’t go any where, but I replanted a couple that came along a bit later and were newer and a nice “youthfull green”; they quickly showed signs of growing.