Sometimes they come back

About a month or so ago, my Cascade hops suffered a little setback. The Centennials are one setback after another, so I won't be discussing them today. The Cascades were already about 6 feet long the day I checked on them. I noticed that just the very tips of the bines had been nipped off, literally nipped in the buds. I decided to cut my losses and cut the bines back to near the bases. I picked a suitable side-sprout on each of the two bines and cut the plants back to those selected sprouts. Within a few weeks, these replacement bines were growing like mad and just this week they topped out on my hop trellis.


And upon closer inspection, what did I see? But the starts of a bunch of flowers! It's only a matter of time now. Looks like I should be way better off than the 4 total hop flowers I harvested last year!