There hasn't been much going on in the hopyard so there hasn't been much to post about. Everything is still growing bigger, except for that stumpy Cascade (which still looks small and sickly). You can see the stumpy Cascade on the right side of the photo.
As mentioned before, I was using the ajustable trellis system described in a BYO article (http://www.byo.com/component/resource/article/1926-growing-hops-in-containers). Today, I saw that the Nugget plants were reaching the top of my trellis, so I decided to drop them. I didn't want the bines flopping in the wind because it's been uncharacteristically windy for me this year. To avoid having lots of slack bines flopping around in the wind, I let the lower part of the bines flop over the edges of my growing containers. Then, I attached the top of the twine hanging over the bucket to the twine at the point where I had attached to base of the twine to the container. This allowed me to leave the lower part of the twine hanging loose, while pulling the upper part of the twine snug. I tried to get a picture of what I did below.
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