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Indiana

Unless your plant is stripped to the ground, or a significant amount of foliage is no longer able to photosynthesize, you SHOULD NOT worry.

Hail Damage this early in the season is little more than aeration for the plant. What are the plants as far as their total allotted square footage right now? 20%? The new growth will be just as happy and healthy as ever.

If you have been hit by hail, make sure to watch your plant for disease. Perhaps treat with a little Daconil or something.

Everything will be fine. Like I said, holes in the leaves are little more than aeration for the plant canopy.

6/18/2008 10:33:27 PM

No Place Special

How about the holes in my vines? I can see the inside of about half my vines and one main vine. No need to worry?

6/18/2008 11:36:02 PM

Clarence, NY

Tom - thanks for the reassurance. I've seen coleslaw shredded coarser than my leave look after the recent hail storm. My biggest concern is disease onset in the late August/September timeframe when nights are cooler? I'm already treating with Orthonex to try and build resistance early. The other concern is loosing the female growing on the vine.

6/19/2008 10:57:55 AM

Frankfort Oh

Tom <<Doc liggett,,got hit with golf size hail ,,and destroyed his mains and 70% of his plants ,,,,hope he sees this post !!he thinks mother nature doesn`t like him.

6/19/2008 11:45:41 AM

Picton,ON ([email protected])

Tom

Thanks for posting this. I kind of figured this anyway. I was thinking it might even help stimulate the plant to accelerate its growth. Fortunately the hail damage on my plants is only on the leaves and not the vines (sorry Mike). I hadn't thought about additional disease pressure. I may consider starting my fungicide program early!

John

6/19/2008 11:54:49 AM

Fairport,NY

Great Post Tom,Thank You. I was kind of wonderng if their would be more disease problems with ripped leaves?Fungus ,etc?
I don't know if it helped or not but I treated my plant a few days before getting hit with hail with Harpin Protein.
The Plants haven't shown any set back in physical appearance other than the ripped leaves,everything is still looking strong? I have started a Orthenex program as well.

6/19/2008 3:57:38 PM

Littleton, Colo

Thankz Tom !!

6/20/2008 12:28:43 AM

Indiana

The bottom line is that this early in the game, if the plant will heal, the loss of square footage will be minimal.

Mike,
holes in the vine? I have never seen holes in a vine. I have seen bruises and damaged tissue. If the tissue will heal for you, I think you will be ok. Severe damage like that will set you back a little more, but your definitely not out of the game.

As for Doc's Problem. Golf balls can do you in, but a young plant can recover. I would be concerned that Doc already has most of his plant grown. He usually starts early. I hope he can recover tho!

6/20/2008 1:41:42 AM

Paradise Mountain, New York

I guess it depends on how bad you were hit with hail. Myself, I was hit with hail twice last year in June. The first time, it was one heck of a storm. My plants looked like a weed wacker was taken to them. Everyone of my mains and secondarys were destroyed. I had to pick the best damaged secondary and turn it into the main. I never got anything big last year. It took two weeks before my plants started to come back.

6/20/2008 5:36:41 AM