On the 9th there was a pretty large hailstorm in Mengla county Yunnan,
has this caused any problems with the tea?

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,
has this caused any problems with the tea?

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:



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