Debate: This summer's weather

[emilio613]

So, I was having a debate last night with some fellow growers (well ok, I have not grown in over a year due to some circumstances such as living in an apartment and no where to grow currently). I noted to them that I found this year (where I live) to be very bad for growing.

My reasoning (they are all tied together):
1. Summer came VERY late, like it only got warm at the end of July, beginning of this month.
2. IT rained ALL of July (only 6 days without rain), and spring was cold and rainy as well. With rain came winds, cold temps (nighttime = 9-15 Celcius at times in JULY).
3. Not much sunshine this year due to #1 and 2, and little heat

Now, my friend said her bro had a 7 footer in the back lot, and my other buds said this year would've been FABULOUS to grow with (these are all of course, people WITHOUT personal outdoor growing, or general growing experience. Always the "friend of a friend has" type of person). Essentially they called me stupid.

So am I wrong? I noticed that when I would over water, plants sorta got saggy. When they didn't get enough light/UV they died as well....

I would've thought this year (in my area) would have sucked for an outdoor grow.

I just want the satisfaction (and knowledge for the future in case next year is the same) of knowing if I am right or wrong. I can admit it if I was wrong, but something tells me I am right.

Thanks guys, I know you will come through on this!!

 

[SOFTWHITE]

So, I was having a debate last night with some fellow growers (well ok, I have not grown in over a year due to some circumstances such as living in an apartment and no where to grow currently). I noted to them that I found this year (where I live) to be very bad for growing.

My reasoning (they are all tied together):
1. Summer came VERY late, like it only got warm at the end of July, beginning of this month.
2. IT rained ALL of July (only 6 days without rain), and spring was cold and rainy as well. With rain came winds, cold temps (nighttime = 9-15 Celcius at times in JULY).
3. Not much sunshine this year due to #1 and 2, and little heat

Now, my friend said her bro had a 7 footer in the back lot, and my other buds said this year would've been FABULOUS to grow with (these are all of course, people WITHOUT personal outdoor growing, or general growing experience. Always the "friend of a friend has" type of person). Essentially they called me stupid.

So am I wrong? I noticed that when I would over water, plants sorta got saggy. When they didn't get enough light/UV they died as well....

I would've thought this year (in my area) would have sucked for an outdoor grow.

I just want the satisfaction (and knowledge for the future in case next year is the same) of knowing if I am right or wrong. I can admit it if I was wrong, but something tells me I am right.

Thanks guys, I know you will come through on this!!

This summer sucked. It rained all June, July had like 3 days of warm weather, and August had like one week of heat so far. I lost 12 plants to this horrible weather. As a matter of fact it rained damn near the whole summer. I live at the bottom of a hill so just imagine what I went through. Not only did I loose weed, my vegetables didn't grow right this year neither. My lavender and mints didn't grow neither did my habeneros. Horrible year man horrible year.

 

[backyardbang]

i agree completely this summer sucked for growing or doing anything else outside

 

[artbud]

i agree completely this summer sucked for growing or doing anything else outside

Move to Northern Cal... Haven't had a drop of rain 140 days avg temp..90

 

[Angus]

Rain's a double edged blade. I haven't had to water other than once to give flowering nutes. But having two showers a day has kept the humidity threw the roof....now I have these 8-9ft plants with no vegetation on the first 3-4 feet because of mold. They love the weather...its great for veg growth but horrible for fat colas.

 

[Woomeister]

nothing to debate April=warm and dry, May/June/July/August wet, wet, wet.

 

[emilio613]

nothing to debate April=warm and dry, May/June/July/August wet, wet, wet.

Dammit so I was right!

These mof*ckas aren't going to hear the end of this! lol

I figured due to farmers lost crops and stuff, it would bet he same for our type of "farming" as well!

 

[kronbckootoutdoor]

great year for bc

 

[emilio613]

great year for bc

Well I am also from the Great White North, but much more East.

Did you guys get a lot of sunshine this year? I know BC has an ideal climate for growing normally. I figured it may have been a tad dry, seeing as you guys are having those Kelowna fires and such.

 

[NoSwagBag]

I found that with all the rain I Had to do some different things for feeding water based fertilizer. Im using GH grow and bloom with soiless mix. A few times I actually had to put the dry powder on the soil and let it wash in with one of the many 2 day rain storms. The mix was just too saturated to pour on another two or three gallons of fertilized water! However, this last half of Aug. has been great! The girls are really growing like crazy.

PS

Early Misty did best in the monsoon summer we've had. I think that shit would grow under water!

 

[emilio613]

I found that with all the rain I Had to do some different things for feeding water based fertilizer. Im using GH grow and bloom with soiless mix. A few times I actually had to put the dry powder on the soil and let it wash in with one of the many 2 day rain storms. The mix was just too saturated to pour on another two or three gallons of fertilized water! However, this last half of Aug. has been great! The girls are really growing like crazy.

PS

Early Misty did best in the monsoon summer we've had. I think that shit would grow under water!

LOL @ the Misty So I guess it depends on how you tend to them, and what strain you're growing right?
I am still going by my knowledge, that a sunnier/warmer summer would've been better overall.

 

[SlimSim]

North East here. Sucky weather but... great plants! figure that out! And the month of august has been very sunny so far and I think we'll have a great month of september... This summer has been good to my sativas

 

[Delta-9]

Midwest here and I've had great weather. No big storms, no floods, no heat waves, plenty of rain but not too much, I'd say it's been absolutely perfect for growing where I'm at.

 

[OGMan]

Midwest here and I've had great weather. No big storms, no floods, no heat waves, plenty of rain but not too much, I'd say it's been absolutely perfect for growing where I'm at.

the weather here always sucks yet this summer was the worst I can remember

 

[OregonHomeGrown]

oregon has had its best year yet july had 24 days of sun and only 2 days with rain and august has had 2 days of rain and our forcast says 7 days of pure sun woot woot for oregon weather

 

[kronbckootoutdoor]

well yeah BC has been super super sunny and very hot and humid this summer but all you need to do is have the right soil and soil softness and keep it watered constantly and now i am left with 2 beautiful females

 

[greensister]

Here in the NE, it has been wet and cold. My grapes rotted on the vine. My ENTIRE tomato crop got wiped out by the blight. Peppers were very late, and my cherries had only a 3 day harvest window. Blueberries shriveled and my strawberried didnt produce any edible fruit. The only thing that really thrived this year were my herbs and raspberries.

My plants vegged rather nicely, although had we gotten 30 more days of warm, sunny weather, they would be bigger and the buds would be further along as well. I have had to push my harvest date back 2x from about a week ago, to the end of the month, to the middle of september. If my indoor grow goes his bad, im gonna burn down the whole world and hate everything for a very long time.