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Rhode Island

the great chief in the sky has spoken. and the word is ?
hail. lots of it. not once but twice so far. gonna be a fun year.
all hail the great equalizer

7/3/2008 5:54:30 AM

Greene County, Pa.

hailed here 2 times also.

7/3/2008 8:03:08 AM

Somers, CT

I am not commenting.

7/3/2008 9:37:47 AM

Dexter, OR

Got hail here this week as well. Golf ball sized and lasted for abut 5 min. It cut through some of my vines like a knife.

7/3/2008 10:52:34 AM

Ohio

A few weeks back it hailed here two days in a row! Couldn't believe it. Usually we get hail about every three years. Had given an extra plant to a teenage friend of my son and his mother told me he was out in the hailstorm with an umbrella trying to protect his patch. It worked, as he didn't have much leaf damage. My plants are recovering, though, thank goodness.

7/3/2008 2:29:34 PM

Midway, UT

Welcome to our world. Colorado is hail capital USA. All of my original leaves look like swiss cheese. The heavens have been kind for the last 4 weeks for me fortunately. I know some of our growers here haven't been as fortunate. Hope your plants recover quickly. I'm growing on a secondary this year because of hail earlier this year.

7/3/2008 3:59:10 PM

Rhode Island

its all part of the game. as they say SHIT HAPPENS
now lets get growing and hope the latter third or so of new plant can help us from mid august out

7/3/2008 5:24:56 PM

southwest MO

Pitch fork pap.

7/3/2008 7:24:14 PM

Minnesota

I had hail, got holes in my leaves to prove it.

7/3/2008 9:07:12 PM

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Holes in my leaves too.

7/3/2008 9:18:31 PM

Connecticut, USA

Holes from hail here too. Also, seems like thunderstorms everyday with high winds. Lots of twisted and cracked vines. Don't get behind on burying or the wind will do a number on the secondaries.

7/3/2008 10:18:40 PM

Ohio

There is rumor that most of the growers from Circleville like Dr Liggett, Speakman and the rest of their crew got slammed by a hail storm that riddled there patches to nothing, even the vines was all shredded up, they said season is over for them. The hail came down so hard and for a long period of time, said the storm came in so fast they didn't have time to react to cover the plants up, and these are the guys with hail covers already installed at there patch.

My Dad lives 14 Miles away from Circleville and he was real lucky because he was on the outter edge of that storm, only a few holes in a couple leaves.

7/4/2008 5:47:49 AM

last week i had 5 rounds of hail and 5 inch rain in 1 day hail poked a dent in 2 little females that opened afterwords now they both have a hole in there side as they stretch -the holes in leafs help let wind go thru easier-i keep saying that as i mumble and cuss i had picnic tables over ends of plants and females -sideways hail this time in strong wind

7/4/2008 8:34:36 AM

Leicester, NY

Pap,Extremely strange weather year so far. Hot April, cold May, almost every thunderstorm in June had strong winds and hail associated with it. Not sure what July will bring, but I’m sure the fun will continue.

7/4/2008 9:18:49 AM

Rhode Island

lets look at the brite side of this holy leafs thing troopers.
now we can spray the leaves and soil drench at the same time
all hail the weather patterns. got a feeling its not over yet

7/4/2008 4:57:38 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

I got hailed on memorial weekend, but i managed to bounce back

7/4/2008 5:24:44 PM

Belgium Europe

Sandbaggers !!!!
All of you !!

7/6/2008 6:04:36 PM