I always find myself about to comment on the bad/good weather in other peoples threads, so i thought i'd start a thread where we can indulge the truly British pleasure of moaning about the weather. Speaking of which, it pissed it down today!

Tell me about it, I,d just finished fitting some new chimney pots and pointing, then the rain washed all the compo out for me
R.K.

i'm loving this, saves me a trip in the country.

Nice for loft growers

not nice when your not growing and you have to go out in the rain looking for a joint i think im gonna go buy a new car tomorow bikes and rain dont work

Fuck me this is the worst summer i can remember

Get about 2 days of sun a week rest is cloud and rain mostly rain, so much for flaming june went out like a wet fart, non to pleasant...

June was as bad as the winter here in west wales...

Dont mind though if we get the sunniest september ever....

haha, cruel irony!



I have to work in it too mate, I don't really mind coz it keeps me cool while I work... I'd rather have lots of sun this year, i don't have to water the plants

And it is set to continue, the summer forecast is average/above average rainfall and not looking good

U.K like the good old days

in some ways im happy the weathers shite. it keeps the temps down in my grow room

GET OUT

last year was a lot worse im sure
this looks to be a good year for guerilla growing

im coming close to putting the heating on today, its cold

hopefully summer reaches late into the year, if the last few were anything to go by it should..

when do plants start flowering outdoors?

Around the start of september, but obviously strain dependent...

I hate the drizzely half arsed rain we seem to always get. Love thunderstorms and when its bucketing down though .

Although my perfect day would be sunny and hot (but not sweating your tits off hot, just shorts till 11pm weather) Then a nice impressive lightning storm to watch and sleep too.

i think we get it quite good here in England. the odd flood / strong breeze ...

I'll get me coat on the way out should i?

2nd/3rd week August iirc

wow so many more weeks of veg left for us all to get a nice outdoor yield, surely



me too

best to have most the rain this side of the season, we need dry oct/nov...fingers crossed

am i really right in assuming late nov for outdoor harvests? seems crazy not to mention a long way away. might have to rethink the old lst situation, heh.

spot on .. i got an allotment as well and its a good year for crops .. however as has been said already its sept/oct when the weather becomes crucial ..

I've been more than happy with the amount of sunshine we've had so far this year. Got to have had at least 2 weeks more sun than this time last year. Up until around last thursday round here we'd get few hot sunny days them some rain then a few more sunny days. Since then the suns been out for about 4/5 hours, the rest of the time it's been monsoon tackle! EVERYONE THINK POSITIVE THOUGHTS FOR AN INDIAN SUMMER AND SHOULD MANIFEST. The power of collective though awesome!

buy a light some compost and some seeds then you don't ever need to go out in the rain again.

If the weather continues like this I might as well sling some Fish, Blood and Bone meal down and forget about watering/feeding manually. It'll save me from lugging 2x 22.5 litre jerry cans to my plot weekly ... sod it I think I'll get that tub of feed out tonight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdtLTyNOB0A
your weather is being fiddled with!

Couldnt watch any longer after 2 mins I just thought f*ck off!!

HA! Funny you should say that, I was originally gonna title this thread 'Everyone pray for a long dry autumn!' and i had the whole collective thought thing in mind...


IRONIC!

seriously, i'm just praying my girls get to october without being eaten, rotten, stolen, broken or what-not.

budrot stop anyone?

i take it you didn't believe it then zig zag? if i saw that shit being sprayed above my head i might be a bit concerned.

they're just vapour trails...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail

I see it all the time, just Aeroplane trails. hHey I didnt watch til end so u guys might have seen sommat I didnt but after 2 mins I just 'd it.

im loving the weather! it was the same last year but this year i havent kept enough plants on the go to make the most of it, im hoping we have a full on storm soon i think its coming..... i can feel it!

Much of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trials
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/...4398507,00.html
First off your government ADMITS! to spraying you in the past and so does the american government, which i have a link for. I know what a contrail is and these lingering clouds of poison aren't vapor exhaust. I know how crazy it sounds, but please do a bit of research and have a look into it yourself. Im not a quack or a conspiracy nut either the evidence is out there...

Thought it was summer? Well think again.Parts of Britain will see up to a month's worth of rain dumped on them today, leading to localised flooding and possible travel problems.

With no sign of the sun, much of south and central England and parts of Wales will wake up to leaden skies and torrential rain.

South Wales will bear the brunt of the wet weather and could see up to three-quarters of the month's average rainfall in one day, forecasters said.

The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for central and southern England.

Meteogroup UK forecaster Paul Mott said: "It will be a very wet day across south Wales with some persistent rain, heavy at times.

"I think much of south Wales will see at least 30mm of rain through the day, probably up to about 50mm across hills and land.

"That's getting on for three-quarter's of the average month's rain fall.

"I wouldn't expect widespread flooding, but the valleys are most at risk of localised flooding by the end of the day as water drains off from the hills."

He added: "Most of England will be affected as well with some of the heaviest rain in the south west, although probably not as heavy as Wales which will get the brunt of the rain."

A spokesman for the Environment Agency said they were not currently issuing any flood warnings.

Britain's summer has been a patchy affair with a fine May followed by weeks of sunshine and showers.

The Met Office said this summer is unlikely to be a scorcher.





moan moan moan

On Saturday, as well as the thunderstorms, we had hail Not just ordinary pitter patter hail, but a deluge of hail some of which was the size of feckin' marbles. Two tomato plants in the back garden were shredded, so I wasn't very optimistic about the GG. Imagine my surprise when I got there this morning and found....they hadn't even been touched Mind you, they've only had about half a dozen days of sunshine since they went out in mid-may, but looking on the bright side, I haven't had to water the little darlings. Apparently we're going to get summer between 1:45 and 2:15 on the 27th of July, so here's looking forward to that!
Peace,
Gerald

here in the midlands its been raining on and off and sometimes its heavy and at time jus a drizzle.
I am worried about my plant going gurilla soon.What the chance of budrot???

Start building an ark

Been a mixture of sun and rain up here
Not had any extreme winds, hail or storms this year, quite happy with that!
Temps are a bit poor though, and we could do with a bit more sun, espeially for T in the Park!

down south here and im telling ya it was absolutely pissing it down 1st thing this morn. windscrren wipers couldnt keep up ffs.

is this shite weather likely to ruin any1's guerilla attempts this year or are they big n strong enough to handle it by now?

window

hey all im in south west and its been pissing down all day havnt had a good days sun for ages. always the same in england ey !

globel warming.

None, at the moment, as I presume you haven't got any buds (unless you're growing lowryders).

I took my lowryders in today, just as a precaution - although (and I'm guessing) unless its permanently cold and damp with not much wind for over a week you're probably likely to get budrot?

Down 'sarf' that don't really happen until November.

This weather malarky, this is quite a usual July, we haven't even had half the normal months rain yet. I was cursing the last 2 weeks as we hardly had any rain!

This summer will be fine for growing IMO.

On average I reckon that this summer will be about average. Average sun hours, average rainfall, average plants. It's what it is like come the end of Sept/early Oct that really matters.

its pissing it down, its bin doing this for most of this week and when its not raining its cloudy.
some summer eh!

We have a big yellow ball of light in the sky today...anyone know what it is?

Yeah no moaning to day it is scorching here in west wales

Was a lush day today, all my babies reaching upwards for the sky...

what are we moaning at now??

Shhhh ... 4 days of decent weather, WTF is going on

Nice little link for u all to bookmark, the outlook is good with mostly sunny intervals but way below average temps ... Oops, that link takes u to my exact location !

5 day weather forecast in YOUR area

Fuckin humidity piss off please ur gonny ruin ma crop