Depending on the size of the hail stones and the length of the storm
hail can be devastating for a tea crop. I have seen the results
sometime in Africa where most of the leaf was stripped from bushes
leaving bare twigs - regrowth can take 2-3 months. In the 80's in
Kenya some of the MNCs unnsuccessfully but expensively tried cloud
seeding and even a large acetylene gas powered cannon to shock clouds
into dropping hail before they got to the tea fields.

Nigel at Teacraft

On Apr 13, 3:00 am, "Jason F in Los Angeles"
wrote:
There was a hailstorm around Jinghong/Nannuo/Youle on the 8th, too. It
started as I was going back to my hotel from the factory at the base
of Nannuo Shan. Two men from the factory had offered me a ride home,
and they seemed more impressed by the hail than worried about the tea.
They said (though I may not have understood) that it might knock off
some of the older leaves though the buds would be ok...or maybe vice
versa?

~j

On Apr 12, 6:23 am, "beecrofter" wrote:



On the 9th there was a pretty large hailstorm in Mengla county Yunnan,
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