2010 Weather in N. CA.

[MaidenUSA]

It was mighty cool this year up until May. Will this affect the harvest time?

MaidenUSA Reviewed by MaidenUSA on 08-24-2010. 2010 Weather in N. CA. It was mighty cool this year up until May. Will this affect the harvest time? Rating: 5

[weeddaddy50]

it's over 103 right bow....but should cool down by the weekend

[stormin94]

So far the average summer temp at least for most of northwestern california is the top ten coolest on record. The past two days have been pretty hot, but with the exception of that, it has been pretty cool for summer. I bet people who grow inland will have bigger yields this year than average due to the cool summer and minimal heat stress. People closer to the coast will probably have lower yields due to the cool temps and nearly constant fog. If the trends stay this way through October, this might be true. Fall is usually ideal for finishing flowering up here. I didn't put anything outside until June, so the cool spring didn't affect me too much. Although I did have 4 plants that I'd had outside since late march( they were mite infested and I didn't want them in the room anymore) . The mites died and they started growing pretty good until the first week in may when they started budding from all the cold weather and cloud cover. Those plants got killed by a freak late frost (may 21, which is EXTREMELY unusual for here) and a combination of other stuff like the spidermites coming back and the "takedown spray" burning the crap out of them.

Luckily I got some decent seedlings, and they're loving it. They're not freakishly huge 4 pounders like some people like to brag about, but they are very healthy. I'm hoping the weather cooperates this October. Lake county doesn't get as powerful of storms in October like they get in humboldt and mendo.

[OhNoYaDont]

And NOW it is raining. Gawd.

I opened the gate to the plantation and branches were down all over the place. I THOUGHT I had them pretty well covered and supported ... but Noooooo.

Only lost two large branches. (Not bad out of 90+ plants). Propped up, splinted, tied, bandaged, cried and prayed over a LOT more. I think they'll probably be ok.

Long day today. Long day. My back hurts. I'm going to twist up a fatty; have a large, strong cocktail and put my feet up.

[stormin94]

Definitely out of the ordinary this year. It went from 110 here on Wednesday down to barely 70 today. It was cloudy and breezy and looked like it mght rain, although it didn't. It's supposed to be back into the 90's by Tuesday. I hope that drastic swing in temperatures doesn't have an adverse effect on the plants. Probably not much worse than the 30-40 degree swings just between day and night though. Strange weather. It's almost like it does whatever it wants to.

[energyefficient]

I am also plauged by low temps over nite. Luckily I only have a few ladies to carry into my light proof garage at nite. It gets down to ~55 some times lower so I think its worth the 5 minutes twice a day. Lets all do a indian summer dance! :jointsmile: