My Hops Arrived!

[chivelegs]

Get some slug pellets down! (Just a thought)

[L2wis]

haha excellent!! we'll be reducing the sales of homebrew shops hops! (sorry homebrew shop owners!)

Saying that though, i'll never have enough room for the larger varieties so if I wanna use them I'll still be purchasing them.

[symptomlesscoma]

Got my Prima Donna yesterday and just planted it.
Its a bit of a sorry specimen. Planted it straight in garden, maybe should have potted it first for a week to get healthy. Too late now though.
Fingers crossed it establishes itself.

[symptomlesscoma]

Just emailed tomatoseedsuk, they basically said they've had alot of people emailing saying their plants look a bit under the weather and theres a lot of powery mildew about due to humidity. They also said even if plant above the soil dies off the root system will survive and new vines will come out.
Just thought I'd post this incase anyone else is worried about their new hop plant.

[L2wis]

Ah great work on emailing them, i noticed the powdery stuff on my prima donna. Good to know theres no need to panic if the top bit does die off .

[symptomlesscoma]

Must admit tomatoseedsuk have been good at replying to emails, they've emailed me 3 times with different info also saying that if the plant does die then let them know and they'll send a replacement.
The leaves on my one don't look too good at minute, been taking off all the dead/dying ones as per instruction and hoping to see some signs of new growth soon.

[L2wis]

half of my prima donna is looking worse for wear, i'll give the dead leaves some attention when i get back from my hols.

I thought their email comms were good also.

[L2wis]

Here are some recent pics of my hops.

Golden tassles:


Prima Donna:


Anti-cat defence:

[symptomlesscoma]

Your prima donna looks alot better than mine, yours actually has some greenary to it.
I'm just praying for new growth.

[L2wis]

yeh the shoot that has green leaves does look healthy, and oddly the top leaves of another but not the bottom leaves!? who knows! hope they all come out alright in the end.

[fatnurse]

I won't post a pic of my hop plants I got from Fatcontroller on here the other month.....AMAZING, I have them in biggish pots and the growth on them has really surprised me they are about 3 ft high already! ( nice one Stuart )

[L2wis]

we want pics!!

[fatnurse]

Awwwww ok I'll sort some out tomorrow

[L2wis]

thanks it'll cheer us lot up with little tiddlers that are struggling. It'll show us what to look forwards too also .

[L2wis]

here are my hop strings ready:


Close up of the bottom:


Close up of the tops:


Lets just hope our prima donna's survive, mine has deffo got worse. I've took all the dead leaves off and the shoot with some leaves still on it i've trained onto one of the strings.

@fatnurse: did you find some pics to upload to cheer us all up?