Craig wrote:10 feet is pretty good for this time of year. My 3rd year cascade is about 5 feet now. The 2nd year nugget is maybe 3 feet as is the 2nd year Centennial.
My 2nd year Columbus is only like a foot, and it's only got one big shoot. It struggled last year too.
i'll take a picture of them some time on the weekend. last year, they managed to climb to the peak of my shed (8 feet?) and almost horizontally 15 feet. they're on track to repeat again this year. we have a deck underneath the trellis. it's really quite pretty to sit underneath the 2 twine strings and relax, especially when the hop cones are out.
growth, i'm guessing, is species specific. my cascade is not nearly as fast or as thick as the wilamette.
I might have the Centennial and Columbus mixed up. I managed to lose track of which one I planted where.
eat a leaf (a smaller, newer one). for me, cascade tastes more floral than the superbitter wilamette leaves