The picture above is of the Centennial pot and as you can see, it is doing very well. We now have trained 4 bines on to the trellis, 2 of which were trained just yesterday. There is another bine growing that is becoming pretty long as well that I havent decided whether or not to prune it or just let it go up the trellis too. We added some basic fertilizer this morning and hopefully that will help with the leaves looking a bit discolored. So far not too many bugs either. I think I've seen a wooly aphid (?) but I've sprayed the underside of the leaves and the bine itself with a water/soap mixture and that seems to be working in keeping them away for now.
The Newport has also had a lot of growth since the last update. I think that the one bine (farthest right) is a little bit taller than the Centennial, which had about a 2 week headstart. There is only 2 bines on the trellis, which may be why they can grow so much faster, because the plant is only focused on 2, and not 4-5 bines. Either way, I'm pleased with the progess so far, and the Newport seems to not be attracting as many bugs as the Centennial. It's still a long summer, but hopefully both of the plants will make it through and give us some hops to use in the Fall.
Thankfully the Double Pale Ale was cold-crashed last night. On Saturday we'll dry hop/keg it and hopefully by the following Saturday we'll finally be drinking some beer on tap again. It seems like it's been a long time since the kegerator was in action, and hopefully, we wont run into this problem again in the future.
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