Severe Blow Today

Andy_CT · Post by **Andy_CT** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:27 pm

Just when things were looking up with the weather today I was hit with a severe thunderstorm that poured hail up to 1 inch size for a full 15 minutes. Had a few crushing blows to my plants.

this little seedling was crushed, literally

anacampseros rufescens had a tire blow out, and also several leaves 'volunteered' for propagation

My O. Ellisiana has had one thing after another go wrong over the last couple years and this year just when it looked on the path to recovery

The biggest blow of all, all 3 buds obliterated on my A. Myriostigma and these were its first flower buds

A carpet of hail was left when it was finally done

Besides these there is a lot of spine damage on plants. The holiday cacti had lots of split pads. A recently purchased peanut cactus lost a few stems. I also imagine a lot of unseen damage to the bodies of plants will appear in the coming days.

Saguaro123 · Post by **Saguaro123** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:35 pm

Didn't seem like a good day.
it's a bummer that you lost a seedling and flowers on the Astrophytum.

ihc6480 · Post by **ihc6480** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:49 pm

Man, thats a bummer Andy. Seems you fall into the catagory with me... If not for bad luck you'd have no luck at all

Been getting rains here but no hail as of yet.

At least it wasn't a total lose. Keep that chin up

masscactus · Post by **masscactus** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:49 pm

Oh man that really sucks.

We also had severe weather warnings. Torrential rains earlier today and more just passing through now. We didn't see any hail here though.

Andy_CT · Post by **Andy_CT** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:58 pm

I had a fun time collecting all the top dressing rocks that were flung all over the deck.

ihc6480 · Post by **ihc6480** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:03 am

Andy_CT wrote:I had a fun time collecting all the top dressing rocks that were flung all over the deck.

Good to hear you at least had some fun out of the ordeal

Ocotillo · Post by **Ocotillo** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:32 am

Ouch! That's a kick in the teeth. --Sorry for your misfortune

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:43 am

Major bummer about the seedling!

The astro will be replacing those buds soon I bet.
And the opuntia, well I think it would survive a mac truck getting dropped on it.

iann · Post by **iann** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:35 am

On no! Fingers crossed that nothing else is damaged. I mourn even a single plant dying.

Andy_CT · Post by **Andy_CT** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:56 am

Tony wrote:Major bummer about the seedling!
The astro will be replacing those buds soon I bet.
And the opuntia, well I think it would survive a mac truck getting dropped on it.

I know the Opuntia will live on but this is its 3rd growing season and it has 4 less pads then when I got it

I really have to ask myself what the point is with having that one, its cursed

RayC · Post by **RayC** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:03 pm

Sorry to hear Andy, we've been lucky so far and haven't had to deal with the big storms so far in my neck of the woods.

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:39 pm

Thats no fun

Harriet · Post by **Harriet** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:15 pm

I hate it when that happens! Seems as if the weather has reversed itself this year, hail in Connecticut but not Florida? What's up with that?

Post by **daiv** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:31 pm

Yikes! Hail is a frightful thing. Earlier this spring they had devastating hail not more than 20 miles from us. It broke windows out of cars - and obviously wreaked equivelent havoc on every thing else it hit. The same storm passed right over us with heavy rain, but the hail was not ready apparently.

Bill in SC · Post by **Bill in SC** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:06 pm

That's a bummer!

Bill in SC