Reply To: Pinning part of ‘hair’ made from objects

What you could do, is make your hair particle system:

then 

Then make your shape, make sure that the up direction of your object is pointing along the World Y-axis (don’t ask me why) and its origin is at the bottom of the object.

Add a Particle Instance Modifier with the Plane as Object and the Hair Particle System you made as the Particle System.  Make sure to enable Create Along Paths:

Then you can add your Force Field: